Monday, July 6, 2026

TV: If the Emmys Just Went to Broadcast Television Shows, This is What and Who Would Have Won

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Now that we’ve seen another round of Emmy Awards go just to cable TV and streaming, and the Emmys get their lowest ratings yet, here’s the big question: what if the Emmys were really for shows on television, from broadcast networks? What shows would have won? Which actors? Because this begs the question, how could Linda Hunt have been on TV for so long and not gotten an Emmy? Because “NCIS: LA” is on a network and not HBO?

I’ve left out mini series and movies of the week because I can’t think of any on network TV.

Here are my ideas. You tell me at showbiz411@gmail.com what your choices would have been. Maybe people would watch the Emmys with these winners.

 

 

  • OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES Tracee Ellis Ross, Blackish
  • OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES Ty Burrell, Modern Family
  • OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES, Andre Braugher, Brooklyn Nine Nine Nine
  • OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES Laurie Metcalf, The Conners
  • OUTSTANDING COMEDY SERIES, “Blackish”
  • OUTSTANDING VARIETY TALK SERIES, Late Night with Seth Meyers
  • OUTSTANDING COMPETITION PROGRAM, “Shark Tank”
  • GOVERNORS AWARD, Tyler Perry
  • OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES  Sterling K. Brown, “This is Us”
  • OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES, Mariska Hargitay, “Law & Order SVU”
  • OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES, Richard Schiff,”The Good Doctor”
  • OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES, Linda Hunt “NCIS LA”
  • OUTSTANDING DRAMA SERIES “Law & Order SVU”

 

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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