Last night, "The Bold and the Beautiful" wins its first Daytime Emmy for drama series in its 22-year history. As per usual on awards shows, the production team swoops on stage and the announcer intones that showrunner and co-creator Bradley Bell will speak for his staff.
Except he didn't. Before Bell could open his mouth, the former Dick Clark staffers who produced the show, obviously pressured by The CW to get off the air right at 10 p.m. ET and not a second later, have cut to the American Airlines plug, with the audio coming late, and then off to the credits (100% full-screen and WGN in Chicago didn't do a squeezeback to promo the 9 p.m. news), with the people on stage who are paying attention looking befuddled and Bell unable to give his acceptance (or, for that matter, host Vanessa Williams unable to do a proper signoff). To top it off, although director Jeff Margolis is not hiding the fact that the crowd in the Orpheum Theatre in LA is filing out, the canned applause, whistles and cheers (uncredited, although I suspect it's one of Bob LaMasney's guys) continued unabated (and this wasn't the first time that we heard rapturous applause when the audience was on camera not applauding). And I thought people who worked for Clark knew how to produce award shows. And if I were Bradley Bell, I would still be royally pissed off this morning. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
