The Television Academy has confirmed to IndieWire that “Black Mirror” will not be eligible to compete in the 2020 Emmy race for Outstanding Television Movie, a category the Netflix science-fiction anthology series has dominated for the last several years.
A source close to Netflix also confirmed the show had been booted from the Television Movie category.
THR first reported the news.
Netflix submitted the fifth season “Black Mirror” episode “Smithereens” into the 2020 Television Movie race but the Academy has ruled it must compete for Best Drama Series instead.Moving “Black Mirror” into the Best Drama category radically shakes up the Emmys race and suggests that the science-fiction anthology’s dominant run at the Emmys is more or less over for now.
“Black Mirror” has won the Emmy for Outstanding Television Movie for three years in a row thanks to the episodes “San Junipero,” “USS Callister,” and “Bandersnatch.” Allowing “Black Mirror” to
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