Megan Amram, a producer and co-writer on “The Good Place,” returned to social media on Tuesday after offensive tweets from several years ago resurfaced in June.
In a message posted to her Twitter and Instagram accounts, Amram said she took the last four months off for self-reflection.
“I took the last few months off to really reflect and further educate myself on concrete steps I could take, while also reading and internalizing as many comments as I could,” she wrote.
In June, several Twitter users found tweets from Amram in the early 2010s that made jokes about Asian Americans, Jewish people and people with disabilities. She apologized in June, writing, “I am deeply embarrassed and more apologetic than you can ever know…I wish I could take them back, not to ‘get out of trouble,’ but because it is weighing heavily on my heart. But I can’t. So instead,...
In a message posted to her Twitter and Instagram accounts, Amram said she took the last four months off for self-reflection.
“I took the last few months off to really reflect and further educate myself on concrete steps I could take, while also reading and internalizing as many comments as I could,” she wrote.
In June, several Twitter users found tweets from Amram in the early 2010s that made jokes about Asian Americans, Jewish people and people with disabilities. She apologized in June, writing, “I am deeply embarrassed and more apologetic than you can ever know…I wish I could take them back, not to ‘get out of trouble,’ but because it is weighing heavily on my heart. But I can’t. So instead,...
- 10/27/2020
- by Jordan Moreau
- Variety Film + TV
Call them the Covid Contenders.
The coronavirus pandemic has fueled a boom in creativity since mid-March, with stay-at-home orders leading to some unique and completely unexpected programming in the past few months. Prior to mid-March, who would have predicted a “Parks and Recreation” reunion, or the fact that we would soon get to know what Ryan Seacrest’s home kitchen looks like?
None of these recent specials was planned, which is what makes this year’s Emmy race so unique. Most of the newfound specials and events created in the wake of Covid-19 — even the ones that have streamed only online — could be eligible for Emmy consideration. They might potentially upend the variety special categories and even the short form variety race.
The case of “Parks and Recreation” is unique. The beloved NBC comedy ended its run in 2015, but the cast and producers got back together last month to tell one more story.
The coronavirus pandemic has fueled a boom in creativity since mid-March, with stay-at-home orders leading to some unique and completely unexpected programming in the past few months. Prior to mid-March, who would have predicted a “Parks and Recreation” reunion, or the fact that we would soon get to know what Ryan Seacrest’s home kitchen looks like?
None of these recent specials was planned, which is what makes this year’s Emmy race so unique. Most of the newfound specials and events created in the wake of Covid-19 — even the ones that have streamed only online — could be eligible for Emmy consideration. They might potentially upend the variety special categories and even the short form variety race.
The case of “Parks and Recreation” is unique. The beloved NBC comedy ended its run in 2015, but the cast and producers got back together last month to tell one more story.
- 5/21/2020
- by Michael Schneider
- Variety Film + TV
Despite her now-multiple Emmy losses (truly sorry), Megan Amram is living her dream. The Good Place writer and co-executive producer, who is also the An Emmy for Megan star and creator, was up for an Emmy, again for her aforementioned web series, but lost to State of the Union. So, does that mean season three is coming? It was never her plan to even do the second season. "At first I did season one. It took a lot of effort and time and money and I was like, 'I can never do this again, even if I lose,'" she told E! News in a phone interview. "And then I lost, and I had so much fun, I was like I guess I have to do it again." Now, An Emmy for Megan will continue...probably. "I think...
- 9/21/2019
- E! Online
It’s (Emmys) party time!
Before the 71st annual Emmys go live on Sunday, stars and execs are keeping busy by party-hopping in the days leading up to the big show.
Here, Variety gives you the inside details on who was where and what they were doing. Keep checking back right here throughout the weekend for all the latest news about the hottest parties.
Thursday, 9.19
Audi Celebrates the 71st Emmys
Audi, the official automotive partner for the Emmys, kicked off party weekend with its annual cocktail reception celebrating outstanding talent in television with guests including Milo Ventimiglia (“This is Us”), Jean-Marc Vallée (“Big Little Lies”), Lakeith Stanfield (“Atlanta”), Laura Dern (“Big Little Lies”), Marti Noxon (“Sharp Objects”) and Elizabeth Banks.
