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An Emmy Win for <em>The Handmaid's Tale</em> Paints a Dystopian Future for Traditional TV

How long until prestige television completes its long exodus from the cable bundle?
Source: Mario Anzuoni / Reuters

Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale won the Emmy award for Best Drama Series on Sunday night, the first time that a streaming service has snagged the show’s top award.

In many ways, this is a surprising news peg (Hulu?!) for an unsurprising story (the rise of streaming television). Hulu is a distant third behind Netflix and Amazon, , , and , and Amazon has earned several nods for .

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