"Schitt’s Creek" Wins Big at 2020 Emmys!

[JamesG]

Outstanding Comedy Series:

Schitt’s Creek



Outstanding Lead Comedy Actor:

Eugene Levy



Outstanding Lead Comedy Actress:

Catherine O’Hara



Outstanding Supporting Comedy Actor:

Daniel Levy



Outstanding Supporting Comedy Actress:

Annie Murphy



Outstanding Directing for a Comedy:

Daniel Levy



Outstanding Writing for a Comedy:

Daniel Levy

[TMC]

Dan Levy: "In the wrong hands," Schitt's Creek would've been canceled for "underperforming" after one season

Levy tweeted a warning this morning for impatient networks and streaming services following last night's Emmys sweep: "A gentle reminder that TV shows need time and space to lay foundation, to develop, and to grow. In the wrong hands, this show would have been yanked off the air in Season 1 for 'underperforming'. Thank you @cbc @PopTV for letting us fly."

ALSO:

• Canadians rejoice over Schitt's Creek's Emmy triumph
• Schitt's Creek reruns to air on Comedy Central starting Oct. 2 while the final season joins Netflix on Oct. 7.

Dan Levy says he's open to a Schitt's Creek movie

"If there is an idea that pops into my head (for a movie) worthy of these wonderful people, it'd have to be really freaking good at this point," he told Access Hollywood after Schitt's Creek's Emmy sweep Sunday night.

Pop TV went from 0 to 10 Emmys in less than a week, but its triumph is "bittersweet"

The small ViacomCBS network came in third place in Emmy wins this year -- behind juggernauts HBO and Netflix -- with nine Emmys for Schitt's Creek and one for One Day at a Time. "But the triumph is bittersweet," says Deadline's Nellie Andreeva. "Pop TV has overhauled its programming strategy since the Viacom-CBS merger in late 2019, which moved previously CBS-owned Pop TV to the Viacom side of the company where it is now part of the ViacomCBS Entertainment & Youth Group. The unit put muscle behind the final season of Schitt’s Creek and Season 4 of One Day At a Time with simulcasts on multiple networks. But since the merger, Pop TV also has undergone multiple rounds of layoffs. Pop TV president Brad Schwartz, who launched the network in 2015 and brought in both Schitt’s Creek and One Day at a Time, exited in June. In March, the majority of his slate of original scripted series, including the well received Florida Girls, Flack and the newly ordered Best Intentions, was abruptly scrapped. 'Where will creatively oddly-shaped masterpieces be able to find their way moving forward?,' one industry veteran who has had a show on Pop lamented about the net’s pullout from original scripted series. Heading into Emmy season, Schitt’s Creek and One Day at a Time were the only remaining Pop TV original scripted series. Schitt’s Creek is now gone, and One Day at a Time, whose first season on Pop was cut short by the pandemic, awaits word on its future. There has been speculation that, if the praised family sitcom is to be renewed for another season, it may move to ViacomCBS’ more established comedy cable network TV Land."

Schitt's Creek debuts in national syndication starting Monday

The Pop TV comedy's syndication deal on Fox stations was announced nearly a year ago. But Schitt's Creek premiere in syndication on Monday couldn't have been better timed following its Primetime Emmys domination.

Dan Levy on Schitt's Creek's Emmy sweep: "The whole process just felt oddly not real"

"I have been hoping for many years that she would be recognized, and when she won, I was beside myself," Levy tells Vulture of the night kicking off with Catherine O'Hara's victory. "It was just such an emotional night. Everybody’s entire bodies are in this hyper state of tension, so when you experience joy like that, it’s incredible how much of a release comes out of that experience. And then my dad was up next, and I thought this category could go a bunch of different ways. Obviously for him to be in his 70s and to have never been nominated for an Emmy as an actor, it felt like, what a lovely time for him to win. I was just so proud. I was proud of our relationship. I was proud of the work that he did. At that point, I thought, Well, maybe we have a chance at Best Show, not really thinking anything else of the other categories. They had stacked them all together, so I was thinking, Well, at least we’ll be able to enjoy ourselves come 9:15 when this is all over. Whatever becomes of it, the pressure will be off, so you don’t have that ongoing, nagging tension of, Well, my award’s in an hour and 15 minutes, so I guess I’ll just smile and nod through the first half of this award show. So writing was up next, and I resigned myself to thinking, we’ve gotten all we came here for, and everything else is going to go to other places. And then I heard my name called, and you get into this kind of out-of-body experience where you just react and wander up to the podium. I had a couple things I had thought about saying and never really written anything down because I truly didn’t have any expectations — even a superstitious perspective. I didn’t want to jump the gun in any way. There’s a full-circle moment to the writing category for me because it began with writing. The whole process just felt oddly not real. Catherine and I were like, 'It almost felt like a game of How to Host a Murder,' where we all just got dressed up and the scene was awards night, and then the spin at the end was everyone got to take one home. It was just this game that eventually we’d have to give them all back."