“I honestly wouldn’t have made the movie without Kristen (Stewart),” “Charlie’s Angels” director and writer Banks told Variety on the red carpet outside the Sunset Tower. “She had to be in the movie.
Before the 71st annual Emmys go live on Sunday, stars and execs are keeping busy by party-hopping in the days leading up to the big show.
Here, Variety gives you the inside details on who was where and what they were doing. Keep checking back right here throughout the weekend for all the latest news about the hottest parties.
Thursday, 9.19
Audi Celebrates the 71st Emmys
Audi, the official automotive partner for the Emmys, kicked off party weekend with its annual cocktail reception celebrating outstanding talent in television with guests including Milo Ventimiglia (“This is Us”), Jean-Marc Vallée (“Big Little Lies”), Lakeith Stanfield (“Atlanta”), Laura Dern (“Big Little Lies”), Marti Noxon (“Sharp Objects”) and Elizabeth Banks.
“I honestly wouldn’t have made the movie without Kristen (Stewart),” “Charlie’s Angels” director and writer Banks told Variety on the red carpet outside the Sunset Tower. “She had to be in the movie.
- 9/20/2019
- by Variety Staff
- Variety Film + TV
Note: In the run-up to awards shows, in order to save time, writers prep drafts for certain categories so when winners are announced, all that's needed is to designate who won, add a line or two from the acceptance speech and hit publish. Sometimes, however, drafts are only prepped for certain outcomes, and if that outcome doesn't occur the draft languishes in Cms purgatory forever! Due to Megan Amram's shortform series An Emmy for Megan not winning an Emmy for Megan two years in a row, my drafts for An Emmy for Megan winning an Emmy for Megan have ...
- 9/18/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Emmy voters have spoken, and they love “An Emmy For Megan” — so much, that they demand a Season 3. After promising to end her Emmy-nominated short-form series “An Emmy For Megan” if it won an Emmy for its second season, Megan Amram again went home empty-handed from the Creative Arts Emmys, losing for Outstanding Short-Form Series (Comedy or Drama) and Outstanding Actor in a Short-Form Series in 2019. (Patton Oswalt was nominated for the latter.)
“An Emmy For Megan” also lost both categories it was nominated for in 2018, Best Short-Form Series and Best Actress (Amram).
This year, “An Emmy For Megan” was denied by SundanceTV’s “State of the Union.” Starring Chris O’Dowd and Rosamund Pike — both of whom won Emmys in the acting categories — the 10-episode first season from author Nick Hornby and director Stephen Frears took home the Emmy for Best Short-Form Series, as well, going three-for-three on Sunday night.
“An Emmy For Megan” also lost both categories it was nominated for in 2018, Best Short-Form Series and Best Actress (Amram).
This year, “An Emmy For Megan” was denied by SundanceTV’s “State of the Union.” Starring Chris O’Dowd and Rosamund Pike — both of whom won Emmys in the acting categories — the 10-episode first season from author Nick Hornby and director Stephen Frears took home the Emmy for Best Short-Form Series, as well, going three-for-three on Sunday night.
- 9/16/2019
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
Megan Amram, who created the tongue-in-cheek short-form series “An Emmy for Megan” for the express purpose of winning an Emmy, has failed to win an Emmy for the show for the second year in a row.
But the way in which she lost in the Outstanding Short Form Comedy or Drama Series category this year may have a particular sting to it — because Television Academy voters gave the prize to Nick Hornby’s series “State of the Union,” a show that wouldn’t even have been nominated if it weren’t for “An Emmy for Megan.”
One of the episodes in the first season of “An Emmy for Megan” in 2018 specifically pointed out that the Academy didn’t have any rules about minimum length for a short-form episode. That episode lasted less than 30 seconds — and after last year’s Emmys, the Academy changed its rules to require that short-form series...
But the way in which she lost in the Outstanding Short Form Comedy or Drama Series category this year may have a particular sting to it — because Television Academy voters gave the prize to Nick Hornby’s series “State of the Union,” a show that wouldn’t even have been nominated if it weren’t for “An Emmy for Megan.”
One of the episodes in the first season of “An Emmy for Megan” in 2018 specifically pointed out that the Academy didn’t have any rules about minimum length for a short-form episode. That episode lasted less than 30 seconds — and after last year’s Emmys, the Academy changed its rules to require that short-form series...
- 9/16/2019
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
The Television Academy is handing out Creative Arts Emmys this weekend at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.
