🎧 'White Lotus', 'Black Doves' & the Zeitgeist Effect on Emmys
Elaine Low and Manori Ravindran join me to break down this year's race (so far)
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It’s a minor miracle to get any TV show on the air these days, as readers of Series Business know well. But if you’re lucky enough to make a show that viewers and critics actually like, the next hard part begins: navigating Emmy season, which is here whether you realized it or not.
On this week’s episode of the Prestige Junkie podcast, I invited Elaine Low and Manori Ravindran, two Series Business authors, to help me dig into this year’s race, already off to a strong start with shows like Severance, The Pitt, The White Lotus and Adolescence grabbing significant cultural attention. But I assume every person in Hollywood is about to turn their attention to The Studio, the extremely inside-baseball new comedy from Seth Rogen that might be incomprehensible to anyone who’s never driven on to a studio lot — but will be irresistible to anyone who has.
We talk not just about the major contenders but also the television trends they represent, from networks’ desire for more funny-funny comedies to the increased cross-pollination between TV in the U.S. and the U.K. We also, inevitably, pick some of our personal favorite contenders. Manori is all in on The Day of the Jackal, an even bigger hit in the U.K., where she’s based, than it was over here, and one of the most technically ambitious shows in the drama series race. Elaine and I both have a lot of affection for another U.K. drama series import, Black Doves.
This is just the beginning of our Emmy season coverage, so if you’ve got a show you want to hear me and my future guests discuss, and especially if you’ve got an Emmy ballot coming your way, I’d love to hear from you. E-mail me at katey@theankler.com, and we’ll get through the many months between now and the actual Emmy ceremony together.
