Changes to Emmy Process Could Help House
The San Hose Mercury News has a piece on the new Emmy nomination process, one which might help Hugh Laurie and House make bring home the prize.
The way the new system works: Emmy voters will continue to cast ballots for nominees in the best drama, best comedy and lead actor and actress categories. But instead of the top five finishers automatically making up the field, the top 15 choices in the popular vote will go to blue-ribbon panels, which then will pick the final nominees.
“This voting initiative hits the issue of a narrow nominations process head-on,” academy chairman and CEO Dick Askin said earlier this year, “and significantly increases the potential for the widest and most diverse selection of nominees possible.”
Whether the new system will cure at least some of the Emmy awards’ ills won’t be known until the nominations are announced on July 6. Certainly, it won’t fix the supporting actor categories (which will operate under the old system) and the fact that the vote is based on a limited number of episodes, not a full season of work.
Emmy nominations will be announced July 6, and the award ceremony is Aug. 27.
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