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While there isn’t much news expected about this year’s Daytime Emmys until May, NATAS has just released their Transparency Report 2020 – 2021, which is aimed at giving more transparency into the organizations processes and decisions concerning the Daytime Emmy Awards contests that were administered over the last two years. There is some general information up front, like judging procedures for this year’s contest and other information that overlaps portions of the rulebook released in January, but then there are specific sections for Daytime, News & Documentary and Sports.
The types of situations discussed include off-target numbers of nominees or winners (any number of nominees other than five and more than one winner), suspected or reported judging irregularities, and eligibility questions. Except where revealing the identity of a show or nominee is absolutely necessary to convey the information (the only instance that comes to mind was an eligibility determination issue with the limited series that streamed on the DOOL app), that information was not revealed. So in some ways the report reads like a list of blind items, some of which may be easier to determine than others. (When the note next to there only being three nominees for drama series writing at last year’s awards says, “Minimum viability unmet,” that’s clearly a reference to DAYS simply not scoring high enough among judges to merit a nomination, despite there being room to ideally have another nominee in the category.) Some of the information is quite interesting despite being totally anonymous. There’s a listing of every questionable judging occurrence that was evaluated along with how it was handled and why. There are some very surprising allegations that had to be investigated, like one claim that two shows that were not competing in the same categories created an alliance to vote more highly for one another’s shows performers, though that claim appeared false as almost none of the judges from either show returned completed ballots. This also helps to show why the two Emmy organizations got together and realigned their rules and rejigged the awards groupings altogether. There have been a number of rather messy eligibility situations that I’m sure produced no shortage of headaches for the awards organizers.
I’m sure this appealed to me more than most, since I love this nerdy behind-the-scenes stuff, but I did find it very interesting. I appreciate that NATAS is making an effort to be more transparent, as they claimed they were going to do when they stopped revealing prenoms and making reels available.
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