The 76th Emmy nominations have been announced, and there’s a lot to talk about, from The Bear getting recognition across 23 categories (though our own Riley Utley thinks it will be a problem if the Hulu series wins all its Emmys ) to Prime Video’s Fallout walking away with three nominations . Right here though, I want to talk about the Outstanding Animated Program. Specifically, in addition to Bob’s Burgers and Family Guy once again being nominated in this group, X-Men ’97 and two other genre shows scored three Emmy nominations, and I’m jazzed they’re getting love from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
When X-Men: The Animated Series ended in 1997 after five seasons, it seemed like we’d never revisit this continuity that helped raise the mutant superheroes’ profile with the general public before the X-Men movies started being released. Not so, because in 2021, it was announced that X-Men ’97 would revive this continuity and be among the Marvel programming that can be streamed with a Disney+ subscription . Roughly two and a half years later, X-Men ’97 debuted to critical acclaim this past March, and its popularity only increased from there.
X-Men ’97 already had a bright future ahead it prior to today, as Season 2 is deep into production and Season 3 is in development. Still, as we wait to see what awaits this team in 3000 B.C.
and 3960 A.D., as well as learn where Wolverine, Storm and Morph ended up , it’s nice that the show added an Emmy nomi.
