The likes of Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, Sean Evans and John Mulaney will be battling it out for one of only three Emmy nominations.
With Emmy voting opening, it has emerged that there were only 13 submissions in the Outstanding Talk Series category, meaning that the category has lost one nomination from last year and two from the year before.
Last year, The Daily Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Late Night with Seth Meyers and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert were nominated in the category with The Daily Show winning.
In 2023, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Late Night with Seth Meyers, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and The Problem with Jon Stewart were nominated with The Daily Show also winning.
It’s a blow for the late-night community, which has been trying to find ways to fix the Emmy category with the reduction in the number of submissions over the last few years as a result of a dwindling number of late-night shows. This has come after shows such as The Late Late Show with James Corden, Conan and Desus & Mero have ended and not been replaced.
This year’s submissions were: The Daily Show, Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney, Peacock’s Hart to Heart, CNN’s Have I Got News For You, YouTube series Hot Ones, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Late Night with Seth Meyers, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Midnight Snack with Julie Chan, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Dropout’s Very Important People, Real Time with Bill Maher and Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen.
Midnight Snack with Julie Chan was the surprise submission but it couldn’t help get 14 submissions, which would have translated into a fourth nomination.
“It’s brutal,” one late-night insider told Deadline.
Back in 2022, a group of showrunners, led by Ben Winston, then showrunner of The Late Late Show with James Corden, successfully campaigned the TV Academy to cement a fifth nomination. A year later, Last Week Tonight was moved into a new category – Outstanding Scripted Variety Series – to compete against SNL and last year, the talk category was reduced to only four nominations.
The TV Academy’s rules mean that if a category scores between 8 and 19 submissions, the number of submissions will be divided by four and rounded to the nearest whole number.
Meanwhile, a strange new system for Outstanding Scripted Variety Series means that Last Week Tonight with John Oliver will only compete against SNL, despite submissions from HBO’s Fantomas and CBS’ After Midnight, and will be judged by a separate jury.
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