Jimmy Kimmel pokes fun at TV news avoiding saying Schitt's Creek's title

Some TV news broadcasts said they "can't say the name on TV."

Dan Levy: We had to reduce the size of Schitt's Creek's Emmy party at the last minute over coronavirus concerns

"Originally we had planned to have a much larger party," said Levy, appearing with dad Eugene Levy, Catherine O’Hara and Annie Murphy on Jimmy Kimmel Live! "We had a big party planned. In Canada, you can have a larger gathering because Canada has been doing good when it came to the COVID. And then obviously, in true 2020 fashion, the night before our Emmy party, the government had to minimize the party size in half, which meant that we had a last-minute un-invitation ceremony which had to happen for our lovely crew, which we were so excited to share the night with. So it was a strange kind of vibe going into the evening.”

ALSO:

• Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara look back at their 1982 SCTV Emmy win
• Dan Levy jokes about a Schitt's Creek movie: “I guess it just depends on how much money people want to spend"
• Schitt's Creek: The Complete Collection debuts on DVD on Nov. 10

[TMC]

At some point, it becomes a turnoff when a single show wins too many Emmys: "Last year’s Emmy haul for Schitt’s Creek was a historic one, as the Pop TV comedy became the first ongoing series to ever sweep all seven of the awards — the four acting categories, plus writing, directing, and Outstanding Comedy Series — presented in the primetime telecast," says Alan Sepinwall. "Because that night’s show largely covered one genre at a time, the sweep seemed even more dominant, since the first hour or so just kept cutting to the same Toronto venue where the Schitt’s cast and crew were remotely attending the pandemic-altered ceremony. When the show’s co-creator and co-star Dan Levy won in the Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy category midway through this run, he looked a bit anxious, quipping, 'The internet is about to turn on me, I’m so sorry.' What Levy understood so keenly is that even when a show or movie is widely beloved, there’s a point at which too much success can be a turnoff. Not coincidentally, the sweep was followed by the first negative discourse of any kind Schitt’s had received, even if much of it was along the lines of, 'Yeah, it was a good show, but was it that good?' The rest of last year’s Emmys featured results that were nearly but not quite as steamroller-ish, with Watchmen and Succession scooping up most of the trophies in the Limited Series and Drama categories, respectively. If not for the novelty of host Jimmy Kimmel and the producers having to reinvent awards show tropes for quarantine times, it would have been a terribly predictable night. Because the same actors and shows so often win again and again and again, I’ve often joked that the easiest way to win an Emmy is to have already won an Emmy. But lately, it’s gone from a year-to-year thing to a minute-to-minute thing. And in the process, it’s made what’s already the dullest of the four major awards shows — lacking the performance component of the Grammys and Tonys and, to a degree, the glamour of the Oscars — an especially tough sit. Kimmel and company largely avoided the problem through structural ingenuity, and this year’s Emmys producers attempted to address it by mixing the genres back together, assuming that one or more of Ted Lasso, The Crown, and Mare of Easttown would have Schitt’s Creek-esque runs. As it turned out, only The Crown achieved what awards show expert Mark Harris referred to on Twitter as 'the Full Schitt,' taking home all seven drama trophies awarded Sunday night, including Netflix’s first-ever Emmy in a series category."

[irehtman]

How financially long did it take for Canada to create better 30-minute sitcoms in order to become globally popular to the entire worldwide publicity before this show was created and won some awards?