Podcast: Emmy Noms, Voting Systems, Breakout Newbies
Saturday, July 16, 2022 at 1:20PM by Team Experience
You already read our immediate reactions to the complete Emmy nominations, and some odes to snubs. But to put the Emmy nomination week to bed, how about a podcast? Nathaniel met with Abe, Chris, Cláudio, and Mark to discuss the nominations for the 74th Annual Emmy Awards. Somehow a lot of past TV shows and Emmy history keep cropping up like Damages, Game of Thrones, Shameless, and Parks and Recreations.
Podcast - 70 minutes
00:01 Overabundance of noms: White Lotus
07:00 Final seasons: Killing Eve, Ozark, and This is Us
11:00 Guest categories: Hacks & Succession
14:00 Hanging episodes: Stranger Things
17:00 Standout actors: Pam & Tommy, Ted Lasso, The Morning Show
23:00 Weird categorizations and awards as industry promotion
30:00 Limited vs regular: Squid Game, Pieces of Her, White Lotus
33:00 TV Movie Category - What can be done?
37:00 Peacock, Paramount+, CBS All Access, Starz, etc...
42:00 Severance, Abbott Elementary, Yellowjackets
46:00 Netflix, Apple TV+, Amazon Prime, etc...
49:00 Fav noms: Barry, What We Do in the Shadows, The Staircase
59:00 Final thoughts: Rothaniel vs. The Closer, Sydney Sweeney in Euphoria, release dates of series
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Reader Comments (2)
The Emmy for Outstanding TV Movie was first awarded in 1966. The prize invariably was given to a high brow network event like Lee J. Cobb in Death of a Salesman in 1967 or Dame Judith Anderson in Elizabeth the Queen in 1968.
The perception on the prize changed in 1972 when Brian’s Song, the story of interracial friendship between football players Brian Piccolo and Gale Sayers, won. The film as the then most watched TV movie. Networks began making quality popular films that were screened for critics and became appointment TV. During the next few decades, Emmys for Outstanding TV Movie were awarded to The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Sybil, Something About Amelia, and Promise.
The arrival of HBO to the Emmys in the 1990s was the next significant change to the award. HBO screened its first made for TV movie in 1983, Right of Way, starring Jimmy Stewart and Bette Davis as an elderly who made a suicide pact. It was nominated for Best TV Movie at the now defunct Cable ACE Awards. The first HBO film to get an Emmy nomination for TV Movie was Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story in 1989. HBO won the Emmy in 1993 and never looked back. It won Outstanding TV Movie 17 times in the next two decades. The major networks couldn’t compete artistically with the freedom HBO offered filmmakers. They simply weren’t making money on artistically meaningful TV movies.
So now we have TV movies that rely on a big name star or fans of a cancelled yet well liked program to be green lit. An actual piece of quality filmmaking like The Fallout cannot even rise from the crowd for award attention.
Always happy to hear praise of J. Smith-Cameron so that was good to hear at the end of this.