September 13, 2025 • 6 mins
The 77th annual Primetime Emmy Awards are set to take place tomorrow, with many top TV shows up for an award.
Apple TV+ could be in for some big wins, with Severance and The Studio among the leading contenders for an award.
The White Lotus, The Bear and The Last of Us are also among the favourites to win.
Flicks.co.nz editor Steve Newall unpacked the nominees ahead of the upcoming ceremony.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Sunday Session podcast with Francesca Rudgin
from News Talks EDB.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Of course, tomorrow big day for television. The Emmys are
taking place in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Indeed, the seventy seventh Emmys, full of so many great shows.
It's a really interesting time to reflect on what a
good year of television it's been. And you know, some
would say, yourself perhaps that it compares very favorably with
Cinnamon in that regard that we make a lot of
fuss about the Oscars.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Yes, because I was talking to my producer about it
and I was going, oh, the Emmys. I mean, you know,
if you get near me, it's pretty impressive. But we're
kind of like, oh, it's an We're not we know.
I don't think we pay a huge amount of attention
to it, which is kind of absurd because you know,
we are making some extraordinary TV.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Absolutely, And so just to give a bit of a
run through the lead the lead shows this year most
nominated as Severance with twenty seven nominations, The Penguin Behind
It with twenty four, the Studio twenty three, also the
White Lotus of twenty three nominations, and the Last of
Us with sixteen. Other shows with a bunch of noums
include and Or, Hacks, Adolescents of the Bear and the Pet.
(01:15):
So it's been a really good year for new shows
for returning shows. A bunch of awards have already been
handed out, so they sort of there's a lot of
technical categories. They split the awards into two different ceremonies.
At the Creative Arts Emmys, Seth Rogan's The Studio picked
up nine awards. That's going to probably sweep this year's
Emmy's Hollywood Loves Things About Hollywood and The Studio is
(01:36):
very very good, a really great satirical comedy that kind
of makes fun of Hollywood and movies but also deeply
loves it as well, which is a nice place to land.
And some of the more familiar winners at this cred
of Arts section were Brian Cranston won for his guest
appearance in The Studio, Julian Nicholson for Hacks, and some
(01:57):
guy called Barack Obama won an Emmy for narrating Our Oceans,
So good on, good on, mister Obama of the Best
Drama Series. Such a great crop of shows, and all
the diplomat the Last of Us, Paradise, the Pit, Severance,
Slow Horses, and the White Loatters. So something there.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
That's pick I mean, I love slow Yeah, this is
to pick up.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
One bit, but this is tough.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
This is really tough. I think people are tipping. Severance
is a favorite also, and or Is I think has
stayed in the conversation based on political developments in the
United States. I think it seems to be quite a
direct commentary on the landscape there. But also the best
comedy series is full of awesome stuff as well. Abbott Elementary,
The Bear Hacks. Nobody wants this only murders in the building,
(02:43):
shrinking the studio and what we do in the shadows,
tons of great views.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
What's just occurred to me is the best thing about
this list is if you're struggling to find something to watch,
just carry through the list because something will pop up
that you go, oh, yeah, I never watched this, so
I've never got around to doing Severance. I really should
probably put it on the list.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
And I only just finished the Studio and I wish
i'd just sichly through that it came out.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
I really really enjoyed it, you know, I slowed down
halfway through.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
I got gets better though, Okay, all right, lo, hang on.
I hate people that say that make you saying, do
your homework, eat your vegetables, and you get putting later on.
But no, it should be should just all be good?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Should I rely on you to do this? I rely
on you to go franchiseka jestic at it. It works
every time.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Well, here's the good news. I've now got a slew
of different recommendations for you. If you've been following the
news in Brazil this week with the sentencing of former
president and convicted coup plotter Jaya Bolsonaro, can't reckon the enough.