The two-day ceremony, on September 14 and 15, honors artistic and technical achievement in a variety of television genres, guest performances in weekly series, as well as exceptional work in the animation, reality and documentary categories.
Deadline will have extensive coverage, including updating lists of all the winners. The ceremony gets underway both nights at 5 p.m. Pt.
As previously reported, presenters include Will Arnett (BoJack Horseman), Marsha Stephanie Blake (When They See Us), Neil Patrick Harris (A Series of Unfortunate Events), Peter MacNicol (Veep), Robin Thede (A Black Lady Sketch Show), Patton Oswalt (An Emmy for Megan), Jane Seymour (The Kominsky Method), Maggie Siff (Billions),and Shameik Moore (Wu-Tang: An American Saga), just to name a few.
There will also be an In Living Color cast reunion on Sunday, with Keenen Ivory Wayans,...
The two-day ceremony, on September 14 and 15, honors artistic and technical achievement in a variety of television genres, guest performances in weekly series, as well as exceptional work in the animation, reality and documentary categories.
Deadline will have extensive coverage, including updating lists of all the winners. The ceremony gets underway both nights at 5 p.m. Pt.
As previously reported, presenters include Will Arnett (BoJack Horseman), Marsha Stephanie Blake (When They See Us), Neil Patrick Harris (A Series of Unfortunate Events), Peter MacNicol (Veep), Robin Thede (A Black Lady Sketch Show), Patton Oswalt (An Emmy for Megan), Jane Seymour (The Kominsky Method), Maggie Siff (Billions),and Shameik Moore (Wu-Tang: An American Saga), just to name a few.
There will also be an In Living Color cast reunion on Sunday, with Keenen Ivory Wayans,...
- 9/14/2019
- by Anita Bennett
- Deadline Film + TV
An edited version of this story about “An Emmy for Megan” first appeared in the Down to the Wire issue of TheWrap’s Emmy magazine.
A lot has happened with Megan Amram in the past year. Her short-form comedy series “An Emmy for Megan,” a very funny deconstruction of Emmy rules that claims to exist solely to win its creator a golden statuette, landed two nominations and sent her to the Emmys — where she lost in the short-form series category to “James Corden’s James Corden,” and in the short-form acting category to 83-year-old Christina Pickles.
In the aftermath of that hard luck, the Emmys made a couple of rule changes in the shorts categories, including instituting a two-minute minimum on the length of short-form episodes after one of last year’s “Emmy for Megan” episodes pointed out that no minimum length existed.
(One of this year’s nominees, “Better...
A lot has happened with Megan Amram in the past year. Her short-form comedy series “An Emmy for Megan,” a very funny deconstruction of Emmy rules that claims to exist solely to win its creator a golden statuette, landed two nominations and sent her to the Emmys — where she lost in the short-form series category to “James Corden’s James Corden,” and in the short-form acting category to 83-year-old Christina Pickles.
In the aftermath of that hard luck, the Emmys made a couple of rule changes in the shorts categories, including instituting a two-minute minimum on the length of short-form episodes after one of last year’s “Emmy for Megan” episodes pointed out that no minimum length existed.
(One of this year’s nominees, “Better...
- 8/16/2019
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
There are a lot of ways to win an Emmy, and Megan Amram is ready to try any of them to emerge victorious. She’s an underdog, but she’s also the people’s favorite. She’s one of the snubbed, but she’s still a three-time nominee. She’s the victim of a grand conspiracy to keep her off the Emmy stage, and yet “An Emmy For Megan” is Emmy-nominated once again in 2019.
Most nominees pick one narrative and build an Fyc campaign to support it. Some series are important. Others are undeniable. Once an angle is chosen, money is tossed around on screenings, parties, and corporate tie-ins. Upcoming seasons are teased in order to build excitement. Nominees implement new tricks and tactics all the time to hammer home their position and secure those precious votes.
Amram is ready to do the same, only more. Following her crushing defeats...
Most nominees pick one narrative and build an Fyc campaign to support it. Some series are important. Others are undeniable. Once an angle is chosen, money is tossed around on screenings, parties, and corporate tie-ins. Upcoming seasons are teased in order to build excitement. Nominees implement new tricks and tactics all the time to hammer home their position and secure those precious votes.
Amram is ready to do the same, only more. Following her crushing defeats...
