If I Chose The Emmys
This week I talk a lot about the shows I think should have won Emmys. Take a look!
Welcome to another week at Bogworld. It was pretty slim on the updates this past week. I am sorry about that. I had too many work and family things pulling me away from the drawing table. I am hopeful this week will be a little more productive. Here’s whats on my mind this week.
If I Chose The Emmys
I watch a fair bit of television. I tend to have the tube on in the background when I do this blog-tooning stuff that I do. So I catch a fair share of it. In some ways I think my grasp of televised programming might be a little more realistic than the folks who rank television shows professionally.
For example, I keep reading that NCIS is the most popular show on television yet I do not know a single person who watches it. How is that possible?
Anyway, I would have given The Pacific the award for best mini series. I am sure Hollywood has good reasons for giving just about every award of the night to that autistic woman, but The Pacific was more important television in my honest opinion. And yes, I am biased as hell because my Dad is a WWII veteran who served in the Pacific.
I agreed with their choice for best comedy series. Modern Family is outstanding. However I would have awarded a tie. NBC’s Community deserves that award just as much.
The Academy of Television Arts clumped Glee into the category of best comedy series. Best comedy series? While the show has a few laughs and I do really like it a lot. Its not a comedy show. Its a musical show. If there is no clear category for a good show, how is that show helped in its quest for recognition by clumping it into a category it just kind of belongs in?
I think any show that is a spin off of Law and Order or CSI should be disqualified. There are just too many of these shows these days and its just piling on when these are literally the only two choices people without cable have on any given night.
The award for politically incorrect, socially irreverent, over the top, rude-crude animation series goes to South Park. I still love the Simpsons, Family Guy and the rest. But South Park has the unique capability of being able to be nearly unwatchably crude while somehow being truly relevant most of the time. To give you an example, last season they did a show in which Britney Spears blows most of her head off in a suicide attempt. She somehow manages to survive and is urged to continue to perform even though she is missing a large portion of her head. The show was incredibly gross and even not funny. But if you stuck with it, it ended up making an amazingly poignant message on how American media builds superstars up only to viciously tear them apart with unrealistic scrutiny on their lives.
Best real news show? MSNBC’s Countdown. I am sure there are going to be a lot of conservatives readers who will pounce on me as a bleeding heart liberal for liking this show. Thus I cannot possibly appreciate Glenn Beck and Bill O’Reilly has to offer over on FOX. Well sorry folks. I am not a bleeding heart liberal. I am actually in the middle of the road majority of people who doesn’t vote Democrat or Republican. I vote for who I feel is the best guy for the job. That just happens to be mostly Democrats these days because honestly the Republican choices have been pathetically bad lately. What I really like about Countdown and Keith Olbermann is that its a smartly written show that does not take sides. Olbermann does criticize Democrats just as enthusiastically when they screw up as he goes after Republicans. Like my voting philosophy, its not that MSNBC is a liberal station. Its that they are accurately reporting that the majority of bad behavior, stupidity and obstructionist politics comes from the Republican party these days. The truth hurts sometimes. I know a guy who will look you in the eye, dead serious, and claim there has never been a documented moment where FOX news has mislead or misreported anything. That might be the most comedic statement ever made. The 24 hours of news programming on MSNBC would have very little to say if it were not for the constant need to correct or debunk things FOX is reporting. Crooks and LIars and Media Matters never runs out of things to write about thanks to the FOX propaganda machine. Where are the correction sites and counters to MSNBC? Oh that’s right, the truth does not need to be corrected. I don’t mean for that to come across as partisan smugness. But as someone who really just wants government and politics to get back to being about representing me and you and all the other real people just trying to eek out a living in this country. I really do appreciate news that calls a rat a rat...No matter what side of the political world that rat hangs its hat.
Best fake news show... well again the temptation here is to choose something from FOX since what they do is mostly opinion and not news. But I already made that point. So instead I will go with a tie between The Colbert Report and The Daily Show. Both these shows do an equally amazing job pointing our the absurdities of todays politics and media coverage of the news of the day.
Best Cable Realty Show was hands down Deadliest Catch this year. The documenting of a family losing their father, Captain Phil Harris, was truly some of the most engaging television ever presented anywhere.
The best movie review program on television? I would vote in a dark horse here. So many of the establish movie review shows have become so stuffy they seem to forget that movies are supposed to be fun, escapism for most of us. But if you are lucky enough to get cables Current Channel or catch the show on Hulu.com. You know the most entertaining movie review show is The Rotten Tomatoes Show.
