The writing group behind the lately canceled The Late Present with Stephen Colbert determined to get inventive and launch their very own For Your Consideration Emmy advert.
The group posted on social media a selfmade FYC video (watch it beneath). “CBS is not doing an Emmys campaign for us, so ‘for strictly financial reasons’ the @colbertlateshow writers made our own For Your Consideration video,” wrote Late Present author Felipe Torres Medina (as first reported by LateNighter).
The fact is a little more difficult. CBS has aired FYC advertisements in New York and Los Angeles supporting the present normally (if not particularly for the excellent writing for a range sequence class). Plus, CBS took out a FYC advert for The Late Present on The Hollywood Reporter‘s website, with a hyperlink going to a page that listed all of the writers. Sources say that CBS has traditionally bought Emmy campaigns for the present, simply not particularly for the writing group.
Colbert’s group has been nominated for excellent writing for a range sequence practically yearly of its run, however hasn’t received. The Late Present loved its first excellent discuss sequence win final yr within the wake of CBS asserting the present would finish its 10-year run.
As for the impromptu FYC advert, the video reads, “From the writers who brought you The Late Show with Stephen Colbert this summer comes … ‘We’d Love an Emmy.’” The video is styled just like the opening credit of a Eighties sitcom and introduces every of the present’s (many) writers one after the other. The video concludes with a photograph of a younger Colbert and the phrases, “and introducing Stephen T. Colbert as ‘Da Boss.’”
The “strictly financial reasons” phrase famous above is a jab at CBS’ assertion final yr when the corporate defined it was canceling the present “for purely financial reasons.” On the time, the road was thought-about a reasonably doubtful declare given Colbert’s penchant for criticizing the Trump administration and CBS dad or mum firm Paramount International searching for regulatory approval for its merger with Skydance.
The TV Academy will announce the nominees for the 78th Primetime Emmy Awards on July 8.
