• by Adam Buckman , Featured Columnist, Yesterday

Each year, the Emmys give us a chance to check in on the world of TV content creation -- who’s up, who’s down, who stayed the same.

This year’s nominees -- and probably the winners too when the prime-time Emmys are awarded Sunday night on CBS -- tell the same story they have been telling for a number of years now.

And that is the continued dominance of streaming content in TV’s annual celebration of itself.

The numbers tell the story. Going into this year’s show -- to be hosted by comedian Nate Bargatze (photo above) -- the platforms with the most nominations are HBO Max with 142 (a record), Netflix with 120 and Apple TV+ with 79.

Disney had 123 total nominations by our count, but that was split over four Disney-owned platforms: ABC (37), FX on Hulu (35), Disney+ (28) and Hulu (23).

Of the other major streamers, Peacock had a total of 19 nominations and Prime Video had 12. Paramount+ had seven.

If you add Peacock and NBC together, then NBCU had a total of 48 nominations.

Having noted the dominance of streaming in the nomination lists, attention should be paid to ABC’s 37 nominations -- the most of any legacy network. NBC had 29, CBS had 26 and Fox had seven.

But it is in the area of individual shows that the broadcast networks fade into the background (although the TV Blog believes that the nomination numbers have little correlation to viewership when it comes to network shows).

At the top of the nominations list by program are “Severance” with 27 (Apple), “The Penguin” with 24 (HBO), “The Studio” with 23 (Apple), “The White Lotus” with 23 (HBO), “The Last of Us” with 16 (HBO) and others.

The network show with the most nominations was NBC’s “SNL50: The Anniversary Special” with 12. “SNL” itself got seven, which is not unusual; the show gets multiple nominations every year.

But generally speaking, network TV had very few nominations for shows or actors. I counted only four in the major acting categories, starting with Kathy Bates, nominated for Best Actress in a Drama for “Matlock” on CBS, and Quinta Brunson, nominated for Best Actress in a Comedy for “Abbott Elementary” on ABC.

The other two were Sheryl Lee Ralph, nominated for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy for “Abbott Elementary,” and Bowen Yang for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy for “Saturday Night Live.”

What’s the other number of importance for Sunday night’s Emmys?

That would be the ratings. Last year’s show on ABC drew an audience of 6.9 million viewers -- up from a year earlier, when the audience count was 4.46 million.