Late-Night Shows Win Back Their Fifth Emmy Nom Slot After Showrunner Campaign

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EXCLUSIVE: The late-night community has won back a fifth nomination slot for this year’s Emmys after a group of showrunners successfully campaigned the Television Academy.It comes after Deadline revealed earlier this month that the Outstanding Variety Talk Series category was set to lose another nomination slot after only 19 shows were submitted.Deadline understands that a group of high-profile executive producers went to the Academy to try and win back a fifth slot even though the number of submissions fell narrowly below the 20 they would need under its rules.This week, the Academy amended its Primetime Emmy Awards Rules & Procedures.

It now states that if a category receives between 8 and 19 submissions, one must divide the number of submissions by 4 and round to the nearest whole number.

This would give the Outstanding Variety Talk Series category 4.75, which rounded up gives it 5 nominations.Emmy nomination round voting ended on Monday June 27 with nominations unveiled on July 12.The move is a boon for the late-night world as it looks to prevent Last Week Tonight with John Oliver from winning his seventh consecutive gong and particularly good news for shows such as The Late Late Show with James Corden, which is heading into its final year with the Gavin & Stacey co-creator as host, Late Night with Seth Meyers and Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, which are likely to be vying for that fifth spot.The conventional wisdom among late-night sources is that Last Week Tonight, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel Live!

and The Daily Show with Trevor Noah will take four of the slots.The last time that only four shows competed in this category was 1993 when it was known as Outstanding Variety Series and Saturday