Globes' TV nominations favor cable to broadcast
If there was any doubt before, the Golden Globes have sounded a clear message: This year, the best TV is on cable.
Broadcast networks scored only one-third of the 60 television nominations announced Thursday. Most of them went to ABC's “Grey's Anatomy,” Fox's “House” and NBC's “30 Rock” (all represented by awards last year) and ABC's freshman series “Pushing Daisies.”
But cable was golden in the eyes of Globes judges, starting with FX's new “Damages.” This critically praised legal drama, which barely escaped cancellation due to low ratings, landed four nominations: best drama series, lead actress (Glenn Close), supporting actress (Rose Byrne) and supporting actor (Ted Danson). Such goodwill was rousing validation of FX's decision to renew the series for two more seasons.
Hollywood awards remain wide open
Hollywood awards are so up for grabs that even Golden Globe voters were divided, picking seven nominees for best drama instead of the usual five.
The classy British drama “Atonement” received a leading seven nominations Thursday and joined such savage critical favorites as “No Country for Old Men” and “There Will Be Blood” as potential Academy Awards heavyweights.
All three earned Golden Globe nominations for best drama, though this year's awards pageant is so wide open that voters could not narrow things down to the usual five nominees. Because of a tie in voting, there were seven, the others being the crime sagas “American Gangster” and “Eastern Promises,” the feel-good campus story “The Great Debaters” and the corporate-lawsuit drama “Michael Clayton.”
Many awards shows are written under guild contract, so it remains unclear how the strike might affect the ceremonies.
Trans-Siberian Orchestra is new holiday tradition
Family Christmas traditions: “The Nutcracker.” Handel's “Messiah.” The Trans-Siberian Orchestra.
The Trans-Siberian Orchestra?
Indeed, the symphonic rock extravaganza (think Pink Floyd meets Yes and the Who at Radio City Music Hall) has in the past decade become a yuletide phenomenon. What started as a single show in 1997 is now a 90-city, 133-concert tour that began in mid-November and ends Jan. 6.
The Orchestra's melding of classical and traditional tunes to original symphonic rock, with imaginative narratives wrapped up with Christmas bows, has become an arena-rock juggernaut. The group has sold 6 million CDs and year after year produces one of the largest-grossing concert tours.
Last year, the Orchestra sold more than a million tickets and, says founder-composer-producer Paul O'Neill, the show's demographics include “every background, every economic class, and the big thing for us is we have every age group - it's kinda like going to a ‘Lord of the Rings' movie. A promoter did a breakdown where the average age is 21, and it's 51 percent female, 49 percent male.”
-From wire reports
Broadcast networks scored only one-third of the 60 television nominations announced Thursday. Most of them went to ABC's “Grey's Anatomy,” Fox's “House” and NBC's “30 Rock” (all represented by awards last year) and ABC's freshman series “Pushing Daisies.”
But cable was golden in the eyes of Globes judges, starting with FX's new “Damages.” This critically praised legal drama, which barely escaped cancellation due to low ratings, landed four nominations: best drama series, lead actress (Glenn Close), supporting actress (Rose Byrne) and supporting actor (Ted Danson). Such goodwill was rousing validation of FX's decision to renew the series for two more seasons.
Hollywood awards remain wide open
Hollywood awards are so up for grabs that even Golden Globe voters were divided, picking seven nominees for best drama instead of the usual five.
The classy British drama “Atonement” received a leading seven nominations Thursday and joined such savage critical favorites as “No Country for Old Men” and “There Will Be Blood” as potential Academy Awards heavyweights.
All three earned Golden Globe nominations for best drama, though this year's awards pageant is so wide open that voters could not narrow things down to the usual five nominees. Because of a tie in voting, there were seven, the others being the crime sagas “American Gangster” and “Eastern Promises,” the feel-good campus story “The Great Debaters” and the corporate-lawsuit drama “Michael Clayton.”
Many awards shows are written under guild contract, so it remains unclear how the strike might affect the ceremonies.
Trans-Siberian Orchestra is new holiday tradition
Family Christmas traditions: “The Nutcracker.” Handel's “Messiah.” The Trans-Siberian Orchestra.
The Trans-Siberian Orchestra?
Indeed, the symphonic rock extravaganza (think Pink Floyd meets Yes and the Who at Radio City Music Hall) has in the past decade become a yuletide phenomenon. What started as a single show in 1997 is now a 90-city, 133-concert tour that began in mid-November and ends Jan. 6.
The Orchestra's melding of classical and traditional tunes to original symphonic rock, with imaginative narratives wrapped up with Christmas bows, has become an arena-rock juggernaut. The group has sold 6 million CDs and year after year produces one of the largest-grossing concert tours.
Last year, the Orchestra sold more than a million tickets and, says founder-composer-producer Paul O'Neill, the show's demographics include “every background, every economic class, and the big thing for us is we have every age group - it's kinda like going to a ‘Lord of the Rings' movie. A promoter did a breakdown where the average age is 21, and it's 51 percent female, 49 percent male.”
-From wire reports
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