Why All Talk Shows Deserve an Emmy Nom
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variety.comMichael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeWhen the Television Academy announced in December that it would remerge the variety talk and variety sketch categories, I understood why the org did it from a logistical standpoint.
There had been just 14 sketch series submissions for the Emmy competition last year, and only 24 talk shows — so putting the two categories back together, as they had been prior to 2015, was nice and tidy.Except it wasn’t, and the Academy opened a can of worms that I don’t think it had anticipated.
Part of it was the surprise announcement — late on a Friday in December. But the talk world had long been griping about the variety talk category, which hasn’t budged much in recent years.
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