- The 71st Emmy Awards ceremony will be held on September 22, 2019 at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.
- Hosts for the 2019 Emmy Awards have not been announced.
- The 2019 Emmy Awards will air live on Fox TV.
The Emmy Awards have been a staple of American television since the late 1940’s and they continue today despite questionable relevance in a digital broadcasting environment. The first Emmy Awards were presented on January 25, 1949 at the Hollywood Athletic Club but the awards have grown in scope and stature since then to the point that you need a scorecard to figure out the various permutations.
Until 1974, the event we’re discussing here was known simply as the ‘Emmy Awards’. In 1974, however, a new awards show was created to honor excellence in daytime television. These were cleverly named the ‘Daytime Emmys’ and this show became the ‘Primetime Emmy Awards’. That is in addition to the Sports Emmys, Technical Emmys, International Emmys, News and Documentary Emmys and Regional Emmys. The whole thing is so convoluted that there’s actually two ‘Academy’ groups behind the awards–the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (ATAS) runs most of the Emmys with the exception of the Technical and Engineering Emmys and the Regional Emmys. These shows are run by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) who once worked with ATAS but split from the group in the mid 1970’s. NATAS runs all of the Regional Emmys except the Los Angeles Area Emmys which is under the auspices of ATAS. To make things all the more confusing each group has their own Engineering focused awards with ATAS giving out the ‘Prime Time Technical Emmys’.
Here are the SPORTSINSIDER.COM odds on the 71st Primetime Emmy Awards Comedy Series categories:
71ST PRIMETIME EMMY AWARDS 2019 BETTING ODDS
OUTSTANDING COMEDY SERIES
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel +250
Barry +300
Veep +450
Russian Doll +600
Schitt's Creek +600
The Good Place +750
Fleabag +750
OUTSTANDING COMEDY ACTRESS
Rachel Brosnahan/The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel +200
Phoebe Waller-Bridge/Fleabag +200
Julia Louise-Dreyfus/Veep +350
Natasha Lyonne/Russian Doll +700
Christina Applegate/Dead to Me +700
Catherine O'Hara/Schitt's Creek +700
OUTSTANDING COMEDY ACTOR
Bill Hader/Barry +250
Michael Douglas/The Kominsky Method +300
Ted Danson/The Good Place +350
Don Cheadle/Black Monday +500
Anthony Anderson/Black-ish +500
Eugene Levy/Schitt's Creek +500
OUTSTANDING COMEDY SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Alex Borstein/The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel +250
Anna Chlumsky/Veep +350
Olivia Coleman/Fleabag +350
Sarah Goldberg/Barry +750
Kate McKinnon/Saturday Night Live +750
Betty Gilpin/GLOW +900
Marin Hinkle/The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel +900
Sian Clifford/Fleabag +900
OUTSTANDING COMEDY SUPPORTING ACTOR
Tony Shaloub/The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel +200
Alan Arkin/The Kominsky Method +350
Tony Hale/Veep +450
Henry Winkler/Barry +450
Stephen Root/Barry +500
Anthony Carrigan/Barry +500
OUTSTANDING COMEDY DIRECTING
Going to the Catskills/The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel +250
ronny/lily/Barry +300
Episode 2.1/Fleabag +350
All Alone/The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel +500
The Audition/Barry +500
The Stockholm Syndrome/The Big Bang Theory +500
OUTSTANDING COMEDY WRITING
Episode 2.1/Fleabag +250
ronny/lily/Barry +350
Veep/Veep +500
A Warm Body/Russian Doll +500
Nothing in the World Is Easy/Russian Doll +600
Janets/The Good Place +600
Anna Ishii-Peters/Pen15 +700
