The Late Show With Stephen Colbert Scores Record Emmy Nominations in Final Season

Overview

• The Television Academy named The Late Show with Stephen Colbert for nine Emmy nominations for its final season, and a YouTube short-form entry, Colbert Before Air, brings the Colbert camp’s total to ten.
• Nominations cover the headline Outstanding Variety Series slot plus writing, directing and a wide set of below-the-line crafts including production design, lighting, technical direction and camerawork, sound mixing, picture editing and music direction.
• This nine- (or ten-) nomination haul is the largest single-season total of Colbert’s 11-year run at the Late Show desk, surpassing his prior high of five nominations in earlier years.
• The Outstanding Variety Series race now runs as an “area” award that requires each nominee to clear a 90% ‘yes’ vote threshold to win, a rule that can produce multiple winners or no clear majority winner at that bar.
• Final-round voting is scheduled for August 17–26 with winners announced at the 78th Emmy Awards on September 14, and the nominations come after CBS aired the series finale on May 21 and said it was retiring the Late Show franchise for financial reasons.