The Emmy landscape has changed drastically in the past two decades. Going in to the 54th Emmy Awards, which took place on Sept. 22, 2002, it was a broadcast network — NBC — that led the nominations with 47. Emmy powerhouse HBO came in second with 38. FX and VH1 earned their first nominations while the first major streaming series, Netflix’s “House of Cards,” was still 11 years away. Several of this year’s contenders for Emmy gold were either nominated or won 20 years ago.
Laura Linney, who has been nominated nine times and won four statuettes, is nominated this year for her lead role in the final season of Netflix’s “Ozark” and as co-executive producer of this drama series contender. Two decades ago, she won her first Emmy for her lead role in the Showtime telefilm “Wild Iris.”
HBO’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm, which has been nominated 51 times and has won two Emmys, is...
Laura Linney, who has been nominated nine times and won four statuettes, is nominated this year for her lead role in the final season of Netflix’s “Ozark” and as co-executive producer of this drama series contender. Two decades ago, she won her first Emmy for her lead role in the Showtime telefilm “Wild Iris.”
HBO’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm, which has been nominated 51 times and has won two Emmys, is...
- 8/22/2022
- by Susan King
- Gold Derby
Michael Dann, who steered CBS programming in the 1960s with hits such as The Beverly Hillbillies and The Mary Tyler Moore Show, died Friday at his home in Boca Raton, Fl, the New York Times reports. He was 94. Dann began his television career at NBC, where he created, along with Pat Weaver, programs such as Today and Tonight. He went on to CBS, rising to head of programming in 1963. Dann proved to be a shrewd marketer, beginning with CBS’ broadcast of movie Born Free…...
- 5/31/2016
- Deadline TV
A true television legend has died. Sid Caesar, who influenced generations of comedy writers and performers, passed away earlier today in Los Angeles. He was 91 years old.
Born to immigrant parents in 1922, Caesar made his first television appearance on Milton Berle's Texaco Star Theater in the late 40's. He soon met NBC president Pat Weaver and landed his first TV series, The Admiral Broadway Revue, with Imogene Coca.
In 1950, he appeared on the first episode of Your Show of Shows, a 90-minute variety show. The series featured comedy sketches, satires, monologues, musical guests and production numbers -- an early predecessor to Saturday Night Live (which Caesar guest-hosted in 1983). On-screen talent included Caesar, Carl Reiner, Howard Morris, and Imogene Coca. Backstage, the show's legendary writing staff included Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, Mel Tolkin and Danny Simon.
Your Show of...
Born to immigrant parents in 1922, Caesar made his first television appearance on Milton Berle's Texaco Star Theater in the late 40's. He soon met NBC president Pat Weaver and landed his first TV series, The Admiral Broadway Revue, with Imogene Coca.
In 1950, he appeared on the first episode of Your Show of Shows, a 90-minute variety show. The series featured comedy sketches, satires, monologues, musical guests and production numbers -- an early predecessor to Saturday Night Live (which Caesar guest-hosted in 1983). On-screen talent included Caesar, Carl Reiner, Howard Morris, and Imogene Coca. Backstage, the show's legendary writing staff included Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, Mel Tolkin and Danny Simon.
Your Show of...
- 2/13/2014
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
10) The Green Channel
Let’s say it’s the 1960s, and you live in New York City, some place in downtown Manhattan. You’re cool, you’re with it, so maybe it’s a nifty loft in the Chelsea district. That puts you maybe twenty blocks from the Empire State Building, the transmission source for all over-the-air TV signals in the city. Well, if your neat, beatnik pad happens to be in just the wrong place, with one of those famous New York City skyscrapers standing between you and the Empire State, somebody living 15 miles away in the New Jersey ‘burbs is getting better TV reception than you. While you may appreciate the poetic irony of living amidst the greatest collection of television signals in the country and not being able to get any of it, you don’t think it’s nearly as funny as your friends over in Jersey do.
