The 2019 Oscar winner for If Beale Street Could Talk, King has also taken three acting Emmys over the last five years - each one in the limited race. Lindelof and Carlton Cuse’s Lost won the best drama race in 2005, one of the last broadcast series to take the prize, and King is an awards favorite. On top of the formidable FYC machine behind all HBO projects, Watchmen heads into the 2020 Emmy race with some auspicious credentials. There’s been no concrete update on what might happen with Watchmen down the line, though Lindelof has spoken somewhat adamantly that the story he told over the original nine-episode run is done. “Originally, my hope was it would have been an ongoing series, but where Damon is thinking about it, I think maybe it’s more like a Fargo, where it comes back completely different.” “We’re talking about that,” he said of the Emmy category question. The 2015 Emmys host did viewers a solid by giving out the login info for his personal HBO Now account during the awards ceremony on Sunday, Sept. HBO programming president Casey Bloys hinted at the possible switch to THR back in January. The limited series races take place on a decidedly smaller playing field, as opposed to drama - Emmys’ most crowded and competitive arena. The move, a reversal from how Watchmen was pitched for The Golden Globes and recent guild awards, should help bolster the buzzy (if niche) genre property.
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