Emmy A Go-Go
Emmy A-Go-GoThe Emmy nominations are announced next week (Thursday morning to be exact), so much of the discussion here in the next few days will surround that.
This year’s Emmys have the potential to actually really have some different contenders.
One of the most common complaints about the Emmys is that new series are rarely recognized. Sure, there are exceptions for juggernaut series (Lost and Desperate Housewives), but people that should have won Emmys long ago (yes Lauren Graham, I’m talking about you) have never even been nominated. It’s the way they go.
This year however, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences has done something different. In an effort to get a more diverse array of nominees, the Academy has institute a blue ribbon panel system of voting. What does that mean? Funny, I think I’ll tell you.
Emmy ballots were due last week. The accountants went to town, tallied up the votes and in the Best Drama and Best Comedy categories, came up with a list of the top 10 vote-getters. In the best Lead in a Comedy and Drama categories, they came up with a list of the top 15. From there, the Academy contact the respective shows, asking them to submit a single episode for consideration. Those individual performers were also asked to submit one episode that’s representative of their work. Then, a blue ribbon panel looks at the nominees and rates them. The five highest scored submissions are then the ones that actually get the nominations next week.
Now comes the fun part—rumors!
Tom O’Neil at Gold Derby is hot on all this. Here is what he’s come up with regarding what the ten potential comedy nominees are:
Arrested Development
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Desperate Housewives
Entourage
My Name is Earl
The Office
Scrubs
Two and a Half Men
Will & Grace
Weeds
So far, the spies have only come up with 8 of the potential drama nominees. They are:
Big Love
Boston Legal
Grey’s Anatomy
House
Lost
Rescue Me
The Sopranos
The West Wing
Now whether any of this is true or not is yet to be confirmed. I guess we’ll know for sure next week.
As the potential acting nominees become more clear, I’ll pass info along.
posted by cinegod @ 3:16 PM
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