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For many years now, The Good Wife has been the sole broadcast drama to get a nomination in Best Drama Series (excluding PBS, which isn’t really a broadcast network). Does the end of this series essentially mean the end of broadcast drama’s getting nominated for Best Drama?
Since 2010, the only other broadcast network drama to get nominated for Best Drama was “Friday Night Lights” (but I’m not sure if that counts because I’m not sure if it counted as a nod for NBC or Direct TV). So do you think that the exit of The Good Wife will simply mean that only cable dramas will get nominated in this category?
If not, what broadcast drama will take its place as the nominated series?
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Erm, were you sleeping the last few years?
Good Wife’s been ignored in Drama Series for 4 consecutive years.Though it’s been the only network Drama Series with multiple major noms for 5 consecutive years (I’m counting FNL as DirecTV esp as they were clearly the ones campaigning for the show.).
ReplyCopy URLIt will happen. But, the broadcast networks are going to have to deliberately pursue getting a top award-worthy vehicle. And the material will have to be bolder and not some type of content which fits with the rest of a network’s lineup as if its dramas are interior decorating pieces of the same type fare — like CBS’s slate of procedural dramas (which can make one feel there isn’t much difference between one title and the next).
ReplyCopy URLMargulies has a win-level Emmy tape with “Judged.” Let’s see what the series finale has in store for her, though I’m expecting mostly wrap-up there. No Drama Series bid, but a good dose of returning acting nods (make it or break it for Baranski), casting, and “fingers crossed” writing/directing nods.
ReplyCopy URLI’m thinking another Marguiles win is going to happen and maybe Baranski or even Alan Cumming.
I’m not concerned about this year’s Emmy nominations. (Not now, here in February 2016!)
The Emmys treated The Good Wife with respect just for its acting with each of its first five seasons, in which one performance per season won the gold. But, that is when the CBS series peaked. (Its nominations for best series, with each of its first two seasons, were representative of the Emmys welcoming a freshman in a season which also welcomed other freshmen nominated for best series—like Glee, Modern Family, and Nurse Jackie—along with a corresponding writing nod for The Good Wife pilot. Beginning with Season #02, a downward trend took shape by giving it a best-series nomination and nothing in writing or directing to support that supposed enthusiasm. And when a series doesn’t get at least one slot between directing and writing, you can immediately write it off for best series with precious few exceptions from the past. The Emmys kissed it off, in best series, after that point.)
Season #06 was a jump-the-shark move in the wrong direction for the top character—having Alicia run for state’s attorney (not a high stakes position, story wise) sucked up practically the entire season and was a chore to endure—and, with Season #07, the adventure was in seeing Alicia rebuild her life after yet another drawing-room drama fallout with her law firm partners.
The lifespan of any series is difficult to sustain…especially when it ages more than four seasons. But, I don’t think The Good Wife had much more to offer other than, had it been renewed for a Season #08, clocking in more time for bragging rights in saying it turned out be a long-running (especially if it reached ten seasons) network drama. The Good Wife is better off getting to go now—with conclusion of this 2015-16 television season (its seventh)—than to bring in a different exec producer and drag out the inevitable. Its time has arrived.
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