Originally Posted By JazzCat The sound is waaaaay off of their moving lips. I realize they have to have that seven second delay but I didn't think they had to do it this way!
Originally Posted By vbdad55 with one thread and 3 posts - does anyone even care about the Emmy's any more ?
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder It was truly a bizarre show. I didn't quite understand the point of a lot of the rambling skits in between awards which inevitably caused the show to run long. Towards the end, a number of presenters came out, grumbled about their "bit" being cut, and/or simply raced through their catagories. Quite the disorganized mess, IMO. Plus, more and more and more, these things are turning into cable award shows.
Originally Posted By matthewdort ^^ Yep, and they'll continue to focus on cable as long as the broadcast networks bland themselves down into complete irrelevance.
Originally Posted By JazzCat Ugh! I thought the Josh Grobin thing was horrid! I love his singing but he was not the right person for the job. I haven't seen many of the shows that were nominated since I usually watch broadcast networks at night. We sure lost a lot of good and funny actors this year though.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan So happy that 'Mad Men' and 'Breaking Bad' won awards for AMC. My two favorite shows.
Originally Posted By WorldDisney Wow, that sucked lol. I saw a shortened broadcast here in Australia. I never even heard of madmen, but because I dont live in America I guess. It was just an odd show and to think it was the first time I tried to even catch it in the last few years.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 I was glad to see Bryan Cranston win for Breaking Bad - the only big upset of the night, really - though I'd have been happy with Michael C. Hall as well. And I'm always happy to see Jean Smart get recognized. What I found strange was all the trouble they went to to recreate those famous sets in great detail - then hardly use them. In some cases they didn't even have the actors sitting on the chairs or whatever - it was just sort of there in the background. Look, we recreated the MTM newsroom! Not that Mary and Betty White are going to go sit at those desks or anything. Weird.
Originally Posted By alexbook Next time, cut the skits. Same thing for the Oscars, too. I'd actually rather hear longer speeches from the award winners and less "fun" stuff.
Originally Posted By JazzCat I just saw on the TV Guide channel that last night's Emmys had the worst ratings ever.
Originally Posted By TheRedhead Worst. Hosts. Ever. The whole thing was a cringe-fest. Painful. Just painful.
Originally Posted By alexbook Actually, I've never been that big a fan of his, but his speech was great. More speeches, please!
Originally Posted By amazedncal2 We DVR'd it and watched it last night. If we hadn't been able to zap through most of it, we would have turned the channel. I found the Carell and Gervais bit to be really awkward. I mean I "got it" but not so funny. We had never heard of some of the shows let alone watched them. The mainstays of a couple of years ago like Lost or House or Greys seemed like has beens. Love Candace Bergen but boy does she need a stylist.
Originally Posted By Inspector 57 Having watched it, I now feel sort of ashamed -- a little dirty, somehow -- for having allowed myself to get sucked in by the pre-show hype. Our paper had run an article/interview in which the producers promised the Best Emmy's Telecast Ever: amazing cast reunionS; impressive re-creations of sets; lots of surprises; and, most of all, an evening that lovingly, retrospectively, comprehensively honored 60 Years of Television. But, of course... Survey says: "Not so much." After watching the whole thing, I was left with the sad feeling that the show ended up serving primarily as an ironic indictment of the current state of television: -- The Television Industry had a YEAR to plan a THREE-HOUR valentine to itself. It had access to 60 years of archival footage -- and to the services of all the industry's best writers, producers, and stars. Yet THIS flat, boring production was the best they could come up with?! AND... as uninspiring as the script was, they lost control of the show within the first hour?! -- The choice of the hosts was an acknowledgement of American network TV's total dependence upon lowest-common-denominator reality shows. NOT that American producers create "lowest-common-denominator" shows, of course: most US reality shows are direct rip-offs of ideas that Europeans had years prior. They can't even invent the sucky things. They steal them. -- "Three And A Half Men" was nominated for a writing award. UHHHH... That one left me speechless. Apparently, stringing together 22 minutes of high-school-level potty and sex jokes -- delivered by utterly one-dimensional characters -- constitutes "excellence in writing" in today's network TV. The show convinced me that I need to spend more time reading books, taking long walks, or playing on my computer.
Originally Posted By kennect Jazzcat, We find the lip's off synch quite often here with our satellite service...So I don't think it was something directly at fault with the Emmy's....Not sure what it is but it does happen here from time to time...
