LISTEN: Fifth Season Chiefs on ‘Severance,’ Emmys and Building an Indie Studio; A Bold Proposal for the Next Emmy Awards TV Contract

It felt like a moment from “Severance.” That’s how Fifth Season co-CEOs Chris Rice and Graham Taylor described waking up in July to the news that the company’s Apple TV+ drama was top of the leaderboard in this year’s Emmy Awards derby.

“It was surreal. It maybe felt like a moment in ‘Severance,’ ” Rice says on the latest episode of “Daily Variety” podcast. “Obviously we’d hoped for some love but hadn’t imagined what happened. Twenty- seven [nominations] is an unimaginable number for us. So we were extremely pleased and extremely grateful and happy for all the incredible people who make the show, just an incredible assemblage of craftsmen

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