Emmy Noms, Fun Facts: Bill Hader Goes For Four, Powered-Down Supes, Axed Series Dig For Gold And More

As nominations for the 74th Primetime Emmy Awards continue to be processed, TVLine is drilling down and taking stock of some of the quieter (and sometimes fun) trends.

The numbers we already know? Apple TV+'s Ted Lasso and HBO's The White Lotus both racked up 20 nods, followed by HBO Max's Hacks and Hulu's Only Murders in the Building, which netted 17 each.

Going by outlet, Netflix and HBO proper amassed the most nominations, followed by Hulu, Apple TV+ and Disney+. And among broadcast-TV networks, CBS and NBC tied with 29 nods each, followed by ABC's 23 and Fox's six.

But again, you know all of that. So let's take a look at some other fun facts and figures to be gleaned from this year's contenders...

Season 3 of the HBO drama earned 25 nominations Tuesday — including 14 in acting categories alone. According to Variety, those 14 nods break Emmy records for both A) the most acting nominations for a drama in a single year (a record previously held by NBC's The West Wing, with 12), and B) the most acting nominations for any series in a single year (a record previously held by the 1977 miniseries Roots, with 13).

Apple TV+'s Ted Lasso earned a whopping 20 nominations for its sophomore run, tying its 2021 haul (which marked the most-ever for a freshman comedy, besting the 19 that Glee collected back in 2010). Ted thus again fell shy of 30 Rock's all-time record of 22 nominations for a comedy.

With 17 total nods — including for Outstanding Comedy and two of its three lead actors — Hulu's Only Murders in the Building is this year's most nominated freshman ongoing series, outpacing both Severance and Squid Game (which netted 14 each), and recognizing that HBO's The White Lotus is an anthology/returning with a new setting, premise and mostly new cast. It's no mystery, then, that Season 3 was greenlit just a few weeks into Season 2!

The recently renewed, reality-TV spinoff-spawning Netflix phenom is the first foreign language series to make the short list for Outstanding Drama, where it is set to go up against Better Call Saul (for the first half of its final season), Euphoria, Ozark, Severance, Stranger Things (Season 4, Volume 1), Succession and Yellowjackets. Whew, talk about killer competition.

Bill Hader is a quadruple nominee, nominated for Lead Actor, Directing and Writing for the Barry, as well as Guest Actor for his stint on fellow HBO comedy Curb Your Enthusiasm. Zendaya, meanwhile, is a three-time nominee for Euphoria, up for Lead Actress and twice in the Music & Lyrics category.

Additionally, this year's double nominees include Ozark's Jason Bateman (for Lead Actor/Drama and Directing), Abbott Elementary's Quinta Brunson (for Lead Actress/Comedy and Writing), Rothaniel comedian/recent SNL host Jerrod Carmichael (for Writing for a Variety Special and Guest Actor/Comedy), Ozark's Julia Garner (also nominated for Inventing Anna), Only Murders' Steve Martin (for Lead Actor/Comedy and Writing), Better Call Saul's Rhea Seehorn (also up for Best Actress in a Short Form Comedy, Drama or Variety Series for Cooper's Bar), Euphoria's Sydney Sweeney (also nominated for White Lotus) and Ted Lasso's Harriet Walter (also nominated for her stint on Succession).

Nearly two years after his death, Chadwick Boseman earned a posthumous Emmy nod for his voicing of T'Challa in Disney+'s What If...? The late Jessica Walter is also a nominee for Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance, having voiced Archer matriarch Malory for much of Season 12 before passing away in March 2021. Last but certainly not least, the great Norm Macdonald earned three nods for his final Netflix special, Norm Macdonald: Nothing Special, including Outstanding Variety Special (Pre-Recorded), Outstanding Writing and Directing.

Cancelled CBS comedies B Positive and United States of Al each earned a single nomination for their second and final seasons (for Outstanding Cinematography for a Multi-Camera Series and Outstanding Production Design for a Narrative Program [Half-Hour], respectively), as did Netflix's one-and-done Cowboy Bebop (for Outstanding Main Title Design). Meanwhile, both Ray Donovan and Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist earned nominations for their respective wrap-up movies.

Among the series that more properly ended, Ozark amassed the most nominations (13), followed by Insecure (three), Killing Eve and black-ish (two a piece), and singular mentions for black-ish, Conan, Goliath, Lost in Space and, sigh, This Is Us.

Already (and easily) the Primetime Emmys' most-nominated TV program ever, NBC's Saturday Night Live grew its grand total to 325 lifetime nods, by adding another nine this year. Series overlord Lorne Michaels, meanwhile, remains the most-nominated individual, with 96 lifetime Emmy nods.

Whereas in 2021, WandaVision, Falcon and Winter Soldier, The Boys, Umbrella Academy, Doom Patrol and The Nevers combined for nearly 40 total Emmy nominations, this year the live-action combo of Loki, Hawkeye, Moon Knight and Peacemaker — with The Boys and Umbrella Academy MIA from the eligible mix — only amassed 17 nods. (Add in Disney+'s animated What If...? anthology, and the tally hits 20.)

And out of the eligible live-action superhero shows, zero on-camera acting performances were nominated, whereas last year Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Bettany and Don Cheadle were among the contenders. (We say "on-camera" since F. Murray Abraham earned a nod for voicing Moon Knight's Khonshu.)

With The Mandalorian (which last year amassed 24 nominations on its own) as well as For All Mankind in between eligibility periods, it was largely up to the Star Trek and Star Wars series to represent interstellar fare. Star Trek: Picard and The Book of Boba Fett collected four nominations each, while Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Lost in Space and the anime anthology Star Wars: Visions earned one each.

But, like the superhero shows, not a single acting nominee among 'em.

Stand-up comedian Dave Chappelle made headlines in October when his latest special, The Closer, was criticized for comments deemed "dangerously transphobic" by at least one member of Netflix's creative community. But despite the controversy — which you can read more about here — The Closer went on to clinch two nominations, for Outstanding Variety Special (Pre-Recorded) and Outstanding Directing for a Variety Special.

Former president Barack Obama scored his first-ever Emmy nomination for narrating the Netflix docuseries Our Great National Parks. His competition includes Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War), David Attenborough (The Mating Game: In Plain Sight), W. Kamau Bell (We Need to Talk About Cosby) and Lupita Nyong'o (Serengeti II).

Yet again proving that some dreams do come true, 50 of TVLine's 111 Dream Emmy Nominees — including 17 out of 37 in Comedy, 20 out of 38 in Drama and 13 out of 36 in Limited Series — wound up landing on the Academy's short list. (For those keeping track at home, a similar 46 percent of our Dream Emmy Nominees made the cut in 2021.)