Can you believe that the 2015 Primetime Emmy Awards are just about upon us? Yes, that means that in a mere matter of one day’s time, we are probably going to have a chance to rant and/or rave about some of the choices made by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Until then, why […]
With the Primetime Emmy Awards coming up in a week and a half on Sunday, September 20, we are pleased that the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences are starting to make the list of presenters clear for the show. Also, we’re pleased to see that for the most part, there is a good of […]
Dancing with the Stars, Emmys, Project Runway, So You Think You Can Dance
The Reality Host honor to us with the Primetime Emmy Awards is so bizarre. You’ve got nominees who are of different hosting capacities facing off, and it seems like year after year it feels like there are some that are inconspicuously left off. For example, how do you not have either Jeff Probst or Padma Lakshmi on […]
Dancing with the Stars, Emmys, The Amazing Race, The Voice, Top Chef
We have a tradition here at CarterMatt of consistently railing on the Emmys for their terrible selections in the Outstanding Reality Competition Series category, but we will provide one little thing in defense of them this year: Where are the other nominees? Other than “The Quest” or “King of the Nerds” (which we loved by very few […]
American Crime, American Horror Story, Emmys
There’s a distinct American flair in the Emmy nominees this year for Outstanding Limited Series … at least in the form of two shows with “American” in the title. That’s a little bit hokey, but that is at the moment very much where we are. “American Crime” and “American Horror Story” are the two commercial heavyweights in […]
Emmys, Getting On, Modern Family, Mom, Saturday Night Live, The Big Bang Theory, Transparent, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Veep
Eight nominees. There must have been multiple nominees for the Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series category at the Emmys this year who all came close to a tie when the initial ballots were cast. How else did we end up with this many people? We’re not going to complain about this too much, mostly because […]
Emmys, Girls, Modern Family, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Veep
For anyone who is looking for an Emmy category with a decent mix of new blood and familiar faces, the Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series field has it. We’ve got a number of multiple-time nominees in this category, but we’ve also got the presence of Tituss Burgess for the first time in the category, and some much-deserved […]
Emmys, Parks and Recreation, Veep
The past few years have been big ones for Julia Louis-Dreyfus at the Emmy Awards, and we understand why. She is outstanding on “Veep,” and the Emmy’s affection for her goes all the way back to “Seinfeld.” So it possible that any of the other nominees could beat her this year? It’s possible, if for […]
black-ish, Emmys, House of Lies, Shameless, Transparent
We’ve hyped up the competitive nature of many of the categories in our 2015 Emmy series here at CarterMatt so far this summer, but we’re not going to do that every time just for the sake of hyperbole. The honest truth here at the moment is that there’s no real drama in the Outstanding Comedy Actor race. […]
Emmys, Modern Family, Parks and Recreation, Silicon Valley, Transparent, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Veep
If you look back at the past five years of Emmy voting in the Outstanding Comedy Series, it is almost like listening to a broken record. “Modern Family” has won every year, and it has rendered this category relatively boring. It’s a very funny show, but we’ve felt for two years now that it has been […]
