In the midst of kicking off our Emmy Preview season this year, one of the questions we’ve received many times is pretty simple: What about Outlander? Why is Game of Thrones off of the list? They are two of the most-popular shows on the air, and at the moment, their impact on pop culture is significant. Unfortunately, both […]
In what shouldn’t be a surprise to any loyal TV viewer out there this year, the Actress in a Drama Series category for the upcoming 2017 Primetime Emmys is stacked. Across the board, you have wonderful performers who have brought their all to their roles this season. Unfortunately, you have a window in which there are only a […]
Who are the best drama performers of the year? As is often the case, the Actor in a Drama Series field is one of the strongest categories of the entire Emmy race. There are so many different shows you can pull from, and so many different performances. Some are action-heavy, some cause you to well up with […]
With today being the start of June, that means that Emmy nomination season is upon us! Nomination campaigns are in full swing, and as a result of that our Emmy Preview Series will talk about many of the shows, and many of the performers that we here at CarterMatt deem worthy of nomination. This is something […]
CBS is broadcasting the Primetime Emmy Awards this year, and CBS clearly did not want to sit around and twiddle their thumbs before making some sort of big, official announcement. In a statement roughly eight months before the start of the show, they’ve confirmed that “The Late Show” host Stephen Colbert will preside over the […]
Following the latest Presidential Debate, the last thing that we expected we’d be having a conversation about is the Emmys, and Donald Trump’s perception that they are rigged because of “The Celebrity Apprentice” not winning for Reality Competition Show. First of all, let’s start with this: We actually do love “The Celebrity Apprentice” in an […]
On Sunday night’s broadcast of the Primetime Emmy Awards, Maggie Smith found herself rather surprisingly among the biggest targets of host Jimmy Kimmel, and there was apparently one reason for more so than anything else: He didn’t like the fact that she repeatedly failed to show up to receive her awards despite being nominated for […]
Tonight, host Jimmy Kimmel promised a surprise at the end of the Primetime Emmy Awards, and he was right — Dennis Franz joined Jimmy Smits in order to present the Outstanding Drama Series award. Yet, at the same time, something shocking happened: Almost nobody got up to applaud like they would with some other legends, […]
We wrote earlier about a small tribute that the Emmys did to the late Garry Shandling earlier in the show, but when it comes to the full In Memoriam segment that they aired a little bit later in the broadcast, they chose to honor a variety of people who made a huge impact on the […]
While many awards shows do tend to have a lengthy In Memoriam segment, what the Emmys has done from time to time that is a little different is hand down some tributes to various stars over the course of the night. During the first hour, the show put some energy to airing a highlight reel […]