Two excellent documentaries on Netflix, The Edge of Democracy from
twenty nineteen. This was an Oscar nominated Docco and the
(03:44):
filmmaker Petro Costa made another film, Apocalypse in the Tropics,
that was released this year. They examined the fragility of
Brazil's electoral system. It's deeply thrilling, deeply gripping and very
very sad. The first Edge of Democracy looks at President
Lula's presidents in the kind of the forces that propelled
start to propel Bolsanara into power. And Apocalypse of the
(04:07):
Tropics and this year looks at the growing and very
strong influence of evangelical Christians in Brazil's politics. Again very
responsible for bolscenario being a power and kind of seems
to conflict with the stuff he did when he was
in office, This moral segment of society backing someone that's
a coup plotter and would be murderer, speaking of fascists.
(04:28):
There's a new Stephen King adaptation in cinemas. It adapts
the very first novel he wrote, although it wasn't the
first minute that got published. Published in nineteen seventy nine,
The Long Walk is the story of a post war
dystopian us where a group of young men volunteer to
participate in a walk where they just walk until there's
only one person left. If your speed drops below a
(04:48):
certain speed, bullet in the head. If you walk off
the road, bullet in the head, commit other infractions, bullet
in the head. This is lean mean, tough watch at times,
really gripping, really really good film and weirdly finds like
positive things about human connection and amid this horrible, horrible
setup and one other thing on the horizon this week.
(05:11):
I'm just saw the news this morning. There is a
massive event at Wembley Arena this week in the UK,
put together by Brian Eno and a bunch of others
that together for Palestine. Event is being streamed on Brian
ENO's YouTube page so you can watch it for free.
The event features people like Eno himself, Damon Alban from Blur,
(05:33):
Hot Chip, Bennett Kumerbatch and Guy Pearson making appearances, Jamie
x X, Paloma Faith and Portoishead who we heard from
at the top of the segment, along with a whole
bunch of other stuff that we don't know about yet.
So that's happening on the seventeenth of September UK time,
i e. The eighteenth for US.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Perfect and if we want to watch the Emmys tomorrow,
can we watch them?
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Yeah, we can watch those, So then they are live
from early afternoon, but coverage here is going to be
from six thirty pm on rialto the Sky Channel with
Red carp from five point thirty pm.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
For more from the Sunday session with Francesca Rudkin, listen
live to News Talks a B from nine am Sunday,
or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
You're listening to the Sunday Session podcast with Francesca Rudgin
from News Talks EDB.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Of course, tomorrow big day for television. The Emmys are
taking place in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Indeed, the seventy seventh Emmys, full of so many great shows.
It's a really interesting time to reflect on what a
good year of television it's been. And you know, some
would say, yourself perhaps that it compares very favorably with
Cinnamon in that regard that we make a lot of
fuss about the Oscars.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Yes, because I was talking to my producer about it
and I was going, oh, the Emmys. I mean, you know,
if you get near me, it's pretty impressive. But we're
kind of like, oh, it's an We're not we know.
I don't think we pay a huge amount of attention
to it, which is kind of absurd because you know,
we are making some extraordinary TV.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Absolutely, And so just to give a bit of a
run through the lead the lead shows this year most
nominated as Severance with twenty seven nominations, The Penguin Behind
It with twenty four, the Studio twenty three, also the
White Lotus of twenty three nominations, and the Last of
Us with sixteen. Other shows with a bunch of noums
include and Or, Hacks, Adolescents of the Bear and the Pet.
(01:15):
So it's been a really good year for new shows
for returning shows. A bunch of awards have already been
handed out, so they sort of there's a lot of
technical categories. They split the awards into two different ceremonies.
At the Creative Arts Emmys, Seth Rogan's The Studio picked
up nine awards. That's going to probably sweep this year's
Emmy's Hollywood Loves Things About Hollywood and The Studio is
(01:36):
very very good, a really great satirical comedy that kind
of makes fun of Hollywood and movies but also deeply
loves it as well, which is a nice place to land.