Let’s say it’s the 1960s, and you live in New York City, some place in downtown Manhattan. You’re cool, you’re with it, so maybe it’s a nifty loft in the Chelsea district. That puts you maybe twenty blocks from the Empire State Building, the transmission source for all over-the-air TV signals in the city. Well, if your neat, beatnik pad happens to be in just the wrong place, with one of those famous New York City skyscrapers standing between you and the Empire State, somebody living 15 miles away in the New Jersey ‘burbs is getting better TV reception than you. While you may appreciate the poetic irony of living amidst the greatest collection of television signals in the country and not being able to get any of it, you don’t think it’s nearly as funny as your friends over in Jersey do.
- 8/11/2013
- by Bill Mesce
- SoundOnSight
In the Beginning Was the Word — Radio:
“I like doing radio because it’s so intimate. The moment people hear your voice, you’re inside their heads, not only that, you’re in there laying eggs”.
Doug Coupland
We can watch TV — or movies, YouTube videos, play videogames, exchange video phone calls — from anywhere and everywhere: on line at McD’s, from our seat on our commuter bus or train (usually annoying the hell out of the napping business professional next to us), even from a toilet stall (crass, I grant, but I’ve seen — , well, ahem, I mean, I’ve heard it done). It’s nearly impossible for a generation growing up immersed, submerged, and buried in portable visual media to imagine the magnetic hold radio had on its audiences back in its early days. Think about it, all you smartphone and ipad users, wi-fiers and Hopper subscribers: there...
“I like doing radio because it’s so intimate. The moment people hear your voice, you’re inside their heads, not only that, you’re in there laying eggs”.
Doug Coupland
We can watch TV — or movies, YouTube videos, play videogames, exchange video phone calls — from anywhere and everywhere: on line at McD’s, from our seat on our commuter bus or train (usually annoying the hell out of the napping business professional next to us), even from a toilet stall (crass, I grant, but I’ve seen — , well, ahem, I mean, I’ve heard it done). It’s nearly impossible for a generation growing up immersed, submerged, and buried in portable visual media to imagine the magnetic hold radio had on its audiences back in its early days. Think about it, all you smartphone and ipad users, wi-fiers and Hopper subscribers: there...
- 7/6/2013
- by Bill Mesce
- SoundOnSight
The actor talks about her family
My mother was the English actor Elizabeth Inglis. She appeared in Hitchcock's The 39 Steps. She was in The Letter, too, with Bette Davis. She's good in it. Just a small part. She was awfully pretty – and a huge inspiration to me. I love being half English. (Yes, I drink tea!) She was at Rada with Vivien Leigh, then moved to America and left her family behind because they didn't want her to act. She always made her own way in the world and showed me, as I grew up, that it's all right to do things for yourself.
She was kind of a renegade. She was the first jogger in New York City. She used to run alongside Fdr Drive in the 60s and people would slow down in their cars and say: "You all right, lady? Shall we call the police?" because they...
My mother was the English actor Elizabeth Inglis. She appeared in Hitchcock's The 39 Steps. She was in The Letter, too, with Bette Davis. She's good in it. Just a small part. She was awfully pretty – and a huge inspiration to me. I love being half English. (Yes, I drink tea!) She was at Rada with Vivien Leigh, then moved to America and left her family behind because they didn't want her to act. She always made her own way in the world and showed me, as I grew up, that it's all right to do things for yourself.
She was kind of a renegade. She was the first jogger in New York City. She used to run alongside Fdr Drive in the 60s and people would slow down in their cars and say: "You all right, lady? Shall we call the police?" because they...
- 4/30/2010
- The Guardian - Film News
Weaver Has A Laugh At Herself On Saturday Night Live
Sigourney Weaver showed off her singing and comedy skills on late-night TV in America on Saturday night - and even poked fun at herself during her second Saturday Night Live guest hosting stint.
The actress played a vertigo-suffering nightclub singer trying to get down from atop a piano, an Eastern European darts player, a member of disco-era duo Amber & Cream and she even recreated her characters from Aliens and Avatar for hilarious skits.
But the highlight of her appearance on the weekly U.S. comedy show came when she had a laugh at her own expense.
Weaver pretended to be obsessed with online comments from bloggers about her and her films during a dinner party at her home.
Chuckling about the fact one internet image clearly showed her nipple, she said, "Do you think men are gonna masturbate to this? Do you think women will?"
