Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVWith fewer series submissions across the board for the 73rd annual Primetime Emmy Awards, the number of nominees on final-round ballots dipped a bit year-over-year as well.
Nowhere was that more shocking than in the variety sketch series race, a once bustling category with six nominees that fell to three last year and only two now: incumbent winner and long-running NBC series “Saturday Night Live” and sophomore “A Black Lady Sketch Show” from HBO.“We can’t forget 2020 was a global pandemic.
So, I think that every show that that was able to accomplish a season last year should be proud of that,” says “A Black Lady Sketch Show” creator, showrunner and star Robin Thede. “The standard is actually.
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