Cast Your Ballot — Marquee Awards 2026 Preliminary Vote

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01Best Drama Series

The continuing-drama field. Hour-long form, season after season, the marquee category.

Severance

Apple TV+

Season 2; the most-discussed prestige drama on streaming.

Slow Horses

Apple TV+

Season 5; the British spy thriller has only sharpened.

Andor

Disney+

Season 2; the political-thriller closing argument.

The Last of Us

HBO

Season 2; arguably the most-discussed prestige property on the year’s ballot.

Shōgun

FX on Hulu

Season 2; the 2024 Emmy juggernaut returns.

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02Best Comedy Series

Continuing comedy. Half-hour, hour-long, hybrid — the form has loosened; the standard hasn’t.

The Bear

FX on Hulu

Season 4; the Emmy-anointed prestige comedy.

Hacks

HBO Max

Season 4; Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder in the same frame.

Only Murders in the Building

Hulu

Season 5; the workhorse of the cohort.

Abbott Elementary

ABC / Hulu

Network-original but streaming-watched; eligible under the platform-agnostic rule.

What We Do in the Shadows

FX on Hulu

Final season; the long-running mockumentary closing out.

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03Best Limited or Anthology Series

Self-contained stories told across a single season or anthology arc.

Adolescence

Netflix

Four episodes, each in a single take. Stephen Graham co-created. The early front-runner.

The White Lotus

HBO

Season 3 — Thailand.

Black Mirror

Netflix

2026 episode block; the strongest year in some time.

Disclaimer

Apple TV+

Cuarón’s seven-episode prestige limited.

Say Nothing

FX on Hulu

Patrick Radden Keefe adaptation; widely admired.

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04Streaming Platform of the Year

A Marquees-only category. The platform whose 2026 originals slate, as a whole, defined the year.

Apple TV+

Severance, Slow Horses, Pachinko, Disclaimer

A run of prestige originals with disproportionate cultural weight.

HBO & Max

The Pitt, Last of Us, White Lotus, Hacks

The traditional prestige stronghold, still delivering.

Netflix

Adolescence, Squid Game, Black Mirror

Volume plus the year’s most-watched limited series.

FX on Hulu

The Bear, Shōgun, WWDITS, Welcome to Wrexham

Quietly a top-three slate every year.

Disney+

Andor

A single show carrying the slate — but what a show.

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05Show of the Year

The top prize. The single show that defined television in 2026 — across all forms, all platforms.

Severance

Apple TV+

Most-discussed; structurally daring; Emmy-anointed.

Adolescence

Netflix

Most-watched; technically audacious; cultural-conversation peak.

The Pitt

Max

Outstanding Drama Series at the 77th Emmys; redefines its genre.

Andor

Disney+

Best Star Wars production ever made; political drama in franchise drag.

The White Lotus

HBO

Three seasons in, the streaming era’s most reliable comedy of class.

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