Widescreen: It's easy to tell which shows the Emmy voters actually watched this year

At a quick glance, Tuesday's nominations for September's Emmy Awards seem to spread the love to all corners of the television world, nominating eight shows apiece in the Best Drama Series and Best Comedy Series categories. Those 16 programs hail from nine different networks and streaming platforms, and include the first non-English-language nominee (Netflix's "Squid Game") for drama.

But the key to guessing which shows will win - and which ones the voters actually watch - lies in the supporting categories.

Those categories were not presented in the television academy's nominee video Tuesday morning, and this writer assumes embarrassment may have something to do with it.

Let's look at the category for supporting actress in a limited series or movie, shall we? There are seven slots, which should afford plenty of variety, but all of them went to just two shows. Hulu's "Dopesick," a drama about the opioid crisis, took two of them with Kaitlyn Dever and Mare Winningham. The remaining five went to actresses from HBO's "The White Lotus," a satire set at a Hawaiian resort: Connie Britton, Jennifer Coolidge, Alexandra Daddario, Natasha Rothwell and Sydney Sweeney, also nominated for supporting actress in a drama series for HBO's "Euphoria."

"The White Lotus" also got three of the seven slots on the men's side (Murray Bartlett, Jake Lacy, Steve Zahn). Hmm, I wonder what's likely to win the Best Limited Series or Movie prize?

Some other things that jump out:

• HBO's drama-series nominee "Succession" got five of the 16 slots in its supporting categories and seven of the 12 guest-acting slots.

• Apple's comedy "Ted Lasso" got six of the 16 slots in its supporting categories.

• HBO Max's comedy "Hacks" got four of the six slots in the guest actress category.

How many of the big award slots were filled by "Yellowstone" (Paramount Network and CMT), arguably the most popular show with America's adult audiences? Zero. How many slots, period, were filled by "Yellowstone"? Zero. A pretty glaring omission, even more than failing to nominate any of the actors from the global phenomenon that is "Stranger Things." (I guess enough of the voters' kids watch the Netflix hit, though, because it did get a token Best Drama Series nomination.)

More categories and more slots in each category should mean a more diverse base of winners, but it looks like this year's Emmys will end up mostly being a celebration of "Succession" and "Ted Lasso."

• Sean Stangland is an assistant news editor who is very glad that Rhea Seehorn finally got nominated for "Better Call Saul."