One big snub from the Emmys today: no nominations for “The Conners.”

The spin off of “Roseanne” features Oscar nominee and Tony winner Laurie Metcalf, and Emmy winner/Golden Globe winner John Goodman. (How John Goodman doesn’t have an Oscar is beyond me.)

But the show got nothing and neither did its actors. Eleven episodes of strong writing and directing were also shunned.

When the show came back in 2018 as “Roseanne” but imploded, Metcalf was nominated and the show got an editing nod. But this year, nothing for nobody.  Of course, Roseanne’s toxicity may have extended to “The Conners.” It’s sad if so, to punish the people left behind.

Oh well, last year before the Emmy nominations were announced, Goodman told a TMZ video guy who caught him at a gas station that he didn’t care about the Emmys anyway. He was nominated many times as Dan Conner in the old days, and never won.

Sacha Baron Cohen won 3 Emmy noms for his Showtime series from last summer, “Who is America?” He then thanked Dick Cheney and Sarah Palin among others on Twitter. Cohen did pretty well as Showtime got almost no other nominations except for “Escape at Dannemora.”

He writes: “While I am flattered at these nods, it is a shame that my co-stars were not recognized. Particularly Dick Cheney, who I had hoped would come across on camera as someone who’d gleefully sent hundreds of thousands to their pointless death – and boy did he deliver.”

HBO toppled Netflix today with the most Emmy nominations.

The cable service took a record 137 nominations with shows like “Game of Thrones,” “Veep,” “Succession,” and “Barry.”

Netflix came in second with 117. Netflix would have had more but their “Grace and Frankie” wasn’t included. Instead they at least picked up acting nominations for Michael Douglas and Alan Arkin in “The Kominsky Method.”

HBO is in the middle a huge seachange. But their seniorest VP of Publicity, Nancy Lesser, pulled off a coup amid all the chaos. She deserves the thanks of the new HBO execs.

The “Veep” nominations are particularly impressive since the show took a big break, and now it’s over.

Next year, HBO will have “Big Little Lies,””Euphoria,” and many other new shows as well as “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” The party isn’t over yet!

Amazon keeps its toe in the game with “Mrs. Maisel.”

The Emmy nominations are here, and so are the snubs.

Both Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers are routinely excluded from the Emmys. Do the Emmys hate Lorne Michaels? They do give nods to “SNL.” But these two guys are out in the cold again, and it’s so wrong.

Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin and their Netflix show “Grace and Frankie” got nada.

Showtime received almost nothing except for “Escape at Dannemora.” The Emmys don’t even acknowledge the existence of “Billions,” a favorite show with an all star cast. Showtime is also almost non existent. Sad!

Also, I’m kind of shocked that Tracee Ellis Ross wasn’t nominated for “Blackish.” She should be top of the heap. The result is six white women, no color. Not very imaginative. Tracee rocks!

Julia Roberts didn’t make the cut for her series, “Homecoming.”

Also completely shut out after years of winning massive numbers of awards: “Modern Family.” Plus ABC’s second season of “The Conners” garnered nothing for the show or its actors.

Sacha Baron Cohen Wins 3 Emmy Noms, Laments that Co-Star Dick Cheney Wasn’t Recognized “For Sending People to their Deaths”

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Showtime managed to get almost nothing. Just nods for “Escape from Dannemora,” nothing for their regular series including “Billions.” It’s unbelievable.

HBO racked up lots of noms for “Veep,” “Barry,” “Succession,” and “Game of Thrones.”

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It was April 2017 when Nicole Kidman, as the much upon Celeste, helped push her abusive husband Perry (Alex Skarsgaard) down a flight of steps at the end of “Big Little Lies.” Her posse of pals helped, particularly Zoe Kravitz. They claimed Perry slipped, and fell. They got away with it. Fade to black. The good guys won.

A year later, in April 2018, on CBS’s much less respected, much more low budget soap, “The Young and the Restless,” a group of ladies killed the domestic abuser husband of one of the main characters. Because daytime soaps never fade to black– they produce 285 episodes a year– something had to happen. So they rolled the guy up in a rug and buried him under a gazebo in a public park. Later, it all came out, the women were exonerated because somehow the guy escaped and was really crazy.

So now the women on “Big Little Lies” are at the end of their sort of unexpected second season, they’ve spent 7 episodes wringing their hands over what’s already been wrapped up on “Y&R.” The daytime soap has named a new character Celeste.

Outside of that budget, there’s not much difference between the two shows. The only difference is “Big Little Lies” took it very seriously, whereas the daytime soap breezed onto the next scandal. That’s what “Big Little Lies” will have to do for their sort of unexpected season 3 (you wonder did they sign up for 5? 7? but just took an oath to pretend they hadn’t).

“Big Little Lies” owes nothing to the daytime show, but tons to the nighttime soaps of the 80s, particularly “Knots Landing.” You think because movie stars are here, this is More Important. Also, it’s 30 years later, so abuse is viewed differently. But it’s all the same. A bunch of heroines trapped in a cul de sac, afraid to let the others see their wounds. And then, just for kicks, Laura Dern plays an outrageous over the top rich woman– she was Donna Mills on “Knots Landing” — who you love to hate because she’s so much fun. (A couple of weeks ago she told her kid, “It’s not about the money– well, yes, it is about the money.”) Summer needs her as it drags out.

If “Big Little Lies” aired weekly on a network, I’d definitely show it on a Sunday at 9pm. It feels like a CBS show. Even though it’s on HBO, it’s pretty tame. There’s an occasional F word. But nothing like HBO’s “Euphoria.” Still, the fun is in the getting there. On Sunday there was a courtroom scene worthy of any good soap, that ended with the revelation that Celeste– who drinks, sleeps around, and has never seemed to work at anything —  is also a lawyer! And she — in the form of the exquisite Nicole Kidman– will examine a buck toothed Meryl Streep as her crazy mother in law next week on the stand! Who’s gonna miss that? That will be better than Lannisters vs. the Starks!

Sadly, “Big Little Lies” came out too late to qualify for the Emmys in September. So we’ll have to wait til January and the Golden Globes for some gold statues. Everyone involved deserves one. And we– the press– will be asking about Season 3. All involved will claim how “hard” it is to do. No one will know if it’s possible! But it is, and will be, and let’s hope they hurry. There’s plenty of life left in these characters if we just drop the pretense that this is Ibsen. It’s just a damn good time!  (PS in the old days, the late Richard Dawson would have had the women from “BLL” vs. the gals from “KL” on “Family Feud.” Kids today don’t what they’re missing!)