Emmy Coverage

What’s Hot talks about last night’s Emmy awards. I hope you enjoyed the liveblogging of the show, but here we are to discuss the winners, the losers, and the fashion in a little more depth.

Let’s start off with the fashions, shall we? Christina Applegate wore a Reem Acra number that many seem to be praising. But I’m going to say what I said last night in my live blog, it looks like she just took a bolt of fabric and wrapped it around herself. No offense Christina, but it just doesn’t do it for me. Now Julia Louis Dreyfuss’ Narciso Rodriguez salmon number was to die for. I wish I could pull off that color. America Ferrera was stunning in black Fred Leighton, proving that real women do have curves.

Okay, now let’s talk best/worst moments. The opening bit with the five hosts left a lot to be desired. It seemed to me that Howie and Jeff monopolized all the time and it just didn’t work. If it had been left out it might have helped out at the end when the show was starting to be pressed for time. Also in that same vein, I personally think we could have done without showing of bits of famous show’s sets, another time waster. I know they were celebrating 60 years of television, so let’s do just that. Because of the time crunch they weren’t able to show the best moments in television, which is something that ABC had been promoting on their website leading up to the show. But enough of the bad. The best bits for me were Ricky Gervais needling Steve Carrel about his Emmy and Steve not showing any emotion (while Stewart and Colbert laughed it up in the background). Josh Groban singing TV theme songs; yes it might have looked uncomfortable to some and I do feel for Josh a little, but overall it had me grinning and laughing and I found it one of the highlights of the evening. The lack of political commentary. One joke by Howie at the beginning, a bit of schtick with Stewart and Colbert and the urging of the general public to vote by the people involved in Recount and by Martin Sheen.

Winners and losers. Jeff Probst survived the night and emerged victorious as the first recipient of the Emmy for Host of a Reality Show or Reality Based Competition. The older ladies were out in force as we had Dianne Wiest (Supporting Actress Drama), Jean Smart (Supporting Actress Comedy) and Glenn Close (Actress Drama) all garnering awards. Zeljko Ivanek and Jeremy Piven were winners in the Supporting Actor categories (Drama and Comedy respectively). Alec Baldwin nabbed his very first award in the Lead Actor Comedy category. Tina Fey took home three awards for 30 Rock, including Lead Actress in a Comedy and Best Comedy. Much to my surprise (and delight), James Spader did not take home the Lead Actor Drama award, that honor went to Bryan Cranston. And in what seems to be the biggest upset/surprise of the night, Mad Men took home the Best Drama prize. So it looks like the major networks need to start doing something with all of these cable shows taking home the gold.

That’s it for today, tune in tomorrow for more from the world of entertainment.