I appreciate the effort to ...
Question: I appreciate the effort to keep the
Emmys under three hours, and there was plenty worth fast-forwarding through, but I feel like my reward for sitting through the "we have nothing prepared" bit at the beginning of the show should have been enjoying a little banter between Neil Patrick Harris and Kristin Chenoweth when they come out to present. Several times throughout the evening, we got treated to stars that looked just a little disappointed as they announced that their presentation had been cut short for time purposes and so all they really had to do was read the nominees and announce the winners. Now, I might feel differently if I was watching the whole thing in real time, but it would just have been nice to give Neil or Kiefer Sutherland the same chance that Ricky Gervais had to actually make this an enjoyable broadcast. Anyway, that's my piece.
Answer: Time management was a disaster, thanks to the bloat of the five reality-show hosts. The reason Neil Patrick Harris and Kristin Chenoweth were paired up was because they were such a hit when they rose early on the morning of the Emmy nominations announcement and brought some pep and humor to the proceedings. That they were denied a chance to shine again on the night itself, because the show was running late thanks to those misbegotten hosts, was just one of many irksome aspects to a broadcast that deserves its miserable ratings.
