Emmys Canceled Due to Military Strikes

[Fallon]

LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Emmy Awards telecast, delayed three weeks by the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, was canceled Sunday after United States and Britain launched a military attack in Afghanistan (news - web sites).

It was the first cancellation in the 53 years of the Emmy Awards.

CBS spokeswoman Susan Marks did not elaborate on the network's decision.

The ceremony had been scheduled to begin at 8 p.m. EDT.

The television industry had grappled in the weeks following the attack with the propriety of holding a celebration such as the Emmys.

The Recording Academy had already canceled its 2nd Annual Latin Grammys (news - web sites) show.

Emmy organizers had sought to create a night of muted celebration, asking participants to cut back on red-carpet arrival fanfare and forgo showy gowns and tuxedoes in favor of business attire.

Veteran newsman Walter Cronkite was invited to help set a serious tone. The ceremony on CBS, with master of ceremonies Ellen DeGeneres, was to include tributes to heroes and victims of the attacks on New York and Washington.

In deference to East Coast-based nominees, part of the presentation of 27 awards was to take place in a Manhattan studio. The bicoastal Emmy broadcast was the first in more than two decades.

HBO's mob drama ``The Sopranos (news - Y! TV)'' had bids in seven categories, while NBC's White House drama ``The West Wing (news - web sites)'' held six nominations. Both were up for best drama series honors.

``The Sopranos'' grabbed the most nominations in July, a total of 22, to 18 bids for ``The West Wing.'' But after September's creative arts ceremony, the NBC series had four Emmys in hand to one for ``The Sopranos.''

In last month's creative arts ceremony, awards were announced in categories including outstanding choreography, editing and makeup, and in the new reality series categories.

NBC and Fox received a leading 11 awards, followed by HBO with eight, ABC with seven, and CBS, PBS and UPN with three each.

``Survivor,'' the CBS program whose success helped spur the reality series craze in America, was honored as best among programs in which the show's participants competed for a prize.

``American High,'' a documentary series about high school students that was dropped by Fox and picked up by PBS, received an Emmy for best reality program that didn't involve a competition.

Four acting awards for guest roles were given out. The winners were Derek Jacobi and Jean Smart for episodes of ``Frasier,'' Michael Emerson for ``The Practice (news - Y! TV)'' and Sally Field for ``ER.''

For best commercial, the award went to PBS' ``Photo Booth'' spot. <a href="http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011007/en/emmy_awards_9.html">Yahoo! Mews</a>

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[IkeaBoy]

how depressing. now what am i going to do tonight? Well I wasn't going to watch the emmys anyway, i was just asking.

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[FezWad]

I never have and never will watch the emmy's............

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[Fallon]

CBS Weighs Third Attempt at Emmys

LOS ANGELES (AP) - If CBS decides against a third attempt at airing this year's Emmy Awards then plans will made for another way to honor the winners, Emmy organizers said Monday.

``If they want to have a show, we'll go ahead with it,'' said Jim Chabin, president of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. ``If they don't, we'll proceed with distributing the Emmys at a dinner or press conference, an appropriate venue.''

The 53rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards were to have aired Sunday on CBS but the network and academy called off the ceremony after U.S. and British attacks on Afghanistan (news - web sites).

The ceremony already had been postponed three weeks, from its original Sept. 16 airdate, because of the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington.

``This has all happened so quickly,'' CBS Television President Leslie Moonves said Sunday. ``It's really one day at a time, like it is for everything in America right now.''

CBS programming executives and academy officials met Monday to discuss the show's fate. Moonves has the final say, expected this week.

``It's a decision that not only impacts the TV academy and CBS but the industry as well,'' CBS spokesman Chris Ender said.

Asked whether CBS would have to pay the multimillion-dollar license fee to the TV academy if the ceremony isn't shown, Ender said he could not discuss financial issues connected to the Emmys.

Moonves acknowledged Sunday that many in the industry, including producers and casts of TV shows, had called to express reluctance at taking part in the ceremony.

One TV producer, appearing on a local TV program Monday, took a poke at fellow industry members worried that the Emmys might be a potential terrorist target.

``Malcolm in the Middle (news - Y! TV)'' producer Linwood Boomer said the idea that terrorists would focus on what he called ``TV people'' was ``just ludicrous on the face of it. But trying to fight self-importance in Hollywood is a lost cause.''

Industry concerns over the propriety of a Hollywood celebration already has led to changes. Sunday's ceremony was to be a muted one, with time spent paying tribute to heroes and victims of the Sept. 11 attacks as well as on award recipients.

The academy is intent on finding a way to honor Emmy winners if CBS nixes the ceremony, Chabin said.

``From phone calls we've received, people feel it's appropriate to distribute the awards,'' he said. A non-televised dinner at a Los Angeles area hotel would be one possibility.

Thomas O'Neil, author of ``The Emmys,'' said it would be a shame if television's awards were taken off television entirely, suggesting a low-key dinner ceremony could be filmed and presented later by CBS or another network.

Winners have yet to be revealed for a canceled awards show, the Latin Grammys (news - web sites), which had been scheduled the same day as the terrorist attacks. An announcement of winners, but no formal televised ceremony, is planned in the next few weeks, the recording academy has said. <a href="http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011008/en/emmy_awards_15.html">Yahoo! News</a>

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[sunndoggy8]

I think they should just forget about them, and give them out either in a press conference or dinner as suggested. At this point, after already being cancelled 2 times already, what's the point. Just concede that it's not a proper time to celebrate the awards. That isn't my opinion, but their own, for having already cancelled twice already. Just let it go already and pay the fee...cbs can afford it.



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[Circus Boy]

seriously though does anyone really care about the fuckin emmys?

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[Fallon]

I'd like Will Ferrell to win one. He's nominated for SNL.

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[IkeaBoy]

Will's guesting on Undeclared tonight.

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[Fallon]

No kidding? That's awesome!

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Emmys May Go on at Military Base

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A third time might just be the charm.

Television officials, looking for a new place to stage the twice-postponed Emmy awards, are considering moving the ceremony to a California military base.

CBS and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences are working on a plan for the ceremony to air before the end of the year, although details remain unsettled, awards show sources said Tuesday.

The goal is to settle on a ceremony and location that would be unaffected by outside events, one of the sources told The Associated Press. A plan could be announced after the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences' executive committee meets Thursday.

A wide variety of plans are under consideration, including one that would turn the TV ceremony into entertainment for troops at a California military installation, said the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

It was unclear whether military cooperation had been sought yet.

Other settings such as hotel ballrooms were being weighed by Emmy organizers. A taped, packaged version of the ceremony, which is traditionally broadcast live, also was among the ideas floated.

The show, originally scheduled to be broadcast live from the Shrine Auditorium on Sept. 16, was rescheduled after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. It was called off again on Sunday, just hours before showtime, after the United States and Britain launched air attacks on Afghanistan (news - web sites).

Some in the industry are jittery now about taking part in a ceremony at a visible and well-known landmark like the Shrine Auditorium, although academy officials said unprecedented security measures were in place for Sunday's ceremony and no threats were received before the event was postponed.

Both CBS and the TV academy have much at stake. The network, which has paid a license fee of more than $3 million to the academy for the telecast, stands to lose advertising revenue if a show doesn't air.

The academy, which hands out the awards, relies on the license fee and ticket sales for a substantial portion of its annual budget. <a href="http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011010/en/emmys_4.html">Yahoo! News</a>

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[IkeaBoy]

can't a mlitary base be used for something better than the Emmys in time of war?

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