Emmys: A Fun Show With Mostly Predictable Wins From A Handful Of Contenders – Still The TV Academy Needs To Shake Things Up – Analysis
deadline.comYou gotta say this for the Emmys which returned to full capacity at the Microsoft Theatre at LA Live and a big Governors Gala after party for the first time in three years, the show was much better on the inside than the unnecessary hassles it took just to get there.
Nevertheless I made it to my seat just as the two minute countdown to showtime proceeded and what I witnessed was an Emmy stage unlike any I had seen before.The Microsoft seats about 7000, but the Academy took out the entire orchestra section to make it look more like a banquet for the nominees, Golden Globes style.
Apparently NBC misses the Globes enough that they wanted to replicate the loose nature of the affair, much like they did in that tent last year in a downsized Emmys.
This one was like the good old days, aiming for a full house even though half the audience was up in the regular theatre seats watching the nominees schmooz and drink below, Thank god for all the TV screens as that was how you could see the action as the stage was quite far in the distance.
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