‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Among Favorites to Win SAG Awards

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Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale will look for the TV awards hat trick when it competes in the Best Drama category during Sunday night’s Screen Actors Guild Awards ceremony.

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The series, which won Best Drama awards at the Emmys and the Golden Globe Awards, will look to capture the SAG Award in the Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series category against such formidable competition as Netflix’s The Crown and Stranger Things, HBO’s Game of Thrones and NBC’s This Is Us, according to SAG-AFTRA.

The Handmaid’s Tale’s Elisabeth Moss and This Is Us’s Sterling K. Brown will also look to sweep the TV awards season in the Outstanding Female Acor and Outstanding Male Actor in a Drama Series categories.

The 24th Annual SAG Awards will be simulcast live on TNT and TBS beginning at 8 p.m. (ET)/5 p.m. (PT).

R. Thomas Umstead
R. Thomas Umstead

R. Thomas Umstead serves as senior content producer, programming for Multichannel News, Broadcasting + Cable and Next TV. During his more than 30-year career as a print and online journalist, Umstead has written articles on a variety of subjects ranging from TV technology, marketing and sports production to content distribution and development. He has provided expert commentary on television issues and trends for such TV, print, radio and streaming outlets as Fox News, CNBC, the Today show, USA Today, The New York Times and National Public Radio. Umstead has also filmed, produced and edited more than 100 original video interviews, profiles and news reports featuring key cable television executives as well as entertainers and celebrity personalities.