News Roundup: Post-Modern Family Awards Edition

Totally deserved it.

Hi, folks. How was your Emmy night? I found that subjecting myself to the whole experience was a weird kind of emotional roller-coaster: We begin with Modern Family winning everything, which I don’t begrudge it but it wasn’t especially suspenseful, and move on to infuriating crap like Louie getting shut out and The Big Bang Theory winning over Steve Carell. Then, just when your faith in humanity (okay, in the TV Academy) is almost beyond repair, they give Peter Dinklage the award for Game of Thrones and Friday Night Lights wins twice. HBO didn’t even have a lock on the miniseries this year!

Then, just when you think the night might have been saved, they give an award to The Kennedeys. Seriously, what the hell? Then we round up with Modern Family winning everything again.

But now it’s Monday, so let’s all move on. Here’s what else is going on:

• Showrunner Chad Hodge has kind of given up on trying to have us take The Playboy Club seriously. (Now it’s just “a sexy, fun soap,” a pitch that at least has the virtue of making sense.)
• Netflix doesn’t own the Quikster Twitter feed.
• And their stock is still tanking.
• Fox cut Alec Baldwin from the Emmys’ intro reel over a phone-hacking joke.
• The Friday Night Lights gang had an awesome reunion after the Emmys and spent the night pitching movie ideas.

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