Emmys Shake Up Variety Categories: John Oliver Out Of Talk To Face ‘SNL’ In New Scripted Field, Jon Stewart & David Letterman Back In Talk
deadline.comLast Week Tonight With John Oliver‘s seven-year winning streak in the Emmy Variety Talk category is coming to an end. That is because the HBO series will no longer compete with late-night talk shows according to changes for the 75th Emmy Awards announced by the Television Academy.
They include 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 Talk series and will move to the Scripted Variety series category where it will face variety series, including sketch programs like Saturday Night Live, which had won the Variety Sketch Series Emmy for the past six years.
Late-night talk shows dominated the Variety Series Emmy category before it was split into Variety Talk and Variety Sketch in 2015.
Ironically, the two hosts whose late-night shows had long winning streaks in the Variety category’s last two decades, David Letterman and Jon Stewart, will face their successors because Hosted Nonfiction Series, a category which has featured Letterman’s My Guest Needs No Introduction and The Problem With Jon Stewart, will now be folded into Talk Series.
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