- 8/9/2019
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
With all eyes on the major Emmy nominees in star-studded contests, let’s not forget that well over 40 familiar faces are popping up in lesser-publicized categories. Most of these winners will be announced at the Creative Arts Emmys in two separate ceremonies on September 14 and 15, a week before the primetime telecast on September 22. Check out the complete list of nominations here.
The Best Narrator category is filled with stars, including Emmy mainstays Sir David Attenborough (“Our Planet”), Angela Bassett (“The Flood”), Charles Dance (“Savage Kingdom”) and Liev Schreiber (“The Many Lives of Nick Buoniconti”). First-time nominees Juliet Stevenson (“Queens of Mystery”) and Anthony Mendez (“Wonders of Mexico”) round out the contenders. Attenborough is the reigning champion in the category, having prevailed last year for narrating the nature doc “Blue Planet II.”
See 2019 Emmy nominations: HBO reclaims bragging rights as top network in contention at the 71st Emmy Awards
The Short...
The Best Narrator category is filled with stars, including Emmy mainstays Sir David Attenborough (“Our Planet”), Angela Bassett (“The Flood”), Charles Dance (“Savage Kingdom”) and Liev Schreiber (“The Many Lives of Nick Buoniconti”). First-time nominees Juliet Stevenson (“Queens of Mystery”) and Anthony Mendez (“Wonders of Mexico”) round out the contenders. Attenborough is the reigning champion in the category, having prevailed last year for narrating the nature doc “Blue Planet II.”
See 2019 Emmy nominations: HBO reclaims bragging rights as top network in contention at the 71st Emmy Awards
The Short...
- 7/16/2019
- by Zach Laws
- Gold Derby
Megan Amram disrupted the Emmy race last year with “An Emmy for Megan,” her meta short form series that chronicled her attempts to, yes, disrupt the Emmy race. She almost got there: “An Emmy for Megan” was nominated for outstanding short form comedy or drama series but ultimately lost to “James Corden’s Next James Corden.”
However, Amram — who’s back this year with a second season of “An Emmy for Megan” — tells me she won in another way: Her unusual series, which was all about finding a means to meet the requirements to get nominated and win an Emmy, wound up inspiring a host of Emmy rule changes.
Starting this year, the Television Academy has made some clarifications to what might qualify as an Emmy-eligible short series. That includes a stipulation that every episode must be at least two minutes long. (One extremely short episode of “An Emmy for Megan...
However, Amram — who’s back this year with a second season of “An Emmy for Megan” — tells me she won in another way: Her unusual series, which was all about finding a means to meet the requirements to get nominated and win an Emmy, wound up inspiring a host of Emmy rule changes.
Starting this year, the Television Academy has made some clarifications to what might qualify as an Emmy-eligible short series. That includes a stipulation that every episode must be at least two minutes long. (One extremely short episode of “An Emmy for Megan...
- 6/12/2019
- by Michael Schneider
- Variety Film + TV
The number of eligible contenders in the short-form categories at this year’s Emmy Awards has been cut drastically following the Television Academy’s introduction of anonymous panels tasked with determining if entries are competitive enough to warrant Emmy consideration.
Last year, 50 different shows made the ballot in the Outstanding Short Form Comedy or Drama Series category at the 70th Primetime Emmy Awards. This year, though, that number was cut to 30.
The Outstanding Short Form Variety Series category, meanwhile, fell from 26 nominees to only 14. (Academy rules say that any category that does not field at least 14 nominees in consecutive years can be eliminated.)
And the Outstanding Short Form Nonfiction or Reality Series category dropped from 64 nominees last year to 47 this year.
Also Read: 'State of the Union' Star Chris O'Dowd on Exploring the 'Sausage Factory of a Marriage'
The Television Academy would not reveal how many short-form entries were disqualified...
Last year, 50 different shows made the ballot in the Outstanding Short Form Comedy or Drama Series category at the 70th Primetime Emmy Awards. This year, though, that number was cut to 30.
The Outstanding Short Form Variety Series category, meanwhile, fell from 26 nominees to only 14. (Academy rules say that any category that does not field at least 14 nominees in consecutive years can be eliminated.)
And the Outstanding Short Form Nonfiction or Reality Series category dropped from 64 nominees last year to 47 this year.
