David Kronke was appointed Mayor of Television after a bloodless coup in 2000. Since then, he has improved infrastructure, championed greater educational opportunities and fought for reforms that have utterly erased corruption and incompetence from the television industry. Since Mr. Kronke has ascended to power, Television is a far better place. Emmy in a Box
Your Mayor was interviewed by BBC Radio Monday about the lamentable decision to hire Ryan Seacrest to host Sunday’s Emmy Awards ceremony. Yearning to salve diplomatic relations between our two countries, which were sorely tested when Tony Blair became branded Bush Junior’s lapdog during the war in Iraq, I suggested the only reason Seacrest was picked was that the producers wanted to get Simon Cowell as part of the bargain; he’d sit at a desk to the side of the stage and inform Seacrest at intermittent stages of the ceremony what an abysmal job he was doing, and dump on the quality of the nominees and winners in general.
All this, I informed the journalist in a Cockney accent that’d do Dick Van Dyke proud, and while repeatedly calling my interviewer “Gov’nor.”
This reminded me, however, that in my preparations for the Fall TV Season, I had overlooked the dispensing of sundry technical and minor Emmy Awards over the weekend, something easily accomplished, because all right-thinking people were too busy taking in the cinematic blunderbuss “Shoot ’Em Up” rather than wringing their hands over who would take home the trophy for Creative Achievement in Interactive Television or Best Makeup (Non-Prosthetic).
The weekend’s big winners were Discovery Channel’s visual dazzler “Planet Earth,” HBO’s Bush Administration buzzkill “When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts” and, for technical achievement in politically correct television, HBO’s “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.”
But the biggest (and you know what I mean) winner was “Saturday Night Live’s” “Dick in a Box” (watch it once more for old time’s sake), which actually won a trophy for Best Song.
In accepting his pointy, gold-plated gewgaw honoring the highest achievements in the television arts, Andy Samberg (accepting on behalf of his collaborator Justin Timberlake) declared, “It's safe to say that when we first set out to make this song, we were all thinking, ‘Emmy!’”
If just one winner in Sunday’s televised ceremony will be that interesting, it almost might be worth watching.
Comments
Yay for "Dick in a Box" winning an Emmy! It should have also won Best Video at the MTV awards, but that apparently is going to the catfight between Kid Rock and Tommy Lee. Two girly-men fighting over one tramp. What is this world coming to?
Posted by: Suzy Q | September 11, 2007 1:41 PM