Emmy Producers Reveal the ‘Smallest Thing That Could Take the Whole Show Down’

And it has nothing to do with the awards show being host-free

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While you’re busy finalizing your Emmy predictions in hopes of winning that office pool, the TV awards show’s producers are preparing for anything that could go wrong this Sunday — which is apparently everything.

“That’s the point with live TV, that’s why it’s so exciting,” Done+Dusted president Ian Stewart told TheWrap. “You look at every single item, and there are hundreds of them, and there’s something that could go wrong with every single one of them. The thing I always think is that, if everyone slips on a banana skin, it’s what you do immediately after that’s important. So live TV, things go wrong, which is why it’s so exciting.

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