Severance, The Penguin lead nominations for Emmy awards
Severance received a leading 27 nominations and was nominated for the top prize of best drama alongside Andor, The Pitt, The White Lotus and others.
The Penguin, set in the DC Comics universe and starring Colin Farrell, earned 24 nominations and will compete for best limited series against Netflix hit Adolescence, among others.
Hollywood satire The Studio and The White Lotus, about holiday makers at a luxury resort, received 23 each.
Comedy nominees included defending champion Hacks, previous winner The Bear, Nobody Wants This and Abbott Elementary.
Noah Wyle received his first Emmy nomination since 1999 for his role as an emergency room doctor on The Pitt.
Wyle was nominated five times for his role on ER but never won.
Harrison Ford, 83, earned his first Emmy nod ever, for playing a grumpy therapist on Shrinking.
Other notable acting nominees included Farrell, The Bear actors Jeremy Allen White and Ayo Edebiri, Hacks star Jean Smart, Kathy Bates for Matlock and Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey for The Last of Us.
Winners of the Emmys, the highest honours in television, will be announced at a red-carpet ceremony broadcast live on CBS on September 14.
Comedian Nate Bargatze will host.
The honourees will be chosen by the roughly 26,000 performers, directors, producers and other members of the Television Academy.
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