Late-Night Emmy Surprise: Talk Category Scores Four Nominations

There was much concern within the late-night community that there would only be three nominations for the Emmys‘ Outstanding Talk Series category.

However, this morning as voting for nominations opened, it has emerged that the category will have four nominations thanks to 14 submissions in the category.

This means that the category has only lost one nomination slot from last year, as opposed to two, which was the worry before voting opened.

Last year, The Daily Show, then hosted by Trevor Noah, won the Talk Emmy, beating out Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Late Night with Seth Meyers, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and The Problem with Jon Stewart.

Emmy rules suggest that because there were 14 submissions, this is divided by four and rounded up so 3.5 turns into four nominations. Had there been one fewer submission, it would have only been three.

Submissions were Black Girl Stuff, The Conversations Project, The Daily Show, Hart to Heart, Hot Ones, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, John Mulaney Presents: Everybody’s In LA, Late Night with Seth Meyers, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, The Pit Stop with Trixie Mattel, Real Time with Bill Maher, Tez on Ten, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen.