Peter White, Joe Utichi After last year’s disastrous live Emmy show, it took a global pandemic and the complete evisceration of the rulebook for the Television Academy’s grandest night of the year to get its groove back.
As host Jimmy Kimmel delivered his opening monologue to an empty theatre, and as stories of hundreds of camera kits dispatched so that winners could deliver speeches live lingered fresh in mind, the idea that any of this could work looked bleak.But somehow it did, resulting in an Emmy show that not only went off without a single technical hitch despite the ambitious setup, but one that found a perfect balance of politics, comedy and prizegiving.
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