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October 2, 2019 at 1:15 pm #1203117864
Get rid of genre fraud. Submit dramas as DRAMAS and comedies as COMEDIES.
Who decides? It’s not always as obvious as you think.
ReplyOctober 2, 2019 at 1:08 pm #1203117858Fleabag is definitely one of the greatest comedies I’ve ever seen, and should go down in the annals of television history as an all-timer. I wonder if the relative brevity of its run could hurt its case (it shouldn’t, IMO).
“Only” 12 episodes didn’t hurt Fawlty Towers in that regard.
The Prisoner only had, what, 18 (although it wasn’t a comedy)?
If you count the four Blackadder seasons as a single series, that’s still only 24.
ReplySeptember 24, 2019 at 12:21 pm #1203100324Any program or movie that is shown in a non-broadcast public performance such as a movie theater before it airs on television is ineligible for an Emmy. AMPAS already has a similar rule (no TV pilots or episodes of TV series are eligible for Oscars); why not the Television Academy?
If you want to stop vote splitting, change all categories to “area voting,” where each voter can vote for as many of the nominees as they want, and whoever gets the most votes wins. (However, there’s no need to include the rule that any nominee that gets at least 90% “yes” gets an Emmy.)
Here’s a rules change I can see happening: get rid of the “no more than one winner in Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking” mandated by the rules – after having two winners in that category this year, why bother with it?
ReplySeptember 23, 2019 at 11:13 am #1203098240For those of you bemoaning “the death of network television series,” here is the list of Emmys won by series (well, series not named “Saturday Night Live,” anyway) on the five broadcast networks:
Character Voiceover (Family Guy, Fox)
Animated Program (The Simpsons, Fox)
Variety/Reality Choreography (World of Dance, NBC)
Scripted Program Choreography (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, CW)
Original Music & Lyrics (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, CW)
er…that is allNow for the big question: “Which of Netflix, HBO, Amazon Prime, and Hulu do we give up to pay for the new Disney streaming service?”
ReplySeptember 22, 2019 at 8:05 pm #1203096598“No animated characters were harmed in the making of this program”
At least it wasn’t a total shutout for broadcast TV – SNL got two wins
September 22, 2019 at 4:49 pm #1203093532A Homer Simpson opening? Like Brian and Stuart in 2007?
Pardon me for being pedantic, but it’s “Brian and Stewie.”
I’m surprised it’s not a Bob’s Burgers opening, especially as Fox could use it to promote that show’s movie next summer, but then, The Simpsons just won the Animated Program Emmy, although they would have had to put the opening together in eight days if that had anything to do with it.
September 22, 2019 at 4:17 pm #1203093416I hate how my Fox livestream is still on football when the red carpet is supposed to be on.. I’m gay, why would you do this to me
You must have a live stream of one of the Fox stations that got one of the “late” games today – the Giants-Tampa Bay game is just about over (unless the Giants score a touchdown and miss the extra point, which makes the game tied), and that’s the last game currently on Fox
September 22, 2019 at 3:52 pm #1203093320No category order yet?
Well, somebody has it – Jenny McCarthy just said the first category is Comedy Supporting Actor
September 22, 2019 at 1:55 pm #1203093098Carl “The Cuban” Ruiz, a regular judge on Guy’s Grocery Games, died at age 44
https://people.com/food/chef-carl-ruiz-dies/September 22, 2019 at 8:49 am #1203092382Wait, I’ve never seen the Emmys on FOX. But this will affect the pre-show, not the actual show, right?
Wait…were you talking about not airing a repeat of the ceremony out west, or NFL coverage affecting the pre-show?
If you’re talking about football, it should only affect the pre-show; even if a game goes into overtime, it should be over long before 8:00 Eastern. Also remember that it only affects certain cities; click here and scroll down to where it says “Fox Single” – the areas on the map in light blue and purple are the affected ones.
September 21, 2019 at 10:59 am #1203090786According to the rules, plurality voting replaced preferential voting in 2016, and the option to have score-based voting (i.e. each voter gives a score to each nominee, and the highest average wins) was removed in 2018. The only options now are either plurality, or the system used for areas (each voter gives a separate yes/no vote for each nominee, and the one with the most “yes” votes wins).
ReplySeptember 21, 2019 at 10:50 am #1203090771Wait, I’ve never seen the Emmys on FOX. But this will affect the pre-show, not the actual show, right?
No; I am talking about not repeating the actual ceremony.
Los Angeles’s Fox affiliate KTTV appears to be the only (major) Pacific time zone station that will air a repeat of the ceremony at 8:00 Pacific. The latest TV listings show that Seattle, Portland, Sacramento, San Francisco, San Diego, and Las Vegas will not.
September 19, 2019 at 10:10 am #1203086751The Vegas Show acts, according to the show’s Paris Las Vegas website, are:
Kodi Lee
Detroit Youth Choir
Ryan Niemiller
V Unbeatable
and one “wild card” this year: Tyler Butler-Figueroa
(getting in ahead of Voices of Service for whatever reason – probably, “We already have two singing acts”)There are six performances:
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Thursday night, Friday night, Saturday matinee & night, Sunday matinee & night
Evening shows are at 7:30; matinees are at 2:00September 18, 2019 at 2:55 pm #1203085275Another reason the Emmys shouldn’t be on FOX…
More like, another reason they shouldn’t be on Sunday night. NBC has no problem airing them on Mondays.
EDIT: Apparently, unless you can get the Los Angeles Fox station, if you live in the Pacific time zone, there will not be the usual repeat of the ceremony at 8:00 Pacific. As of Thursday morning, Seattle, Portland, Sacramento, San Francisco, and San Diego all have other shows listed in their TV listings; Las Vegas is TBA.
My best guess is, there have been one too many instances of people tuning in at 8, catching the end of the live ceremony, and saying to themselves, “Why bother watching the rest?” (My second-best guess is, the stations depend too much on their 10 PM news being an hour earlier than everybody else’s 11 PM news – this is a big thing out west, where a lot of people have to get to work in time for the 6:30 AM opening of the stock market.)September 18, 2019 at 11:23 am #1203084746To see if your area will have an NFL game on Fox on late Sunday afternoon that will overlap the Emmy pre-show, click here and scroll down to the “Fox Single” map; the areas in blue/purple and light blue will be affected. Keep in mind that the networks do make changes up to pretty much the last minute. Also, some of the affected cities’ Fox stations may decide to air the start of the pre-show on one of their subchannels; a lot of Fox affiliates also have Buzzr, for example.
As I suspected, the areas that are affected are mainly the ones with teams in the Fox late Sunday afternoon games (New York, Tampa, Charlotte, Phoenix) and the ones with teams in the CBS 1:00 games (Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Buffalo, Cincinnati, Kansas City, Indianapolis, New York). Currently (Wednesday afternoon), Columbus is affected as well; presumably, a lot of Bengals fans live there, so Fox would not want to compete against that game.
