Since David Zaslav took over as CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery, the future of the DCEU has been in major upheaval.
04.09.2022 - 05:53 / deadline.com
It was a “bittersweet” night for the team behind Full Frontal With Samantha Bee.
The show was canceled at TBS following the David Zaslav-led cuts across Warner Bros. Discovery but it picked up an Emmy win in the short-form category.
Full Frontal With Samantha Bee Presents: Once Upon A Time In Late Night won the Outstanding Short-Form Nonfiction or Reality Series award at the Creative Arts ceremony.
It beat The Daily Show: Between The Scenes, RuPaul’s Drag Race Whatcah Packin’ With Michelle Visage, SNL Presents: Stories From The Show and Top Chef: Last Chance Kitchen.
Exec producer Allana Harkin picked up the award alongside other members of the production team including producer Caroline Dunphy, who joked “if anyone’s hiring, we all need jobs”.
Harkin later told Deadline, “We still have a show called Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, maybe someone else can pick it up. We have a whole staff that’s looking for a job. In this business you have to be pretty much open to anything.”
Harkin also said that Bee’s voice in late-night will be “sorely missed”.
“The impression that she has had on all the girls growing up watching her including myself on The Daily Show onwards. It’s been a dream and a blessing to work for her show. However, one of the best things about Samantha Bee is her leadership, and teaching me all of our co-workers to promote women to give them leadership roles,” she said.
On stage, Harkin also joked that Ted Cruz “celebrating the cancelation of your TV show means you did a good job”.
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Emily Longeretta The “Full Frontal With Samantha Bee” was able to celebrate one last time at night one of the Creative Arts Emmys on Sunday, when “Full Frontal With Samantha Bee Presents: Once Upon A Time In Late Night” won for outstanding short form nonfiction or reality series. The short was nominated against “Between The Scenes – The Daily Show,” “RuPaul’s Drag Race Whatcha Packin’ With Michelle Visage,” “Saturday Night Live Presents: Stories From The Show” and “Top Chef: Last Chance Kitchen.” On stage, executive producer Allana Harkin and producer Caroline Dunphy joked that they already felt like winners when Ted Cruz celebrated the cancellation of the TBS show. The news broke in July that the late-night series was cut from the lineup in the wake of the changes being made at Warner Bros. Discover.
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Of course, WBD CEO David Zaslav wants to emulate that success. But Feige charted a singular path to becoming the most successful creative executive in Hollywood that afforded him the time, patience and great good fortune to build the MCU more or less from the ground up and on his terms.