Sentence examples for emmy from inspiring English sources
noun
An award given for television production.
As brand new shows found audiences online, established web series had already proved the viability of the medium as a career launchpad: Broad City, a New York-based comedy about best friends Ilana and Abbi, was picked up by Comedy Central; Children's Hospital, a kind of nightmarish Scrubs, is now shown on Adult Swim; and Burning Love, a Ben Stiller spoof of The Bachelor, won an Emmy.
Jeff Bewkes, the chief executive of HBO's parent, Time Warner, has said Game of Thrones piracy has been "better than an Emmy" as a publicity machine which helped drive TV subscriptions".It is not as big of an issue as music in part because there is a plentiful supply of legal and free content out there," says John Enser, a partner at media law firm Olswang.
I'm not sure if the guys who are Emmy voters are watching".
On July 18 Mad Men picked up 16 Emmy nominations - more than any other drama - including best drama, best actor (Jon Hamm), and best supporting actor (John Slattery).
"I'm walking the picket line with some guys who are worth millions," says Lou DiMaggio, a reality- and game-show writer who won an Emmy award for "Win Ben Stein's Money".
On the eve of last weekend's Emmy awards for achievement in television, one executive said bluntly: "We all have essentially the same ideas.
Mr Paik is no stranger to showbiz, having won an Emmy award for his digital-TV research.
Season two of the Emmy-nominated drama Mad Men got off to a good start in the US on Sunday night, attracting nearly 2 million viewers for cable network AMC.
Sure, the opposition has current critical champ Transparent but House Of Cards blazed that particular Emmy-winning trail.
"I'm sure he'll turn it into his own thing," said South African comedian Loyiso Gola, who now also hosts an International Emmy-nominated local news satire show.
Michele, Golden Globe- and Emmy-nominated for her role as high-school singer Rachel Berry in Glee, performed Wicked's standout song Defying Gravity in the first series of the Fox TV show, and seems an obvious choice for the role of the wicked witch Elphaba.
