Dropout’s Emmy Push for Hit Comedy Game Show
With submissions in five Emmy categories, indie streamer Dropout is playing to win with its hit comedy panel game show Game Changer. Among the gongs it’s gunning for are outstanding game show and host for Sam Reich, who believes their success is partially fueled by the fact that they’re based in Los Angeles — and that won’t be changing. “I can’t imagine a version of the show, or Dropout, that isn’t in L.A.,” he enthuses of the Eastside studio space where they film many of their shows, including fellow Emmy contender Very Important People. (Game Changer, he notes, is filmed at various studios throughout Los Angeles — “It all depends on what chaos the season calls for!”) “We live here. It’s a community project, and it’s nothing without its community of talent,” Reich adds. “If we were to move to Canada or Austin, it would be a different group of people.” However, Reich, who is also the streamer’s CEO, wishes he could say that the city has been “at all helpful” in terms of tax …
