After the TV Academy merged the two major late-night Emmy categories earlier this year, it seems that things have shaken out just as expected with the number of nominations for the 2026 awards.
Deadline understands that the Outstanding Variety Series category, which merges the previous Outstanding Talk Series and Outstanding Scripted Variety Series categories, has 18 submissions, meaning that there will be five nominated shows across the two areas.
This is largely in line with last year when the two categories featured 19 submissions across the two sections.
It means that there will likely be three from
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