Category Archives: Award Shows
Pandering to the Demo: The Critics’ Choice Television Awards
I’ve known about the existence of the Broadcast Television Journalists Association for a while now, and it’s always struck me as a bit odd. Seemingly an alternative to the Television Critics’ Association, although some of the members actually hold membership … Continue reading
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Endangered Species: What the Emmy Merge Means for the Miniseries Form
Endangered Species: The Emmy Merge and the Miniseries Form February 25th, 2011 It is not particularly surprising to learn that the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences is merging the Outstanding Miniseries and Outstanding Made-for-Television Movie categories at this year’s … Continue reading
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Funhouse Transparency: The 2011 Oscar Nominations
The 2011 Oscar Nominations January 25th, 2011 On Twitter, I suggested that I was relatively bored with this morning’s Oscar nominations…or, more accurately, I tweeted “Oscar nods = yawn,” which frankly says more about how much I enjoy being up … Continue reading
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Ricky the Rabble-Rouser: The 2011 Golden Globe Awards
Normally, watching the Golden Globes is a fairly solitary experience for me. Sure, my parents or a few floormates would often be in the room as I liveblogged, livetweeted, or took notes during previous years, but the focus was on … Continue reading
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Ode to Perabo: Celebrating Golden Globetrocity
Ode to Perabo: Celebrating Golden Globetrocity December 14th, 2010 Normally, I wake up to watch the Golden Globes nominations (which you can read here) early…at 9am. Living in the wonderful Atlantic time zone for so long, I got spoiled by … Continue reading
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Excellence on Selective Terms: Rewarding Series Television at the Peabody Awards
Excellence on Selective Terms March 31st, 2010 The criteria for earning a Peabody Award, a prestigious honour in the area of electronic media, is listed as follows on the awards’ website: The Award is determined by one criterion – “Excellence.” … Continue reading
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What’s my Genre Again?: The In(s)anity of the Saturn Awards
The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films comes together every year to recognize the best in genre entertainment (in both film and television) at the Saturn Awards. This is, at least in my view, a noble endeavour, and … Continue reading
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Snubpocrisy: The 2010 Oscar Nominations as Disappointing and Not Disappointing Enough
Snubpocrisy: The 2010 Oscar Nominations February 2nd, 2010 There are times in this life when I realize that I can be quite cynical, which I know flies in the face of everything that Conan O’Brien instructed me to do during … Continue reading
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A Sales Spectacular: The Honest Quest for “Buzz” at the 2010 Grammys
When the Jay Leno Show was first pitched by NBC, they claimed that it would be so topical that people wouldn’t dare tape it on their DVRs out of fear of missing something important. This was, of course, a complete … Continue reading
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