There has to be some discussion of the 75th Anniversary Emmy Awards for TV excellence, or lack thereof. It's funny how on Martin Luther King Day all the emphasis was on ethnic choice with after-the fact bragging by the TV Academy as to how diverse the winners were. Martin Luther King made a point that the character of an individual and NOT skin color was important. That message seems lost in the shuffle. Meanwhile, the TV Academy also seems to have forgotten that broadcast TV is not the same as cable TV and streaming services are something different altogether. Also movies running on streaming services are not TV shows, but actually movies. The awards were skewed away from broadcast and network TV to the point that (except for the ethnic network TV comedy Abbott Elementary) nearly all the high production value network shows were snubbed by the Academy in favor of HBO/Max or Netflix properties with F/X not far behind. As far as anyone could tell, CBS with all it's highly produced dramas got no awards. Many of the shows that were nominated nobody has ever heard of. Many had political underpinnings. |