And some of the more familiar winners at this cred
of Arts section were Brian Cranston won for his guest
appearance in The Studio, Julian Nicholson for Hacks, and some
(01:57):
guy called Barack Obama won an Emmy for narrating Our Oceans,
So good on, good on, mister Obama of the Best
Drama Series. Such a great crop of shows, and all
the diplomat the Last of Us, Paradise, the Pit, Severance,
Slow Horses, and the White Loatters. So something there.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
That's pick I mean, I love slow Yeah, this is
to pick up.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
One bit, but this is tough.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
This is really tough. I think people are tipping. Severance
is a favorite also, and or Is I think has
stayed in the conversation based on political developments in the
United States. I think it seems to be quite a
direct commentary on the landscape there. But also the best
comedy series is full of awesome stuff as well. Abbott Elementary,
The Bear Hacks. Nobody wants this only murders in the building,
(02:43):
shrinking the studio and what we do in the shadows,
tons of great views.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
What's just occurred to me is the best thing about
this list is if you're struggling to find something to watch,
just carry through the list because something will pop up
that you go, oh, yeah, I never watched this, so
I've never got around to doing Severance. I really should
probably put it on the list.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
And I only just finished the Studio and I wish
i'd just sichly through that it came out.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
I really really enjoyed it, you know, I slowed down
halfway through.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
I got gets better though, Okay, all right, lo, hang on.
I hate people that say that make you saying, do
your homework, eat your vegetables, and you get putting later on.
But no, it should be should just all be good?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Should I rely on you to do this? I rely
on you to go franchiseka jestic at it. It works
every time.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Well, here's the good news. I've now got a slew
of different recommendations for you. If you've been following the
news in Brazil this week with the sentencing of former
president and convicted coup plotter Jaya Bolsonaro, can't reckon the enough.
Two excellent documentaries on Netflix, The Edge of Democracy from
twenty nineteen. This was an Oscar nominated Docco and the
(03:44):
filmmaker Petro Costa made another film, Apocalypse in the Tropics,
that was released this year. They examined the fragility of
Brazil's electoral system. It's deeply thrilling, deeply gripping and very
very sad. The first Edge of Democracy looks at President
Lula's presidents in the kind of the forces that propelled
start to propel Bolsanara into power. And Apocalypse of the
(04:07):
Tropics and this year looks at the growing and very
strong influence of evangelical Christians in Brazil's politics. Again very
responsible for bolscenario being a power and kind of seems
to conflict with the stuff he did when he was
in office, This moral segment of society backing someone that's
a coup plotter and would be murderer, speaking of fascists.
(04:28):
There's a new Stephen King adaptation in cinemas. It adapts
the very first novel he wrote, although it wasn't the
first minute that got published. Published in nineteen seventy nine,
The Long Walk is the story of a post war
dystopian us where a group of young men volunteer to
participate in a walk where they just walk until there's
only one person left. If your speed drops below a
(04:48):
certain speed, bullet in the head. If you walk off
the road, bullet in the head, commit other infractions, bullet
in the head. This is lean mean, tough watch at times,
really gripping, really really good film and weirdly finds like
positive things about human connection and amid this horrible, horrible
setup and one other thing on the horizon this week.
(05:11):
I'm just saw the news this morning. There is a
massive event at Wembley Arena this week in the UK,
put together by Brian Eno and a bunch of others
that together for Palestine. Event is being streamed on Brian
ENO's YouTube page so you can watch it for free.
The event features people like Eno himself, Damon Alban from Blur,
(05:33):
Hot Chip, Bennett Kumerbatch and Guy Pearson making appearances, Jamie
x X, Paloma Faith and Portoishead who we heard from
at the top of the segment, along with a whole
bunch of other stuff that we don't know about yet.
So that's happening on the seventeenth of September UK time,
i e. The eighteenth for US.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Perfect and if we want to watch the Emmys tomorrow,
can we watch them?
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Yeah, we can watch those, So then they are live
from early afternoon, but coverage here is going to be
from six thirty pm on rialto the Sky Channel with
Red carp from five point thirty pm.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
For more from the Sunday session with Francesca Rudkin, listen
live to News Talks a B from nine am Sunday,
or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
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