Hulu series The Handmaid's Tale has set a new record for having the most Emmy nominations without winning a single one.
The show was nominated an incredible 21 times, which was only beaten by Netflix's The Crown and Disney+'s The Mandalorian, with 24 noms each and WandaVision, which got 23.
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Yet unfortunately for the show, none of the nominations translated into actual wins.
The previous (unwanted) record was held by AMC's Mad Men for 17 nominations and zero wins in 2012.
Saturday Night Live also managed to land an impressive 21 noms. The show managed to pick up four awards, including outstanding variety sketch series.
According to IMDb, the synopsis reads: "The Handmaid's Tale is the story of life in the dystopia of Gilead, a totalitarian society in what was the United States.
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"Gilead is ruled by a fundamentalist regime that treats women as property of the state, and is faced with environmental disasters and a plummeting birth rate."
With the site giving it a solid rating of 8.4, it is quite surprising that it didn't manage to pick up anything this year.
In 2017, the series won six Emmy awards, including outstanding drama series, with Ann Dowd also grabbing most outstanding supporting actress in a drama series.
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Jordan Helman (head of scripted content for Hulu Originals) recently told Variety: "At the moment, the writers are working away breaking season 5."
He added: "I think what's really exciting about Handmaid's Tale is that piece, year after year after year, sees viewership growth, unlike anything we've ever seen.
"We're having conversations right now about what the future of The Handmaid's Tale holds.
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"Also, how The Testaments [Margaret Atwood's 2019 sequel novel] plays into that kind of larger strategy.
"What [executive producers] Bruce [Miller], Warren [Littlefield] and Lizzie [Moss] have delivered for us over the course of the past several years, really warrants a tremendous amount of trust both ways.
"And so I have the deepest belief that they're going to come to us with a plan about how much longer the show needs to go on.
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"And I'm certain that that would be a plan that we're all on the same page about."
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