Why the TV Academy Sidestepped Debate Over Corporate Bragging Rights With This Year’s Emmys
variety.comMichael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeSort of. The group still sent out a document listing all nominees by network as submitted but left the hard work of counting those noms, and deciding how to present that data, to others.
This caused a lot of scrambling on nomination morning — and resulted in some early bad math — before it finally became clear that HBO, with or without HBO Max, had won this year’s derby over Netflix.The decision to eliminate those network tallies has everything to do with the inter-network squabble over how they identify themselves.
It’s all about ego and bragging rights, and after things got testy last year, the TV Academy decided to extract itself from the debate — and yes, turn the car around and head home.
The argument centers on whether HBO and HBO Max should combine their noms. Last year, it was only when the two combined that HBO beat out Netflix.
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