2008 Emmy Winners (…analysis coming)

COMMENTS (70)

• YAWN.

  No Californication? No Weeds? No Battlestar Galactica? Please. Ok, 30 Rock and Rickles, worth it. I also believe that crazy chick who won for “My Name is Earl” a few years ago should win EVERY FUCKING YEAR.

  Otherwise, boring.

  Comment by peggy — Sunday September 21, 2008 @ 9:02pm PDT  Reply to this post

• So glad for Zeljko Ivanek’s win. He soooooooo deserved it. Well done!

  P.S. 30 Rock…am I the only one who doesn’t get it?

  Comment by michael dobrofsky — Sunday September 21, 2008 @ 9:33pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Can I give my analysis? What an awful, awful abortion of a telecast. It was an incredibly cynical move to have five reality hosts “host” in a year that is celebrating 60 years of TV. Is that not the definition of irony???

  Wanna make a bet some idiot proposed if one of those reality series “stars” can bring in millions of viewers on their own show – why not have five of them host the Emmys? We don’t need Ellen or Letterman or Stewart when we can get Howie and Heidi!

  The whole thing was an mega mess and an insult to TV and I say that as a fan. I hope it tanks in the ratings.

  I know I tuned out at 9pm and took an Ambien – I’d rather be medicated than watch anymore.

  Comment by Snoooooooooooze Fest — Sunday September 21, 2008 @ 9:34pm PDT  Reply to this post

• So sad, so boring.

  Comment by Jane J. — Sunday September 21, 2008 @ 9:35pm PDT  Reply to this post

• No Battlestar Galactica is a long standing travesty. I can’t fault a lot of the awards, actually. There’s a lot of great television out there, even though everyone likes to trash it.

  And any show that brings back the old Laugh In gang is a good show for me. That show is one of my fondest memories of my childhood. And hearing John Stewart do Arte Shaw made it even more fun.

  Seems he grew up on it, too.

  Comment by Original Joe — Sunday September 21, 2008 @ 9:39pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Double-Yawn.

  Agreed, Peggy, the only part of the show that made me wake up for a moment was Rickles.

  Comment by jj — Sunday September 21, 2008 @ 10:09pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Dexter gets the nominations, but not winning is an obvious oversight. The first season of Mad Men was fantastic, but the second has slipped up a bit.. Also, Bryan Cranston is a great actor, but Breaking Bad is not that good of a show, I would have love to seen that award gone to someone else.

  Also, please start nominating the Shield again, it’s in its final season!

  Comment by Adell — Sunday September 21, 2008 @ 10:19pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Love how Kathy Griffin commanded the audience to;

  “GET UP.”

  It was perfect. Glad she pulled it off.

  Comment by bonnie — Sunday September 21, 2008 @ 11:09pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I went out for the evening. I wasted an entire DVD recording it. What a bore-fest. I suggest Showtime hosts next year.

  And maybe Cranston was good, but come on, 7 episodes? Michael C Hall was overlooked for Six Feet Under and criminally dissed for his brilliantly unique character of Dexter. Next year, Michael, next year!

  Comment by Kila — Sunday September 21, 2008 @ 11:12pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Yeah, painfully bad show. Much of it can be laid on the feet of 5 unfunny hosts trying to be funny, but so much of it seemed amateurish. People flubbed the teleprompter all the time. Cutaways seemed even more weird and random than usual. Even the Laugh-In reunion fell with a THUD! Are they just not used to shoot in the Nokia Theater?

  –Andy
  MastersofHumility.com

  Comment by Andy — Sunday September 21, 2008 @ 11:19pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Can anyone please explain why the writer of John Adams speech was cut off? With the references to free speech, it is ironic that they abruptly cut to commercial upon him seemingly leading into political comment. Maybe he didn’t say anything very interesting, but I sure would have liked to judge myself. All I have to say is thank heaven for Don Rickles!

  Comment by poppy — Sunday September 21, 2008 @ 11:23pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Glen Turman won for best guest star in a drama for his work on In Treatment. He was simply astounding on there, I could not be happier he won and got to stand up there tonight. It’s nice to see the non famous actor get their due when their work is off the charts.

  They rushed Tom Hanks and the writer of John Adams to do a very long and very unfunny bit with the hosts over how reality drags out the suspense??? I wish they had let the grown ups talk and kept those hosts as the pandering symbol they were… simply a nod of thanks for giving networks something to air when the strike was on and afterwards when shows were catching back up.

  I agree with Snooooooze Fest, not the proper year for those hosts on the 60th anniversary of the Emmy’s.

  Comment by sagmember — Sunday September 21, 2008 @ 11:25pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I find it shameful that any type of “reality show” was considered for any kind of award for any category, new or old. Reality show hosts? Really? Howie Mandel is a friggin’ game show host!

