Sunday, October 3
The Sarah Scoop: Check this Out--(500) Days of Weezy
The Sarah Scoop: Check this Out--(500) Days of Weezy: "I'm a huge fan of Zooey Deschanel and (500) Days of Summer has been one of my favorite movies ever since it came out the summer of 2009. I k..."
The Sarah Scoop: Kristen Bell wants a Veronica Mars Movie (or at le...
The Sarah Scoop: Kristen Bell wants a Veronica Mars Movie (or at le...: " According to SlashFilm, Kristen Bell has been tweeting lately about how badly she wishes the Veronica Mars (a cancelled CW TV series about ..."
Monday, September 20
The Sarah Scoop: Finally, TV is Back
The Sarah Scoop: Finally, TV is Back: "If you’ve spent your summer watching reruns and reality TV and have hated it (I know I have), the long wait is over. Monday brings premieres..."
Saturday, September 11
Kids Reenact Keeping Up With The Kardashians
It's hilarious. I especially love that Lamar Odom is just played by a cardboard cut out and the kid who plays Scott.
Friday, September 10
New Blog: A Photo And A Girl
A spin off of my blog, http://www.atvandagirl.blogspot.com, this blog will detail my adventures in semi-photojournalism. I don't promise they'll be good. They're just the photos I take.
Hope you enjoy it, and you can subscribe to the RSS feed for that blog just like you did this one.
A Look At This Year's Emmy Awards
For the most part, the 62nd Annual Primetime Emmys were exactly what you'd expect from a long-running awards show: AMC and HBO's flagship series swept the event, Jimmy Fallon told some jokes. About 13.5 million Americans watched the telecast, which was telecast live on both coasts simultaneously for the first time since 1976.
Unlike other awards shows, like perhaps the Oscars, where the same people regularly win for similar roles in many films, the Emmys almost certainly suffer from the fact that year after year, so long as a show stays good, it keeps up its nominations and wins. HBO's content perhaps deviates from this formula slightly, given their tendency to produce more miniseries and made-for-TV movies than just about anyone else, but they produce the Emmy equivalent of Oscar-bait almost unavoidably, and it works. The network won Outstanding Miniseries for The Pacific (competing only with PBS's Return to Cranford, an adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's spinster stories), Outstanding Made for Television Movie for Temple Grandin, a category in which HBO had 3/5 of the nominees with that film, The Special Relationship and You Don't Know Jack. Though they didn't win Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special, four of the six nominees were HBO specials. The same sort of dominance showed up in the Outstanding Lead Actor and Actress in a Miniseries or Movie categories, where Al Pacino and Claire Danes won for You Don't Know Jack and Temple Grandin, respectively, nominated against 5 other HBO films' actors.
For its very good third season, Mad Men received many nominations and few wins, but it kept Outstanding Drama Series and won Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series for the third year in a row, where it was competing against itself. Virtually its entire cast received nominations for their roles: Jon Hamm, January Jones, John Slattery, Christina Hendricks, Elisabeth Moss, and Robert Morse.
NBC's comedies, both rising and in decline, went widely uncelebrated compared to past performances. The Office received a nomination for Outstanding Comedy Series, as did 30 Rock, though neither won, marking 30 Rock's first loss in this category (much of both series' principal casts received nominations in their respective categories). Surprisingly, only Amy Poehler received a nomination for Parks and Recreation's vastly improved second season, and even that it didn't win. Provided that it continues to get better -- it's shaken much of the criticisms leveled against it -- perhaps this will change in the years to come. NBC's former drama -- and by this I mean Friday Night Lights -- received nominations for Outstanding Lead Actor and Actress, as well as Outstanding Writing, but won nothing.
If anything marks a breakout, then, it's the emergence of pop culture phenomenon Glee, which received 19 nominations, three of which it won, and ABC comedy Modern Family, which received almost 10. Glee took home awards for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series and Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series and Modern Family received awards for Outstanding Comedy Series (over Glee, NBC's comedies, Nurse Jackie and Curb Your Enthusiasm), Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series (where it was nominated three times), and Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series. 
Shut out most egregiously was Party Down, which was canceled following low ratings and Adam Scott's departure for a major role in Parks and Recreation's upcoming third season. As one of the better comedies on television, it merited at least consideration for Scott and Ken Marino, if not Jane Lynch, who moved on to the much more successful Glee after the show's first season (and won Outstanding Supporting Actress for her performance).
