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Saturday, September 20, 2008

Defamer Predicts the 2008 Emmys: The Dramas

4:50AM Kyle Buchanan | We’ve already run through our predictions for Emmy’s comedy categories, but now it’s time to sit down for forty-four minutes (excepting commercials) and soberly judge this year’s crop of dramas. Again, we’ll be blogging the Emmys live from the East Coast starting at 7pm EDT/4pm PDT, so if Mariska Hargitay lets loose with an expletive-laden diatribe or Jeremy Piven has a nip slip on the red carpet, you can be sure we’ve got it covered. Now, onto the predictions:
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Friday, July 18, 2008

Emmy Nomination Hell! 10 Plots and Subplots to Watch After Today’s Big Announcements

1:10AM Defamer Hollywood | The world awoke this morning to the chirping of little birds resembling Kristin Chenoweth and Neil Patrick Harris, perched at a podium in the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, announcing nominations for the 60th Emmy Awards. While most rolled over and tried to get back to sleep, we sat bolt upright as usual and sprinted to the window, our furious note-taking chronicling a few snubs, surprises and plenty of the conventional wisdom we’ve come to expect from the annual ritual. More »
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Fox Saves America From Silent Dirty Words, Blasphemy, And Fornication Talk At The Emmys

8:30AM Defamer Hollywood | We’re still (pretty unsuccessfully) trying to shake off our Emmys hangover – drinking was really the only way to make it through all three-plus hours of last night’s telecast without going insane from boredom – but we’re now lucid enough to tackle the “mystery” of that trio of perplexing cuts (compiled in the above clip) from Ray Romano, Katherine “If You Call Me Hi-Jel I Will Fucking Cut You” Heigl, and Sally Field to the giant, profanity-erasing Sphere of Censorship hanging in the rafters of the Shrine. More »
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Sally Field Reacts To Fox’s Censorship Of Her Antiwar Blasphemy

8:15AM Defamer Hollywood | It’s telling that seemingly the only thing worth discussing following last night’s Emmys – an exercise in show business self-gratification only marginally more entertaining than watching a Lassie stand-in lick its genitals between camera set-ups – are the three words we weren’t allowed to hear (to review: “screwing,” “[shit],” and “goddamn”) during the telecast. More »
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