
Let's face it, with
more and more content being created for the third screen (i.e. your cellphone, handheld, portable, multimedia device,
etc. -- whatever you want to call it), it was obviously time for the
Emmys to create yet another
award for a new kind of small screen: the award for outstanding original programming for computers, cellphones and
other hand-held [sic] device (or that's what we understand it's called, anyway, they didn't officially acknowledge it
on their site so far as we could tell). So whose programming's up for an Emmy? You've got Fox Mobile's
24:
Conspiracy, MTV's mtvU
Stand In, AOL's
Live 8 on AOL, Orrin and Jerry Zucker's
It's Jerry
Time!, CB Films'
Sophie Chase, and interactive puzzle program
Stranger Adventures. To be
announced April 22 with the Daytime Emmies, the Academy will be reviewing and voting on the nominees with what we can
only hope is the utmost reverence and sincerity for the category, similar to how we imagine they vote on the Emmy for
Sound Mixing - Nonfiction Programming or Outstanding Game Show Host.