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The Official 59th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards Thread

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Cheebs

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BrandNew said:
Hm. I liked 30 Rock with the few episodes I watched, but I don't know, I really really love the Office. At least its not Ugly Betty
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Come on dude. It's 30 Rock! Aka the new Arrested Development.
 
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Cheebs

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BrandNew said:
That's unpossible, unless the show got like 50 times better in the later part of of the season that I didn't watch.



YOU INSULT AD? GO DIE
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Oddly enough yes. The second half of the season was 5000x better than the first half. The first few episodes were meh but jesus that show by the end of season 1 was one of the best sitcoms in ages.
 
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Aristotlekh said:
By the way, that Family Guy shit was AWFUL. I can't believe that show's still on the air.
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Well I did like that joke they did about Family Guy, how an animated comedy doesn't have to be funny.
 
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Corwood Rep

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AniHawk said:
Well I did like that joke they did about Family Guy, how an animated comedy doesn't have to be funny.
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I only saw a small chunk of an unfunny musical number that a few people pretended to laugh at.
 
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Memles

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So, yeah, I was liveblogging the entire affair for my blog, but that was some sort of diabolical scheme of sorts to simultaneously convince us that the Emmys were both relevant AND insane.

Terrible Musical Numbers? Check. Family Guy wasn't funny, and Jersey Boys had NO relevance to the Sopranos whatsoever.

Deserving Winners? A handful. O'Quinn for Lost, 30 Rock for Comedy are the two that stand out.

Upsets? A plenty. Baldwin/Carell split to allow Gervais (Not Shahloub?) to break into the category (After he swore he knew he wouldn't win). Spader defeats Gandolfini and Laurie (This is the one that killed everything). Field over Falco is less surprising, but still.

On the whole, I'd say that 30 Rock taking Comedy basically makes my night in terms of "the big picture," and I hope the level to which the audience loved the clips from the series (The writing one-liners were perfectly chosen) reflects back on the viewers.

And I'm looking forward to seeing Colbert's reaction to his Bennett defeat.
 
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Ripclawe

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In the award show’s opening, Fox quickly did away with the kindness that one network sometimes shows to another: It used its cartoon character Stewie from “Family Guy” and his dog, Brian, to skewer competing series on other networks. NBC’s “Scrubs” and its star, Zach Braff, “reminds us a sitcom doesn’t have to make you laugh,” the duo sang. ABC, they said, is brewing up more “primetime swill” like its new series “Cavemen.” The song also made reference to NBC’s ratings declines and invoked the unsavory reputation of Charlie Sheen, a CBS star.
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cold.
 
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Memles

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robochimp said:
That there would be no wars(my guess)

Non controversy allowed
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"If Mothers ran the world, there would be no more god damn war."

That was it. It aired unbleeped in Canada. It appears to be the big story, my blog post is getting a lot of hits through searches.
 
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guess

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Memles said:
"If Mothers ran the world, there would be no more god damn war."

That was it. It aired unbleeped in Canada..
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I figured she said more, considering how long the auidio was cut.
 
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Memles

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guess said:
I figured she said more, considering how long the auidio was cut.
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She continued to stumble over herself for a while, the crowd cheered, etc. There was no more incendiary anti-war talk to follow, just her trying to finish her speech and get out the rest of her thank yous.

If anyone feels really strongly and wants to Digg it, here's a link. Should be interesting to see how FOX tries to spin it: clearly the G*d angle is the easiest one, but there's no way that the liberal media will let them get away with bleeping out the entire end of the speech as opposed to just the one word.
 
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Stoney Mason

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Memles said:
"If Mothers ran the world, there would be no more god damn war."

That was it. It aired unbleeped in Canada. It appears to be the big story, my blog post is getting a lot of hits through searches.
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Ah...America, Home of the free. Land of the Brave. Champion of Free Speech.


Jesus Christ we suck.
 
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Meier

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I'm happy Ricky won as Extras was truly amazing. The James Spader and Sally Field wins are a joke, but at least Shatner didn't win too. 30 Rock = incredible and I'm so glad it pulled it off.
 
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Milchjon

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Wes said:
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Oh My God, She's looking so goddamn great.
 
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Kung Fu Jedi

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Sally Field probably got "beeped" for saying "God Damn" as much as for the comments about War. For some reason, it's not ok to say God Damn on TV any more. Even older films where it was more the norm have been getting that edited out.
 
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Memles

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Kung Fu Jedi said:
Sally Field probably got "beeped" for saying "God Damn" as much as for the comments about War. For some reason, it's not ok to say God Damn on TV any more. Even older films where it was more the norm have been getting that edited out.
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While this may be the case in terms of general acceptance, the FCC analyzed Award Shows in particular, and deemed "god damn" as acceptable in terms of its use in this setting. So, based on precedent, FOX had no reason to believe that they would be fined. Thus, whether war or swearing related, it counts as excessive censorship. They also censored Ray Romano early in the evening for joking that "Frasier is screwing my wife", but that was at like 8pm Eastern, so it is more understandable.

For anyone who wants a brief kind of rundown, I put together a list of highlights and lowlights. You can find the full thing here, but here's a substantial excerpt.

I won’t attempt to claim that I am any different than the myriad of television writers out there: I was never going to “like” the outcome of the Emmy Awards. My cynicism was front and center when it came to reacting to the winners, and even the more positive moments were passed off as exceptions to the rule, not a sign of changes to Emmy’s usual stagnation.

But even weighing this predisposed opinion regarding the validity of the ceremony, last night’s award show was perhaps the most emotionally manipulative in some time. By the end, it actually had us cynics doubting the most well-established prediction of the entire evening: The Sopranos winning Best Drama Series. Of course, David Chase’s departing HBO series won that Emmy, but I actually for a second doubted that.

