Editor’s note: The interviews conducted in this podcast were recorded at Deadline’s Contenders TV event, prior to the WGA’s strike starting on May 2.
We’re back!
Just a few days before the nomination round of Emmy voting begins, we’re dropping our first TV Talk podcast of the 2023 small-screen award season. Deadline Chief Film Critic and Awards Columnist Pete Hammond and Deadline Senior Editor/Chief TV Critic Dominic Patten are back and looking for laughs — potential nominees in the Outstanding Comedy Series and Best Actress and Best Actor categories in the genre, to be specific.
Take a listen to the debut of the new season of TV Talk right here:
Now, as striking writers take to the streets for the second month, DGA members prepare to vote on their guild’s tentative deal with the studios, and the actors enter their second day of talks with the AMPTP, Hollywood feels very very serious, to put it mildly. Truth be told, there are a lot of serious issues to be addressed to find labor peace in Tinseltown.
However, on the lighter side, the effective work of the scribes has helped give us a plethora of riches for the 75th annual Primetime Emmy Awards, which is set for September 18 live on Fox.
“Poker Face,” “Ted Lasso” and “Abbott Elementary”
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Having just wrapped its third and perhaps final season on Apple TV+, last year’s Comedy Series winner Ted Lasso is almost certain to get a nomination and can be considered the frontrunner right now. We look at some other contenders too, like newcomer Peacock’s Poker Face, created by four-time Emmy nominee Natasha Lyonne and two-time Oscar nominee Rian Johnson, and the concluding The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, the 2018 Comedy Series winner. Of course, you can’t talk TV comedy in 2023 and not place a bet on the Disney double of Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building and ABC’s Abbott Elementary. And there are many more.
As well, we have some of Pete’s conversation with the cast and creatives from Apple TV+’s Schmigadoon! which took place during our two-day Contenders Television shindig in April.
We also are looking at Best Actress and Best Actor comedy categories … with some predictions for winners in the fall. Not that we haven’t been wrong before, so remember that as you call us idiots.
Take a listen to the TV Talk of this looming awards season to find out where we are placing out bets. And, if you haven’t already, subscribe to Deadline’s TV Talk podcast at Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
