Scoring a nomination for limited series is tough, but winning seems downright impossible — unless you're backed by HBO or FX. Could that change this year, with its most crowded field to date?
), inspired the TV Academy to again separate the limited and telepic races in 2014. Since then, outlets who dabble in scripted have been virtually forced out of the marketplace by streaming competition, and it's the latter's buying spree that keeps the mini surge going.
Motivations remain largely the same. With their numbers dwarfed by comedy and drama, accounting for more than 250 project submissions in the 2019 Emmys, limited series remain the easiest pathway to prestige. Nominations reflect that. There are no other scripted categories where platforms such as Nat Geo, USA, TNT or Paramount, all recent nominees in limited races, could have found room to make an impression.
But nominations do not equate to wins. More than in any other category, the limited race has been dominated by two networks. The only time HBO or FX didn't take the prize in the past decade was by fluke, when the first season of PBS'Those two giants again stand in the way of the many hopefuls angling to take the category for the first time.
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