What Emmy Nominated Series Have in Common
What, then, are the factors that make a show nomination-worthy? Using Program Pulse we were able to identify the common strengths this year’s best comedy series nominees hold.
Emmys Choose Brains Over Beauty
Program Pulse Broadcast provides a measurement of program attributes and key elements. Calculating an average for all broadcast comedies we looked at where this year’s nominees pull ahead.
The six nominees possess significantly higher than average scores in Clever, Intelligent and Unique. The nominees score an average Clever score 13 points higher than average. The broadcast comedy genre average for Unique is 39%, well below the nominee average of 52% led by everyone’s favorite sing-a-long Glee with a Unique score of 67%.
The Emmy nominees also scored 16 points higher than the broadcast comedy average in Intelligent with the theorem-dropping The Big Bang Theory getting top marks with 57%.
This year’s nominees show a growing maturity in audiences that appreciate programs that at least appear to stand out from the collective TV programming. Program Pulse is fielded monthly covering both cable and broadcast programs. Each show is rated among 24 different attributes and 7 program elements.