had already been experiencing a renaissance in primetime, particularly during the summer months. But the genre will be front and center in primetime this fall — especially on ABC — as the writers’ strike delays most scripted fare.
Now, a pure game show category that includes both daytime and primetime shows in one place could shake things up. Fremantle’s, the exec producer and showrunner on CBS’ “Let’s Make a Deal,” NBC’s “Password” and ABC’s “Press Your Luck,” is giddy over the move. “To get a category for game shows, as well as game show hosts, in primetime is the biggest deal in the world to a game show guy like me,” he says. “It’s my Super Bowl.
The decision to move the outstanding game show and outstanding game show host categories — which had been a part of the Daytime Emmys since that awards show launched in 1974 — to primetime comes out of an ongoing realignment of genres and categories across the various Emmy shows. Whether it’s fair to pit higher-budget, weekly primetime game shows vs. daily, lower-budget daytime shows is one question. But the move also means a change in how many producers will actually take home a trophy, as the Primetime Emmys has a cap on how many people on a given show can win the award. That might be an adjustment for daytime production teams used to everyone getting a trophy.
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