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Late-Night Emmy Races’ State Of Confusion Deepens Amid Category Ambiguity & Odd Nominating Process For John Oliver & ‘SNL’
Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, Kenan Thompson, Michael Che and Colin Jost have all hosted the Primetime Emmys in the last 15 years but the late-night community is once again feeling aggrieved by the TV Academy as it heads into the latest awards season. The central issue relates to the number of […]
“Recombining talk series and scripted variety will only make things worse; there’s already an unfair playing field that exists in the categories to begin with,” added another source. Because of the tiny number of submissions – thought to be around five – SNL and Last Week Tonight with John Oliver will be “screened by the appropriate peer group for nomination” – an unusual move. Lorne Michaels, creator and boss of SNL and exec producer of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and Late Night with Seth Meyers, is arguably the man most effected when it comes to the peculiarities of late-night Emmys.
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