I'm continuing my examination of the 76th Primetime and Creative Arts Emmy Awards with the nominees for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series, Beckham, Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV, Stax: Soulsville U.S.A., Telemarketers, and The Jinx - Part Two. The common themes of the nominees are entertainment, including sports, and crime and one nominee is about crime in entertainment.
I'm sharing the trailers first, beginning with 'BECKHAM' Documentary Series | Official Trailer | Netflix.
'BECKHAM' is a four-part Documentary Series Directed by Academy Award® Winner, Fisher Stevens and Produced by Academy Award® Winner, John Battsek - launching October 4 2023, only on Netflix. It features a mixture of never-before-seen personal archive footage from the last forty years, candid current-day moments, and interviews with the family, friends, and footballing figures who have been part of his journey.This is the second most popular trailer with 3,223,214 views on YouTube. It also has the most nominations, five, including Outstanding Cinematography for a Nonfiction Program, Outstanding Directing for a Documentary/Nonfiction Program, Outstanding Music Composition for a Documentary Series or Special (Original Dramatic Score), and Outstanding Picture Editing for a Nonfiction Program, in addition to the series category. If a viewer wants a fun story of celebrity, this might be the show to watch. I don't know if that's enough for it to win.
Next, Quiet On Set: The Dark Side Of Kids TV | ID.
#QuietOnSet pulls back the curtain on an empire, built by creator Dan Schneider, that had an undeniable grip on popular culture. Series such as All That and The Amanda Show, among others, were obsessively consumed by children across the country and defined comedy for a generation. But behind the upbeat onscreen presence on these shows with questionable jokes and over-the-top sketches, QUIET ON SET reveals an insidious environment rife with allegations of abuse, sexism, racism, and inappropriate dynamics with its underage stars and crew.This is the nominee that combines both themes for an exposé of true crime in entertainment. Worse yet, both target kids. Yikes! That makes it personal for the electorate, which prefers well-done stories about itself, no matter how disturbing they are. As I repeat nearly every time I wrote one of these entries, electorates matter.
QUIET ON SET: THE DARK SIDE OF KIDS TV will premiere across two nights on ID from 9PM-11PM ET/PT on Sunday, March 17 and Monday, March 18.
That's a good thing for Quiet On Set: The Dark Side Of Kids TV's chances, as its only other nomination is for Outstanding Picture Editing for a Nonfiction Program and its trailer sits in third place for views with 781,553. If the public were voting, this series might have an uphill road to win.
STAX: Soulsville U.S.A. | Official Trailer | HBO is the only nominee that primarily focuses on entertainment through history.
#STAX: Soulsville U.S.A., an @HBO Original Documentary Series that captures how an underdog record label launched a movement and superstar musicians like Isaac Hayes and Otis Redding, premieres May 20 on @StreamOnMax.Appropriately for a series about music, its other nomination is for Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Nonfiction Program (Single or Multi-Camera). Its subject only makes the trailer only moderately popular with 130,728 views on YouTube.
Several YouTube accounts have uploaded trailers for Telemarketers, so I'm sharing the one I like best, Telemarketers Documentary Series Trailer from Rotten Tomatoes TV.
US Air Date: August 13, 2023This is the only nomination for for Telemarketers and the combined page views for all trailers barely add up to ~78,000, so this is the weakest of the nominees on those criteria.
Starring: Sam Lipman-Stern, Pat Pespas
Network: HBO
Synopsis: TELEMARKETERS chronicles the darkly comedic, unexpected 20-year journey of two unlikely office buddies, who stumble upon the murky truth behind the work they’ve been doing at a seedy New Jersey call center – persuading people to give money to charities – and vow to expose the crooked American telemarketing industry from within. As amateur sleuths looking to shine a light on the billion-dollar scam, with raucous insider access, raw eyewitness footage, and a comedic cast of call center characters, the film is a madcap story of an unruly, low-wage environment and two long-time office buddies who find themselves hot on the trail of a sobering look at the dark side of American capitalism and the misuse of consumer trust.
