It wouldn’t surprise me if one of the main conditions for being able to work the Emmys (and other award shows) is to be vaccinated. I know a lot of the workers in various capacities are unionized, so it’s likely that the producers of the Emmys went to the various unions and said, “Hey, we’ll hire union workers on the…

If the speeches only lasted 30 seconds, it’s because they were pressed for time for other reasons. Again, they have to fit all of the scheduled sections of the production in between the hard-set commercial breaks. If anything goes over, not just speeches, it forces everything else to either get shorter (such as…

Nor are they being paid to give a 30 minute speech on the Israeli-Palestinian crisis.

Going long on your speech is rather selfish to all of the other potential winners, as well as the other performers, the host(s), the advertisers, and the production crew who work crazy hard to keep the production flowing smoothly and…

The executives and the advertisers (along with the specific voting and union committees) are the ones paying for these award shoes. It’s literally in their interest to keep things as short and on schedule as possible, because financially, the nominees aren’t paying much of anything to be there.

It’s not about not…

That’s the ironic part.

Of all the people in the world who should know how expensive it is when production schedules run over time, it should be performers on multi-million dollar productions where they work 16-hour days just to finish a production in an allotted time, lest they want massive budget overages.

Say thank…

I don’t think that any significant amount of the home audience would give two shits about the risks of the events.

People opposed to Hollywood glitz and hypocrisy wouldn’t watch, and people who legitimately enjoy the awards shows wouldn’t care.

Also, college and NFL football have been back for weeks. I’m certain that…

These events have carefully timed commercial breaks, where companies have paid them a significant amount of money for their advertising time.

A person’s speech goes over the time, and that has a knock-on effect for everything down the line. So, if they’ve paid performers for a musical number, or a skit, and those get…

The 24-hour “news” cycle has made it so that what were/are primarily “news” outlets have to financially earn their keep in ways that, prior to the advent of CNN and the proliferation of cable TV and the internet, they simply never had to contend with.

There’s only so much “news” that happens in a given day, even less…

And there is apparently deep concern at the way the duke’s well-paid advisers on both sides of the Atlantic have been ‘outwitted and out-played’ at every turn in recent days by David Boies, the street-smart attorney employed by his accuser Virginia Roberts, now Giuffre.

This.

Dealerships don’t make a lot of money on any individual new car. They most certainly get bonuses for selling most (if not all) of their new allocation on a monthly, quarterly, and yearly basis, but on a per-car basis, neither the dealership nor the salespeople (those on commission) want to be hawking a bunch of…

That’s exactly what happened. In 2012, Cranston was nominated for Lead, Paul and Esposito were nominated for Supporting. Paul had been nominated the prior seasons, and this was Esposito’s only nomination during Breaking Bad. Paul won.

The irony is that they could’ve dual nominated Paul and Cranston, and it wouldn’t…

The fact that Giancarlo has only been nominated for 3 Emmys, hasn’t won one, while some of these milquetoast performances are lauded is absolutely beyond me.

Also, Aaron Paul robbed him of his Emmy win for Breaking Bad. There, I said it.

Limited series are always tough precisely because they’re limited. Voters are going to want to recognize the very best performance since, theoretically, they can always reward a great performance in a continuous series later on (like how it took 6 seasons for Schitt’s Creek to get a win, or how Jon Hamm didn’t win…

Ewan McGregor was great in Halston and seemed like a shoe-in from the start. He was easily the best part of the show, whereas Paul Bettany got overshadowed by Elizabeth.

If that’s the case, then The Crown should be thanking its lucky stars that Covid delayed season 3 of Succession, because it would’ve won everything in the drama category.

Hahaha, I didn’t even notice the misspelling. Good catch, and that would be an interesting career change.

Hell, have him open it in Texas and then argue against the law in court.

I’m a huge Breaking Bad and Better Caul Saul fan, and El Camino was decidedly alright, maybe even good, but nowhere near the level of either TV series.

Thankfully, I’ve only had the misfortune of seeing one of the other movies-from-a-TV series on your list (and undoubtedly the worst one of the bunch).

He did. He dangled his $250m inheritance if he quit working for Logan. Greg kept working for him.

Thing is, Ewan still has the board seat, and Greg is still his grandson. Not saying it will definitely play a role this season, but Ewan and the board seat is a significant wild card all the same.

Maybe it’s because I’m a political buff, I find Siobhan and her endgame fascinating.

Only girl out of the 4 kids. Aside from Connor, the only one to not actively have had a role in the business. Absurdly good at her chosen field (Roman is a rake, Connor is delusional, Kendall is/was a junky and decidedly not a killer…

You’re right.

Katt Williams would so destroy Kevin Hart, it would be both a delight and a pain to see, because all of us would know that it would be the crowning achievement of his career, and everything after that would be an arguably futile attempt at chasing that same greatness.

Now, if this man were still alive, I…