After decades of domination by talk shows the Emmys split Best Variety Series into separate categories for talk and sketch programs in 2015, which has made the last two years interesting with nominees and winners that likely would have been crowded out in previous years by talk shows like “The Daily Show,” “The Tonight Show” and “Last Week Tonight.” So could “Mystery Science Theater 3000” surprise us this year with a first bid in this contest now that there are two open slots in this race?

“Inside Amy Schumer” won this award in 2015, and “Key and Peele” won in 2016. But both of those shows are out of the running. “Key and Peele” ended its run last season, while “Inside Amy” didn’t produce any new episodes during this eligibility period. So that’s a big opportunity for new shows to enter, or in the case of “MST3K,” for an old show to make a comeback.

“MST3K” originally ran from 1988-1999 and earned two Emmy nominations for Best Variety Writing (1994-1995). The series follows the adventures of a human astronaut who along with his robot friends is forced to watch terrible, terrible movies by a mad scientist. Viewers watch the entire film while the astronaut and robots appear in silhouette and make snarky comments throughout.

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Netflix revived the series in 2017 with comedian Jonah Ray assuming the role of the astronaut. Felicia Day and Emmy winner Patton Oswalt also star in the series. Could the show’s cult fan base bring it back to the Emmys after all this time?

We’ve polled Experts from various top media outlets for their predictions, and one of them, Kerr Lordygan (Rotten Tomatoes), is currently forecasting a nom for the series. So is one of our Top 24 Users, ADouble, who got one of the highest scores out of almost 2,000 users who predicted last year’s Emmy nominations.

“MST3K” is also the only Netflix show on the ballot for Best Variety Sketch Series. That could help it stand out, especially when you consider how quickly Netflix has established itself as a top Emmy player in other categories. This season alone the streaming service has numerous new shows that could make a big impact in drama categories (“The Crown,” “Stranger Things”), comedy categories (“A Series of Unfortunate Events,” “One Day at a Time”) and longform categories (“Black Mirror”), to say nothing of returning programs like “House of Cards,” “Master of None,” “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” and more.

Do you think “Mystery Science Theater 3000” will earn its first Emmy nomination in more than 20 years? Could it even pull off a surprise win?

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