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...Nominations for February's Academy Awards are due by 5 p.m. on Jan. 12 - less than 24 hours after the Golden Globes telecast. Some pundits speculate that a strong showing at the Golden Globes could sway Oscar voters at the last second. Case in point: last time around, the HFPA chose Atonement and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street as the best films of the year. The former went on to receive a Best Picture Oscar...
...Grammy Awards have long been known as the annual telecast where fun goes to die. But this year the Grammys finally met their match, in the form of "The Grammy Nominations Concert Live!! - Countdown to Music's Biggest Night...
...find out who'll win and to see if the Grammy telecast can rise to the challenge of the Grammy nominations telecast, tune...
...much. Purists sniff that it is dumbed-down cricket, but it is easily digested by neophytes. Last January, Stanford spent $3.5 million to test-market the sport in Fort Collins, Colo., using billboards and bus-stop ads to persuade the town's 130,000 residents to watch a telecast of a Twenty20 tournament in the Caribbean. On the basis of that experiment, Stanford believes an American viewer can "understand Twenty20 in as little as 20 minutes...
Each year the Tony awards, in an effort to reverse a seemingly inexorable ratings decline, drop a few more of the actual awards from the live telecast (on CBS Sunday evening at 9 p.m. EDT). The goal, of course, is to make room for the program's real raison d'etre: excerpts from the Broadway shows it is busily trying to sell to tourists planning summer trips to New York. But there are 26 little statuettes to be given out tonight, and I have a special stake in reminding you of that. I'm one of the 796 Tony voters...