Thats it. Those are the shows I really wish were recognized. But now that you read this you will seek all these shows on for yourself, right?
If I Chose The Emmys
I watch a fair bit of television. I tend to have the tube on in the background when I do this blog-tooning stuff that I do. So I catch a fair share of it. In some ways I think my grasp of televised programming might be a little more realistic than the folks who rank television shows professionally.
For example, I keep reading that NCIS is the most popular show on television yet I do not know a single person who watches it. How is that possible?
Anyway, I would have given The Pacific the award for best mini series. I am sure Hollywood has good reasons for giving just about every award of the night to that autistic woman, but The Pacific was more important television in my honest opinion. And yes, I am biased as hell because my Dad is a WWII veteran who served in the Pacific.
I agreed with their choice for best comedy series. Modern Family is outstanding. However I would have awarded a tie. NBC’s Community deserves that award just as much.
The Academy of Television Arts clumped Glee into the category of best comedy series. Best comedy series? While the show has a few laughs and I do really like it a lot. Its not a comedy show. Its a musical show. If there is no clear category for a good show, how is that show helped in its quest for recognition by clumping it into a category it just kind of belongs in?
I think any show that is a spin off of Law and Order or CSI should be disqualified. There are just too many of these shows these days and its just piling on when these are literally the only two choices people without cable have on any given night.
The award for politically incorrect, socially irreverent, over the top, rude-crude animation series goes to South Park. I still love the Simpsons, Family Guy and the rest. But South Park has the unique capability of being able to be nearly unwatchably crude while somehow being truly relevant most of the time. To give you an example, last season they did a show in which Britney Spears blows most of her head off in a suicide attempt. She somehow manages to survive and is urged to continue to perform even though she is missing a large portion of her head. The show was incredibly gross and even not funny. But if you stuck with it, it ended up making an amazingly poignant message on how American media builds superstars up only to viciously tear them apart with unrealistic scrutiny on their lives.
Best real news show? MSNBC’s Countdown. I am sure there are going to be a lot of conservatives readers who will pounce on me as a bleeding heart liberal for liking this show. Thus I cannot possibly appreciate Glenn Beck and Bill O’Reilly has to offer over on FOX. Well sorry folks. I am not a bleeding heart liberal. I am actually in the middle of the road majority of people who doesn’t vote Democrat or Republican. I vote for who I feel is the best guy for the job. That just happens to be mostly Democrats these days because honestly the Republican choices have been pathetically bad lately. What I really like about Countdown and Keith Olbermann is that its a smartly written show that does not take sides. Olbermann does criticize Democrats just as enthusiastically when they screw up as he goes after Republicans. Like my voting philosophy, its not that MSNBC is a liberal station. Its that they are accurately reporting that the majority of bad behavior, stupidity and obstructionist politics comes from the Republican party these days. The truth hurts sometimes. I know a guy who will look you in the eye, dead serious, and claim there has never been a documented moment where FOX news has mislead or misreported anything. That might be the most comedic statement ever made. The 24 hours of news programming on MSNBC would have very little to say if it were not for the constant need to correct or debunk things FOX is reporting. Crooks and LIars and Media Matters never runs out of things to write about thanks to the FOX propaganda machine. Where are the correction sites and counters to MSNBC? Oh that’s right, the truth does not need to be corrected. I don’t mean for that to come across as partisan smugness. But as someone who really just wants government and politics to get back to being about representing me and you and all the other real people just trying to eek out a living in this country. I really do appreciate news that calls a rat a rat...No matter what side of the political world that rat hangs its hat.
Best fake news show... well again the temptation here is to choose something from FOX since what they do is mostly opinion and not news. But I already made that point. So instead I will go with a tie between The Colbert Report and The Daily Show. Both these shows do an equally amazing job pointing our the absurdities of todays politics and media coverage of the news of the day.
Best Cable Realty Show was hands down Deadliest Catch this year. The documenting of a family losing their father, Captain Phil Harris, was truly some of the most engaging television ever presented anywhere.
The best movie review program on television? I would vote in a dark horse here. So many of the establish movie review shows have become so stuffy they seem to forget that movies are supposed to be fun, escapism for most of us. But if you are lucky enough to get cables Current Channel or catch the show on Hulu.com. You know the most entertaining movie review show is The Rotten Tomatoes Show.
Thats it. Those are the shows I really wish were recognized. But now that you read this you will seek all these shows on for yourself, right?