LOS ANGELES - Searing teen murder saga "Adolescence" and Hollywood satire "The Studio" are expected to be among the big winners at Sunday's Emmy Awards, television's equivalent of the Oscars.
Meanwhile, Apple TV+'s sci-fi office thriller "Severance" and HBO medical procedural "The Pitt" will vie for the highly coveted best drama series prize.
Arguably this year's most talked-about TV hit, "Adolescence" is the clear favourite to win best limited series -- awarded to shows that end after one season.
Earning a whopping 140 million views in its first three months on Netflix, it follows a 13-year-old schoolboy arrested on suspicion of murdering a female classmate with a knife.
The best comedy series prize has a similarly prohibitive favorite -- Apple's "The Studio."
Starring its co-creator Seth Rogen as floundering movie executive Matt Remick, "The Studio" is both a love letter to Hollywood, and a searing send-up of the industry's many insecurities, hypocrisies and moral failings.
Its 23 nominations are the joint-most ever by a comedy in a single year, and it already won nine statuettes last weekend at the ceremony for the more technical Emmy categories.
The ceremony's most intriguing moment seems destined to be the announcement of the best drama series award -- typically the final prize of the night.
"Severance" -- a psychological drama set largely in the near-future offices of a shadowy corporation -- has the most nominations of any show this year with 27.