Also Read: 'State of the Union' Star Chris O'Dowd on Exploring the 'Sausage Factory of a Marriage'
The Television Academy would not reveal how many short-form entries were disqualified...
- 6/11/2019
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
The Television Academy is putting its foot down on category flip-flops. Going forward, programs will be allowed to switch categories in the Emmy race just once. After that, they’re locked in — and won’t be allowed to categorize again.
That’s one of the latest changes to the Emmy competition, as the TV Academy released its formalized rules and regulations on Tuesday for this year’s competition. As TV series have become a bit more complex, it’s become harder to categorize many of them.
That’s why, a few years ago, the TV Academy clarified that half-hour shows will be automatically deemed comedies, and hour-longs as dramas, unless those shows petition to make a change. And with many hour-longs touting themselves as comedies and a rise in half-hour dramas, those requests have become commonplace.
But then there are also shows that have evolved and changed their classification over time.
That’s one of the latest changes to the Emmy competition, as the TV Academy released its formalized rules and regulations on Tuesday for this year’s competition. As TV series have become a bit more complex, it’s become harder to categorize many of them.
That’s why, a few years ago, the TV Academy clarified that half-hour shows will be automatically deemed comedies, and hour-longs as dramas, unless those shows petition to make a change. And with many hour-longs touting themselves as comedies and a rise in half-hour dramas, those requests have become commonplace.
But then there are also shows that have evolved and changed their classification over time.
- 1/29/2019
- by Michael Schneider
- Variety Film + TV
Vimeo has announced its 2018 nominees for the Best of the Year Staff Picks Awards. Vimeo has recognized the best Staff Picks of the year by calling out the winners on its blog since 2016, but the company is elevating its end-of-the-year celebration this year by revealing nominations and bringing in a distinguished jury for each category to decide the winner. Each award recipient will receive a cash prize and a physical trophy, in addition to the Best of the Year badge, and the winning films will be screened at Nitehawk Cinema in Williamsburg, Brooklyn on January 17th.
There are three jurors for each Staff Pick category, including the 2017 winners for each respective category. Categories include: Best of Action Sports, Best of Animation, Best of Comedy, Best of Documentary, Best of Drama, Best of Eye Candy and Best of Travel. Jury members include Alan Cumming, Roger Ross Williams, Reinaldo Green, and Sarah Schneider,...
There are three jurors for each Staff Pick category, including the 2017 winners for each respective category. Categories include: Best of Action Sports, Best of Animation, Best of Comedy, Best of Documentary, Best of Drama, Best of Eye Candy and Best of Travel. Jury members include Alan Cumming, Roger Ross Williams, Reinaldo Green, and Sarah Schneider,...
- 1/7/2019
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Gold Derby was on the red carpet at Saturday’s 2018 Creative Arts Emmys to chat with many of this year’s nominated stars and technical wizards. (See the complete list of winners.) Among the Emmy contenders we chatted with outside the Microsoft Theatre in Downtown Los Angeles were Gerald McRaney (“This Is Us”), Megan Amram (“An Emmy for Megan”) and Kelly Jenrette (“The Handmaid’s Tale”). Scroll down to watch all of our fun interviews.
Once again this year the Creative Arts ceremonies were separated into two different nights, with Saturday focusing on scripted fare and Sunday celebrating nonfiction/reality. The live Primetime ceremony will air Monday, September 17 on NBC, hosted by “Saturday Night Live” stars Colin Jost and Michael Che.
SEE2018 Creative Arts Emmy winners (Saturday): Full list of nominees and winners in all 54 categories
Click each link below to be taken to the full interview.
Gerald McRaney...
Once again this year the Creative Arts ceremonies were separated into two different nights, with Saturday focusing on scripted fare and Sunday celebrating nonfiction/reality. The live Primetime ceremony will air Monday, September 17 on NBC, hosted by “Saturday Night Live” stars Colin Jost and Michael Che.
SEE2018 Creative Arts Emmy winners (Saturday): Full list of nominees and winners in all 54 categories
Click each link below to be taken to the full interview.
Gerald McRaney...
- 9/9/2018
- by Marcus James Dixon and Joyce Eng
- Gold Derby
The main Emmy telecast is on Monday, September 17, when the TV academy will hand out top awards including Best Drama Series, Best Comedy Series, Best Limited Series and more. But the vast majority of the 2018 prizes were handed out during two nights on the weekend of September 8-9 at the Creative Arts Awards, where the best in behind-the-scenes crafts, animation, nonfiction, reality TV, guest acting and various other fields were decided. So who prevailed on Saturday night? Scroll down for the full list of winners, updating live as they’re announced, and watch our live webcast with reactions and analysis here.
