Wheel 2024 Emmy Nominations

I just hope Pat will win an Emmy for Outstanding Game Show host one last time since he retired from hosting nighttime, syndicated Wheel. He has a Lifetime Achievement Emmy in 2011 along with the late Alex Trebek and won three previous Emmy Awards for Best Game Show Host in 1993, 1997 and 1999.

Somewhat related to what you said, but funnily enough, the show could still submit Pat’s last syndicated episode for NEXT YEAR’S EMMYS. With the episode’s airdate of June 7, it falls outside the eligibility window for this year.

I’m not exactly sure what J! submitted the year that Alex passed, but TPIR submitted the S35 premiere with the monster DSW the year Barker retired. Given the previous window of the full calendar year, it’s likely J! chose to submit one of Alex’s last shows. Not sure something like GOAT was eligible for the game show category, but they definitely would’ve submitted if they were able to.

For this year, I’d say Wheel most likely submitted S-8000, or anything from big money week for that matter. However, it is rather close to the end of the eligibility window. Maybe they submitted the show with Liz?

Ryan would be eligible for host and Pat’s last episode could be submitted for outstanding show, but I’m not entirely sure about Pat being submitted for host in either case.

I’m not up on what the requirements are for nomination are following the shift of the major game show categories to the Primetime Emmys, but under the Daytime Emmys, any host who appeared in at least 19% of total episodes for the calendar year was eligible. This explains why Pat received the second nomination in 2022 for CWOF as neither Mayim or Ken were eligible, given that the awards were based off the previous full calendar year.

However, given that Keke Palmer has been nominated for Password in both years since the realignment for the game show categories, I suppose it’s possible that Pat could receive a nomination next year.

9821 cleared some of this up for me with info from the Emmys website.

Regarding outstanding show, any series with a minimum of 6 episodes produced or a special of any kind is eligible for submission. For shows with multiple versions, only one submission is allowed to represent the entire body of work.

There’s not much info regarding outstanding host other than trying to separate it from reality shows. However, as I eluded to, given that Keke Palmer has been nominated both times since the categories shifted to Primetime and Password airs ~10 episodes per season, then Pat can be nominated for (C)WOF.