Hi everyone and thank you for tuning in to the 234th episode of Awards Chatter, the Hollywood Reporters Awards Podcast.

I'm the host Scott Feinberg and this very special episode is presented by the

HBO Drama Series West World.

Time calls it one of the biggest shows on earth for your

Emmy consideration in 21 categories including outstanding drama series

West World. Check it out. My guest today is one of the most significant and beloved figures in the history of the medium of television.

Best known for the Carol Burnett Show, a Variety Sketch program which ran on CBS from 1967 through 1978, she has been nominated for 22

Emmys and won six. She was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in

1985. She won one Peabody Award in 1962 in recognition of her comedic performances and another in 2018, the first ever for lifetime achievement.

She won a Kennedy Center Honor in 2003, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2005, the Mark

Twain Prize for American Humor in 2013, and the Screen Actors Guild Lifetime Achievement Award

in 2015. In short, her age, 85, is almost irrelevant because she is

immortal, the legendary Carol Burnett.

But first I was joined at the offices of the Hollywood reporter by our editorial director

Matt Bellany to discuss the decision of the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture

Arts and Sciences made Tuesday night announced Wednesday morning to overhaul the format of the Oscars,

five months after the lowest rated Oscars telecast in history,

when 26.5 million viewers tuned in to watch Hollywood's biggest night.

That's still more than tuned in for any other

award show but it's down 20% from the year before which is why the Academy and

its longtime TV partner ABC felt they had to do something. Matt, thanks for

joining me.

...