Emmy Awards for Mobile Phone Content

Dekortage writes "The New York Times discusses the new Emmy category 'for outstanding original programming for computers, cellphones and other hand-held devices, including the video iPod.' The nominees include 24: Conspiracy, Sophie Chase, and It's JerryTime!." From the article: "... lesser-known video creators are getting recognition as well. These include 'Sophie Chase,' an online series based on an attractive detective; 'Stranger Adventures,' a weekly interactive game where participants get e-mail messages and watch live-action video to help solve a puzzle; and 'It's JerryTime!,' created by two brothers from Massachusetts, Orrin and Jerry Zucker."

This stuff gets an award

Checked out Jerrytime - i hope the karate date episode was one of the worst, because it was not good - is it meant to be funny?

And that chick in Sophie Chase wasn't very hot.

sheesh. If this is the level, maybe I should be producing something - and nobody wants to see that.

The name of the the award

But those are among the nominees for the first Emmy award to be given by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for outstanding original programming for computers, cellphones and other hand-held devices, including the video iPod.

I hope that really isn't the title of the award. A) It's a mouthful and B) I think it's safe to say Apple doesn't need to get billing while other don't. Of course this is more a technical award, so you're not going to get to see it during the main Emmy telecast -- this will be relegated to that 3-minute clip they show about halfway through where they show all the geeks getting their awards at a banquet where some B-list star is roped into emceeing and handing out the awards. Of course it's usually a fairly good-looking female B-list star, but hey, better than nothing if you're a geek.

They mention iPod explicitly?!

or outstanding original programming for computers, cellphones and other hand-held devices, including the video iPod.

Silly.

And the award goes to...

The Star Wars kid [slashdot.org]!

Sure it's interesting...

... but can they include the category for best torrent of a tv show?

Red vs Blue

'Nuff said.

Rooster Teeth Productions has already made a huge splash in the independent film scene and has a lot of people taking machinima seriously because of the success of RvB. It's funny, is loaded with satire and tongue-in-cheek social commentary, and very, very original. Not to mention they sustain a volume of production that makes it more than just a short film.

Original Programming, huh?

outstanding original programming for computers
So, does my recent DDoS of Wikipedia count?

Doctor Who TARDISODES

Don't suppose you can get the BBC's TARDISODES [bbc.co.uk] down to US phones? At least you can watch them on the web. Each one acts as a sort of prequel to each week's new Doctor who episode.

Oblig. Simp.

Lisa. This award is the biggest farce I ever saw.
Bart. What about the Emmys?
Lisa. I stand corrected.

What an overly-broad catagory!

'for outstanding original programming for computers, cellphones and other hand-held devices, including the video iPod.'

This can be video, flash, games, presentations, quizes...and that's just on the pc! This is just insane...Oblivion should have won the emmy for computer game, had this catagory existed. But now I fear teh catagory is so overly broad that it will become a bought-and-paid-for advertising emmy.

'Oh, we want to hype and PR this [insert product]...let's buy it the 'whatever as long as it's digital' emmy'.

Tiki bar TV!!!

seriously Tikibar tv is by far the best podcast on the net.
if you havent seen it:

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/ viewPodcast?id=73330667&s=143441 [apple.com]

They're really breaking new ground, here

Oooh, a show about a detective? A detective who's also something of a babe?

We sure needed to hand out awards for that sort of imaginative use of a new medium. Without an Emmy, how would it get any recognition? I ask you.

Mobi-gag

From an IMDB user review for that 24 spinoff..

These are essentially 24 one-minute mobi-episodes that have appeared on cell phones as a promotional tool for season four. [...] This is a 24 mobi- epiisode show on cell phone, so I hope this doesn't come back for a second mobiseason.

Can we just declare war on this particular mobi-prefix now, before it gets out of hand?

Jerry Zucker!

Wait, Jerry Zucker [wikipedia.org]?

Oh, Oh, I have a Name for Them

So are these awards going to be called the 'Phonies'?

Great, more marketing BS

Fantastic, I love how cell phone makers create these fantastic fast cell phone data networks but instead of offering cheap wireless broadband they push proprietary expensive and stupid downloads that nobody wants.

Settle down, people...

This award is just a Daytime Emmy. More specifically, it will be given out at the "Creative Arts" Daytime Emmy awards ceremony. This is like getting an Oscar nomination... in the Scientific and Technical awards. Which no one watches. And no one outside of the Scientific and Technical award nominee community pays much attention to.

Oh, and for the record, the award is officially "for Outstanding Original Programming Created for Non-Traditional Delivery Platforms."

[Insert joke here]

And next...

...'The-most-senior-media-executive-to-realise-tha t-watching-movies-on-a-2"-screen is-stupid-stupid-stupid' (the 'wake up and smell the coffee') award is held over until next year as no nominees have been put forward.