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THE PALEY CENTER SALUTES "THIS IS US"
September 18, 2018  | By David Bianculli

NBC, 10:01 p.m. ET

 

The NBC series This Is Us won only one Emmy this year – Guest Actor in a Drama Series, for Ron Cephas Jones (pictured) – but NBC confidently scheduled this special the night after the prime-time Emmy Awards show anyway. And it’s not a bad idea, or a bad show. Besides, only one series from a broadcast network won any major Emmy last night: NBC’s Saturday Night Live, which won for Outstanding Variety or Sketch Series. And that was it. Best drama, comedy, actors and actresses – all went to cable or streaming show. That “Broadcast Networks Are Dying” graffiti? It’s the writing on the wall. And SNL series creator Lorne Michaels, defiantly delivering an “I’m Still Standing” acceptance speech on behalf of the broadcast networks, failed to note that, last night, he stood alone, flanked and swamped by Netflix, Amazon, HBO and the like…

 
 
 
 
 
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