Tonight’s 2024 Primetime Emmy Awards will be another glittering, glamorous and tedious occasion. A quick scan down the list of nominees reveals, yet again, how strikingly unrepresentative of US television – as it is actually viewed – they are. The Bear, Beef, Barry, Succession and The White Lotus are all fantastic shows, yes. But this is high-end stuff, very much more talked about in the right places by the right people than actually watched. The American shows that people tune in to in big numb
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