Late-Night Emmy Races’ State of Confusion Deepens Amid Category Ambiguity & Odd Nominating Process For John Oliver & ‘SNL’
deadline.comStephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, Kenan Thompson, Michael Che and Colin Jost have all hosted the Primetime Emmys in the last 15 years but the late-night community is once again feeling aggrieved by the TV Academy as it heads into the latest awards season.
The central issue relates to the number of nominations in the Outstanding Talk Series and Outstanding Variety Series categories and the difficulty with fairly judging a wide range of shows that can be very different from each other.
Insiders tell Deadline that there needs to be a change in terms of how late-night shows and variety series are judged at the Emmys.
However, no one can really agree what that change is. As the television world prepares for Emmy nominations to be unveiled on July 17, there are expected to be only three talk shows nominated for an award.
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