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Emmy Awards Are the Biggest Loser

Posted by Fara Kearnes on September 23, 2008 5:09 PM |

ryan-seacrestFive reality-show hosts opened the lamest Emmy Awards show in history Sunday night but it wasn't so bad after all. As it turns out - there was no TV viewing audience tuned in to watch the live trainwreck.

On his radio show Monday, Ryan Seacrest explained why their un-scripted, ad-libbed, opening monologue was lame: "For a while, we didn't have anything until we came up with the fact that our 'something' was 'nothing.' . . . And once finally I realized that we had nothing and that 'nothing' was being honest, and that was real . . . we actually, we were good. . . . I say we were 'good' not in terms of 'I thought we were great,' I'm just saying we were done, we did it, we're good, we're out. We were good, we're good -- right?"

The five hosts, Ryan Seacrest, Tom Bergeron, Heidi Klum, Howie Mandel and Jeff Probst, actually walked onstage and talked to each other bragging that they had come out with absolutely nothing prepared. The show went downhill from there - gathering only 12 million viewers in it's lowest rated show ever.

Even the actors complained onstage at just how bad the show was. During his acceptance speech best supporting actor in a comedy Jeremy Piven sneered: "What if I just kept talking for 12 minutes? What would happen?" He then added, "That was the the opening!" and the audience cheered at the smear.

Since the Emmys awarded trophies to shows that either had their seasons shortened last year by the writers' strike, or are critically acclaimed and not watched by the masses, most of the awards went to shows like "Mad Men," "Breaking Bad," "30 Rock" and "John Adams."

For example, Mad Men, a period piece set at a 1960s Madison Avenue ad agency, took TV's top honor, winning the prize for best drama series despite drawing less than 1 million viewers last season.

The rest of Emmy award show was just as bad including Josh Groban singing a ridiculous marathon medley of TV theme songs, ranging from "The Simpsons" to "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" to "South Park" to "Gilligan's Island." You couldn't help but lose respect for Groban after that number.

The TV actors, writers, and directors who were the real winners of the night were the no-shows - as was the TV audience who chose to do something else with their Sunday night..



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