The Emmy Awards Are Broken — Here's How to Fix Them

This week on the Primetimer Podcast, we do an autopsy on the 2022 Emmy Awards broadcast and offer three simple and entirely doable suggestions for making the Emmys 100% better next year.

Featuring Primetimer's senior editor Aaron Barnhart, TV editor Claire Spellberg Lustig and reviews editor Mark Blankenship.

Segments:

00:46 What happened to Kenan Thompson?
02:54 The high point: Sheryl Lee Ralph
05:43 The low point: Jimmy Kimmel overstays his welcome
12:05 What to watch next? Ask the Primetimer Guide to Streaming TV
14:11 Fixing the Emmys: 2 commonsense rule changes
17:58 Fixing the Emmys: play to the nerds!

References:

• Seven Takeaways from the 74th Emmy Awards (Primetimer)
• The Biggest Winners of the Night (Primetimer)
• Sheryl Lee Ralph's acceptance speech (YouTube)
• Myles McNutt on the Quinta Brunson incident and "the central tension of what award shows are for" (Twitter)
• Jimmy Kimmel apologizes for "dumb" bit at Emmys (Primetimer)
• Emma Thompson's 1996 Golden Globes acceptance speech, channeling Jane Austen (YouTube)

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