  If the powers that be want to legitimize these crap “entertainment” shows with awards, then legitimize the people who write them. They don’t get to have it both ways.

  Huge kudos to Recount. An amazing and enlightening drama! And to the Laugh In gang. Great seeing y’all again!

  Comment by Ace — Sunday September 21, 2008 @ 11:44pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Bryan Cranston was turning in the best comedy performances on American TV during the last five or so seasons of “Malcolm in the Middle,” but never even got nominated. And instead they award him a best dramatic actor Emmy over Michael Chiklis (not nominated) or Jon Hamm?

  The Emmys are ridiculous.

  (And it took his friggin’ death for unsung comedy genius Ron Leavitt to get a little Emmy recognition. Absurd.)

  Comment by Sitcom Writer — Sunday September 21, 2008 @ 11:45pm PDT  Reply to this post

• If you watch The Emmy’s, here’s a bulletin for you: your life is a bore.

  Tony Awards fans? You’re even worse.

  Comment by please people — Monday September 22, 2008 @ 12:01am PDT  Reply to this post

• My favorite part of the telecast had to be the opening when – as all five hosts are bombing and telling us, “We have nothing,” – Howie Mandel is excitedly letting us know, “This isn’t a bit.”

  As if getting on one of the hugest TV broadcasts completely unprepared – makes it funnier! At least Jeff Probst admitted it was in fact “a bit” – he’s the only one that looked sheepish at how bad it was all going.

  Uh! Horrible.

  Comment by Biz-oring — Monday September 22, 2008 @ 12:37am PDT  Reply to this post

• Is it just me or did the Emmy telecast of 2008 look like the Republican National Convention? Where were the people of color, yes I saw a couple among the audience, the presenters, the honorees but damn! Can’t Black, Hispanic or Asian people write, direct, produce or act in these shows!? What!?

  Comment by anna perez — Monday September 22, 2008 @ 12:42am PDT  Reply to this post

• My favorite stat of the night:
  4 Emmys for 30 Rock.
  4 Emmys for NBC.

  NBC better not cancel that show or no one gets to go to any parties next year.

  Comment by ReelBusy — Monday September 22, 2008 @ 2:35am PDT  Reply to this post

• Did Tina Fey need to win every award? Glad the Amazing Race won again considering Phil should have been nominated over at lest Heidi, Howie, and Seacrest.

  I love Dexter and I wanted them to win, the best part was when Glenn Close won she told America to hold her Emmy and America was like ok and then looked pissed throughout the night.

  Comment by Mike — Monday September 22, 2008 @ 5:16am PDT  Reply to this post

• Is there some sort of reverse ageism going on with the nomination process? Most of the Actress nominees are older. Not that there is anything wrong with an older actress who does tremendous work, but why no love for younger actresses?

  Comment by B- — Monday September 22, 2008 @ 5:41am PDT  Reply to this post

• Mad Men is a masterpiece, one of the best shows EVER. It’s a crime that Jon Hamm and John Slattery didn’t win in their respective categories. They are perfection.

  Also, how Friday Night Lights can keep getting snubbed makes me sick. There is no way that anyone can justify a show like Boston Legal getting a nom over Friday Night Lights. Doesn’t. Make. Any. Sense.

  Comment by nick — Monday September 22, 2008 @ 7:01am PDT  Reply to this post

• Now I know why last night’s Mad Men on AMC was a rerun…AMC didn’t want to risk having viewers have their chance to see Mad Men score some Emmys. I would have rather had a new episode but I watched the rerun of ‘Three Sundays’ instead

  I tuned into the last 15 minutes of the Emmy telecast when I saw a brief ad bumper on AMC that Matthew Weiner had won a writing award (just in time to see Mad Men win Best Drama)…wow was it boring. It was nice to see some old TV favorites from TV’s more golden days (Mary Tyler Moore, Betty White & Tom Selleck) but the usually crappy cliche awards show stuff was unfortunately in full flower.

  They need to just post a list of Emmy winners to the Internet and then have a big party they telecast so people can gawk at the dresses/suits, the dining and the drinking. They can cut the whole thing down to an hour or two tops.

  Comment by Anonymous Fan Wag — Monday September 22, 2008 @ 7:30am PDT  Reply to this post

• Just seeing the multi-talented Tina Fey winning Emmys made my night. She’s pure bred writer.

  Comment by chuck — Monday September 22, 2008 @ 8:06am PDT  Reply to this post

• Another year of garbage winning that nobody watches.

  Comment by bcr — Monday September 22, 2008 @ 8:16am PDT  Reply to this post

• What moron had the idea of having five reality show twinkies hand out awards to an audience of actors, directors, writers, producers, and craftspeople, all of whose careers are in jeopardy because of reality shows?

  Comment by Santayana — Monday September 22, 2008 @ 9:26am PDT  Reply to this post