Season Notes: Emmy Crunch Time, Talk Shows Skip Time, Sorry Status of TV Movie Category

A column describing speeches and events in the prize circle.

The ballots for the Emmy Awards came out the first weekend of voting before they returned on June 27, and I got a real sense of excitement and tension from the many campaigns that did their best to grab attention. More than 20,000 voting members of the Television Academy. I feel your pain. How to break this if it’s not your program ted lasso ANYONE Heritage, Previous winners who liked this previous winners And such instant recognition? Not a breakthrough for Apple TV+ Ribbon Or current HBO jungler Heritage They rest.

All members of the Academy regularly receive a soft derivative. emmy magazine Coming at a pivotal point each month and season, the release was a multiple promotional cover from Warner Bros. Ribbon The emphasis is front and center, so the first thing voters see is a Jason Sudeikis mug. Take it out and there it is. Flow Magazine Cover (Three Native American Actors from AMC) dark wind) With a split in the middle between the two Ladies at the EMMY opening for luxury commercial, you guessed it! Heritage. Then, when you try to find a table of contents, a seamlessly produced 42-page brochure appears, covering all the Netflix nominees. I actually think there are some factual articles on TV, but you really need to look for them in the hype tsunami. That goes for all other releases, including Deadline, which are enjoying this super competitive season as studios, networks, and broadcasters try to get ahead and garner attention that can attract voters. I feel your pain, protesters. Not easy.

A large number of applications (a record this year) will be very obvious to anyone who can do it. After spending the last few months analyzing the race, interviewing many candidates and making predictions, I realized that I had not heard at least a third of this presentation. Mindfulness is the name of the game, even for people like that. Ted Lasso, Legacy And while Emmy voters consistently show they’re drawn to past winners and the shows that scream the loudest, there are a few “favorites” that don’t consider themselves.

probably that’s why rupaul Drag Race, The former winner of a run in an Outstanding Contest Series and 28 Emmy Award winner felt she had to win the Roccos in West Hollywood, and hosted a major FYC event last night at which many of the ruling Queens performed. First day of voting. Or perhaps a new show like Showtime’s acclaimed prospect? yellow jackets I thought the voters had to be smart in the Hollywood graveyard to sink into the hustle and bustle of the weekend show. Of course, events like this one cater to receptions, banquets, and gatherings, and this year, it seems like everyone has been on the move since Covid did everything virtually for the past two Emmy seasons. We will see how everything will be on July 12, when the candidates are announced, hopes disappear and dreams are postponed. next Season.

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When the ballots finally landed in the hands of Emmy voters on Thursday, some hard truths about this year’s race had already emerged, particularly in the featured talk series category, as my colleague Peter White pointed out. He noted that there were a total of 19 applications, which means that according to the rules of the academy, there can only be four candidates out of the regular five (requiring 20 or more applications) in this highly competitive category. That means it will be easier for HBO Last week tonight with John Oliver To win again. After all, a Sunday night show is almost automatically reviewed and wins the first six seasons, versus talk shows that air five times a week instead of once. Voting for TV academy members who do the same thing too often year after year is just too lazy, and it really hurts the Emmy brand. Embarrassing as Colbert, Corden, Fallon, Kimmel, Noah, Myers and others. It seems unfair to me, and I don’t know why the Academy continues to include weekly magazines like Oliver in this mix or why voters lure him like lemmings. Sure, very good, but elsewhere.

The irony is that the talk category, in its various incarnations, has dominated fewer than a few shows in the past two decades, starting with John Stewart’s 10 wins. daily schedule, And then Oliver and again Colbert Report – With links to all admins. It’s unfortunate that Stewart is returning this year for a hybrid talk show for Apple TV+, but it’s offered in another category, hosting non-featured series or specials. problem Problem with John Stewart Does it really belong in the conversation category? If I had joined this party, there would have been five candidates!

when i was interviewing Late Show with James Corden Ben Winston, producer of this Monday’s launch video series Beyond the Lens (Don’t Miss This), was understandably worried by the news that the Conversation category would be even worse. Little He and this year’s nominees told me that last year’s all-nighters got together and called on the academy, like Oliver, to make changes to the daily and weekly shows they produce. He said the academy promised to work, but here we are and the problem is even worse. If they’re going to do nothing, the academy should at least bend the rule by at least one touch to fight the regular five.

What is movie and TV movie?

Another problematic category is prestige, and the decline in featured TV movie submissions was once in the prestige category, but now the series inclusive is sprawling out into a movie format with a bunch of nonsensical titles you’ve never seen before. . Bingo Hell, Housewives of the North Pole, Travel, Psyche 3: This Gass, etc. and it gets worse) and sometimes a good disc like HBO Survivor From Barry Levinson, who seems to be underdog this year for a lack of good competition.

This movie was originally scheduled to hit theaters when it wasn’t selected by HBO prior to its premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, so it’s now a rare record for voters to choose from. Another entry is coming this year from Searchlight/Hulu, which is making a pretty nifty horror thriller, New, It made its debut at Sundance and was generally lost in favor of theatrical release. They’ve taken a strategic step this season and campaigned in the TV movie category, which makes me wonder why more publishers aren’t taking their “movies” and doing the same.

This week I found myself reviewing four films as part of chief director duties; Ok, they all follow the streaming path, but they probably aren’t rated in that category by their distributors the way Hulu/Searchlight does. New. Sundance kick Good luck, Big Leo. In an Emma Thompson Award-worthy twist, it apparently missed a completely Hulu/Searchlight-like theatrical debut streaming. Will the Emmy be classified in this category next year? Would they have managed to qualify for the Oscars, which Thompson might have had a good shot at in the nomination? Paramount + Live Today; Jerry and Marge are doing very well. The Tribeca Film Festival kicked off Wednesday, starring Brian Cranston and Annette Benning, as a good bet for next year should Paramount go that route. I can’t find any trace of it in theaters, but if it were to be explicitly called a TV movie, it would have produced perfectly for the Emmys.

Warner Bros. and HBO Max is hijacking theaters with new Latin flavors father of the bride With Andy García and Gloria Estefan starting Thursday. It’s certainly not Oscar material, but with a nice variety, it’ll definitely be better than most of the options we’ve had this year for a TV movie. Bored? Netflix will skip deal with Cinemark and other networks to make its debut today Spider Direct service minus some reservations at Netflix-owned New York and Los Angeles cinemas. Outdated with director Joseph Kosinski and star Miles Teller Top Gun: Hipster, It goes without saying that star Chris Hemsworth has a loud enough profile to make a noise in the Emmy race, not the Oscars where he drowned. That said, Netflix seems consistently reluctant to label many of its films, some of them very good Emmy contenders, perhaps because they’ve been successful in Christmas movies and individual episodes of Doli Parton. black mirror anthology series. I still need to reconsider this. This category needs the help of at least some of the numbers released this week that didn’t see any benefit from the exhibition (the multiplexes were almost entirely devoted to the exhibition). Top Gun, Jurassic World Y light year) But it looks like Emmy’s time was wasted on explaining.