And I don’t know if it’s good or bad: the emotional rollercoaster that the night represented hit so many inversions that anything seemed possible. Perhaps I am simply extremely malleable, but I was right along with them with my own emotional corkscrews and loop-to-loops. And, as such, I use those emotions to feature the highlights and lowlights of the 2007 Emmy Awards.

Disbelief - FOX Pre-Show Uses Britney to Push Ratings

This rumour that Britney Spears would appear and apologize for the VMAs incident fascinated me. Not because I was interested in Britney, of course, but rather I was fascinated that anyone actually believed it. The fact that FOX would prey on that public misconception throughout the pre-show, as if they didn’t know whether she was present, shouldn’t surprise me…but that was the reaction it elicited. [Sidenote: Why was there no actual Countdown on the Countdown to the Emmys?]

Discomfort - Awkward and Inappropriate Jokes and Cuts

Early on, the Emmys hit a rather unfortunate stride: an awkwardly impersonal opening animation act from Brian and Stewie from Family Guy, a questionable cut from a joke about Isaiah Washington to T.R. Knight within said segment, and then Neil Patrick Harris’ unfortunate jailbait joke regarding Hayden Pannetiere - all within about fifteen minutes. It continued on into the rest of the night (Brad Garrett, anyone?), and even Seacrest had some borderline “humour” in his repetoire.

Nostalgia - Emmy Rewards People for the Past

Terry O’Quinn. Jaime Pressley. Katherine Heigl. Conan O’Brien. These four are, amongst others, representing a particular trend: deserving performers who really should have won their respective awards in previous years. O’Quinn was robbed for his turn on Lost’s first season, but remains deserving this year, and the same can be said for Pressley even if my heart was with Jenna Fischer. And Late Night with Conan O’Brien had never won a single Emmy, so its victory in Writing was a long-deserved one.

But Heigl, despite her radiance and grace on stage, really deserved to be recognized for last season’s arc with Denny, as opposed to this season’s whiny George/Izzie period. Her character became one-dimensional and one-note, and even if she remained strong I don’t see that as a worthy winner of this award.

Confusion - The Sopranos go Broadway

I am still trying to decipher just why we had a musical tribute to the Sopranos from the cast of Jersey Boys. The music didn’t particularly relate to the series, and it seemed like a simple video tribute (Maybe asking various stars their thoughts on The Sopranos) and then the curtain call would have been both shorter and more fitting. The theatrical and broad is not, although FOX may disagree, necessary in every single situation.
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Kung Fu Jedi

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Memles said:
While this may be the case in terms of general acceptance, the FCC analyzed Award Shows in particular, and deemed "god damn" as acceptable in terms of its use in this setting. So, based on precedent, FOX had no reason to believe that they would be fined. Thus, whether war or swearing related, it counts as excessive censorship. They also censored Ray Romano early in the evening for joking that "Frasier is screwing my wife", but that was at like 8pm Eastern, so it is more understandable.
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I doubt it was over fear of being fined so much as that it's become common now to bleep the "god damns". They weren't going to be fined over war criticisms either, so it clearly had nothing to do with that.
 
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bluemax

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So, one of my roommates and a friend of his put on Tuxes and snuck into the Emmy's. Apparently they hung out with Tracey Morgan all night (somehow they convinced people they were part of the 30 Rock staff). They ended up doing everything, hanging out with celebs, networking with business people, going to the Governor's ball, going to an after party, getting on TV, getting gift baskets etc etc.

Security is amazing! They did get hassled once, then went and told someone else that they were working for Tracey Morgan and some chick was hassling them, so the dude they talked with took care of it for them.
 
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castle007

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bluemax said:
So, one of my roommates and a friend of his put on Tuxes and snuck into the Emmy's. Apparently they hung out with Tracey Morgan all night (somehow they convinced people they were part of the 30 Rock staff). They ended up doing everything, hanging out with celebs, networking with business people, going to the Governor's ball, going to an after party, getting on TV, getting gift baskets etc etc.

Security is amazing! They did get hassled once, then went and told someone else that they were working for Tracey Morgan and some chick was hassling them, so the dude they talked with took care of it for them.
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that is fucking awesome
 
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Solo

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The show was totally "meh" to me, aside from 2 bits of awesome:

- Terry O'Quinn getting his "Walkabout" Emmy 2 years late. Better late than never, I guess, congrats to Terry. Well earned.
- seeing several shots of Kristen Bell sitting with the Heroes crew.
 
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Stoney Mason

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I like this pic because Kristen has a bitch please "I ain't showing no teeth" look on her face while Hayden looks like her usual cute brain dead self...
 
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Ripclawe

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The power of Tom Brady.

The "Primetime Emmy Awards" on Fox drew the kudocast's second smallest audience on record Sunday night, averaging 13.1 million viewers, according to preliminary nationals from Nielsen.

This year's audience comes in well below the 16.2 million that NBC garnered for its late-August telecast a year ago and the 18.7 million that watched on CBS two years ago. That puts television's biggest night behind the most recent audience for other kudocasts like the Academy Awards on ABC (40.2 million), the Grammy Awards on CBS (20.1 million), the Golden Globe Awards on NBC (20.0 million) and the Country Music Assn. Awards on ABC (16.0 million).

In adults 18-49, this year's preliminary 4.3 rating/11 share is a 17% falloff from last year's 5.2/13 and believed to be the lowest on record. It was the night's No. 2 program in the demo, with NBC's New England-San Diego NFL matchup expected to produce roughly a 6.7 rating/17 share.

The smallest Emmy audience on record remains the 1990 telecast, also on Fox, which drew 12.3 million viewers.
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