If you’re at least looking at the length of this year’s Emmy Awards, Sunday night’s running gag about the Boys & Girls Club was a success. That’s the word from Jesse Collins Entertainment producers Jesse Collins, Dionne Harmon and Jennae Rouzan-Clay, all of whom spoke with reports just minutes after the show wrapped at downtown Los Angeles’ Peacock Theatre.
“The show wasn’t that long, so it worked,” said Rouzan-Clay — and she’s not wrong, The Emmys ended at around 8:02 p.m. PT/11:02 p.m. ET. At one point during the show, the winners were so good in adhering to keeping their speeches short that the Emmys was actually running short.
“Halfway through we were hovering around just like, a minute to two minutes over, and then it just started to spread a little bit,” Collins said. “It was j