Gold Derby by Tom O'Neil - Emmy's biggest snub: How the heck did 'Lost' get lost?

Published: July 25, 2007, 3:12 am

Recently, the TV academy overhauled Emmy voting just to make sure "Lost" got nominated for best drama series. But it still got snubbed just like last year, after having won the top prize in 2005. Last year's slap was actually self-administered: its producers submitted a sample episode that didn't make sense to judges who weren't regular viewers of a serialized drama full of dangling plot lines and irritating ghosts who flit in and out of the series, befuddling even diehard fans. But this year Emmy chiefs decided to reduce the input of judges by 50 percent after they viewed a sample episode. If judges still gave "Lost" a low score, ATAS chiefs figured it could be offset by being mixed on a 50/50 basis with the results of the original popular vote of academy members, which determined the Top 10 finalists.... Read the full story here.

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