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?
by Derek Thompson
Sep 18, 2017
2 minutes
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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