How to fix the Emmys: Ban repeat winners! Embrace a hostless theme! Do the awards by calendar year!

The Ringer

The Ringer staff offers some ideas for making the Emmys interesting again: "The Emmys’ punishingly long winning streaks are still their biggest impediment to capturing the excitement of an institution like the Oscars, which experiences total turnover and a fresh crop of new faces each year," says Alison Herman. "So ban repeat winners! Opening final-round votes to the entire, 20,000-plus-strong membership still favors validating massive hits over elevating lesser-seen gems. So toy with eligibility again! Category fraud still runs rampant, with comedies passing themselves off as dramas, dramas as comedies, and anthologies as limited series. So add some new categories and crack down on existing ones! Game of Thrones’ seeming inevitability, and Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’s continued contention as a 'comedy' despite the supposed restriction of the category to half-hour series, continues to show ongoing bugs in the system. The plight of the awards watcher is that flaws may be obvious, but hope springs eternal."

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