Emmys 2020: Competition Series Looking Like A Comeback For Old Favorites

Even though for a large portion of 202 we've been stuck indoors in lockdown, celebrities have still managed to bring a little bit of glamour and entertainment to our lives by getting engaged.

Voting for the nominations for the 72nd Emmys officially ended on Monday and now for hundreds of potential nominees the wait beings. And as the initial phase of the first major awards season of the pandemic comes to a merciful end, we’ve learned that celebrating the best in television can be a nice distraction from the madness going on in the rest of the world.

It’s been just revealed that Tyra Banks has been named as the new host for the reality competition series ‘Dancing With The Stars.’ Her fans could not be more excited to learn the news. More than that, it’s been also revealed that she will also executive produce the show for the upcoming season as well.

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterHBO Max is ready to serve even more face, body and, of course, vogueing with a second season of Legendary. The streamer has renewed the reality competition series that puts the spotlight on ballroom culture for another season.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeThe Emmy race for variety talk series took a dramatic turn at the end of March, when the late-night shows all found themselves pivoting to a new, at-home format.

Television Academy members have officially received their ballots for the 2020 Primetime and Creative Arts Emmys. And after months of Emmy campaigning sort of turned into a more traditional phase one campaign than expected (FYC outdoor advertising has popped up all over LA, more zoom Q&As than anyone could possibly watch), the nomination game is finally in the home stretch.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVEven with 71 years of history behind them, the Primetime Emmy Awards managed to find a way to still have a first: The first time the number of nominees in key categories wouldn’t be known until the nominations-round ballots were released.This year, due to the steady rise of the number of submissions in certain categories, the Television Academy announced that the number of drama and series nominees would be expanded to allow for eight, while others

Meg Zukin When “Project Runway” premiered on Bravo in 2004, it entered a crowded reality competition landscape but still managed to be the first of its kind as a fashion design competition. Now, more than a decade and a half later, such fashion series are seeing a surge.“Project Runway” alone has launched more than six spinoffs, seen franchise expansion in new countries and undergone a major revamp.

Phil Gallo “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” has an enviable batting average when it comes to Emmy Awards for music supervision — the past two have gone to the team of show creators Amy Sherman-Palladino and Dan Palladino and music supervisor Robin Urdang.

Phil Keoghan’s message is clear: his new CBS show, “Tough as Nails,” is not your typical competition series.“This is about honoring the hard-working people of America … who get up every day, roll up their sleeves and keep the country moving,” says Keoghan, 53. “We’re putting them in the spotlight for a change, rather than an elite athlete.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeA few weeks ago, I wrote about how the major Emmy categories should consider expanding their nominations to 10, given the sheer number of viable contenders in this age of peak TV. Indeed, that’s true for the comedy, drama, limited series and competition races, in which there will absolutely be a ton of snubs when the noms are announced on July 28.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor“GLOW” costume designer Beth Morgan was excited to show not only the “glitz of Las Vegas” in the third season of Netflix’s 1980s-set wrestling comedy, but also “a few layers” of life on the Strip when the characters temporarily relocated to the fictional Fan-Tan Hotel & Casino to perform a live wrestling show.For Morgan, one part of capturing the Vegas of yesteryear was designing “how women were overly sexualized as cocktail waitresses,” so she went for authentic

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeThe 47th Daytime Emmy Awards got underway on Friday night, after a particularly unusual path due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

As we’ve chronicled over the past few weeks, there are a lot of questions surrounding the Emmys in regards to the Outstanding Comedy Series and Outstanding Drama Series nominations. Despite the news that there will be eight nominees in each category this year, there are still many deserving programs that will be snubbed.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorEXCLUSIVE: BET has set a July premiere date for the Season 10 premiere of its popular gospel singing competition series Sunday Best. The new season will kick off Sunday, July 5 at 8 p.m.

Will Thorne Staff WriterComedian and actor Lil Rel Howery is adding competition show host to his repertoire.Howery has been tapped to host and executive produce the new NBC show “Small Fortune,” which is slated to go into production later this year. The show received a six-episode order back in April 2019, as Variety exclusively reported. “Small Fortune” will see teams of three friends compete in the tiniest of challenges for a chance to win big money.