A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit.

Emmy nomination-round voting gets going next T, hursday, with ballots due to be completed by the June 23 deadline. Maybe that is why the 20,000-ish members of the Television Academy are seeing a flurry of emails, invites, FYC events, notifications and last-minute campaigning at a pace I can’t quite recall in all my years covering these awards and as a longtime member and former Writers Governor of the TV Academy itself.

The cutoff date for eligibility for this year’s Emmy contest was May 31, and in May alone I counted 148 direct emails from the Television Academy with FYC invites, screening reminders and lineups from all the networks, streamers and studios touting their wares. Every one of these is paid for, so the Ac

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