As you might imagine from someone who has a weekly blog spot called Tube Day Tuesday, the Emmy Awards program is pretty much standard viewing around here. But as I grow older, I find that I do not enjoy the show nearly as much as I did in the past. I think maybe I’m just not keeping up with the changing ways of television.
Year after year, I find that network television is being pushed more and more to the side while the latest and greatest from cable takes home all the awards. Heck, these days, most network shows don’t even get nominated. It’s sort of sad to me.
Not that cable shows aren’t great. (Though, honestly, most of the big winners this year I haven’t even seen.) But, I do think there’s a certain conceit to the choices, where people think it’s just not trendy enough these days to admit they enjoy network television.
But, for this year, it’s all in the history books now, so I guess that sometime between now and next year I’ll either have to start watching the edgy fan favorites on cable, or resign myself to growing more and more distant from the awards I grew up loving.
On a completely different note, I’m not ashamed to say I cried like a baby when Billy Crystal did his tribute to Robin Williams. If I still can’t believe Williams is gone, I can’t even imagine how his closest friends are coping. But Crystal held up well, and delivered a beautiful, thoughtful, real tribute to his friend. If you missed it, you really ought to watch it now. But make sure you’ve got some tissues handy.
