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And the "Buffy" Goes To... - A New Award Is Born ?

Sunday 19 September 2004, by Webmaster

Why didn’t "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," the show that launched more scholarship, analysis and reverent weekly gatherings than most organized religions, ever win an Emmy?

Hey, there, Scooby Gang. Put down those staffs! Yes, it’s true that "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" won two Emmys. But should we really feel comforted by the fact that Joss Whedon’s sly creation took home one Emmy for outstanding makeup for a series and another for outstanding music composition at a time when competent couch-idlers like "The Practice" and "Law & Order" went home with armloads of ghetto gold? The travesty. The travesty!

Of course, the standard answer for how "Buffy" and other shows — "Gilmore Girls" and "Boomtown," to name a recent few — can be both wildly admired and largely ignored by Emmy is mass popularity: "Buffy" never cracked the Nielsen Top 50, and if there’s anything Hollywood admires more than an original story, it’s a killer ad rate. That’s why Emmy can continue to heap attention on such stale fare as "The West Wing" and "24" and ignore shows like BBC’s "The Office," available only on BBC-America, usually located way down on your cable dial and frequently interrupted by ads for Chia pets and toothbrush disinfectants.

"Buffy," alas, is gone. But that doesn’t mean that other shows won’t be spared the attention they deserve — and need, in order to build their audiences and ensure that they live to see another season. The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences should be patrolled like the Hellmouth that it is. And so, beginning this year, Salon will annually honor the show that has been most unjustly ignored by Emmy. The reward? The Buffy, a virtual token of our esteem, representing the courage to fight against crime-show clones and mindless action sequences, against extreme makeovers and Heather Locklear cameos.

Such trash is an insult to your intelligence. You’re better than that. You’re the proud owner of ... the Buffy!

So without further ado, Salon proudly announces that the 2004 Buffy goes to...


4 Forum messages

  • > And the "Buffy" Goes To... - A New Award Is Born ?

    20 September 2004 05:45, by Anonymous
    Ooh! that’s cool.

  • > And the "Buffy" Goes To... - A New Award Is Born ?

    23 September 2004 22:06, by Rachel

    Didn’t "Buffy" win an Emmy for The Body? And wasn’t it nominated for Hush? It may not be big prizes, but I do belive we have some prizes at our hand, except for the "Buffy" award.

    Of course, what the series really deservs is the Best Dramatic Series Emmy, I was really disappointed the whole Emmy on Sunday, seeing medium series win so many awards.

  • > And the "Buffy" Goes To... - A New Award Is Born ?

    25 September 2004 00:12, by Anonymous
    Racheal: Amazingly, the Emmy voters managed to ignore The Body, one of the most gripping hours of television ever. The only major Emmy (meaning, something besides make-up or special effects) the show was ever nominated for was Outstanding Writing for Hush. For shame, Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. For shame.

  • > And the "Buffy" Goes To... - A New Award Is Born ?

    27 September 2004 06:04, by Ditto

    Buffy has received NINE nominations.

    (I found the relevant link mid-post, so the following is somewhat redundant if you click the link.)

    I could have sworn I read somewhere that Once More With Feeling was nominated for Writing (or perhaps musical score...), but there was a mix-up in the ballot delivery. Apparently, the ballots were sent out to the votes sans-Buffy, and then a little card came in the mail a few days later - "Oh, yeah, and OMWF from Buffy from Joss Whedon." Obviously, that wasn’t going to jump into anyone’s voting box, since they had probably made their decision.

    Seriously, this has to be one of the best-written episodes ever. Joss wrote and composed all the music himself, PLUS this wasn’t just a schlock musical. It’s quite in vogue to just throw in an episode where everyone sings for no reason. This actually had a cause for the singing, and it advanced the storyline loads. Since the first major one, Bitter Suite in Xena, everyone jumps on the bandwagon. Half of the time they don’t do their own vocals, as was done with OMWF.

    See online : Buffy Emmy musings