The 2026 Primetime Emmy Awards will be revealed Monday night live on NBC and Peacock. The ceremony will be hosted by Emmy winner Mariska Hargitay who recently received two trophies for her documentary My Mom Jayne. So, naturally, it’s time for Team Contending to make their final 2026 Emmy Predictions. Charts are below, and if you’re unclear about what’s going on with the Variety Series category, then Jalal has a great breakdown on this week’s podcast.
Check back with us next week as the full team podcasts about the Emmy winners and find out where their 2026 Emmy predictions went wrong.
Until then…
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Not sure what will be worse; a show clearly textbook genre fraud winding up with a total of 10+ Emmys coughWidow'sBaycough,…or Jean Smart winning her 8th career award. That is just lazy voting when the voters are on cruise control and rubber-stamping like this. There were better choices throughout the 5 years of her reign of error. But she's Jean Fucking Smart, so just hand it to her. She could submit a test pattern and win. Begone, and let somebody else win next year.
Did Jean Smart run over your dog or something?
She ran over his Kristen Bell.
Also have you watched Widow's Bay? It's hilarious. it's dark comedy but still clearly a comedy.
Not sure what will be worse; a show clearly textbook genre fraud winding up with a total of 10+ Emmys coughWidow'sBaycough,…or Jean Smart winning her 8th career award. That is just lazy voting when the voters are on cruise control and rubber-stamping like this. There were better choices throughout the 5 years of her reign of error. But she's Jean Fucking Smart, so just hand it to her. She could submit a test pattern and win. Begone, and let somebody else win next year.