[As the Top 10 Comedy and Drama series contenders have been released, and since Gold Derby has been kind enough to grab us the episode titles, I'm going through each submission judging its quality and its potential on the panel. As I prepare to write about the second Comedy series in contention, you can check [...]
Entries from June 2008
June 29, 2008
Assessing the Contenders: Boston Legal – “The Court Supreme”
[As the Top 10 Comedy and Drama series contenders have been released, and since Gold Derby has been kind enough to grab us the episode titles, I'm going through each submission judging its quality and its potential on the panel. Here's the first Drama Series in contention, a nominee last year that looks to return.]
Boston [...]
June 28, 2008
Assessing the Emmy Contenders: Curb Your Enthusiasm – “The Bat Mitzvah”
When Emmy released the Top 10 lists of the potential nominees for both comedy and drama series, they took the wind out of my sails in terms of putting up my own predictions. However, their work and the work of Tom O’Neill over at Gold Derby getting the episode submission titles means that interested parties [...]
June 27, 2008
My Boys – “The Shirt Contest”
“The Shirt Contest”
June 26th, 2008
Having just jumped on the My Boys bandwagon in the past week, this is the first time I’ve been able to catch an episode on the night of its airing. It’s a pity, then, that it was an episode that was so slight, a mere distraction with a central reality show [...]
June 26, 2008
Academy Reveals Emmy “Top 10s” for Comedy and Drama Series
Earlier this week, Tom O’Neill over at The Envelope’s Gold Derby revealed that the Academy planned, for the first time, to reveal the official Top 10 qualifiers for the Series and Acting prizes. These are the shows that will be screened in front of panels, and then used to decide 50% of the final nomination [...]
June 26, 2008
Short Form Reviews: Plain Sight, Call Girl, Dance
Short Form Reviews
June 26th, 2008
Considering that a majority of my television watching has been spent finishing up one HBO show (Six Feet Under) and digging into another in earnest (The Wire), all in conjunction with regular TV viewing and some repeat viewings of some of the season’s best episodes (I’ll be getting to that maybe [...]
June 25, 2008
60th Primetime Emmy Awards Preview: Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series
Achieving success in the Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series takes one of three things: having a recognizable name, being on a popular show, or being on a show that has won Emmys in the past.
Now, you’re probably asking yourself why I would take the time to isolate these three categories since they should (by [...]
June 24, 2008
Series Premieres: “Wipeout” and “I Survived a Japanese Game Show”
“Wipeout”
and
“I Survived a Japanese Game Show”
June 24th, 2008
Tonight’s primetime lineup was almost to the point of parody: NBC trotted out Celebrity Family Feud (I’m questioning their definition of celebrities) and the second week of lifeless America’s Got Talent (Really? Are you sure?), and ABC countered with what on paper seems like two signs of the [...]
June 24, 2008
60th Primetime Emmy Awards Preview – Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series
If there’s something to say about the Supporting Actor category for comedy series, it’s that it has far too many candidates, largely due to the nature of television comedy. There are just a lot of male comic performers who steal their respective shows, emerging from the spotlight of the “stars” if you will. When there [...]
June 24, 2008
The Mole (2008) – “Episode Four”
“Episode Four”
June 23rd, 2008
As I become more and more convinced that I know who the Mole is, I’m also becoming convinced of something much more important: ratings be damned, this is turning into a great season of The Mole. And the main reason? Because my main suspect got booted from the game.
Now, it is not [...]
