You have questions. I have some answers.
What happened to the Daytime Emmys? Were they televised? When and what channel? Why are they so downplayed?
The main Daytime Emmys were handed out on April 30. Winners included Steve Harvey (both for hosting his talk show and for hosting “Family Feud”), “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” “Entertainment Tonight,” “Good Morning America” and “General Hospital.” The ceremony was not televised; it was streamed online on Facebook and Twitter-Periscope; you can now find the presentation on YouTube or check out the winners list at emmyonline.org.
As what TVLine.com calls “a reflection of dwindling interest in soaps and other pre-primetime fare,” the daytime awards have not been on a broadcast network for some time. They have been online only for three of the past four years — and weren’t even a live presentation one of those years.
I love “The Jim Gaffigan Show” on TV Land. Will there be future episodes?
The series based on Gaffigan’s life is done. Gaffigan and his real-life wife, Jeannie, said in an online post in August 2106 that “after months of discussion Jeannie and I have decided to make season 2 of ‘The Jim Gaffigan Show’ the final season. … As many of you know all the episodes this season were written by Jeannie and me. Jeannie was the showrunner and I acted in virtually every scene. … However the time commitment to make the quality of show we wanted was taking us away from our most important project, our five children.”
We really enjoy “Rosewood.” Will a third season be released? If so, will it include both of the main stars? The season finale left everything uncertain.
And uncertain it will apparently stay. The series has been canceled after two seasons. Deadline.com reported that the series did well its first season, as a lead-in to “Empire” on Wednesday nights. But in the second season, Fox moved it to Thursdays, where it did far less well, and then to Fridays, where the audience overall is relatively small — and “Rosewood” still fared poorly. Hence its demise.
I was wondering why so many channels are making their shows run over the normal stopping time, so many of them are now stopping at 9:01 or 10:04, and so on. One either has to miss the ending of one show or the beginning of another, or record whatever show is going to run over so you don’t miss the ending. It’s very frustrating.
Apart from the frustration people feel when live sports events affect program schedules, this kind of viewing pain dates back to at least 2000 when NBC “supersized” some comedies and, pre-DVR, people struggled to set their VCRs for the overruns. But the odd times have several reasons.
First, as you observed, running a show a little longer helps keep people tuned to the same channel instead of flipping to another show on the hour. In addition, extending a very popular show into the next time period, where a less successful show may be airing, boosts the ratings in the later time period.
And, by extending the hit show, as USA Today pointed out more than a decade ago, the networks can charge a higher ad rate in that extra minute because it’s in the hit show. Finally, with the heavy commercial load in shows — often about 10 minutes in the half-hour, show creators will seek extra time for the program content — stretching out the length without the network having to cut commercials. (As if they would usually do that — occasional promises of “limited commercial interruptions” aside.)
