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Emmy By The Biz
HBO 10
NBC 4
AMC 3
ABC 3
FX 2
CBS 2
Comedy Central 2
PBS 1
FOX 1
Emmy By The Win
COMEDY SERIES
30 Rock (NBC)
DRAMA SERIES
Mad Men (AMC)
MINISERIES
John Adams (HBO)
ACTOR IN A COMEDY
Alec Baldwin – 30 Rock (NBC)
ACTOR IN A DRAMA
Bryan Cranston – Breaking Bad (AMC)
ACTRESS IN A COMEDY
Tina Fey – 30 Rock (NBC)
ACTRESS IN A DRAMA
Glenn Close – Damages (FX)
REALITY HOST
Jeff Probst – Survivor
MADE FOR TELEVISION MOVIE
Recount – (HBO)
REALITY COMPETITION PROGRAM
The Amazing Race – (CBS)
ACTOR IN A MINISERIES OR MOVIE
Paul Giamatti – John Adams (HBO)
ACTRESS IN A MINISERIES OR MOVIE
Laura Linney – John Adams (HBO)
SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A COMEDY
Jeremy Piven – Entourage (HBO)
SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMA
Zeljko Ivanek – Damages (FX)
SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A MINISERIES OR MOVIE
Tom Wilkinson – John Adams (HBO)
SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY
Jean Smart – Samantha Who? (ABC)
SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA
Dianne Wiest – In Treatment (HBO)
SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A MINISERIES OR MOVIE
Eileen Atkins – Cranford (Masterpiece Theatre)
INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE IN A VARIETY OR MUSIC PROGRAM
Don Rickles – Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project (HBO)
DIRECTING FOR A COMEDY
Barry Sonnenfeld, Pushing Daisies (“Pie-Lette”)
DIRECTING FOR A DRAMA
Greg Yaitanes, House (“House’s Head”)
DIRECTING FOR A VARIETY, MUSIC OR COMEDY PROGRAM
Louis J. Horvitz – 80th Annual Academy Awards (ABC)
DIRECTING FOR A MINISERIES, MOVIE OR DRAMATIC SPECIAL
Jay Roach – Recount (HBO)
VARIETY, MUSIC OR COMEDY SERIES
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart – (Comedy Central)
WRITING FOR A COMEDY
Tina Fey – 30 Rock (“Cooter”) (NBC)
WRITING FOR A DRAMA
Matthew Weiner – Mad Men (“Smoke Gets In Your Eyes” – Pilot) (AMC)
WRITING FOR A VARIETY, MUSIC OR COMEDY PROGRAM
The Colbert Report (Comedy Central) – Tom Purcell (head Writer), Stephen Colbert, Allison Silverman, Richard Dahm, Michael Brumm, Rob Dubbin, Eric Drysdale, Peter Gwinn, Jay Katsir, Laura Krafft, Frank Lesser, Glenn Eichler, Peter Grosz, Bryan Adams, Barry Julien
WRITING FOR A MINISERIES, MOVIE OR A DRAMATIC SPECIAL
Kirk Ellis – John Adams (“Independence”) (HBO)
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How about Rickles and Jo Ann Worley as hosts next year? Maybe then the public might start watching it again.
Being constantly implored to “Vote”, as though we are all too dumb to realize the election is coming up, forced me to watch the show with the TV on mute. I un-muted for Rickles, Josh Groban and the Laugh-In skit – easily the only good parts of the three-hour drudgery.
Here’s your answer–the lowest rated Emmy Show ever! Go ahead, see for yourself:
http://www.thrfeed.com/2008/09/emmy-ratings.html Jeremy Piven’s remarks about the opening are priceless!
Reading the list of winners was more entertaining than watching that embarrassment of a telecast. I actually only flipped back & forth occasionally in hopes it would get better (the superior Family Guy’s Star Wars episode was on … A much better choice). It didn’t. What the program proved was just how talented the reality show hosts really were. What a way to celebrate television.
Regarding the winners. I LOVE 30 Rock, BUT their Carrie Fisher episode (which was the episode they submitted for consideration for Best Comedy Series) was NOT their best episode last season, so I voted for THE OFFICE (they submitted their hilarious season finale) & based solely on the episodes submitted for consideration, I feel THE OFFICE should have won.
I have a hard time believing that all those voting members are watching Breaking Bad. It might be a good show but I still don’t believe most of them watch it.
Also, In my mind, last season of LOST was as great a piece of Television as I can remember. Yet it wins nothing! Plus to give any acknowledgment to reality TV is stupid!
