I promise this will be my last post about Sally Fieldgate, because I have no desire to turn the former Flying Nun into freaking Aung San Suu Kyi over one discombobulated podium rant at the Emmys. But the New York Times has a nice postmortem about Fox’s night of the itchy dump-button finger. The most interesting bit has nothing to do with the bleeping of Field’s remarks but rather, presenter Ray Romano’s:
Mr. Romano was censored when he made a joke about his former television wife — Patricia Heaton, his co-star on “Everybody Loves Raymond†— and her new character’s love affair with Kelsey Grammer’s character on “Back to You,†a Fox series that is to have its premiere this week. In doing so, Mr. Romano ignored Fox’s plea to television critics not to reveal the characters’ back story before the series’s broadcast.
Mmmyeah. Because nobody was going to see that mindblowing plot twist coming. I’ll have a review of Back to You later, but as far as the show’s originality is concerned, that’s pretty much all the review you need.