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 |
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