10 Awesome TV Shows That Never Won A (Major) Emmy Award

11. Honourable Mention. The Simpsons

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Yes, The Simpsons has won 32 Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Animated Program 10 times. And yet despite that, it has never received any love in the main awards categories.

Due to it being an animated series it wasn't initially eligible for these, but after a rule change in 1993 the show was submitted a few times for Outstanding Comedy Series. Despite the mid-90s representing the show's peak - and as such, the apex of TV comedy writing as a whole - it didn't even get a nomination, with voters clearly unable to look past the fact it was animated and recognise its true greatness.

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