Can anything derail Glee from Emmy glory?
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – It’s a sign of just how much the genre has shifted recently that the front-runner in the best comedy series Emmy Awards category — for the first time in more than a decade — is an hourlong comed-drama. Overlooked are such classic three-camera, laugh-track vehicles as “Two and a Half Men,” “How I Met Your Mother” and “The Big Bang Theory,” none of which made it into the final six nominees this year, despite the growing popularity of the latter in particular. Instead, Fox’s “Glee” will compete with two premium-cable shows (HBO’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm” and Showtime’s “Nurse Jackie”), NBC’s “The Office” and “30 Rock” as well as ABC’s “Modern Family.” Can any of them knock “Glee” from its front-runner perch when winners are announced on August 29? Voters’ ages might be a deciding factor. While the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences doesn’t publicize the age and gender breakdown of its 15,000 members, they are widely believed to be older than the you