SEECreative Arts Emmys 2018: Saturday’s live winners announcing in all categories [Watch]
Saturday night focused mainly on scripted shows: dramas, comedies, movies, limited series and animated programs. So these results could strongly suggest which way the wind is blowing for the main event. But that’s not the case every single time.
SEECreative Arts Emmys 2018: Saturday’s live winners announcing in all categories [Watch]
Saturday night focused mainly on scripted shows: dramas, comedies, movies, limited series and animated programs. So these results could strongly suggest which way the wind is blowing for the main event. But that’s not the case every single time.
- 9/8/2018
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
In today’s roundup, NBC releases a sneak peek at “Manifest” and Hulu drops the first full trailer for “The First”
Dates
The original “X-Files” are returning to television Sept. 10 as part of BBC America’s five day marathon in honor of the show’s 25th anniversary. The marathon will feature seasons one through nine as well as both feature films and will end on Sept. 14.
“Food: Fact or Fiction” will return for a third season Oct. 1 at 10 p.m. Et/ 7 p.m. Pt on the Cooking Channel. Show host Michael McKean will try to uncover stories about favorite baked goods, civil war secrets about the Whoopie Pie and the paranormal nature of rhubarb pie.
IFC will premiere the 28 minute web series “An Emmy for Megan” Sept. 17. The series follows creator, producer, director and star Megan Amram as she embarks on a quest to win an Emmy. The show itself...
Dates
The original “X-Files” are returning to television Sept. 10 as part of BBC America’s five day marathon in honor of the show’s 25th anniversary. The marathon will feature seasons one through nine as well as both feature films and will end on Sept. 14.
“Food: Fact or Fiction” will return for a third season Oct. 1 at 10 p.m. Et/ 7 p.m. Pt on the Cooking Channel. Show host Michael McKean will try to uncover stories about favorite baked goods, civil war secrets about the Whoopie Pie and the paranormal nature of rhubarb pie.
IFC will premiere the 28 minute web series “An Emmy for Megan” Sept. 17. The series follows creator, producer, director and star Megan Amram as she embarks on a quest to win an Emmy. The show itself...
- 8/28/2018
- by Nate Nickolai
- Variety Film + TV
Megan Amram made a web series. Perhaps you’ve heard of it? It’s called An Emmy For Megan, and it’s about a fictionalized Megan Amram creating a web series called An Emmy For Megan in order to win an Emmy for Outstanding Actress in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series. It’s a taut, psychologically dense piece of…...
- 8/28/2018
- by Allison Shoemaker on News, shared by Allison Shoemaker to The A.V. Club
- avclub.com
A version of this story about Megan Amram first appeared in the Down to the Wire issue of TheWrap’s Emmy magazine.
Watching last year’s Emmys, Megan Amram (whose day job is writing for “The Good Place”) decided that she could win one in the Outstanding Actress in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series category. So she filmed a web series, “An Emmy for Megan,” entirely about her desire to win an Emmy. So far, so good: She was nominated for two Emmys, one for acting and one for producing.
Talking to her about this requires becoming her straight man.
Congratulations. It would have been awful to do the whole web series and then not get a nomination.
I know. But part of me thought it’d be exciting either way. Because either I get the nomination, which is one step closer to what I really want, or I don’t,...
Watching last year’s Emmys, Megan Amram (whose day job is writing for “The Good Place”) decided that she could win one in the Outstanding Actress in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series category. So she filmed a web series, “An Emmy for Megan,” entirely about her desire to win an Emmy. So far, so good: She was nominated for two Emmys, one for acting and one for producing.
Talking to her about this requires becoming her straight man.
Congratulations. It would have been awful to do the whole web series and then not get a nomination.
I know. But part of me thought it’d be exciting either way. Because either I get the nomination, which is one step closer to what I really want, or I don’t,...
- 8/18/2018
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Megan Amram’s Emmy Quest Gains Steam with an Fyc Event So Indie, It Might Have Been Illegal — Photos
Megan Amram greeted guests to her pop-up Fyc event in Hollywood with a thank you and a warning:
“There’s no contingency plan for if the fire station tells us to get off their property.”
