TBS’ Full Frontal with Samantha Bee Celebrates Seven Emmy® Nominations
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee earned seven nominations this morning, including nods for Outstanding Variety Talk Series, Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series, Outstanding Directing for a Variety Series, and Outstanding Interactive Program. For the show’s The Great American* Puerto Rico (*It’s Complicated) special, Full Frontal took home nominations in the Outstanding Variety Special, Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special, and Outstanding Picture Editing for Variety Programming categories.
TBS’ Full Frontal with Samantha Bee Celebrates Seven Emmy® Nominations
July 12, 2018 – TBS’ Emmy® Award-winning late-night series Full Frontal with Samantha Bee earned seven nominations this morning, including nods for Outstanding Variety Talk Series, Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series, Outstanding Directing for a Variety Series, and Outstanding Interactive Program. For the show’s The Great American* Puerto Rico (*It’s Complicated) special, Full Frontal took home nominations in the Outstanding Variety Special, Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special, and Outstanding Picture Editing for Variety Programming categories. Full Frontal is ad-supported cable’s #1 late night show. The show’s The Great American* Puerto Rico special reached nearly 8 million viewers across linear, VOD and digital, and ranked as a top five cable program on social.
Here are reactions to today’s nominations:
Samantha Bee, star and executive producer of Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
"It’s been an interesting year for the show to say the least and none of it would have been possible without each person on my staff and each suit at TBS (it’s ok to say that--they’re very nice suits!). TBS bravely put a woman over 45 on TV and in turn I only got yelled at by the president once. We have some seriously special people on our staff and hearing them go crazy in the office right now is just the medicine this world needs."
Brett Weitz, executive vice president of original programming for TBS
“Sam and the Full Frontal team have developed an incomparable style of comedy activism that fearlessly speaks truth to power with invigorating wit. Thank you to the Academy for recognizing this essential work.”
Full Frontal shines a spotlight on stories inside the beltway and beyond, from the separation of immigrant families to sexual harassment in the media, and from gun control to disaster relief efforts in Puerto Rico. In addition to Puerto Rico, the show has traveled internationally to Haiti, Jordan, Germany, Russia, Scotland, Mexico, and Iraq. Full Frontal is executive-produced by Samantha Bee, Jason Jones, Tony Hernandez, Miles Kahn, Alison Camillo, and Pat King.
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