Deadline TV critic Dominic Patten and Awards Columnist Pete Hammond take on the status of a major staple of broadcast tv, talk shows, and their status as this year’s Emmy race gears up.
It is all in our latest edition of the Deadline Podcast series, TV Talk. We argue that maybe it is time for some new blood in the winners circle.Click on the link below to listen.Although this category has been all over the map in terms of where it shows up in Emmy races, tied to variety and then not, in recent years it has tended to be one where voters, lazy or not, just check off the same old winner years and years in a row.
Last Week Tonight With John Oliver has won this six years in a row, and before that The Daily Show With Jon Stewart took it an astounding 14 times, losing only in 2013 to The Colbert Report.
Both Oliver and Stephen Colbert were weaned on Stewart’s staff, so there has been an almost complete dominance here since the turn of the century.
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