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As Cable Dies, So Does Its Emmy Hopes — With a Few Surprising Outliers, Including Investigation Discovery and MTV
In his Awards Circuit column, Michael Schneider notes that basic cable dies, so does its Emmy hopes — with the exception of ID, MTV and a few others.
Cable TV: Why Hollywood Is Slowly Killing Its Biggest Moneymaker,” and I think it remains one of the most damning indictments of how this business made some potentially fatal choices in upending its entire financial model. Bravo, BBC America (for “Planet Earth III”) and Comedy Central (“The Daily Show”) also managed to pull off three or more nominations, but most major basic cable nets were completely blanked this year. That’s why it’s all the more impressive that Investigation Discovery made it on the board this year, with three nominations via two programs: “Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV” (including documentary/nonfiction series) and “Lost Women of Highway 20” (for Octavia Spencer, as narrator).
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