A rejiggered Emmy Awards class is shaping as much as be fairly the hodgepodge of contenders, now that Schmigadoon!, Apple TV+’s musical-comedy, reportedly will face off in opposition to Saturday Night Live, NBC’s long-running sketch comedy sequence — and possibly additionally that sassy John Oliver.
First, some background: For six years in a row, NBC’s SNL took residence the prize for Outstanding Variety Sketch Series. But for the previous two years, that Variety Sketch Series race fielded solely two contenders: SNL and HBO’s A Black Lady Sketch Show. (And in 2020, there have been simply three nominees, including in Comedy Central’s Drunk History.)
Enter the Scripted Variety Series class, new for 2023.
Per the Emmy rule modifications — which have been partly conceived to make SNL face extra challengers — a Scripted Variety Series is outlined as “a spread program that’s primarily scripted, or loosely-scripted improv, and consisting of discrete scenes, satire, musical numbers, monologues, comedy stand-ups, sketches, and so on. Scripted Variety Series might often characteristic unscripted parts, however the primary intent of the sequence is scripted or carried out leisure.”
As outlined above, the class now invitations HBO’s Last Week Tonight With John Oliver into the tent alongside the likes of SNL and A Black Lady Sketch Show (which is now airing Season 4).
And now, as reported by THR.com, Apple TV+ has determined to take away Schmigadoon! from the Outstanding Comedy Series race (the place Season 1 competed) and as an alternative have Season 2 vie for Scripted Variety Series, and its associated technical classes. (The Schmigadoon! forged, nonetheless, will nonetheless compete in Comedy classes.)
Schmigadoon! Season 1 racked up 4 complete Emmy nominations (together with for manufacturing design, musical composition and choreogarphy), and received for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics (for Cinco Paul’s “Corn Puddin,” which you now have caught in your head once more. #IYKYK).
Do you assume Schmigadoon! (and Last Week Tonight, for that matter) belong in the identical class as SNL?
