“Succession” led the 2022 Emmy nominations for excellence in television in 2022, with the HBO drama about a power-hungry media mogul and his devious family landing 25 nods. “Ted Lasso” also scored huge at the nominations on Tuesday, with the Apple TV+ comedy taking 20 nods.
Both series were last year’s top winners, Outstanding Drama Series and Outstanding Comedy Series, respectively. The HBO limited series “The White Lotus” also got 20 nominations, while the comedies “Hacks” from HBO and “Only Murders in the Building” from Hulu tied for the fourth spot with 17 nominations each.
In this banner year for television content, there were many surprises and snubs among the nominations, including snubs for the popular “Yellowstone,” Emmy regular “This Is Us” and “Black-ish.”