Pete Hammond Awards Columnist/Chief Film CriticDeadline’s invitation-only Contenders Television all-day event is getting underway in just under 30 minutes.
For the first time ever, out of necessity due to restrictions posed by the coronavirus pandemic, we’ve gone virtual.Originally we had aimed to present Contenders in April at Paramount Studios in front of a live audience of Television Academy and key guild voters, just like we always do.
But it became abundantly clear that was not going to be possible as Hollywood, at least physically, shut down. So what to do?
We went back to square one and completely reimagined Contenders for the COVID-19 era. In the spirit of the show must go on, indeed it will.
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