The Pitt, Hacks and newcomers Widow’s Bay and Pluribus lead 2026 Emmy nominations

HBO medical drama The Pitt, starring Noah Wyle, leads with 25 nominations. Photograph: Warrick Page/MAX View image in fullscreen HBO medical drama The Pitt, starring Noah Wyle, leads with 25 nominations. Photograph: Warrick Page/MAX The Pitt, Hacks and newcomers Widow’s Bay and Pluribus lead 2026 Emmy nominations HBO and Apple shows head up this year’s nominations while Richard Gadd’s Baby Reindeer follow-up Half-Man only receives one nod The second season of hit hospital drama The Pitt and the final season of Hacks dominate this year’s Emmy nominations, announced on Wednesday. The Pitt leads with 25 nominations while Hacks has 24, both scoring a big win for HBO. But Apple also had an impressive showing for the first seasons of breakout horror comedy Widow’s Bay , which follows with 19 nods, and sci-fi drama Pluribus with 18. ‘A halo of optimism’: why The Pitt is the most hopeful show on TV Read more The Pitt and Pluribus will battle it out for the best drama series award alongside The Diplomat, The Gilded Age, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, Paradise, Slow Horses, and Your Friends & Neighbors. Last year the first season of The Pitt took home the award. Its star Noah Wyle is also hoping to take home lead actor in a drama series for the second year in a row and this year faces Paradise ’s Sterling K Brown, Slow Horses ’ Gary Oldman, Task ’s Mark Ruffalo and The Diplomat ’s Rufus Sewell. Rhea Seehorn , the Pluribus star who won the Golden Globe for her role, will compete in the lead actress in a drama series with The Gilded Age’s Carrie Coon, The Testaments’ Chase Infiniti, The Diplomat’s Keri Russell and Euphoria’s Zendaya. The final season of Hacks, a show that has already picked up nine Emmy wins, will face off against Widow’s Bay in the comedy series category alongside Abbott Elementary, Shrinking, Nobody Wants This, Margo’s Got Money Troubles, Only Murders in the Building and the fourth season of The Bear. Jean Smart, the Hacks star who has won the lead actress in a comedy series Emmy for the last four seasons, will go up against Abbott Elementary’s Quinta Brunson, The Bear’s Ayo Edebiri, Margo’s Got Money Troubles’ Elle Fanning and The Comeback’s Lisa Kudrow. View image in fullscreen Jean Smart in Hacks. Photograph: HBO/AP Matthew Rhys , the Widow’s Bay star who has previously won an Emmy for The Americans, heads up the lead actor in a comedy series category competing with Wonder Man’s Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Rooster’s Steve Carell, Shrinking’s Jason Segel and Only Murders in the Building’s Martin Short. Rhys also scored a nomination for his performance in Netflix thriller The Beast in Me in the category of lead actor in a limited or anthology series or TV movie. He will face off against Bait’s Riz Ahmed, Black Rabbit’s Jason Bateman, Monster’s Charlie Hunnam, and Beef’s Oscar Isaac. Mariska Hargitay to host 78th Emmy awards in September Read more The lead actress category for this field features The Beast in Me’s Claire Danes, All Her Fault’s