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2010 Emmy Award Predictions: Supporting Acting in a Comedy

Supporting Acting in a Comedy August 24th, 2010 When it comes to the supporting acting awards in comedy, it’s an interesting microcosm of the larger comedy race: while 30 Rock is unrepresented in a competitive fashion, both races boil down … Continue reading

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2010 Creative Arts Emmys Predictions: Guest Acting

2010 Creative Arts Emmys Predictions August 21st, 2010 Each year the Creative Arts Emmys are a celebration of the unsung heroes, albeit a celebration which remains largely unsung: few ever really get to see the awards, and so there’s a … Continue reading

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And Your Winner, by Submission…: Analyzing 2010′s Emmy Tapes

And Your Winner, by Submission…: Analyzing 2010′s Emmy Tapes July 15th, 2010 Last week, I wrote a piece for Jive TV which described the next step in the Emmy Awards process, and the ways in which this post-nomination period is … Continue reading

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The Trick is to Actually Watch TV: The 2010 Emmy Nominations

The Trick is to Actually Watch TV: The 2010 Emmy Nominations July 8th, 2010 The Emmy nominations (which you can find in full here) are less a sign of what’s truly great on television and a more a sign of … Continue reading

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The 2010 Primetime Emmy Award Nominations

The 2010 Primetime Emmy Award Nominations July 8th, 2010 [For complete analysis of the 2010 Emmy Nominees, head to my full breakdown, "The Trick is to Watch TV," here.] Here are the nominees for the 2010 Emmy Awards (and, for … Continue reading

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Fiske-ian Learnings: Reflections on Fiske Matters

While I don’t often delve too far into my academic experiences here at Cultural Learnings, this past weekend offered an interesting convergence of my various different hats, and since I’m going to be more academically involved in television studies in … Continue reading

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Handicapping the 2010 Emmys: Official Ballot Miscellany

Official Ballot Miscellany June 4th, 2010 Earlier this evening, Emmy voting officially began; this isn’t particularly important to us non-voters, but it does mean that the official ballots were released (PDFs: Performers, Writing, Directing), which means that we know who … Continue reading

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Handicapping the 2010 Emmys: Comedy Acting

Handicapping the 2010 Emmys: Comedy Acting June 2nd, 2010 In comedy this year, a lot depends on what shows make it big: we know that Glee and Modern Family are going to make a statement (as noted in my piece … Continue reading

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Handicapping the 2010 Emmys: Drama and Comedy Series

Handicapping the 2010 Emmys: Drama and Comedy Series June 1st, 2010 What’s weird about predicting the Emmy nominations (which are on July 8th, for the record) is that it really doesn’t have anything to do with quality: sure, a bad … Continue reading

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A Serialized Man: The Narrative Pleasures of The Tobolowsky Files

When character actor Stephen Tobolowsky was a guest on the /Filmcast, a podcast which (as some long-time readers might remember) I’ve had the pleasure of taking part in myself, I remember being shocked at his level of preparedness: for his … Continue reading

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