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'Young Sherlock', 'The Lowdown', 'Ponies', 'Spider-Noir', 'Elsbeth', & 'Wednesday' all being submitted to compete as comedy at the Emmy's, thus bringing the debate whether hour-long dramedies belong in the comedy category

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'Young Sherlock' To Compete As Comedy At Emmys, Slew Of Hourlong Shows
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'Young Sherlock' To Compete As Comedy At Emmys, Slew Of Hourlong Shows
'Young Sherlock' to compete as comedy at the Emmys, joining sizable contingent of hourlong contenders that bring back old dramedy category debate.
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WaluigiIsTheRealHero Apr 11, 2026 +45
The Lowdown certainly has enough comedy to qualify, it’s just a dark comedy.
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lounginaddict Apr 11, 2026 +3
Ethan Hawke was fantastic in it
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WaluigiIsTheRealHero Apr 11, 2026 +3
Hawke was so good in Reservation Dogs too, him and Sterlin Harjo are a magnificent combo.
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Negative_Baker_2141 Apr 11, 2026 +24
At this point they should just rename the category “Half Jokes, Half Trauma.” Honestly, split awards by tone instead of runtime and let shows self-identify, then voters sanity-check it.
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0verstim Apr 11, 2026 +3
Flip that around. From a writing structure standpoint, an hour comedy and an hour drama have more in common than an hour and a half-hour of the same genre.
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nowhereman136 Apr 11, 2026 +14
This is exactly why the Oscars don't have a seperate category for comedy
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0verstim Apr 11, 2026 +5
True. Unfortunately., how many comedies ever win Oscars?
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ontheweed Apr 11, 2026 +6
One Battle After Another just won Best Picture at the last Oscars and it’s hilarious
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nowhereman136 Apr 11, 2026
The Artist won in 2011, Birdman in 2014, Parasite in 2019, Everything Everywhere in 2022, and Anora in 2024 Also Bugonia, Poor Things, Holdovers, Barbie, American Fiction, Triangle of Sadness, Fabelmans, Banshees of Inisherin, Licorice Pizza, Drive My Car, and Don't Look Up are all recent nominees. Yeah, they heavily favor dramas, but comedies get noticed every now and then
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bros402 Apr 11, 2026 +3
> The Artist won in 2011, Birdman in 2014, Parasite in 2019, Everything Everywhere in 2022 ...none of those are comedies?
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nowhereman136 Apr 11, 2026 +2
That weird, cause they were all nominated or won for Best comedy at the Golden Globes. I forgot to mention Green Book and One Battle After Another, which also won that award.
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LB3PTMAN Apr 11, 2026 +12
I would just change it to short form shows and long form shows or however you want to call it. These 40-60 minute long dramedies don’t belong in the same conversation as simpler sitcoms tbh.
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royfromidaho Apr 11, 2026 +23
From every commercial I have seen of Elsbeth it seems kind of like Monk and other Usa blue sky shows t,so not category fraud at all like The Bear.
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TheTresStateArea Apr 11, 2026 +14
Elsbeth is absolutely just quirky lady Monk. Minus the neurosis. The show is an hour long dramedy. But more comedy than drama. I would say like 70/30
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terriblesecretofspac Apr 11, 2026 +7
Every episode of Elsbeth I've seen is a quirky Columbo. A how-dun-it, not a who-dun-it. Do later episodes change the format?
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TheTresStateArea Apr 11, 2026 +5
Lots of Monk is how done it. But yes it's almost entirely if not exclusively how done it.
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tagen Apr 11, 2026 +6
so if i really enjoyed Monk, there’s a good chance i’d enjoy Elsbeth? definitely gonna check it out then, Monk was my favorite Blue Sky show (and that’s saying something cuz i really loved most of those shows)
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TheTresStateArea Apr 11, 2026 +2
Same energy I think. Give it a whirl
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NightCheeseUnion Apr 11, 2026 +1
It is very similar to Monk. The season long arcs are more serious, but the rest of the show is a campy, Columbu-style, murder of the week show. The murderer is usually a bigger name actor who gets to chew the scenery.
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bluehawk232 Apr 11, 2026 +12
Wow it's almost like tv awards built around simple network tv programming are struggling to change for the current tv landscape
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hamlet9000 Apr 11, 2026 +4
Are you under the impression hour-long dramedies didn't exist on network television?
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emgeejay Apr 11, 2026 +3
for those like me who thought the 30/60 minute distinction was a hard-and-fast rule, it turns out this changed in 2022
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-FalseProfessor- Apr 11, 2026 +3
I would say those shows have just as much if not more claim than the Bear. That’s a fairly low bar, though.
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divineshadow666 Apr 12, 2026 +3
They've been debating this since Northern Exposure won Best Drama in 1992, when the Academy insisted it be put in that category instead of Best Comedy like the creator of the show wanted.
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PistachioDonut34 Apr 11, 2026 +2
I haven't seen any except Wednesday, but that definitely shouldn't count as a comedy...
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bros402 Apr 11, 2026 +2
I can see Elsbeth in that category. I'd say is 70/30 Comedy/Drama. It's enough comedy to be an actual comedy
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coldpizza66 Apr 11, 2026 +2
Elsbeth is actually funny. Much funnier than some half-hour so-called comedies in which you don't laugh once.
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ChuckCarmichael Apr 11, 2026 +2
I remember when they submitted The Martian to the Golden Globes as a comedy movie, because that year's drama category already had The Revenant and Fury Road, so it wouldn't have stood a chance.
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keving87 Apr 11, 2026 +1
Funny to talk about Spider-Noir when it's still over a month away lol There's a difference between a comedy and a drama that has funny things.
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GodzillaUK Apr 11, 2026 +1
Wednesday was funny? It was passable sure, but a comedy it is far from. The Pitt has funnier moments and that show makes me want to reach out and hug Noah because he plays 'about to jump and fuckin' end it' so brilliantly I worry for the actor.
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Dapaaads Apr 12, 2026 +1
No they don’t
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thisisredlitre Apr 13, 2026 +1
The fact that Chair Company isnt on the list shows how flawed it is
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FrameworkisDigimon Apr 11, 2026 +1
The only one of those I've seen is Ponies. And while I really liked that... just no. I saw someone saying "I don't know how House isn't a sitcom" the other day. They were making a joke but genuinely I could understand *House* being treated as a dramedy (it's not) which is evaluated as a comedy (as far as I know it was never nominated for comedy Emmies). Ponies is just straight drama. It's just not depressing drama. It's somewhere between NCIS: LA and NCIS in terms of its tonal register. If you've never seen NCIS or NCIS: LA, NCIS: LA is the more serious end of that continuum. Early NCIS had, iirc, Tony and Gibbs show up to a Halloween party to arrest someone and their vests say "NCIS" so one of the party goers says something like "Cool costumes but you spelt CSI wrong". (This may help you make more sense of the infamous two people typing on one keyboard scene. I say may because I've seen a lot of NCIS, I've seen a lot of NCIS twice, but that scene also baffles me.)
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