There was a lot of TV clashing last night. The usual Monday comedies clashed - with the end of the most enjoyable Trevor's World of Sport clashing with the entertaining Grass. On a more serious note, Rageh Omaar's Huw Weldon Lecture clashed with Breaking the Silence: A Special Report by John Pilger. I saw the former, whilst taping the latter - I look forward to watching it tonight. Meanwhile, the cheaper part of me watched Living TV's coverage of the Emmy Awards. In actual fact I taped the whole thing, and fastforwarded through most of it. It's a strange ceremony, mixing the funny/political (Jon Stewart's analysis of TV news) with the simply unfunny (the Pop Idol thing about TV accountants). In between they handed out the awards, to a very select handful of programmes. Big winners included The Sopranos, and Everyone Loves Raymond. The worst category was one that simply seemed to give an award to the best coverage of a concert or awards ceremony! Yup - the coverage of The Oscars was up for an Emmy. How incestuous can you get? And while I'm sure that the coverage of the Cher show was wonderful, how far wrong can you go with something like that. The other exceptional award is for best guest star in either a comedy or series. Largely speaking, you got nominated for getting the biggest star name to participate in your show. Brilliant! I wouldn't mind catching some of the one-off dramas that were big winners or nominees, like to Door to Door, but we get pretty much everything else nominated (with maybe the exception of Raymond).
Posted by adambowie at September 23, 2003 10:07 AM