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Buffy Staked Again By Emmys
jonerik writes "Despite six witty, intelligent seasons, 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' has never been able to catch a break from the folks at the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences who vote on the annual Emmy Awards, with the show's nine nominations to date (with no wins) being mostly in technical categories. And, according to this piece from E! Online, when the ballots for this year's Emmy nominations were sent out in early June, this season's musical tour de force, 'Once More With Feeling,' was inexplicably left out of list of shows eligible for the Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series catefory. The academy has attempted to correct its error by sending out postcards to Emmy voters informing them that they can, in fact, vote for the episode, but the fix is probably too little, too late. According to awards-show expert Tom O'Neil, 'It entailed such extraordinary effort that it was unlikely the voters would do it even if they loved the episode. So it definitely curses its chances.' If you missed it the first time around, 'Once More With Feeling' will be re-run tomorrow evening at 8pm eastern time on UPN."
I do not think the word "inexplicable" means what CmdrTaco thinks it means.
Wow. What a coincidence that this story pops up, and surprise, the episode in question just happens to be scheduled to broadcast again tomorrow night.
This isn't some sort of tie-in deal is it?
It's some sort of marketing deal. Slashdot hypes the show which is to be rebroadcast tomorrow night, and Malda gets some sort of stuffed Buffy doll or whatnot.
Yeah, he has convinced me to go to KFC and buy a bucket of Extra Crispy Wings at least 94 times this year.
And the sad part is the network is mentioned in the /. note.
You know, you're allowed to ignore stuff you don't like. This is not required reading.
Uh oh, slashgoth just got slashdotted.
The undead are now dead.
No kidding. I can completely vision how the brainstorming for this show went down:
Network Exec: "Alright, we take Melrose Place, make the girls slightly uglier, the stunts better, and we put it on a network so unbelievably bad that Chia Pet documentaries garner 30% of it's total viewing audience, and bam, instant gold..well, at least silver, probably copper. Maybe we need something else."
Intern Worm: "Lesbians sir. Feminine, non-political agenda lesbians."
Network Exec: "It's slightly more of an imagination stretch than vampires, but sure, what the hell."
Finally, math books without any of that base 6 crap in them.
What sort of doll are we talking about?
You can't grep a dead tree.
I'm in the 30s group, too; but I chose a career that paid the bills, not a hobby that keeps me poor.
Buffy is crap; and it hasn't been on my TV in years.
Shouldn't that be "Undead-in-the-water" dept?
Whoever stated that signature sizes should be limited to one hundred and twenty characters can just go ahead and kiss my
Boffoonery - downloadable Comedy Benefit for Bletchley Park
I would enjoy boinking her.
"Dare I say, you're a moron? Buffy isn't even on WB! It moved to UPN last year."
Dude, you are seriously overreacting. I don't think knowing the difference between UPN and WB will suddenly result in an invitation to Mensa.
"Derp de derp."