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Dr. John Leverence on the similarities between the issues faced by both the Television Academy and the Motion Picture Academy in their approaches to categorizing eligibility for content that is niche programming, not mass-marketed to the general public, and how this impacts viewership of the programs
(Show - Emmy Awards, The (Primetime and Daytime))
02:41
Interview: Dr. John Leverence Show: Emmy Awards, The (Primetime and Daytime)
Dr. John Leverence on the "gentlemen's agreement" that used to exist among the networks not to air competing content during the Emmys telecast, and on why the Emmys telecast is scheduled in September on the Sunday night before the Fall television season began, and why that is irrelevant now
(Show - Emmy Awards, The (Primetime and Daytime))
03:11
Interview: Dr. John Leverence Show: Emmy Awards, The (Primetime and Daytime)
Dr. John Leverence on Emmys category classifications and changes, such as with the program Shameless which had elements of both comedy and drama categories, and how the show's producers appealed to change the classification to a comedy
(Show - Emmy Awards, The (Primetime and Daytime))
02:28
Interview: Dr. John Leverence Show: Emmy Awards, The (Primetime and Daytime)
Dr. John Leverence on Emmys category classifications and changes, such as with the program Shameless which had elements of both comedy and drama categories, and how the show's producers appealed to change the classification to a comedy
(Show - Shameless)
02:28
Interview: Dr. John Leverence Show: Shameless
Dr. John Leverence on the Emmys cutoff rule that almost made the final season of The Sopranos ineligible for an Emmy until the year after it aired and how the award year eligibility calendar always will result in some "orphan shows", and on how then-HBO chairman Chris Albrecht appealed to the Television Academy Awards Department for an accommodation which was made to allow the show to be eligible for an Emmy in its final year
(Show - Emmy Awards, The (Primetime and Daytime))
02:32
Interview: Dr. John Leverence Show: Emmy Awards, The (Primetime and Daytime)
Dr. John Leverence on the classification of a program for the Emmys based on its running time - if a program is 30 minutes it is considered a comedy and if it is 60 minutes it is considered a drama, and on the process by which programs that wish to change categories submit a number of the show's episodes to an "Industry Panel" (an anonymous group of high-level programming executives)
(Show - Emmy Awards, The (Primetime and Daytime))
01:01
Interview: Dr. John Leverence Show: Emmy Awards, The (Primetime and Daytime)
Dr. John Leverence on the ambiguity surrounding how programs are categorized, and on the issues surrounding the classification of the documentary Surviving R. Kelly as a documentary rather than as an informational series, resulting in a review by the peer group of the guidelines defining the category
(Show - Emmy Awards, The (Primetime and Daytime))
00:55
Interview: Dr. John Leverence Show: Emmy Awards, The (Primetime and Daytime)
Dr. John Leverence on the issue with guest actors and the rules around their eligibility for Emmy nominations and the effect of high-profile performers such as on these categories, and on the situation when Peter MacNicol was nominated in the guest actor category for Veep, but was ultimately deemed ineligible because he appeared in more than 50% of the total show, violating the Academy's rules for guest actors
(Show - Emmy Awards, The (Primetime and Daytime))
03:36
Interview: Dr. John Leverence Show: Emmy Awards, The (Primetime and Daytime)
Dr. John Leverence on the issues surrounding the Emmys category of a supporting player in longform, the so-called "Ellen Burstyn Rule" (Ed. note: Dr. Leverence would like to note he misspoke here and meant Ellen Burstyn, not Ellen Barkin), which states that the actor appear on-screen in no less than 5% of total running time to qualify, and on how the Academy defines "on-screen"
(Show - Emmy Awards, The (Primetime and Daytime))
02:59
Interview: Dr. John Leverence Show: Emmy Awards, The (Primetime and Daytime)
Dr. John Leverence on the importance of the rules of the Emmy Awards being transparent, on the difficulties in processing the nominations to check eligibility and how 75% of the Television Academy Awards staff's time is spent on checking eligibility in preparing the Emmy ballots, and on issues surrounding the eligibility of "consulting producers" and how award eligibility decisions are appealed, and on the limited number of eligible persons per category per show and an issue in 2019 with a show that had people who were both talent and producers but the producer credit was a vanity credit and did not qualify under the Academy guidelines, and on the basic principle that a person can only win one Emmy for doing one role on a show
(Show - Emmy Awards, The (Primetime and Daytime))
08:31
Interview: Dr. John Leverence Show: Emmy Awards, The (Primetime and Daytime)
Dr. John Leverence on which Television Academy rules he personally lobbied to change after so many years administering the Emmys - such as giving the Engineering Awards their own awards show rather than being included in the Creative Arts Emmy Awards, and on drafting the argument for including casting as its own Emmy award category, and on how stunt coordination became an Emmy category
(Show - Emmy Awards, The (Primetime and Daytime))
02:46
Interview: Dr. John Leverence Show: Emmy Awards, The (Primetime and Daytime)
Dr. John Leverence on the Televison Academy Rule of 14 - "the lungs of the competition" - where if in two consecutive years a category has fewer than 14 Emmy nominations, the Television Academy Board votes on whether to discontinue the category or merge it with another, such as the miniseries category
(Show - Emmy Awards, The (Primetime and Daytime))
01:39
Interview: Dr. John Leverence Show: Emmy Awards, The (Primetime and Daytime)
Dr. John Leverence on the 2009 decision to expand the main Primetime Emmy award categories beyond five nominees, and the issues arising from too many awards and overlapping awards, and on an instance with apparent "tiering" where you had an award for lead actor in a drama series as well as overall best actor in a drama series and why that can be detrimental to the awards
(Show - Emmy Awards, The (Primetime and Daytime))
03:30
Interview: Dr. John Leverence Show: Emmy Awards, The (Primetime and Daytime)
Dr. John Leverence on the issues arising from the same individual winning and Emmy in the same category every year, and on how Jean Stapleton declined to be nominated after winning lead actress in a comedy series (for All in the Family) multiple times
(Show - Emmy Awards, The (Primetime and Daytime))
01:46
Interview: Dr. John Leverence Show: Emmy Awards, The (Primetime and Daytime)
Dr. John Leverence on serving as the executive producer on the Television Academy Creative Arts Awards, and on how the decisions were made around which awards would be awarded during the Primetime Emmy Awards, and which would be awarded during the Creative Arts Emmy Awards
(Show - Emmy Awards, The (Primetime and Daytime))
06:14
Interview: Dr. John Leverence Show: Emmy Awards, The (Primetime and Daytime)