The Emmys Get a Trim
One more non-press-tour news item: How are the Emmys going to make room for all those additional nominees in its big categories? Apparently, Variety is reporting, by cutting some not-so-big categories from the telecast. The awards for movie and miniseries, and for drama-series writing, will be presented out of primetime.
Oh, and guess what? You know how the broadcast networks are eternally ticked off that the Emmys have become a commercial for their cable rivals, simply because of the totally unfair fact that cable makes better shows? Well, the ditched categories just happen to be dominated by cable shows from AMC, HBO and Lifetime.
Other than that, I don't particularly care about cutting back categories per se. I mean, some deserving people will look some public recognition. But I've always believed that, once you cut the deal to broadcast your awards on primetime TV, the awards aren't for the nominees anymore; they're for the home audience.
So what do you say about the change, home audience?
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I am pretty upset that the drama writing awards are one of the cuts and disagree that it's a "not so big" category. It should be a showcase category. These are the people who create and run the shows we're honouring. More importantly: writers usually give the best acceptance speeches. In 2005, the year the Emmys threatened to do the same with both comedy and drama awards (as well as directors), the funniest acceptance speeches came from the writers - David Shore, Mitchell Hurwitz and Jim Vallely. They recanted in 2005 because they realized it wouldn't save much time, plus pressure from the Guilds, so I hope that happens this time too, at least for the writing awards.
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How do you cut drama series writing? That's probably a top 3 most important category of the night. Damn you, NPH, for hosting! Now I have to watch anyway.
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