The TV Academy apparently doesn’t find Orange Is the New Black very funny.
The big question mark after this year’s Emmy rules change was if the Netflix series would still compete as comedy. A nine-member panel that voted on the series decided that the hour-long will not, despite Netflix’s wishes, instead facing most other hour-longs in the drama race. Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos said, “Orange is the New Black is a truly pioneering series and an iconoclast which has always defied genre or easy categorization. While we’re disappointed in the committee’s decision, we believe that Orange represents the best of television in either category.”