She also took aim at a fictitious critic, who wrote, "Sigourney Weaver is an old horse face who be straight up nasty (sic)," the actress raged, "That's a terrible thing to write... I should slap her. I should slap her in her b**ch mouth... I'm taller than most women, I could really mess her up. I'm Sigourney frigging Weaver."
The concluded the show by paying tribute to "my dad" Pat Weaver, the former president of NBC - the network on which SNL airs.
The actress started the show by displaying a shot of her as a child with her parents backstage at the studios where the comedy programme is shot.
The actress played a vertigo-suffering nightclub singer trying to get down from atop a piano, an Eastern European darts player, a member of disco-era duo Amber & Cream and she even recreated her characters from Aliens and Avatar for hilarious skits.
But the highlight of her appearance on the weekly U.S. comedy show came when she had a laugh at her own expense.
Weaver pretended to be obsessed with online comments from bloggers about her and her films during a dinner party at her home.
Chuckling about the fact one internet image clearly showed her nipple, she said, "Do you think men are gonna masturbate to this? Do you think women will?"
She also took aim at a fictitious critic, who wrote, "Sigourney Weaver is an old horse face who be straight up nasty (sic)," the actress raged, "That's a terrible thing to write... I should slap her. I should slap her in her b**ch mouth... I'm taller than most women, I could really mess her up. I'm Sigourney frigging Weaver."
The concluded the show by paying tribute to "my dad" Pat Weaver, the former president of NBC - the network on which SNL airs.
The actress started the show by displaying a shot of her as a child with her parents backstage at the studios where the comedy programme is shot.
- 1/17/2010
- WENN
Sigourney Weaver hosted this week's 'Saturday Night Live,' which made for good fodder from 'Avatar,' James Cameron, and even her dad, Pat Weaver, former head of NBC. Disco Booty Junction, Grady Wilson's Fifty and Freaky, and Espn's 'Lady Stars of ... Read more
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- 1/17/2010
- by Jane Boursaw
- Inside TV
Between a few more digs at the NBC late-night situation and many jokes about "Avatar," "Saturday Night Live" managed to crank out a pretty funny (pre-"Update") episode with host Sigourney Weaver.
It's safe to say that the cast and writers of "SNL" are on Team Conan -- Conan O'Brien is one of their own, after all, having done time there as a writer in the late '80s and early '90s before getting the "Late Night" gig. The show's opening featured a dour-looking Conan (Bill Hader) and a denim-shirted Jay Leno (Darrell Hammond) appearing on "Larry King Live," and it was clear that the room was with O'Brien. Plus, Fred Armisen did a spot-on King.
Weaver, whose father, Pat Weaver, ran NBC for a time in the 1950s and created "The Tonight Show" in 1954, referenced her dad and the Conan-Jay debacle in her monologue too. Reading from a...
It's safe to say that the cast and writers of "SNL" are on Team Conan -- Conan O'Brien is one of their own, after all, having done time there as a writer in the late '80s and early '90s before getting the "Late Night" gig. The show's opening featured a dour-looking Conan (Bill Hader) and a denim-shirted Jay Leno (Darrell Hammond) appearing on "Larry King Live," and it was clear that the room was with O'Brien. Plus, Fred Armisen did a spot-on King.
Weaver, whose father, Pat Weaver, ran NBC for a time in the 1950s and created "The Tonight Show" in 1954, referenced her dad and the Conan-Jay debacle in her monologue too. Reading from a...
- 1/17/2010
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Sigourney Weaver's TV Pioneer Father Dies
Sylvester 'Pat' Weaver, the creator of the Today and Tonight shows in America and father of actress Sigourney, has died at the age of 93. Pat Weaver also brought opera and a flurry of new commercials to TV, and shaped the way Americans watched the new medium. He worked at NBC from 1949, when there were only 2 million TV sets in the country, until 1956, when he resigned as chairman of the board. NBC President Bob Wright says, "Pat Weaver was the first major creative force in television programming and one of the most innovative executives in the history of television. Pat's influence on NBC is still seen by millions of viewers everyday." For his contributions, Weaver, who died of pneumonia, received two Emmy awards and was inducted into the Television Academy Of Arts And Sciences' Hall of Fame in 1985.
- 3/18/2002
- WENN
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