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Ships Creek.

Hello everyone and welcome to a new episode of Next Best series where we talk about television here under the umbrella of the Next Best Picture podcast.

This is episode 21, and it has been a very exciting day.

Today, we're the nominations for the 2021 Primetime Emmy Awards.

The 73rd annual taking place in September, I believe on, what is it, the 17th, 16th?

I think it's the 17th.

Yeah, the 17th, right.

Here that join me today to talk about this.

I have Amanda Spears.

Hello, it's the most special day in TV of the year.

And Michael Schwartz.

Emmy nominee, Bernadette Peters, let's go.

So it was, like I said before, a very, very exciting morning. And when I say morning, I just want to say

for the record, oh, man, can't all award shows announce their nominations at 1130 a.m. Eastern

Standard Time, please, please, please, please. Why does it have to be so, so early for the Oscars? I don't understand it. They want to make the morning talk shows. They're not relevant anymore. I mean, I know that that's the answer, but like, come on, we're past that at this point, aren't we? Does it really matter? Do it with clips. That was great. Absolutely. I really enjoyed the presentation style this morning, and I liked how smoothly everything ran.

It was definitely not like some of the other COVID presentations that we've had before,

where, you know, we guys remember when, like, DeVee Diggs was, like, messing up during the SAG Award nominations?

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