THB #220: Can The Dinosauring of Awards Shows Be Reversed? (Pt 1 of 2)

I’m tired of stories about award shows sucking, that awards shows are a dead business, and that “the kids” just don’t care anymore.

There is truth to all of it. I can’t argue the realities within that hyperbole.

But I also think the point now is to find answers to those issues, not to just keep jumping up and down on the dying pile of shows… an act which I have certainly been a participant in for years.

Thing is, within the industry, awards still do matter. EGOT. Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony. Everything else is expendable. This doesn’t mean that everything else has to die. But in the conversation about how to bolster awards shows, we need to start with the big ticket items.

And we need to start the discussion with a clear deck.

We have all been looking at this for so long that we are really only arguing over slight variations of shade. I think it is in frustration that people just throw up their hands and are willing to take the position that we are permanently stuck or hopeless enough to…