Emmys: The Oscars, The Tonys, SNL, RuPaul’s Drag Race Highlight our Variety, Reality-Competition Winner Predictions

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Emmy Expert Jonathan Boehle and I have already revealed our prediction in the Variety and Reality categories in Emmy Podcast #20 but now you can see where the rest of the experts stand in the tight races. Reality-Competition and Reality Host are especially close with first time nominee RuPaul’s Drag Race challenging 10-time winner The Amazing Race and three-time winner (and reigning champ) The Voice. Alternately, RuPaul Charles is going for his second win in a row as host of his show against Emmy magnet Alec Baldwin, who is up for his first season of the primetime reboot of Match Game.

LISTEN: Emmy Podcast #20: Variety, Reality-Competition Winner Predictions

Saturday Night Live seems poised to take Variety Sketch Series pretty easily this year but Variety Talk Series looks like a fight between former Daily Show correspondents John Oliver (winner here last year) and Stephen Colbert (a previous winner, but not for this show). But wait, can Samantha Bee break the glass ceiling and beat them both?

Special Class Program, with strangely only four nominees this year, looks like a fight between the 70th Annual Tony Awards (aka the Hamilton Tonys) and this year’s Oscars, notorious for the La La Land/Moonlight Best Picture snafu. Could the gaffe result in a big win here?

Three of these categories, Reality Host, Variety Special and Special Class Program will be presented at the Creative Arts Emmys, the weekend of September 9th and 10th. Reality Competition Series, Variety Sketch and Variety Talk Series will be presented at the Primetime Emmys on September 17th.

Here are the predictions from the AwardsWatch Emmy Experts in those six categories.

2017 EMMYS ERIK ANDERSON FRED ARTICO CHRIS PEPPER NICOLE LATAYAN JONATHAN BOEHLE
Reality Competition Series RuPaul’s Drag Race The Amazing Race RuPaul’s Drag Race RuPaul’s Drag Race RuPaul’s Drag Race
The Voice RuPaul’s Drag Race The Voice The Amazing Race The Amazing Race
The Amazing Race The Voice The Amazing Race The Voice The Voice
Top Chef Top Chef Top Chef Top Chef America Ninja Warrior
American Ninja Warrior Project Runway Project Runway American Ninja Warrior Project Runway
Project Runway American Ninja Warrior American Ninja Warrior Project Runway Top Chef
Host Alec Baldwin, Match Game RuPaul Charles, RuPaul’s Drag Race RuPaul Charles, RuPaul’s Drag Race Alec Baldwin, Match Game
for a Reality or RuPaul Charles, RuPaul’s Drag Race Alec Baldwin, Match Game Alec Baldwin, Match Game RuPaul Charles, RuPaul’s Drag Race
Reality-Competition W. Kamau Bell, United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn, Project Runway Martha Stewart and Snoop Dogg, Martha & Snoop’s Potluck Dinner Party Martha Stewart and Snoop Dogg, Martha & Snoop’s Potluck Dinner Party
Program Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn, Project Runway Martha Stewart and Snoop Dogg, Martha & Snoop’s Potluck Dinner Party Gordon Ramsey, Masterchef Junior Gordon Ramsey, Masterchef Junior
Martha Stewart and Snoop Dogg, Martha & Snoop’s Potluck Dinner Party Gordon Ramsey, Masterchef Junior W. Kamau Bell, United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell W. Kamau Bell, United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell
Gordon Ramsey, Masterchef Junior W. Kamau Bell, United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn, Project Runway Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn, Project Runway
Variety Talk Series Late Show with Stephen Colbert Last Week Tonight with John Oliver Late Show with Stephen Colbert Last Week Tonight with John Oliver Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver Late Show with Stephen Colbert Last Week Tonight with John Oliver Late Show with Stephen Colbert Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee Jimmy Kimmel Live! Full Frontal with Samantha Bee Jimmy Kimmel Live! Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Jimmy Kimmel Live! Full Frontal with Samantha Bee Jimmy Kimmel Live! Full Frontal with Samantha Bee Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
Late Late Show with James Corden Late Late Show with James Corden Late Late Show with James Corden Late Late Show with James Corden Late Late Show with James Corden
Real Time with Bill Maher Real Time with Bill Maher Real Time with Bill Maher Real Time with Bill Maher Real Time with Bill Maher
Variety Sketch Series Saturday Night Live Saturday Night Live Saturday Night Live Saturday Night Live Saturday Night Live
Billy on the Street Billy on the Street Tracey Ullman’s Show Billy on the Street Documentary Now
Tracey Ullman’s Show Tracey Ullman’s Show Portlandia Tracey Ullman’s Show Tracey Ullman’s Show
Portlandia Portlandia Billy on the Street Portlandia Billy on the Street
Documentary Now Drunk History Documentary Now Documentary Now Portlandia
Drunk History Documentary Now Drunk History Drunk History Drunk History
Variety Special Stephen Colbert’s Live Election Night Carpool Karaoke Primetime Special 2017 Carpool Karaoke Primetime Special 2017 Stephen Colbert’s Live Election Night Stephen Colbert’s Live Election Night
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee Presents Not the White House Correspondents Dinner Stephen Colbert’s Live Election Night Stephen Colbert’s Live Election Night Carpool Karaoke Primetime Special 2017 Full Frontal with Samantha Bee Presents Not the White House Correspondents Dinner
Carpool Karaoke Primetime Special 2017 Full Frontal with Samantha Bee Presents Not the White House Correspondents Dinner Louis C.K.: 2017 Full Frontal with Samantha Bee Presents Not the White House Correspondents Dinner Carpool Karaoke Primetime Special 2017
Sarah Silverman: A Speck of Dust Louis C.K.: 2017 Sarah Silverman: A Speck of Dust Louis C.K.: 2017 Louis C.K.: 2017
Louis C.K.: 2017 Sarah Silverman: A Speck of Dust Full Frontal with Samantha Bee Presents Not the White House Correspondents Dinner Sarah Silverman: A Speck of Dust Sarah Silverman: A Speck fo Dust
Special Class Program 70th Annual Tony Awards 70th Annual Tony Awards 70th Annual Tony Awards 70th Annual Tony Awards 70th Annual Tony Awards
The Oscars Hairspray Live! The Oscars The Oscars The Oscars
Hairspray Live! The Oscars Hairspray Live! Hairspray Live! Hairspray Live!
Super Bowl LI Halftime Show Super Bowl LI Halftime Show Super Bowl LI Halftime Show Super Bowl LI Halftime Show Super Bowl LI Halftime Show
Erik Anderson

Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013. He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.

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