Jason Bateman gets LA La Landed

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PGage

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Sep 20, 2020, 12:42:52 AM9/20/20
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“As had been done successfully for four-and-a-half nights (even when there was a tie for Outstanding Children’s Program), Cannavale and Byrne called for the winner to be announced and a title card revealed the winner, Ron Cephas Jones. But then the announcer chimed in: “Jason Bateman as Terry Maitland, The Outsider, ‘Fish In A Ba...’” The recorded announcement stopped mid-episode title and the shot changed to a bit of Emmys trivia before abruptly cutting to commercial.

When the show returned, a title card informed viewers “an incorrect winner has been announced. We’re fixing it now. Please don’t go away.” (We’re not sure where they thought we were going—this was by far the most exciting thing to happen during the six hours of awards.) Then Cephas Jones’ title card flashed on the screen and footage that seemed to fit with the previous “the Academy accepts this award on their behalf” played in silence before the show continued. A few hours after the telecast, the Academy sent an email of the evening’s winners which verified that Cephas Jones had indeed won.



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Jon Delfin

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Sep 20, 2020, 7:40:51 AM9/20/20
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It seemed like everything on last night's "live" show was pre-recorded except for the reveals -- so why bother with just the one element? Afraid of leaks?

Also, that was the weirdest In Memoriam segment I've ever seen. "We'll scroll the names of every single person who died since last year*, but prevent anyone reading the whole list by superimposing pictures of some people chosen at random." (*it certainly went on long enough to suggest they were inclusive, but odds are they weren't)

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PGage

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Sep 21, 2020, 10:03:45 AM9/21/20
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Meanwhile, I really liked how they did the In Memoriam on the prime time show last night. Each person got their own slide, with a background image that pointed to something they were known for, and the song sung underneath was appropriate for everyone, but then was revealed to be particularly pointing to the last person remembered, Chadwick Bozeman. And Dave had a nice Anticipatory shout out to His pal appearing in it earlier in the show.

Marti Lawrence

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Sep 21, 2020, 12:15:13 PM9/21/20
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I thought the whole program came off fairly well. The technical aspects of doing so many remote locations and delivering the actual statuette to people in far-flung places worked pretty well. I know the jokes are always a little flat, but I don't expect to get a lot of laughs from people introducing categories at awards shows. 

I agree the memorials were tasteful and I only saw a few people online grumbling about someone being omitted.  I always get emotional to see the group of talented people we lost.

As a longtime fan of Schitt's Creek, I was thrilled to see them sweep the comedy category and break a record. 

Leaning in hard on diversity seemed to be a theme, but I didn't feel like anyone who won was selected purely because they represented a minority. 

~Marti


Bob Jersey

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Sep 21, 2020, 4:13:45 PM9/21/20
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The ratings reached a new low... though Aniston looked slammin' as ever in a brief clip...


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Bob Jersey

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Sep 21, 2020, 4:35:31 PM9/21/20
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Kimmel's co-head writer on Aniston, Dave, a certain trophy, et al...


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Kevin M.

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Sep 21, 2020, 4:37:18 PM9/21/20
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A modest proposal: Move all award shows off of broadcast networks. Stream them or put them on cable. They don’t enhance whatever network televises them. 

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PGage

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Sep 21, 2020, 6:28:46 PM9/21/20
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I doubt that’s true. Even down 12% those are pretty good ratings for ABC vs Sunday Night Football (and a great NBA WC Final game, which is what I watched almost live). ABC used the telecast to pump the crap out of its show Black-ish, with both stars on stage live, and of course Kimmel as host is a hype for his late night show. I’m sure it is still a net plus for ABC, though with ratings declines (more this tear without the Red Carpet fashion element) maybe they will negotiate a better price.

Doug Eastick

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Sep 21, 2020, 6:32:46 PM9/21/20
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I did not miss the red carpet blah blah and fashion aspect.   I did really like the home family aspects of the awards.



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Tom Wolper

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Sep 21, 2020, 6:37:50 PM9/21/20
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On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 4:37 PM Kevin M. <drunkba...@gmail.com> wrote:
A modest proposal: Move all award shows off of broadcast networks. Stream them or put them on cable. They don’t enhance whatever network televises them.

Alas they're still huge revenue generators for the networks only behind major sporting events for live ratings. They're not going anywhere.

Kevin M.

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Sep 21, 2020, 6:39:15 PM9/21/20
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ACMs had 6.6 and VMAs had 6.4. The Emmys and Oscars are supposed to be bigger and better, etc, etc. Even granting the premise that all network TV viewing audiences are dwindling, what might be a ratings success in standard prime time programming just leads to bad publicity in event programming. On cable, or streaming, those are good numbers, but not for a heavily hyped special that can’t be rerun or sold some other way. 

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Tom Wolper

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Sep 21, 2020, 6:46:11 PM9/21/20
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On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 6:39 PM Kevin M. <drunkba...@gmail.com> wrote:
ACMs had 6.6 and VMAs had 6.4. The Emmys and Oscars are supposed to be bigger and better, etc, etc. Even granting the premise that all network TV viewing audiences are dwindling, what might be a ratings success in standard prime time programming just leads to bad publicity in event programming. On cable, or streaming, those are good numbers, but not for a heavily hyped special that can’t be rerun or sold some other way.

The ACMs and VMAs are music awards and they will bring in more of a niche audience. And the VMAs were on the CW and they're probably happy with their numbers compared with the MTV days.

Bob Jersey

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Sep 22, 2020, 11:19:21 AM9/22/20
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And those networks will move to shorten regular-season sports events before they even think about award shows.

Tom Wolper, to Kevin M, Sept 21st:
A modest proposal: Move all award shows off of broadcast networks. Stream them or put them on cable. They don’t enhance whatever network televises them.

Alas they're still huge revenue generators for the networks only behind major sporting events for live ratings. They're not going anywhere.


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