All in all, it was another under-watched, largely uninteresting awards show with fairly predictable results. If you missed this one, there'll conveniently be another next year.
Andrew Hall is a guest blogger for My Dog Ate My Blog and a writer on online schools for Guide to Online Schools.
Unlike other awards shows, like perhaps the Oscars, where the same people regularly win for similar roles in many films, the Emmys almost certainly suffer from the fact that year after year, so long as a show stays good, it keeps up its nominations and wins. HBO's content perhaps deviates from this formula slightly, given their tendency to produce more miniseries and made-for-TV movies than just about anyone else, but they produce the Emmy equivalent of Oscar-bait almost unavoidably, and it works. The network won Outstanding Miniseries for The Pacific (competing only with PBS's Return to Cranford, an adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's spinster stories), Outstanding Made for Television Movie for Temple Grandin, a category in which HBO had 3/5 of the nominees with that film, The Special Relationship and You Don't Know Jack. Though they didn't win Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special, four of the six nominees were HBO specials. The same sort of dominance showed up in the Outstanding Lead Actor and Actress in a Miniseries or Movie categories, where Al Pacino and Claire Danes won for You Don't Know Jack and Temple Grandin, respectively, nominated against 5 other HBO films' actors.
For its very good third season, Mad Men received many nominations and few wins, but it kept Outstanding Drama Series and won Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series for the third year in a row, where it was competing against itself. Virtually its entire cast received nominations for their roles: Jon Hamm, January Jones, John Slattery, Christina Hendricks, Elisabeth Moss, and Robert Morse.NBC's comedies, both rising and in decline, went widely uncelebrated compared to past performances. The Office received a nomination for Outstanding Comedy Series, as did 30 Rock, though neither won, marking 30 Rock's first loss in this category (much of both series' principal casts received nominations in their respective categories). Surprisingly, only Amy Poehler received a nomination for Parks and Recreation's vastly improved second season, and even that it didn't win. Provided that it continues to get better -- it's shaken much of the criticisms leveled against it -- perhaps this will change in the years to come. NBC's former drama -- and by this I mean Friday Night Lights -- received nominations for Outstanding Lead Actor and Actress, as well as Outstanding Writing, but won nothing.If anything marks a breakout, then, it's the emergence of pop culture phenomenon Glee, which received 19 nominations, three of which it won, and ABC comedy Modern Family, which received almost 10. Glee took home awards for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series and Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series and Modern Family received awards for Outstanding Comedy Series (over Glee, NBC's comedies, Nurse Jackie and Curb Your Enthusiasm), Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series (where it was nominated three times), and Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series. Shut out most egregiously was Party Down, which was canceled following low ratings and Adam Scott's departure for a major role in Parks and Recreation's upcoming third season. As one of the better comedies on television, it merited at least consideration for Scott and Ken Marino, if not Jane Lynch, who moved on to the much more successful Glee after the show's first season (and won Outstanding Supporting Actress for her performance).
All in all, it was another under-watched, largely uninteresting awards show with fairly predictable results. If you missed this one, there'll conveniently be another next year.Andrew Hall is a guest blogger for My Dog Ate My Blog and a writer on online schools for Guide to Online Schools.
Thursday, September 9
Want to Give Kristen Bell A Birthday Present?
Kristen Bell, star of Veronica Mars (as well as the upcoming comedy You Again), is asking for a birthday present from all her fans. No, she isn't greedy. She's trying to raise money in order to give clean water the billion people in this world without it and is asking her fans to donate money to the cause.
As Kristen puts it on the Donation Page:
A billion people in the world are living without clean water. EFF THAT.
Water-borne illness is the second highest cause of childhood death in the world. NOT ON MY WATCH.
45,000 people will die this week alone from contaminated water illnesses. Y'ALL, LETS GET OFF OUR HINEYS AND FIX THIS.
Please help me get to my goal of 100K and let's have a clean water toast.
Cheers,
Kristen
Even if you can only afford to give a little, it will still help the cause.
As Kristen puts it on the Donation Page:
A billion people in the world are living without clean water. EFF THAT.
Water-borne illness is the second highest cause of childhood death in the world. NOT ON MY WATCH.
45,000 people will die this week alone from contaminated water illnesses. Y'ALL, LETS GET OFF OUR HINEYS AND FIX THIS.
Please help me get to my goal of 100K and let's have a clean water toast.
Cheers,
Kristen
Even if you can only afford to give a little, it will still help the cause.
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