Review: The 60th Emmy Telecast

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2008 EMMY COVERAGE - Zeitgeist: Early Morning After Edition.
Published 9/22/2008 by Jennie at No Fact Zone
... Review: The 60th Emmy Telecast - Zap2It: “Smothers made an impassioned (albeit typically halting) speech about peace, Stephen Colbert advocated in favor of a prune and John Adams scribe Kirk Ellis was cut off in the middle of a lamentation about the lack of articulate politicians in our current climate.” ...

What We Learned at the Emmys
Published 9/22/2008 by editorial@zap2it.com at Zap2it.com - News
... ) had a combined audience of about 7.5 million people, which has to be the smallest total for the best-series winners in decades (if not ever). That probably won't do a whole lot for the ratings of the Emmy broadcast either, and that's even before considering the fact that it just wasn't a very well-done show . But other than the damage it might do to ABC's ratings for Sunday night, is there anything wrong with two low-rated shows winning the top prizes? Heck no. In fact, other than a couple of boring, predictable choices early on -- Jeremy Piven, again; ...