In 1999, David E. Kelley’s hourlong legal comedy-drama Ally McBeal won the Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series over four half-hour comedies — multi-cam Friends, Frasier and Everybody Loves Raymond and single-camera Sex and the City –– and thus the big debate began whether hourlong dramedies belong in the comedy categories.
There have been ebbs and flows but the discussion may be reignited again this year with a large contingent of hourlong contenders in the comedy series categories, some of them pretty dramatic.
The latest to declare as a comedy for the 2026 Emmy race is Prime Video’s Young Sherlock, starring Hero Fiennes Tiffin. The action mystery drama with comedic undertones, which imagines Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous character before he became a world-famous detective, comes from Guy Ritchie, who is known for his comedic sensibilities. His other streaming series, Netflix’s hourlong The Gentlemen, also has been competing as a
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