Will dramaturgy and the direction of a broadcast show be recognized again by Emmy?

There was a sigh of relief and a lot of high-fiving in the broadcast industry last year when, after six years of project, a series of networks, NBC This Is Us landed a better appointment series. The family drama of Dan Fogelman repeated the feat this year, even with Emmy juggernaut Game of Thrones back in the race.

It was a great achievement. But while This Is Us was found at the beginning of cable and streaming in the best field of the series, for a second year in a row, the show of time jumps has excluded from the categories of writing and direction. It's the only one nominated for drama series this year that has never been nominated for writing or directing. In fact, I went back years and I could not find another recent memory series for getting several nominations for the best drama series, but not writing or directing.

This Is Us has a characteristic pedigree – he comes from author of Crazy, Stupid Love & # 39; Dan Fogelman, who created it, and directors John Requa and Glenn Ficarra. Fogelman wrote and Requa & Ficarra directed the episodes that were submitted last year, Memphis and this year, Sunday Super Bowl.

Both episodes were deeply emotional as they revealed the death of a character, William and Jack, respectively. Both ignited social media and became part of the cultural conversation. In addition, this year's post-Super Bowl episode was a blockbuster of ratings, attracting 33.43 million viewers in Live + 7 and 11.6 in adults aged 18 to 49 regardless of age. Multi-platform display

. deemed worthy to write or direct nominations by the Television Academy. In fact, this decade, since 2010, there have been only two episodes of drama series aired, the 2010 pilot series and the CBS 2016 final series The Good Wife, written by Robert and Michelle King, down to earth write Emmy nominations. During the same period, there was only one dramatic episode of broadcast, the 2010 final series Lost directed by Jack Bender, to obtain a directorial name.

For the last dramaturgy of written and directional dramaturgy, we must go back to 2005 (writing, David Shore for Fox House ) and conducting 2009 *, Rob Holcomb for the final series of NBC & # 39 ER) New Shore Medical Broadcast Drama, ABC T He Good Doctor, which was also great of success as House was formerly, The fact that the successful drama series taken from the creative auspices of A-list can not get Emmy's love in the categories of writing and direction must be discouraging to them. writers and directors of the network that their job would never be recognized.

It is not easy to write and direct a dramatic drama series. There are more episodes in a season than the cable and digital series ( GOT considered the best of the drama series, is competing with a season of 7 episodes against a season of 18 episodes of This Is Us). It's taxing creatively and involves accelerated schedules and tight deadlines. There is also the aspect of commercial breaks, which scriptwriters and directors must incorporate in a way that does not interrupt the narrative flow.

The lack of Emmy recognition for broadcast dramaturgy should also worry broadcast executives as we are. en route to the new season. Agents enlightened by television for years have said that they were struggling to convince their customers to sell drama projects to broadcast and not to go on cable TV or SVOD. There is a cachet associated with working in cable and streaming, and the financial benefit of drama series is not what it was years ago.

Two years ago, a senior broadcast studio executive was lamenting that last stop on the site train "for writers and producers.The last two seasons, broadcast networks may have some Dramatic scenarios underestimated due to lack of high-level playwrights available or ready to create for broadcast.

Shonda Rhimes, one of the greatest creators and drama producers left for Netflix, joined by Ryan Murphy, who has straddled the broadcast and cable. "Rhimes is one of eleven writers (including teams) to have received an Emmy nomination for their work on broadcast series since 2000. Of these, only three are still working in network television.