Such risks come with the territory for grassroots Emmy campaigns like Amram’s. Self-produced, self-released, and with fully self-funded Fyc marketing, “An Emmy For Megan” is getting pushed by Amram any which way she can. Monday afternoon, that meant sitting kitty-corner from her new billboard and behind a red velvet rope, signing autographs for Emmy voters — well, fans she hoped were Emmy voters.
“I assume you’re all Emmy voters,” Amram said. “I don’t really care about normal people.”
Though IndieWire was unable to identify any official members of the TV Academy present, attendees started lining up on the corner of 3rd Street and Alta Vista Blvd — right outside the Lafd’s Station No.
“There’s no contingency plan for if the fire station tells us to get off their property.”
Such risks come with the territory for grassroots Emmy campaigns like Amram’s. Self-produced, self-released, and with fully self-funded Fyc marketing, “An Emmy For Megan” is getting pushed by Amram any which way she can. Monday afternoon, that meant sitting kitty-corner from her new billboard and behind a red velvet rope, signing autographs for Emmy voters — well, fans she hoped were Emmy voters.
“I assume you’re all Emmy voters,” Amram said. “I don’t really care about normal people.”
Though IndieWire was unable to identify any official members of the TV Academy present, attendees started lining up on the corner of 3rd Street and Alta Vista Blvd — right outside the Lafd’s Station No.
- 8/7/2018
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
Megan Amram kicked off phase two of the Emmy campaign for her shortform web series An Emmy for Megan on Monday, holding a yard sign giveaway for fans at the corner of Third Street and Alta Vista Boulevard in Los Angeles.
When THR arrived around 11:50 a.m., there was already a line of maybe 20 people waiting in the 90-plus-degree heat to receive a yard sign and meet Amram, whose meteoric rise from writer-producer to writer-producer-actress has Hollywood on notice. Her series — which debuted April 27, the deadline for a project to be considered for September's 70th Primetime Emmy Awards,...
When THR arrived around 11:50 a.m., there was already a line of maybe 20 people waiting in the 90-plus-degree heat to receive a yard sign and meet Amram, whose meteoric rise from writer-producer to writer-producer-actress has Hollywood on notice. Her series — which debuted April 27, the deadline for a project to be considered for September's 70th Primetime Emmy Awards,...
In 2018, “An Emmy For Megan” has taken the world by storm… or, at least, the TV Academy. Megan Amram’s self-financed web series used a grassroots marketing campaign to land two Emmy nominations in July, and she’s not stopping there. As the self-proclaimed auteur recently stated on Twitter, “It’s not called ‘Two Nominations For Megan,’ it’s called ‘An Emmy For Megan.’ Because what matters is that trophy.”
“There’s more stuff to come,” Amram told IndieWire about plans for the Phase Two Emmy push. “I have two more billboards going up August 6 in two different locations. One of them says, ‘This time I got two billboards: one for each nomination,’ and the other one says, ‘My other billboard is at Santa Monica Blvd and Gower.’ So they’re really part and parcel. […] Like an escape room.”
That said, the indie web series — about a fictionalized version of...
“There’s more stuff to come,” Amram told IndieWire about plans for the Phase Two Emmy push. “I have two more billboards going up August 6 in two different locations. One of them says, ‘This time I got two billboards: one for each nomination,’ and the other one says, ‘My other billboard is at Santa Monica Blvd and Gower.’ So they’re really part and parcel. […] Like an escape room.”
That said, the indie web series — about a fictionalized version of...
- 8/1/2018
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
It took a decade for Broadway royalty Kelli O’Hara to snag her first Tony Award win. But shortly after that success on her home turf, O’Hara may be on the way to her first Emmy Award thanks to the web series “The Accidental Wolf.”
O’Hara landed her first Tony nomination in the Musical Featured Actress category for “The Light in the Piazza” in 2005. While her co-star Victoria Clark was victorious in the lead category, O’Hara lost to Sara Ramirez from “Monty Python’s Spamalot.” O’Hara would go on to have an illustrious career on the rialto and would be recognized repeatedly in the lead category. She was nominated for her work in “The Pajama Game,” “South Pacific,” “Nice Work if You Can Get It,” and “The Bridges of Madison County.” Though she was competitive every year, she always wound up a Tony bridesmaid. It wasn...
