Robert Lloyd | (TNS) Los Angeles Times
LOS ANGELES — In 2020, the sixth and final season of “Schitt’s Creek,” which had finally made its way into popular consciousness after Netflix picked it up from Pop, its basic-cable home, swept the Emmys. This unprecedented and likely never-to-be-repeated sitcom shutout saw acting wins for Catherine O’Hara, Eugene Levy, Dan Levy and Annie Murphy, writing and directing awards for Dan and a best comedy award for the series itself, co-created by the father and son Levys.
Now, in a sort of sequel, or a belated victory lap, Dan and Eugene return not exactly to the scene of their former glory — 2020 was the COVID year, and the “Schitt’s” cast accepted their honors from a tent in Canada — as hosts of the 76th Emmy Awards. This is as exciting to me, as a fan from first to last — before that, even, if we want to add “SCTV,” where O’Hara and Eugene Levy first made their mark on television — as anything else that might conceivably, or inconceivably, happen during the ceremony, which will be broadcast Sunday on ABC from the Peacock Theater at L.A. Live in Los Angeles.
I spoke to the Levys by Zoom, for a look back and a look forward. These are edited excerpts from that conversation.
Q: Take me back to 2020.
Eugene: Well, that’s a good starting place, 2020. It’s kind of burned into our memory. That was a pretty exceptionally outstanding night, the kind of night you don’t have too many times in your life. It was a fun night, considering COVID had taken over the world. It was odd and wonderful.
Dan: It’s a night that literally nobody had had before. It was incredible. I remember walking to the tent we had rigged to house us all, walking with Annie and sort of glancing over at her and having a flash to our first day on set. I told her that I was picturing our first day and how strange and wonderful our path was. We had broken through at that point, and that was the big deal for us, simply having the nominations, and the fact that we were all nominated as actors for the first time. We had a little moment before walking into the tent of just how wonderful it all was, expecting nothing. Then the night unfolded the way that it did. I don’t think any of us genuinely saw that coming.
Eugene: And how about the fact that they lumped all the comedy categories together right off the top of the show? I don’t think I’d ever seen that before. So it was a Gatling gun of wins, just one after another. It’s the kind of thing you dream about — “What if we just take every category?” You don’t even think that. It doesn’t even register. To be honest, I thought Catherine O’Hara, if she doesn’t win, then there’s something wrong. To me that was the only sure win. And then the second win, …read more
Source:: The Mercury News – Entertainment