I get 30 Rock. It is “The Alec Baldwin” show with Tina Fey as his foil, along with the stereotypical black guy, the dumb blonde, the clueless, but loveable paige – and an anti-ensemble cast.
I am waiting for the fantasy sequence featuring Morgan and Baldwin as “Amos” and “The Kingfish”. You know they want to do it.
The Wire gets ONE nomination, (writing) and it doesn’t win. THAT’S the tragedy. What a completely unappreciated show.
I totally agree that FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS is a great TV show.It very high quality writing, and a great family program. I’ve never seen a bad episode! It’s obvious the voting members do not watch it! In many ways the Emmy’s are a rigged game!
Still suffering from the perception that it’s Title brings…BATTLESTAR GALACTICA. Like most high quality things in this industry, it’s ignored, bypass, overlooked, in favor of all things TMZ, Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, and The Hills. It is so painful to watch all of this happening before my eyes. How far you’ve fallen Hollywood. How far indeed…
p.s. Can we get rid of that troll Seacrest? It’s overkill already. They should’ve let Rickles or Gervais host. Only funny people of the whole broadcast.
Best part of the show –
Watching Ryan Seacrest being forced to share 1/5 of the spotlight with Heidi Klum. His fiery, psychotic, world-eating ego was searing a hole through his skull. This after Kathy Griffin described him thusly during the channel 7 red carpet pre-game: “Oh, yea, Ryan Seacrest is here, he’s finishing his spray-on tan and manscaping…” LOFL.
Rickles on the other hand? Let’s see. Won’t shut up when the emmy award winner is trying to make a speech, insults his wife while accepting his own emmy, calls the front row “The OJ Jury,” — huh? That joke is would have been topical in oh, about 1995.
I get 30 Rock. It is “The Alec Baldwin” show with Tina Fey as his foil, along with the stereotypical black guy, the dumb blonde, the clueless, but loveable page – and an anti-ensemble cast.
I am waiting for the fantasy sequence featuring Morgan and Baldwin as “Amos” and “The Kingfish”. You know they want to do it.
(My previous comment contained an HTML ommission and a typo. I hope that it can be deleted.)
Tina Fey is a SWILF.
Jesus that show was painful, and all those reality hosts (but particularly Howie “this is my night” Mandell) should be put to sleep.
It was like watching the slow painful death of network television. At least “Mad Men” won.
To “Sitcom Writer” — right on re Ron Leavitt. Terribly and unjustly unsung. But for MWC, FBC would have tanked. Anyone ever see 21 Jump St. in syndication? We adored Ron and were the only two who applauded when his pic was shown (and boy wouldn’t he have hated that…:-) (both the picture AND our applause). Shame on everybody in the audience who helped make the show even worse television by not bothering to applaud almost everything unless it was “their” show. Who is stuffing the ballot box for Amazing Race? Pathetic that Kathy had to tell people to stand up for Rickles. WTF? Is everybody under 25 these days? And why didn’t they open the show with Groban’s fabulous medley???? And btw, sagmember, you big Turman fan, his first name is spelled Glynn.
They should have just called it the Jon Stewart & Stephen Colbert Show considering how they managed to get mentioned or shown or nominated in every fuckin’ segment.
No wonder the ratings were in the toilet when the show spends so much time kissing the feet of two guys whose ratings for their respective shows are about the only thing smaller than the Emmy’s ratings.
I could have done without the Sarah Palin bashing and other random bits of politics being rammed down my throat every couple of minutes too. The Emmys should be a glitzy event with your favorite stars. Not a fucking one-sided political rally with “stars” you’ve never heard of.
Boring!
Last night’s broadcast was more proof that the entertainment community is completely out of touch with “normal folk.” In an attempt to deflect criticism that they are biased — and offend fewer people — they tried to keep out the political references. It didn’t work. The usual insulting comments about those who don’t worship at the alter of Karl Marx flowed freely from the mouths of the wannabe intellectuals.
Then there were the selections. They speak volumes about the views of the E industry. It’s dark, depressing, and filed with hate. Gee I wonder why no one is watching?
The ‘blush is off the bloom’ and the E industry has no one to blame but it’s self. By pretending to be thinkers, and intellectuals; they have removed the lustre and ‘fairly tale’ narrative from celebrity. Most of America is sick to death of the E Industry and it’s running commentary of hate. Do they listen? No, they continue to create vehicles that offend, disturb, and disgust most viewers and theatre patrons.
