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Canadian Seth Rogen nabbed three major nominations as the 77th Primetime Emmy Award nominations were announced in Los Angeles on Tuesday.
Rogen created the Apple TV+ comedy The Studio, which was among the nominees for outstanding comedy series along with Abbott Elementary, The Bear, Hacks, Nobody Wants This, Only Murders in the Building, Shrinking and What We Do In the Shadows.
Rogen was personally nominated for outstanding performance in a comedy series. His fellow nominees include Canadian Martin Short for Only Murders in the Building, Adam Brody for Nobody Wants This, Jason Segel in Shrinking and Jeremy Allen White in The Bear.
He is also nominated in the directing and writing for a comedy series categories.
The Studio led the comedy categories with 23 nominations in total, besting the record for a new comedy series, which was set by another Apple TV+ show — Ted Lasso, with 20 nominations in its first season in 2021.
Apple TV+ also led the way in the drama categories with the series Severance collecting 27 nominations, including outstanding drama series and for lead actor and actress Adam Scott and Britt Lower, respectively.
CBC News will have more details about the nominations throughout the day.
Two categories were announced earlier in the day on CBS Mornings.
The nominees for outstanding talk series are The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Jimmy Kimmel Live and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
The Amazing Race, RuPaul’s Drag Race, Survivor, Top Chef and The Traitors are nominated for outstanding reality/competition series.
CBS will air the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards from the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles on Sunday, Sept. 14, with comedian Nate Bargatze slated to host.