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Mike Douglas on advice to aspiring talk show hosts
(Profession - Talk Show Host)
07:09
Interview: Mike Douglas Profession: Talk Show Host
Dr. John Leverence on watching Howdy Doody as a kid and thinking the in-program ads with Buffalo Bob were rather sadistic
(Show - Howdy Doody)
00:34
Interview: Dr. John Leverence Show: Howdy Doody
Dr. John Leverence on being a fan of Candid Camera, which he watched growing up
(Show - Candid Camera)
00:25
Interview: Dr. John Leverence Show: Candid Camera
Dr. John Leverence on the history of the split between the National and Hollywood Chapters of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and how the Daytime awards were briefly administered by the Hollywood Chapter in the '80s and '90s and why that ended (it is now administered by the National Chapter, or NATAS), and on the background of the "wheel" - the license agreement between the major networks who broadcast the Emmys and the Television Academy on an exclusive, rotating basis
(Show - Emmy Awards, The (Primetime and Daytime))
07:37
Interview: Dr. John Leverence Show: Emmy Awards, The (Primetime and Daytime)
Dr. John Leverence on the Television Academy switching over from physical DVD-shipping for Emmy ballot voting to an online, digital platform and the technical challenges of that process, and on the influence then-Academy Chairman/CEO Bruce Rosenblum and Academy President Maury McIntyre had on this process
(Show - Emmy Awards, The (Primetime and Daytime))
02:39
Interview: Dr. John Leverence Show: Emmy Awards, The (Primetime and Daytime)
Dr. John Leverence on the Emmys cutoff rule that almost made the final season of The Sopranos ineligible for an Emmy Award 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 - Sopranos, The)
02:32
Interview: Dr. John Leverence Show: Sopranos, The
Dr. John Leverence on the impact of allowing cable to compete in the Primetime Emmy Awards after an appeal by director John Moffitt led to a review of the definition of "national broadcasting", and on how at the time, national broadcasting was then-defined by having a presence in homes of over 50% of the United States -- the definition was modified to include audience numbers of "homes passed" (meaning the program was available to them) rather than "homes entered," making HBO and other cable networks qualified for Emmy eligibility for the first time
(Show - Emmy Awards, The (Primetime and Daytime))
05:08
Interview: Dr. John Leverence Show: Emmy Awards, The (Primetime and Daytime)
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)