Web Videos Up for Emmys
In case you need any further evidence that the traditional means of media delivery and consumption are rapidly crumbling in the face of the Internet, it's been announced that online videos are now up for Emmy Awards. But hold your horses: It's the Daytime Emmys, and the online award is being treated like those crappy technical Oscars they give out the day before the actual ceremony.
Still, the news is exciting and an indication of Hollywood's gradual acceptance that times they are a-changin'.
Emmys will be awarded June 14th for outstanding drama, comedy, variety and children's original programming for broadband. This is the second year anything online has been considered for a Daytime Emmy. Last year, Switched.com's parent company AOL walked away with the trophy for its 2005 webcast of the "Live 8" concert.
Nominations for this year's awards were born out of a partnership between the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and MySpace, which solicited its massive user base for potential nominees. Those chosen represent a mix of user-created YouTube stuff such as 'The Extreme Diet Coke and Mentos Experiments,' and shorts created by traditional TV networks, such as the Conan O'Brien 'Pale Force' cartoons.
Here's the full list:
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Still, the news is exciting and an indication of Hollywood's gradual acceptance that times they are a-changin'.
Emmys will be awarded June 14th for outstanding drama, comedy, variety and children's original programming for broadband. This is the second year anything online has been considered for a Daytime Emmy. Last year, Switched.com's parent company AOL walked away with the trophy for its 2005 webcast of the "Live 8" concert.
Nominations for this year's awards were born out of a partnership between the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and MySpace, which solicited its massive user base for potential nominees. Those chosen represent a mix of user-created YouTube stuff such as 'The Extreme Diet Coke and Mentos Experiments,' and shorts created by traditional TV networks, such as the Conan O'Brien 'Pale Force' cartoons.
Here's the full list:
- Drama: 'Prom Queen,' Vuguru; 'Sam Has 7 Friends,' Vuguru; 'Satacracy 88,' Itsallinyourhands.com; 'Stranger Adventures,' Riddle Productions Inc.; 'Tim's Dates,' Mandate Bros. productions
- Comedy: 'Baxter & McGuire,' Comedy Central; 'Honesty,' Comedy Central; 'Mobijokes,' DV3 Productions; 'Pale Force,' NBC; 'Slob Evolution,' Blink Productions; 'The Office: Accountants,' NBC
- Variety: 'Dexter Blood Spatter 101,' Showtime; 'Guiding Light's 70th Anniversary Celebration,' Proctor & Gamble Productions; 'Icons of Science_Quantum Theory,' Discovery Education; 'It's Jerrytime!' Ozone Inc.; 'The Extreme Diet Coke and Mentos Experiments,' EepyBird
- Children's: 'Cyberchase,' PBS; 'Scooby-Doo: Haunts for the Holidays,' Warnerbrothers.com; 'The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy,' Cartoon Network
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