“Call ’em the Scammies!,” the Observer says. More than 150 production teams, “some consisting of more than 30 people,” are up for News and Documentary Emmys this year. If the team wins, “the academy will provide the winning team in each category with only one trophy.”
Unless they pay up, that is. “For $350 a pop, any member of the winning news teams can pick up a supplemental trophy. Given the size of the nominated crews, that can mean a dozen or more statues in each of the 29 Emmy categories. Everybody gets a prize — and the academy gets thousands, if not tens of thousands, of dollars.”
It’s a must-read…
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