The producer of Deadliest Catch is pissed at the Emmys

Producer Thom Beers blasted the way the Emmys have grouped his shows with one-off docs and limited series, such as the PBS Ken Burns series ‘The National Parks: America’s Best Idea,’ which won an Emmy a week earlier (in the non-televised Creative Arts Emmys) for Best Non-fiction Series. ‘Deadliest Catch‘ was also nominated in that category, along with ‘The American Experience‘ (PBS), ‘American Masters‘ (PBS), ‘Life‘ (Discovery) and ‘Monty Python: Almost the Truth (the Lawyer’s Cut)‘ on IFC.

“Once again, I lost to a PBS series!” Beers said. “I don’t know what the hell my show is even doing in a category that basically every year is a PBS category. [The academy doesn’t] recognize ['Deadliest Catch'] as a documentary but they put it in that category. To lose to Ken Burns’ ‘Parks’ was an abomination. That was the most boring show Ken Burns ever made and when I think that my show should lose to the most boring, the dullest show Ken Burns has ever made, it’s an abomination.”

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