Ray Richmond is contributing to Deadline’s Emmy coverage.
I’ve just learned that the TV Academy has 6 names on its list of ineligible producers for Emmy-nominated programs. (Not 7: one producer was bumped from two shows.) See my previous, EMMYS: Waiting For That Producer List… and EMMYS: Producer Credits Still Controversial.
Dexter‘s Michael C. Hall was disqualified from participation for a 2nd consecutive year for his Showtime hourlong’s Outstanding Drama Series nomination, but naturally his nomination for lead actor in a drama is unaffected. By contrast, CSI star William Petersen was included as part of the CBS series production team in 2002, 2003, and 2004 when the mothership hourlong was nominated for top drama. But Hall hasn’t been able to pull a similar trick.
Only one other producer in a non-executive position was ruled ineligible: Michael Novick, who brought the original script for Fox’s Glee to the attention of showrunner Ryan Murphy. Novick’s contributions to the show’s ongoing production were viewed as insufficient to qualify him as part of the show’s production team.
The other four are: Ian Jones and Alison Rayson for the PBS Masterpiece Contemporary entry Endgame; Susan Werbe for the History Channel project Moonshot; and Rebecca Eaton, named for both Endgame and the Masterpiece Classic two-parter Return to Cranford.
Some 223 producers passed muster.
After the controversy that erupted in past years, not a single writer-producer is on the bumped list this time, which John Leverence, senior VP of awards at the Television Academy Of Arts & Sciences, ascribed to a new agreement embraced between showrunners and the awards committee. “There is now an understanding that what goes on in terms of the internal structure of a show is best reported to us by the showrunner as to confirming that there is a significant and substantive contribution on the part of individual producers in the vetting process,” he told me.


What are they messing with Hall for? He deserves a dozen Emmy’s for his Dexter role. Nobody but NOBODY can pull off that role better than him and he does it so well. Before Dexter, I wouldn’t have looked twice at that guy but there’s just something about how he does it that compels you to watch him and get addicted to his show. DON’T MESS WITH DEXTER assholes!
Maybe I’m missing something here, but if it wasn’t for Michael Novick’s original script for Fox’s “Glee,” there wouldn’t be a “Glee.” He should be included.
michael novick did not write the original script for glee – ian brennan, one of the show’s creators, wrote the original script, glee, as a feature – ryan, brad and ian then adapted the material into what became the pilot – michael simply introduced brennan’s script to murphy – this is absolutely the right decision – there are too many people who work way too hard on glee, even as producers, who haven’t been recognized for their tireless work and actual contributions – murphy is loyal to a fault when the work warrants such loyalty – and he fights for you when no one else cares – this is a simple vetting process that means to define the difference between proper credit and vanity credit – in this case, the process worked…
Spot on assessment, Huh. This hopefully will righten the ship when it comes to vanity credits. So many actors are given producer credits but they really aren’t there to do the producing work. I think it’s more about having script control which is Selleck’s issue on his show.
I don’t get this business of the TV Academy and the Motion Picture Academy deciding for themselves who “actually” produced shows.
TV scripts get rewritten all the time by staffs, but the assigned writer is usually given sole credit. Is the Academy going to start investigating WGA credits before they give out Emmys for writers? Is the MPAA going to start looking at dailies to see if a performance was “made” in the editing room?
If these organizations want to honor movies and tv (and they make quite a bit of money from their telecasts), they should respect the credits that were contractually agreed upon by each production.
Show business is collaborative. If you like something, give it an award. Just stop assigning yourself judge and jury as to who did what.
umm…”who brought the original script for Fox’s Glee to the attention of showrunner Ryan Murphy” and denying the guy credit sounds like a big ball of glee spite to me.
Anne, you are correct! The response you received is extremely off the mark. “… murphy is loyal to a fault…” obviously does not include the people (or in this case, person) that got him to this particular point. The person that responded to your e-mail has a need to justify “the difference between proper credit and vanity credit”.