With the debut of Quibi, the short form categories at the Emmys may never be the same. The launch of the mobile streaming service hasn’t exactly been smooth: There were early questions about its bu…
as a woman who befriends her boyfriend’s sex doll; “Most Dangerous Game,” a dystopian thriller starring Liam Hemsworth; “#FreeRayshawn,” a police drama starring Laurence Fishburne; and a new version of “Reno 911.”
Names being entered to the actor and actress short form categories include Kaitlin Olson and Will Forte , Kether Donohue and Darren Criss and Hemsworth and Fishburne. “There is a lot of creativity in the short form category, and the hope is that the premium original content from Quibi — created specifically for this format — is seen as equally engaging, thoughtful and entertaining,” a Quibi spokesperson said.
“There’s something about it that feels very artful and that I was able to just really boil everything down to the stuff that I loved the most,” Heller says. “It allowed for more creativity in a way, and it really forced me to think about what is the story I’m telling distilled down to the shortest possible version. It’s so new, so we’ll see how it all pans out, but I think the short-form thing is a really interesting new way to watch stuff.
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