Variety’s Awards Circuit -Podcast on largest Emmy Nominations Shockers
It is a world “dismissal”. The Apple TV+ series dominated this year’s Emmy nominations with 27 nods, and despite the critical and ratings of the show, Variety‘S Awards Circuit Podcast -Hosts were still surprised.
“Huge,” said Variety Chief Awards -Editor Clayton Davis. “I don’t think I even thought so much. That is more than ‘Shōgun’ last year.”
Davis was accompanied by Variety Executive Editor, TV, Michael Schneider, as well as Senior TV editor -in -chief Emily Longeretta and Senior Artisans -Editor Jazz Tangcay for the Roundtable Awards Circuit. Listen below!
The quartet also looked at some of the other big news from this week, including another Apple TV+ Powerhouse, “The Studio”, which led all comedies with 23.
“We all knew that ‘the studio’ would do well, but I did not expect that,” said Longeretta. Schneider noted that it was helped by pure dominance in the Comedy Guest Actor category, where five of the six nominees came from the show: Bryan Cranston, Dave Franco, Ron Howard, Anthony Mackie and Martin Scorsese. Of that crop, only Cranston played a different character than himself.
“If you were forced on ‘The Studio’, then you better got a nomination or there is something wrong with you,” Schneider joked.
Under some of this year’s snubs and surprises, the group was surprised by so few Emmy Love for the last season of Hulu’s ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’, including the lack of a kink for star and exec -producer Elisabeth Moss. And then there was the full absence of Noms for the ‘Squid game’ of Netflix.
“The shock of it because, in terms of viewers, it was the biggest show and season 1, it did so well with the Emmy’s,” Longeretta said. “Then season 2 is nowhere to be found. My inspiration is that between ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ and ‘Squid Game’ they are a bit too heavy for people in the academy. With the amount of things that happen in the world, that is not what they want to view.”
Schneider noted that perhaps ‘dismissal’ will get a pass because there are many idiosyncratic, humorous moments in that series.
Davis has another theory that ‘Squid Game’ benefited from viewers from the COVID era and ‘Shōgun’ benefited from the Hollywood strikes, but in normal years there is still an obstacle for non-English programs.
Among other things: Meghann Fahy’s lead limited series -actress nomination for “Sirens”: “I am not angry because Meghann Fahy can’t do anything wrong,” Longeretta said. “I have been rooted for her since day one. I was in shock that the word Sirens came from Brenda Song on Emmy Nomination Morning.”
Davis said: ‘I think the name of the jaw drop of the day Jeff Hiller was from’ some some some ‘. I didn’t even follow a top 10 for Jeff Hiller.
Schneider also shared some of his patented Emmy-Trivia and peculiarities, including the fact that Beyoncé and Jay-Z are confronted in the Special (Live) category, while it is a bit of a coincidence that “American Graffiti” (1973) have finally received their first Nominale Ford and Ron Howard.
So who are some of the category -headers? It is Adam Scott vs. Noah WYLE. Kathy Bates vs. Britt Lower vs. Bella Ramsey. And Tangcay also has a favorite nomination: Julianne Nicholson, for both “Paradise” (as Sinatra) and “Hacks” (as Dance Mom).
Speaking of Nicholson, Longeretta noted that supporting drama actress is a complete spring ball: “Patricia Arquette, Carrie Coon, Katherine Lanasa, Julianne Nicholson, Parker Posey, Natasha Rothwell and Aimee Lou Wood. There is not even a leader.
Schneider bends on another queen: Catherine O’hara, nominated for both “The Studio” and “The Last of Us.”
There is so much more to discuss: the surprising success of ‘presumably innocent’. The TV film category, with nominees who received no other attention. The decline of representation with this year’s NOMs. The return of “survivor” in reality competition. And so much more.
The podcast of “Awards Circuit” by Variety, organized by Clayton Davis, Jazz Tangcay, Emily Longeretta, Jenelle Riley and Michael Schneider, who also produces, is your One-Stop source for lively conversations about the best in film and television. Every episode, “Awards circuit”, contains interviews with top film and TV talent and creatives, discussions and debates about prize races and industrial headlines, and much more. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify or wherever you download podcasts.
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