The least credible awards ever

[PeteyPirate]

The Wire is again shut out of the Emmys:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/17/AR2008071700111.html?hpid=topnews

 

[Idaho]

I thought this was about Freelance Hack returning to SportsJournalists.com and fixing the travishamockery that happened last time.

 

[Fudgie the Whale]

I thought it was about the ESPYs, and I was going to get my rage on in defense of sports highest honor!

 

[Write-brained]

To even compare Lost, House and Boston Legal to The Wire is completely absurd. And then to consider those contrived pieces of crap for an award and not The Wire, is just criminal.

 

[Stone Cane]

I thought this was about APSEs

 

[Oggiedoggie]

I thought this was about the Nobel Peace Prize.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

I thought this was about Keith Olbermann's Worst Person of the Week.

 

[poindexter]

I thought this was about All-Canada SportsJournalists.com.

 

[Football_Bat]

I thought it was about the ESPYs, and I was going to get my rage on in defense of sports highest honor!

They announced them both at about the same time and probably about the same place, it looks like. Did the Academy hand the list to the unemployed schlub who wore a Batman costume outside the Kodak Theater?

Hope they tipped well.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

The ESPY's will always have this honor.

 

[dooley_womack1]

To even compare Lost, House and Boston Legal to The Wire is completely absurd. And then to consider those contrived pieces of crap for an award and not The Wire, is just criminal.

Not a damned thing wrong with House. The Wire's a darn good show. It ain't friggin' God or anything. Boston Legal should really be in the Best Comedy category.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

House is a great show.

 

[NoOneLikesUs]

This is about as horrifying as Entertainment Weekly naming The Wire the 11th best TV show of the last 25 years.

1. The Simpsons, Fox, 1989-present
2 The Sopranos, HBO (1999-2007)
3 Seinfeld, NBC (1989-98)
4 The X-Files, Fox (1993-2002)
5 Sex and the City, HBO (1998-2004)
6 Survivor, CBS (2000-present)
7 The Cosby Show, NBC (1984-92)
8 Lost, ABC (2004-present)
9 Friends, NBC (1994-2004)
10 Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The WB (1997-2001); UPN (2001-03)
11 The Wire, HBO (2002-08)

Buffy? Friends? Cosby? SURVIVOR????

 

[Mizzougrad96]

It blows my mind that the Julia Louis Dreyfus show is still even on the air, much less getting nominated for anything.

 

[zeke12]

I don't know anyone who has watched at least one entire season of The Wire who doesn't think it was one of the best -- if not the best -- shows ever on television.

 

[Angola!]

This is about as horrifying as Entertainment Weekly naming The Wire the 11th best TV show of the last 25 years.

1. The Simpsons, Fox, 1989-present
2 The Sopranos, HBO (1999-2007)
3 Seinfeld, NBC (1989-98)
4 The X-Files, Fox (1993-2002)
5 Sex and the City, HBO (1998-2004)
6 Survivor, CBS (2000-present)
7 The Cosby Show, NBC (1984-92)
8 Lost, ABC (2004-present)
9 Friends, NBC (1994-2004)
10 Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The WB (1997-2001); UPN (2001-03)
11 The Wire, HBO (2002-08)

Buffy? Friends? Cosby? SURVIVOR????

Buffy is actually a really good show.

And, it is hard to hate on Friends considering how popular it was.

Survivor definitely shouldn't be on there, unless you are going to put American Idol in there as well.

As far as The Cosby Show, I don't know. I do remember watching it religiously growing up.

 

[dooley_womack1]

Not a damn thing wrong with Friends, either. The Fab Six hype took away from what was one of the best-layered comedies ever.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

This is about as horrifying as Entertainment Weekly naming The Wire the 11th best TV show of the last 25 years.

1. The Simpsons, Fox, 1989-present
2 The Sopranos, HBO (1999-2007)
3 Seinfeld, NBC (1989-98)
4 The X-Files, Fox (1993-2002)
5 Sex and the City, HBO (1998-2004)
6 Survivor, CBS (2000-present)
7 The Cosby Show, NBC (1984-92)
8 Lost, ABC (2004-present)
9 Friends, NBC (1994-2004)
10 Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The WB (1997-2001); UPN (2001-03)
11 The Wire, HBO (2002-08)

Buffy? Friends? Cosby? SURVIVOR????

Yes, Buffy. Complex as hell. Survivor, however, is putrid.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

If a show on that list is a reach, it's Lost or Buffy, which were and are still pretty good shows.

Survivor has lasted 17 seasons, I think and remains one of the top-rated shows. That should count for something.

 

[JR]

House is a fine show. Hugh Laurie is a fine actor, especially considering he has to work on his American accent every single moment. He's probably my favourite character on network TV.

That said, it's formulaic, episode driven television.

It's rank amateur hour compared to The Wire.