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All 22,000 plus voting members of the TV academy have until June 27 to cast their 2022 Emmy Awards nominations ballots for programs. Unlike the Oscars, voters for the Emmys do not rank their choices and nominees are determined by a simple tally. In the past, voters were limited in the number of programs that they could put forth. Five years ago, that cap (which was usually 10 per category) was lifted.

While the comedy and drama series ballots have each maintained an average of over 100 entrants in recent years, there have nearly always been fewer than 40 choices in the limited series genre. This year, however, the field is much larger at 61, which is up by 24 from last year. There were 41 contenders in 2020, 35 in 2019, and 33 in 2018. Five series from the list below will make the cut and be announced as Emmy nominees on July 12.

Unlike comedy and drama series, which are simply listed on the ballot by name,...

After two brilliant movies (the second one is my personal favourite of the two and I’m ignoring number three), Creepshow has been reintroduced to the horror audience with a TV show on Shudder. After two seasons it’s been pretty great so far and this week sees the first episode of Season three released on the streaming platform.

Featuring two stories, the first is Mums directed by Rusty Cundieff (Tales From The Hood) and based on the story by Joe Hill. In it, a young boy Jack (Brayden Benson) has his mother forcefully taken away from him by his father (the always excellent Ethan Embry), claiming that she is starting to drink again. This isn’t true though and the father just wants her out of their lives, soon Jack realises this.

It’s a kind of ridiculous but brilliant story once it gets going, The highlight, like many of these Creepshow episodes,...