The Emmy Awards were held Sunday night, and this year it was a draw between the big winners in cable versus broadcast television. Last year, cable programs such as The Soprano's, et al, absolutely spanked the traditional broadcast networks in awards.
Sunday night, in the big categories, it was 13 awards both for cable versus broadcast.
Interesting...the voting changed this year. Rather than the traditional popular vote by Emmy members would determine the winners, the top 20 popular vote getters in each category were then "reviewed" by a panel of industry "judges", who then determined the winner in each category.
Is it possible that the powers of the NBC, CBS, and ABS broadcast networks want a bit more equity in the winners of Emmys?
Then some would say that cable primetime programming is actually better television and deserves more Emmys. Not this year.
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Hola, This interview was on C-SPAN today, really interesting stuff.
Digital Promise Co-Chair Newton N. Minow speaks compellingly about the role of the federal government in upholding the public’s interest in the digital era.
This program is part of C-SPAN’s “The Communicators” series, and will be re-aired on Monday, September 11, at 8:00 AM ET and 8:00 PM ET on C-SPAN2...
I wouldn’t consider it surprising that the votes then go through a panel of judges for the ultimate decision. Awards ceremonies to me seem very similar to reality television and although it has the name reality television it is hard for me to believe that some of the actions of contestants are completely unscripted. Especially when there are many cases in which after appearing on reality shows many contestants in turn get their own show. So it should not be a big shock or controversy that the Emmys go through a similar process of trying to keep the illusion of being completely reality and in actuality the results are somewhat scripted.
i dont feel like there getting political, but maybe they wanted to change the voting for a year to see if there was a different between professional and viewers opinions. i thought it was a good idea but didnt they go back to the original way the next year? there are so many good tv shows coming out and that have been out that so many people can love and hate the same shows but the professionals have a different view on it because they have to judge it on how the show is and if they think it meets all the requirements of being a primetime show, instead of some random person not liking it because they dont like an actor or the message it portrays.
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