Emmys shake up different categories: John Oliver out of talks to confront “SNL” in new scripted pitch, Jon Stewart and David Letterman back in talks

Last Week Tonight with John OliverThe seven-year winning streak in the Emmy Variety Talk category comes to an end. That’s because the HBO series will no longer compete with late-night talk shows, according to changes announced by the Television Academy for the 75th Emmy Awards.

This includes replacing the Variety Talk and Variety Sketch Series categories with Talk Series and Scripted Variety Series.

According to the definitions of the two new categories Last week tonight no longer qualifies as a Talk Series and moves to the Scripted Variety Series category, where it stands for variety series, including sketch shows such as Saturday night livewhich has won the Variety Sketch Series Emmy for the past six years.

Late-night talk shows dominated the Variety Series Emmy category before splitting into Variety Talk and Variety Sketch in 2015. Stewart, will compete against their successors as Hosted Nonfiction Series, a category that includes Letterman My guest needs no introduction and The problem with Jon Stewarthas now been merged into Talk Series.

The category changes were likely driven by the declining number of late-night talk shows and sketch series. In 2019, there were six Variety Talk Series nominees. In 2020 and 2021, that number will drop to five. With just 19 entries, the nomination spots would drop to four this year, only held back by active lobbying from late-night showrunners. But with the disappearance of more talk shows, incl Desus and Mero and Full frontal with Samantha Bee, and the future of The daily show and The Late Late Show With the departure of their hosts, the category change should keep the field wide open for enough nomination spots.

The same goes for the Variety Sketch category, which has dropped to two nominees in the past two years, SNL and The Black Lady Sketch Show.

Here are the definitions of the two new categories, followed by other changes to the Emmy rules, including limiting the choices for the nomination round.

Excellent speaking series: Shows where a significant portion of the running time consists of unscripted interviews or panel discussions between presenter(s) and guest stars or personalities. A speaking series can include text elements and other aspects of a variety of series, such as: B. Monologues, musical performances, etc. as long as the main purpose of the program is interviews/discussions.

Outstanding Scripted Variety Series: Programs that are mainly written or loosely written, improvise and consist of one-act plays, musical numbers, monologues, comedy stand-up, sketches, etc. Scripted variety series may sometimes contain unscripted elements, but the series’ primary intent is scripted or entertainment performance.

“The Television Academy Awards Committee and Board of Governors carefully reviews the Emmy rules annually and adjusts and refines the competition requirements, often with input from television executives, to reflect and support the current industry environment,” said Frank Scherma, chairman and CEO of Television, said. Academy.

Here are the other rule changes:

Voting in the nomination round
The number of choices each voting member can make per category in the first round is now limited to the number of nominations set for that category. Members may no longer vote for an unlimited number of choices in any category.

Changes to tracked categories
Single Camera Editing and Multiple Cameras for a Comedy Series categories have been combined in the Editing Photos for a Comedy Series tracked category. The Single-Camera Burst (Half-Hour) and Multi-Camera Burst categories have been merged into one tracked category, the Cinematography for a Half-Hour Burst.

Additionally, a trigger has been added to all tracked categories so that any year where the number of entries for each track is 20 or more, the category is automatically split into separate categories for that year. In 2023 there will be 16 route categories that can be divided.

Finally, the minimum number of entries required to include a nominated track in a tracked category has been changed to 5% of the total number of entries, but no less than three entries.

Wire producers receive qualifying credits for various categories
Added “Line Producer” as an Emmy-eligible credit in the following categories:
● Excellent Conversation Series
● Outstanding Scripted Variety Series
● Outstanding variety of Specials (Live)
● Outstanding variety of Specials (pre-recorded)

Migration and creation of new game show categories
The previously announced migration of game show categories to the Television Academy-administered Emmy competition will take effect in 2023 as a result of the joint decision by the Television Academy and the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences to separate game show categories by genre. of part of the day.

The new Outstanding Game Show category recognizes programs with game elements that take place primarily in the studio and involve mental challenges. They must be standalone or transferable (winner goes to next episode) and cannot be archived. The new Outstanding Game Show Host category is awarded to the host(s) of the Master of Ceremonies for continuous performance on a game show.

To avoid confusion between Outstanding Game Show and Outstanding Competition Show (which rewards shows with realistic, skill-based competitions), the latter category has been renamed Outstanding Reality Competition Show. Additionally, game shows and reality competition shows featuring children must be the only contestants in the Children’s and Family Emmy Awards.