The Television Academy revealed nominations for the 78th Emmy Awards on Wednesday, with HBO's "The Pitt" leading all series with 25 nods and stablemate "Hacks" close behind at 24 The Guardian. Liza Colón-Zayas and Jeff Hiller, both past Emmy winners, announced the list in a ceremony streamed live on Emmys.com Emmys.com.

Apple TV+ placed two titles in the upper tier of the nominations count: "Widow's Bay" with 19 and "Pluribus" with 18 The Guardian. The concentration of nominations among just four shows, two from HBO and two from Apple TV+, reflects how the major nomination hauls now cluster around a handful of prestige titles rather than spreading across a broader field, a pattern consistent with recent Emmy cycles even as the underlying competitive landscape between legacy premium cable and streaming continues to shift.

"Hacks" set a new Emmy record for the most nominations ever earned by a comedy series in a single year The Guardian. The show's lead, Jean Smart, has won the lead actress in a comedy series award for four consecutive seasons; her nomination this year sets up a potential fifth. Smart was also named alongside Ted Danson, Sheila Nevins, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, Ted Sarandos and Ed Bradley as an inductee into the Television Academy Hall of Fame at Televerse 26, per a June 30 release Emmys.com.

The best drama series field consists of "The Pitt," "Pluribus," "The Diplomat," "The Gilded Age," "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms," "Paradise," "Slow Horses" and "Your Friends & Neighbors" The Guardian. "The Pitt" enters as the defending champion in the category, having won best drama series last year, and its 2026 nominations recognize its second season Sun-Sentinel; ABC7.

On the comedy side, the nominees are "Hacks," "Widow's Bay," "Abbott Elementary," "Shrinking," "Nobody Wants This," "Margo's Got Money Troubles," "Only Murders in the Building" and "The Bear" (season four) The Guardian. The inclusion of "The Bear" alongside repeat contenders like "Abbott Elementary" and "Only Murders in the Building" keeps the category populated largely with holdovers, even as "Hacks" and "Widow's Bay" absorb the bulk of nomination volume this cycle.

The 78th Primetime Emmy Awards mark the awards' 78th edition Emmys.com. Nominations-round voting concluded June 11, and final-round voting is scheduled for August 17, ahead of a ceremony that begins at 5:00 PM on September 14 Television Academy. The broadcast airs live on NBC and Peacock, produced by Jesse Collins Entertainment Emmys.com. The Creative Arts Emmys, which handle many of the technical and below-the-line categories, are set for September 5 and 6 Emmys.com.

The Television Academy has also published a "Complete Nominations List" and an "Emmy Nominations Per Program" breakdown as downloadable PDFs, giving voters and press a full accounting beyond the headline categories Emmys.com.

Separately, the Los Angeles Area Emmy Awards, a regional ceremony distinct from the national Primetime Emmys, saw its own nominations announced June 2, drawing 122 nominations across 33 categories Television Academy. That ceremony takes place July 25 Emmys.com, and ABC7's David Ono was named recipient of the 2026 LA Area Emmy Governors Award, announced June 4 Emmys.com.

The dual dominance of HBO and Apple TV+ in nomination counts this year is worth sitting with. HBO's continued strength through "The Pitt" and "Hacks" suggests the network's post-streaming-consolidation strategy of fewer, more resource-intensive prestige series is still paying dividends with Television Academy voters, even as its parent company has cycled through multiple corporate rebrands and ownership questions in recent years. Apple TV+'s showing with "Widow's Bay" and "Pluribus" continues a longer trend of the platform punching above its subscriber-base weight in awards recognition, a strategy that has as much to do with talent relationships and awards-campaign spending as with viewership figures that Apple, unlike its competitors, still declines to disclose in granular form.

Whether nomination volume translates into wins in September is a separate question voters will settle in final-round balloting next month. "The Pitt" defends a drama series title against a genuinely varied field that includes fantasy ("A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms"), diplomatic drama ("The Diplomat," a title whose subject matter journalists in this beat will recognize as loosely adjacent to real foreign-service culture), and prestige period pieces ("The Gilded Age"). Smart's bid for a fifth consecutive comedy actress win, meanwhile, sits inside a comedy category now built almost entirely around her own show's record-breaking nomination haul.