celeb news Puck: Beyoncé & Kendrick Lamar to complete for Best Live Variety Special Emmy

[Feanor]

 

Great moments in awards campaigning, Beyoncé edition:

 

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Netflix and the producers of Beyoncé's NFL Christmas Day halftime special would very much like an Emmy nomination in the live variety special category. How badly? They invited about 100 TV Academy members to an F.Y.C. event last night at SoFi Stadium… which happened to be hosting an actual Beyoncé concert. You won't believe this, but in addition to being treated to a discussion of the 13-minute special with producer Jesse Collins and others, attendees were invited to stay in a catered suite to enjoy the full concert.

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Rival campaigners are already crying foul, but Netflix says organizers got the Academy's blessing that the event didn't violate campaign rules. Note to Fox, which aired the Super Bowl: Halftime performer Kendrick Lamar is playing SoFi over Memorial Day weekend—right before Emmy voting begins.

Puck

 

Which performance special do you think will win?

 

[beyonceparkwood]

Beyoncé Bowl, of course.

 

 

[gustavothehuman]

Considering Beyoncé's history at the Emmys, I think it's going to a random white person 

 

Edited May 9 by gustavothehuman

[ScorpiosGroove]

beyoncé deserves but giving it to kendrick would be okay too, anything but Flopes Corden and his awful karaoke show 

[Titanbaddie]

They watched Homecoming: Beychella and still voted for Carpool Karaoke. 

 

They are never giving Beyonce a single thing even when she obviously deserves it.

[Santhosh]

I hope beyonce bags this one 

 

Kendrick's SB is one of the worst 

[Bimbo]

They better complete

[hausofdave]

the Pulitzer Prize winner

[truthteller]

the Pulitzer Prize winning poet who reminded the world what a forty acres and a mule is in front of that plussize orange putin lapdog 

Edited May 9 by truthteller

[Katamari]

49 minutes ago, Titanbaddie said:

They watched Homecoming: Beychella and still voted for Carpool Karaoke. 

 

They are never giving Beyonce a single thing even when she obviously deserves it.

Wasn't that the Paul McCartney special tho? It was barely carpool karaoke 

[Titanbaddie]

https://www.vice.com/en/article/carpool-karaoke-scoring-an-emmy-win-over-beyonces-homecoming-doc-is-a-cursed-travesty/

 

No just Carpool Karaoke 

[Ubermensch]

Not the bribing voters with cc tickets. 

[Popboi.]

Kendrick's will swing more votes cause of the recency bias, Super Bowl being a much bigger platform (so more fresh in voters mind) and their weird history of never awarding Bey.

[G.U.Y.]

[fridayteenage]

2 hours ago, Popboi. said:

Kendrick's will swing more votes cause of the recency bias, Super Bowl being a much bigger platform (so more fresh in voters mind) and their weird history of never awarding Bey.

Only one halftime show won

They tend to like fuller length tv specials rather than 12-13 minute performances

[Shelter]

Bey's was better but if they didn't give it to her before, doubt they will now.