
One program which deserves an award for its Emmy campaigning this season has to be Amazon Prime's The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, starring the Emmy-nominated Rachel Brosnahan as a late 1950s New York City Upper West Side housewife who takes to the wildly different stand-up stage of the Lower East Side when her husband cheats on her.
Following the #MeToo scandal surrounding Jeffrey Tambour, the star of Amazon's previous Emmy darling Transparent, the streaming platform switched all its focus to its freshman hit period comedy with a funny heavyweight Emmy consideration ad campaign that dominated the L.A. city skyline in hot pink.
Those humorous FYC billboards helped the series earn fourteen Emmy nominations, including for Outstanding Comedy Series and a nod for its titular star, plus for Alex Borstein as her stand-up agent and Tony Shalhoub as her father.
This smattering of Emmy nominee billboards were photographed along the Sunset Strip, LA Brea Avenue, Beverly Glen Boulevard, Highland Avenue, Olympic Boulevard and La Cienega Boulevard from July 19 to August 13, 2018.
With Veep and Julia Louis-Dreyfus absent from the comedy categories this year due to her cancer scare, let's see just how many trophies The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel can snatch this awards season (to add to her two Golden Globe wins)
Meanwhile also in the world of comedy, the fifth season of Drunk History was being recognised with two Emmy nominations for its inebriated storytelling.
This illustrated Emmy nominee billboard for the Comedy Central sketch series was snapped along the Sunset Strip on August 21, 2018.
Sticking on the same channel and in the world of late-night variety talk shows, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah received three Emmy nominations for its satirical commentary on U.S. politics and world events.
These billboards featuring the Emmy-nominated South African comic and host were spied along the Sunset Strip and Fairfax Avenue from August 14 to August 22, 2018.
Also in the late-night category, the only female nominee scored seven feckless Emmy nominations this year for Full Frontal with Samantha Bee.
It's been an eventful year for the satirical host and the show's seven nominations include four for the regular weekly show and three for The Great American* Puerto Rico (*It's Complicated) special episode.
Let's see if these Emmy nominee billboards, spotted along the Sunset Strip, Olympic Boulevard and La Cienega Boulevard from August 2 to August 19, 2018, can help this queen of late-night comedy reign supreme this awards season. She's earned it.
Speaking of funny ladies, and Amy Sedaris was being recognised for the 'deranged' debut season of her new kooky TruTV sketch show.
These Emmy nominee billboards showing off her quirky homemaking skills were photographed above La Brea Avenue and Westwood Boulevard from August 15 to August 18, 2018.
TNT campaigned hard for its period murder thriller, The Alienist, adapted from the 1994 novel by Caleb Carr and was rewarded with six Emmy nominations (a sequel to this limited series, Angel of Darkness, has already been greenlit too).
The ten-episode mini-series starred Daniel Brühl, Luke Evans and Dakota Fanning as an ad hoc band of sleuths trying to solve the serial killings of street children in mid-1890s New York City.
This giant-sized Emmy nominee billboard was photographed along the Sunset Strip on August 14 and the smaller ad was spotted above La Cienega Boulevard on August 19, 2018.
Last year's Emmy winner, Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath, was back for another season of making trouble for the pseudo Hollywood religion by talking to other former Scientologists in her A&E docu-series.
It's true that 'The truth always wins', so let's see if she'll be rewarded for exposing the secrets of this powerful cult with the help of these billboards snapped along Santa Monica Boulevard at the 405 freeway entrance on August 1, 2018, then along the Sunset Strip the next day.
Meanwhile another of A&E's reality shows, Born This Way, was nominated for the third season of the documentary series about seven young adults with Down Syndrome and their daily lives.
With thirteen nominations and three Emmy wins to date, can the show take home more accolades this season with the help of this tongue-in-cheek billboard first spotted above Sunset Plaza on July 31, 2018.
And finally for this collection, Lifetime's TV movie about the Flint, Michigan water crisis received an Emmy nomination, continuing to keep this contaminated water travesty in the public eye when officials and the government refuse to act quickly to resolve the situation affecting thousands.
This clever Emmy Award nominee billboard with a sample bottle of contaminated water was spied along San Vicente Boulevard on August 4, 2018.
If you've missed any of the week-long coverage be sure to check out these Netflix 2018 Emmy nominee billboards, these cohesive HBO Emmy nominee billboards, these NBC and Hulu billboards and these FX and National Geographic billboards.
Don't forget to tune in on Monday September 17, 2018, to find out all the winners at the 70th Primetime Emmy Awards.
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