This year’s Emmys celebrated their 75th anniversary. Airing Monday night, the ceremony featured mini cast reunions from some of television’s biggest shows: Cheers, The Arsenio Hall Show, Grey’s Anatomy, Martineven Game of Thrones. It was a testament to the way television has infiltrated popular culture, and the way the streaming altered that influence forever, giving rise to strange, genderless television projects that would have failed in prime time in other editions.
A new television thanks to streaming
Take, for example, It’s always sunny in Philadelphia (It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia). She has been on the air for almost 20 years; is the sitcom longest-running television show. However, when the gang, consisting of Charlie Day, Glenn Howerton, Rob McElhenney, Kaitlin Olson and Danny DeVito, took the stage during the Emmy telecast, it wasn’t to receive an award, but to present one. During the previous moment, they asked if anyone had one of the awards. DeVito was the only one who said “yes”; it was for Taxi en 1981. “Rhea [Perlman] won four by Cheers”DeVito joked.
It’s always sunny in Philadelphia It could be the right series at the wrong time. It’s an FX show with a huge following that became a Hulu favorite. It premiered in 2005, just two years before Netflix started making streamingwhen the stars of the awards were great series like Lost y The Office. In the late ’90s and early ’80s, even series like The Sopranos were overtaken by big network dramas like The West Wing; Notably The Sopranos received a tribute on Monday, but The West Wing No. Over time, there is always sun gained followers via streaminglike The Office, but never the recognition of the Emmys. If it had been released on Hulu 10 years later, the story might be very different.
During the Emmy gala there were many reminders of this phenomenon. When the cast of Grey’s Anatomyit was like going back to the days when a death in the series (you know which one, “Losing My Religion”, the twenty-seventh episode and the finale of the second season) made the website for detailed summaries of shows, Television Without Pity, will talk about it for a week. AND Grey’s Anatomy continues to be broadcast. And although it is a much-loved show, it has not been nominated for these awards since 2012.
This is because the streaming, and prestige cable television before it, has transformed what people watch and how they do it. Networks used to produce popular big-budget series, such as IS, and everyone followed them. That changed when shows like The Handmaid’s Tale from Hulu became real contenders. They never had the hearing of, for example, Everybody Loves Raymond, but it didn’t matter. They managed to streamers and the small cable distributors, and those in the middle like HBO Go/Max/etc., seem good.
2024-01-16 22:47:13
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