When Sam Lipman-Stern began a telemarketing job in New Jersey in the early 2000s as a 14-year-old high school drop-out, he believed he was raising money for police and firefighter charities, unaware that most of the money was ending up in the pockets of his crooked employers. With his video camera, Sam documents the riotous office as he and a motley mix of ex-cons, drug dealers and veteran telemarketers work the phone lines in an anarchic boiler room filled with booze, drugs, and debauchery, bound by humor and camaraderie. When the federal government shuts the company down after an investigation into its shady practices where they falsely told consumers that 100% of the money went to the charity (when in fact only 10-15% went), Sam and Pat Pespas, a larger-than-life top salesman struggling with addiction, begin to question the industry’s business practices. They realize they are unwitting cogs in a wheel perpetuating a massive scam on unsuspecting Americans. With rowdy humor and dogged enthusiasm, TELEMARKETERS follows Sam and Pat as they emerge from the bottom rung of the hourly workforce to become tenacious, self-appointed whistleblowers who make their way to the halls of the United States Senate, determined to expose an industry gone awry from the inside.
The last trailer for this category is The Jinx Part Two | Official Trailer | Max.
THE JINX – PART TWO is a new six-episode continuation of the groundbreaking Emmy®-winning documentary series "The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst," from Andrew Jarecki, which debuted on HBO in 2015. In Part Two, the filmmakers continue their investigation for the next eight years, uncovering hidden material, Durst's prison calls, and interviews with witnesses who had not come forward until now.This is the most popular trailer with 5,024,572 views on YouTube, so if this were up for popular vote, it would be my choice to win. It's also the second most nominated entry in the field with nominations with three, Outstanding Picture Editing for a Nonfiction Program and Outstanding Writing for a Nonfiction Program in addition to the series nomination. The first season is also a previous winner of Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series and Outstanding Picture Editing for Nonfiction Programming, which leads me to the nominations at other awards shows. Follow over the jump for that analysis.
While the first season of The Jinx was a multiple award nominee and winner, the current season only has one nomination outside of the Emmys for Outstanding Achievement in News and Information at the Television Critics Association (TCA) Awards. Two of the other nominees, Telemarketers and Quiet On Set: The Dark Side Of Kids TV also earned nominations at the TCA Awards and Quiet On Set: The Dark Side Of Kids TV won the category. That's the only nomination for Quiet On Set: The Dark Side Of Kids TV outside of the Emmys, but it is a victory in head-to-head competition, so it counts for something. That written, Telemarketers also has nominations at the 2023 Gotham Awards, International Documentary Association, and Critics Choice Documentary Awards, including winning Best True Crime Documentary. Stax: Soulsville U.S.A. earned a nomination at the 2024 Gotham TV Awards, missing Telemarketers by a year, and won the Audience Award for TV Premieres at the 2024 SxSW Festival. Beckham has the most nominations for the current season with nine. Outside of the five at the Emmys, they consist of one from the American Cinema Editors, two from BAFTA, and one from the Hollywood Music in Media Awards. It's also won Outstanding Sports Program at the PGA Awards. That's a broad base of professional support.
The prognosticators at Gold Derby seem to be taking their cues from the TCA Awards, with majorities of editors and top 24 users and three experts so far picking Quiet On Set: The Dark Side Of Kids TV to win the category. The Jinx is in second with minorities of editors and users voting for it, while Beckham has just one editor's vote to win. Based on all the above, I'm choosing Quiet On Set: The Dark Side Of Kids TV to win this category.
That's a wrap for today. I'll see if I'm up for more Emmys coverage tomorrow. Stay tuned.
Previous posts about the 76th Primetime and Creative Arts Emmy Awards
- Gold Derby's predictions for Emmy-nominated shows
- How did Gold Derby's Emmy nominations predictions fare?
- Sandy Hook Promise's 'Just Joking' the sole PSA among Emmy nominees for Outstanding Commercial
- 'Beyond Utopia,' ' Going to Mars,' and 'Stamped from the Beginning,' Emmy nominees for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking
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