O’Hara landed her first Tony nomination in the Musical Featured Actress category for “The Light in the Piazza” in 2005. While her co-star Victoria Clark was victorious in the lead category, O’Hara lost to Sara Ramirez from “Monty Python’s Spamalot.” O’Hara would go on to have an illustrious career on the rialto and would be recognized repeatedly in the lead category. She was nominated for her work in “The Pajama Game,” “South Pacific,” “Nice Work if You Can Get It,” and “The Bridges of Madison County.” Though she was competitive every year, she always wound up a Tony bridesmaid. It wasn...
- 7/31/2018
- by Sam Eckmann
- Gold Derby
If you work in television in any capacity, there are over a hundred categories in which you could be nominated for an Emmy, largely in below-the-line capacities. And what we find every year is how often, behind the scenes, the nominees still happen to be heavily male versus female — while certain fields like casting and make-up do lean heavily towards women nominees, there are still many areas where they struggle to be acknowledged.
Below are some (not all) of the shows featuring deserving women who, this year, received important recognition by the Academy for the work that happens behind the scenes, from writing to editing to production design to directing.
“Twin Peaks”
Outstanding Production Design For A Narrative Contemporary Program (One Hour Or More)
This was the only production nominated in this category that featured an all-female production team as nominees, including production designer Ruth De Jong, art director Cara Brower,...
Below are some (not all) of the shows featuring deserving women who, this year, received important recognition by the Academy for the work that happens behind the scenes, from writing to editing to production design to directing.
“Twin Peaks”
Outstanding Production Design For A Narrative Contemporary Program (One Hour Or More)
This was the only production nominated in this category that featured an all-female production team as nominees, including production designer Ruth De Jong, art director Cara Brower,...
- 7/20/2018
- by Liz Shannon Miller
- Indiewire
Comedy writer/Twitter superstar Megan Amram, who has worked on such Emmy favorites as “Parks and Recreation,” “Silicon Valley” and “Childrens Hospital,” is now looking to chart her own Emmy path, come hell or high water. Amram, whose day job is as a producer and writer on NBC’s “The Good Place,” is the star/creator of the new web series “An Emmy for Megan,” a hilariously meta “for your consideration” series that is the only TV show in history made exclusively to win an Emmy.
This six-episode series, all of which you can stream for free at AnEmmyforMegan.com, is being submitted in the Short Form Comedy or Drama Series category, while Amram is looking for Emmy gold in Short Form Actress. Based on the material, her plan just might work.
See‘The Good Place’ could have a delayed breakthrough at the Emmys this year, like ‘Parks and Recreation...
This six-episode series, all of which you can stream for free at AnEmmyforMegan.com, is being submitted in the Short Form Comedy or Drama Series category, while Amram is looking for Emmy gold in Short Form Actress. Based on the material, her plan just might work.
See‘The Good Place’ could have a delayed breakthrough at the Emmys this year, like ‘Parks and Recreation...
- 6/14/2018
- by Kevin Jacobsen
- Gold Derby
Each year brings more series than many thought possible. Most of them want Emmys. Some of them even deserve them. So, in the peakest of peak TV climates, who can blame the marketing teams behind them for getting creative with their For Your Consideration campaigns?
“I think that in this very crowded television landscape, you have to differentiate yourself and it’s always been about creative ideas and figuring out ways to trigger people with what you’re promoting,” says Rich Licata, the veteran awards campaigner who pioneered the idea of episode screeners when he was at HBO in the early 1990s.
He says that strategies including boxed mailers and For Your Consideration Q&A nights are no longer enough — especially the latter, now that there’s such a demand to hold them at the TV Academy’s North Hollywood headquarters that the venue had to institute a lottery system.
“I think that in this very crowded television landscape, you have to differentiate yourself and it’s always been about creative ideas and figuring out ways to trigger people with what you’re promoting,” says Rich Licata, the veteran awards campaigner who pioneered the idea of episode screeners when he was at HBO in the early 1990s.
He says that strategies including boxed mailers and For Your Consideration Q&A nights are no longer enough — especially the latter, now that there’s such a demand to hold them at the TV Academy’s North Hollywood headquarters that the venue had to institute a lottery system.
- 5/25/2018
- by Whitney Friedlander
- Variety Film + TV
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