HBO’s Succession and Pop’s Schitt’s Creek solidified their frontrunner status in the Outstanding Drama and Comedy Series Emmy categories, respectively, by landing their first casting Emmy awards.

At the start of Night 4 of the 2020 Creative Arts Emmy Awards, Succession won Casting for a Drama Series (Avy Kaufman, Francine Maisler), while Schitt’s Creek took Casting for a Comedy Series (Lisa Parasyn, .

The Casting for a Comedy and Drama Series categories have been a decent barometer for the Outstanding Comedy Series and Outstanding Drama Series fields over the past few years.

Last year, HBO’s Game of Thrones and Amazon’s Fleabag triumphed in the two casting categories before scoring the top series Emmys the following weekend.

In fact, in three of the four years Game of Thrones won Drama Series Emmy, it also won Casting For a Drama Series.

Over the past five years, the Comedy Series and Casting For a Comedy Series categories have produced the same winner every year, Veep (2015. 2016, 2017).