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The nominations for 61st Primetime Emmy Awards have be announced. Watch Primetime Emmy Awards 2009 Live Streaming to be held on 20 September 2009 in the Nokia Theatre, Los Angeles, California, will be hosted by Primetime Tv and movie star Neil Patrick Harris.
Desperate to rescue the Emmy broadcast from last year’s poor show in the ratings, two major changes have been approved by the Television Awards. They and host broadcaster CBS have chosen as Neil Patrick host, the popular and once again Emmy-nominated star of ‘How I Met Your Mother’. The hope is he’ll attract younger audience and help restore some pride after last years disastrous showing.
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They have also introduced some changes to the voting rules — expanding some categories from the usual format of only five nominees, eliminating the judging panels and replacing it with a straight voting system — trying to enable a few higher-rated shows in to what had become a very niche mix.
Despite their best efforts, the results have again thrown up a list of nominees that in some cases are left with shows which are hardly watched. The Emmys do pride themselves on quality and not just popularity, and that can’t be argued with. Although it must be noted that the nominations for the more popular show Lost, House, The Mentalist’s, Two and a Half Men and The Big Bang Theory don’t add up to very much.
There seems to be still some puzzling factors among the voters or the voting system, how for example can the outstanding comedies series category, increase it’s nominees from five to seven but still emits one of TV’s best loved and watched show’s, CBS ‘The Big Bang Theory’ but manages to squeeze in ‘Flight of the Conchords’ which although has a cult following cannot muster the same fan base as Big Bang.
There are always things we’d change, should ‘30 Rock’ deserve 22 nominations, also was ‘Big Love’ good enough for a nomination in the best drama category? As always the biggest controversy is reserved for the shows that failed to get nominations, this year that list included The Shield. Battlestar Galactica, 24, Rescue me and Pushing Daisies among others.
It remains to be seen if there is any effect these sorts of decisions will have on this years event. One thing it has achieved though, that Emmys can no longer be described as predictable. If it can delivers what it promises this year, then the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday 20th September should be well worth the watching even if its a day after the exciting pay-per-view clash between Mayweather vs Marquez Live Streaming and UFC 103 Live.
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