The Crown and The Mandalorian lead this year's nominations, while Ted Lasso and The Queen's Gambit are also expected to perform well.

All three of the big winners at last year's Emmys are absent this year.

Ted Lasso in particular is a red-hot favourite, having made history for the most nominations for a new comedy.

The show's four nominees in best supporting actor in a comedy (Brett Goldstein, Brendan Hunt, Nick Mohammed and Jeremy Swift) mean Ted Lasso has equalled a record set by Modern Family.

Williams, who had previously been nominated at the Emmys but had never won, is up for best supporting actor in a drama at Sunday's ceremony for his performance as Montrose Freeman in Lovecraft Country.

During Friends' 10-year run, Cox was the only member of the six principal stars not to receive an Emmy nomination for her performance.

This year's Emmys have changed that - although it's only on a technicality.

Revealingly, though, she went on to add: "That's not exactly the Emmy I was looking for.

Three of the four awards Friends: The Reunion was nominated for were handed out at the Creative Arts Emmys last weekend and it lost all three.

Friends isn't the only TV reunion nominated in that category.

Back then there was a social media backlash, and even one of its writers said she couldn't understand how it had scored nominations when I May Destroy You hadn't (although they weren't actually eligible in the same categories).

And despite the age of the recording, the fact it didn't debut on a streaming service until July 2020 means it technically fell into this year's Emmys eligibility window.

The previously announced exit of Regé-Jean Page from Bridgerton didn't harm his Emmy prospects as he's nominated for leading actor in a drama.

Surprisingly, the most popular streaming service in the world has never won best drama series.

That could help The Crown win best drama, as well as acting prizes for the actresses who played them, Gillian Anderson and Emma Corrin.

The Emmy Awards take place on Sunday in Los Angeles at 20:00 ET (01:00 BST).

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