The E elite don’t blame themselves for the declining numbers; they blame the public, or YouTube, or KaZaa, or DVD burners, or … well you get the point. A public who in their minds are nothing but rubes and must be “handled” with kid gloves so they can be lead down the path to “enlightenment.” How to do that? Simple, a little window dressing. Restrict the political references and all is well. Those foolish viewers are so easily fooled. Pfffttt! Wrong again.
Until the E industry shuts it’s pie holes about politics at all times; ratings will continue to drop for it’s perennial self-congratulatory-fawn-fests. it will also help if they start putting out shows worth watching. I remember a day when Football didn’t dare go up against an awards show.
Oh and Tom Hanks; you are not funny, or an intellectual. No one cares what you think, about anything. There is a reason why people like you, act the lines, that people like me write.
I was so happy to see Glenn Close and Zeljko Ivanek win for Damages which I feel is the best television show on the air. My only complaint until this day is the academy snubbing Rose Byrne for her terrific work as 1st year associate, Ellen Parsons. Next year is her year!
“There is a reason why people like you, act the lines, that people like me write.”
erh yeah, but you may wanna check into the correct usage of the comma first.
“Oh and Tom Hanks; you are not funny, or an intellectual. No one cares what you think, about anything. There is a reason why people like you, act the lines, that people like me write.”
Mark, you haven’t written anything that anyone even six degrees from Tom Hanks has read or would even try to act. You have your own blog for a soapbox, no need to insult working entertainment professionals first by deriding them then by trying to pretend you are one. The truth of it is, people like you don’t write the lines. We celebrated the people who did last night. How dare you sir for disrespecting that.
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I don’t care what anyone else has to say about the Emmy’s. The show can be boring, the picks rigged, and presenters embarrassing. As long as once a year, Hollywood votes for what it thinks is the most quality programming on television, we will all take an interest. While the ratings of shows are celebrated each week, it’s only once a year that the networks look at their art as art. I wish they would look at it like that every day, but better once a year than not at all. Thanks to the Academy
I consider myself to be somewhat of a tv show snob. I like very few shows, despise reality, miss the days of The Sopranos and Six Feet Under, but I could not get past episode 2 of Mad Men. I found it boring, all the smoking utterly obnoxious, and the cast “b” level. Trying to figure out why it is so beloved. Even gave it a 2nd chance, but it just wasn’t happening… Oh well, I’m sure the new season will bring lots of wonderful new shows (ha ha)
Josh Groban was easily the highlight of the night. Although originally clicking onto this blog, I was hoping to see the winners and losers of the red carpet wear.
My first question is: “How would you know he had not used my work?”
My second question is:”When did I say I wrote for the E industry?”
My Third question is:”How did I insult him? Is he an intellectual? (nope) Is he funny? (nope, not w/o dialogue written by others)”
My fourth question is:”Even if he has never read my work (not saying he hasn’t or he has), how does that change the question or the basis? Is he suddenly smart because he may not have read my work? (again, not saying he has or hasn’t) or are you just a whiny pissy liberal who can’t take it when someone stands up to your stupidity?”
BTW, what have you done that is of any consequence? Well then, guess you should STFU and crawl back into your hole. Hey, that’s your logic, not mine.
Oh, and you don’t have to work in the industry to have an opinion. Typical liberal, wants to stifle dissent whilst pretending to be about freedom. Pathetic.
The problem is not enough young voters who actually watch television. The emmy voters get some things right and many many wrong. I voted for Battlestar, Friday Night Lights, Flight of the Concords, and it was a crime that Boston Legal was there instead.Not that it hasn’t been good in the past but this last season was not worthy of that spot.
That Michael Emerson didn’t win who singlehandedly makes any season of Lost worthwhile…. that The Wire was ignored…
But they did reward Mad Men and Damages, and they are taking steps to make it better, baby steps, but steps nonetheless.
I bet you walk around correcting Mark Twain, as well.
Did it ever occur to you that I mis-typed? No of course not. You can’t let sense get in the way of an attack, can you?
Oh and “leave hanks alone,” if Hanks can comment on things of which he is clueless — politics, America — then I can comment on that which I know.
Why they still present awards to miniseries during the telecast is beyond me. What was the last popular and widely viewed miniseries? The Winds of War? Seriously, if anything ever deserved to be presented off the air, it’s everything in the miniseries category.
This was my first year NOT to watch the Emmy’s and I couldn’t have been more pleased with my decision. I got caught up on some Simpsons and Family Guy and did not have to sit through hours of agonized torture like I did last year. Ironic that a show that honors the best of television is the worst show of the year. Here’s to not watching the Emmys next year!