Award Shows Are A Waste Of Air Time!

[Mark_Giardina]

Count me as one who finds award programs, like the Oscars, Emmys, and other types of shows, boring, long-winded, and taking up too much prime-time. How many times must a winner thank everyone from their grade school teacher to Aunt Tilley for their success? Some of these acceptance speeches take longer than Lincoln did giving the Gettysburg address.

This is just my personal opinion, but first of all I could care less about a group of multi-millionaire divas dressing up in their fancy gowns, walking down the red carpet, to be interviewed by the likes of Joan (Stretch my face some more) Rivers and her no-talent daughter. Just a reminder, this is the same industry that embraces Paris Hilton while the Academy Awards or AFI has yet to honor people with real acting talent like Richard Widmark or Glenn Ford.

Another reason that I don’t watch these award programs is because all of the hype given to them, not only by the tabloid TV shows, but also by the so-called regular networks. ABC went way overboard promoting the hell out of the Oscars, only because that network was televising the show Sunday night.

I’m sure that the networks will spend most of Monday rehashing the Academy Awards all day long. Thank goodness I have a good book to read.
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[Musicradio]

I agree with you, Mark.

 

[toby]

I agree.
They are even worse if you are actually there in person, as there is really nothing to do at the commercial breaks.
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[Braves2005]

> I’m sure that the networks will spend most of Monday
> rehashing the Academy Awards all day long. Thank goodness I
> have a good book to read.

And so will Entertainment Tonight,Access Hollywood,The Insider,Extra,E!,etc,etc. for the whole week. I don't watch these shows at all nor did I watch the Oscars. I put on a DVD instead which I have been doing since there is basically nothing on prime time worth watching anymore.

And I do have to agree with you about Joan Rivers. She hasn't been funny in years. Is she trying to run a race with Phyllis Diller for more done on her(facelifts,etc.)?

 

[raccoonradio]

> Count me as one who finds award programs, like the Oscars,
> Emmys, and other types of shows, boring, long-winded, and
> taking up too much prime-time.

Agreed; those in the industry, film fans/reviewers (like a friend of
mine), and some "celeb fans" might tune in, but I didn't.

How many times must a winner
> thank everyone from their grade school teacher to Aunt
> Tilley for their success?

As Ann Coulter put it in a recent column: "I've never even watched an Oscar ceremony, except once when a friend called me 35 minutes into Halle Berry's acceptance speech and I managed to catch only the last 20 minutes of it. "

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[Nertz]

> I agree.
> They are even worse if you are actually there in person, as
> there is really nothing to do at the commercial breaks.

How do you know what is going on during the breaks?