The Extratextuals

As I catch up with the new shows, some links:

• Ken Levine’s wonderful account of the Emmys, including his nice snark about Jeff Probst winning: “Hugh Laurie can’t win an Emmy but this guy now has two for saying “Wanna know what you’re playing for?” every friggin’ episode.” (for the record, though, I think he’s the deserving winner – jg)
• Cable U’s Reess Kennedy on why he doesn’t think he should like Mad Men for the show, yet loves it for its branding
• With all the other things going on here, I don’t have time to write about them, but the Where the Wild Things Are posters have intrigued me. Go here for a collection of them
• Issue 3 of Transformative Works and Cultures is out, with, as before, a sizeable and wonderful collection of stuff
• Fox has picked up Glee
• The Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) has come up with its Statement on best practices regarding Fair Use for academic teaching and publishing. Read, circulate, and make sure your press sees it too
• In an article called “Nadir Of Western Civilization To Be Reached This Friday At 3:32 P.M,” The Onion attacks one of ABC’s new sitcom (though, personally, I think Cougar Town seems like the sign of the beast itself), writing “At 9 p.m. Wednesday the ABC sitcom Modern Family will premiere, marking the least-inspired creative endeavor ever attempted by modern man.”
• Finally, though I’ve been happy to see the Jay Leno Show draw some meh ratings, TV By the Numbers notes that the numbers could look good for NBC, even at this low level

Uncategorized Emmys, Glee, Jay Leno, Mad Men, Modern Family, poster art, posters

The 2009 Emmy nominees list has been out for a while now, and with it the griping about who has been overlooked is by now well-established. I have my own feelings about who got snubbed and who is over-rated (Mariska Hargitay gets nominated and January Jones doesn’t?! Weeds jumps the shark, or if we could offer a new phrase to signify the self-destruction of a series, “dates the Tijuana mob boss after burning down the suburb,” yet still gets nominations for seemingly everything but the one really good thing about it, Justin Kirk?!) … but instead of focusing on them, I want to discuss the boundaries between categories … after the fold
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