Category Archives: Award Shows
Hope You Didn’t Take It Seriously (Ricky Didn’t): The 2010 Golden Globe Awards
Hope You Didn’t Take It Seriously (Ricky Didn’t): The 2010 Golden Globe Awards January 17th, 2010 I said going into the 67th Annual Golden Globes Awards that I was more excited than ever to watch the show but the least … Continue reading
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Team Gervais: Disinterested Predictions for the 2010 Golden Globes
I don’t think I have ever been more excited to watch the Golden Globes (Tonight at 8pm on NBC), and yet at the same time I don’t think I’ve ever been so disassociated from the actual nominees. This likely sounds … Continue reading
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Network Selfishness, the Super Bowl, and the Bizarro Emmys
When watching last night’s Survivor finale, hearing Jeff Probst announce that the next installment of Survivor (Heroes vs. Villains) was going to begin on February 11th made me extremely happy. It’s not that February 11th is my birthday, or a … Continue reading
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Equal Treatment: SAG delivers Disappointing TV Nominations
The other day, I tore into the Golden Globes for being star fetishists, arguing that their choices reflect a clear lack of interest in actually honouring the best in television (when Entourage is your default, there is something very wrong). … Continue reading
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2009 Golden Globe Nominations: The Hollywood Fetishist Press Association
The Golden Globes nominations are out (Check out the TV specific list here, or the full list here), and provided you have no expectation of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association being logical in their selections they’re about what you would … Continue reading
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Emmys Add Reality TV Host Category; Seacrest Ecstatic
When it comes to Reality Competition programs and the Emmy Awards, it has been a clean sweep: The Amazing Race just refuses to lose the award. Whether it is its sweeping vistas, its willingness to let people fall apart without … Continue reading
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Screen Actors Guild Awards – Television Winners and Thoughts
This will be brief, as I am entering an extremely hectic period in terms of work and the like, but I thought I’d react to this evening’s Screen Actors Guild Awards from a Television (series) perspective. It may only be … Continue reading
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The “Winners” and “Losers” of the 2008 Golden Globes Awards
Last night, the 2008 Golden Globes were a ludicrous and fascinating experiment of NBC’s incompetence (Sepinwall tears them a new one here) and a sense that what we were watching was memorable not due to any of the winners but … Continue reading
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