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Apple TV+ Show 'Ted Lasso' Nominated for Additional Awards

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Just after winning the Critics Choice Award for best comedy series, Apple TV+ series "Ted Lasso" has been nominated for additional awards from the Director's Guide of America (DGA) and the Producer's Guild of America (PGA).

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Zach Braff and MJ Delaney, who directed Ted Lasso episodes "Biscuits" and "The Hope That Kills You," respectively, have both been nominated for Outstanding Directional Achievement in Comedy Series awards.

"Ted Lasso" will be competing against "The Flight Attendant," and "Curb Your Enthusiasm" in the category.

The series has also been nominated for an award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television Comedy by the Producer's Guild of America, where it will be competing with "The Flight Attendant," "Curb Your Enthusiasm," "Schitt's Creek," and "What We Do in the Shadows."

"Ted Lasso" star Jason Sudeikis previously won a Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series (Musical or Comedy category). The show was nominated for best musical/comedy series, but lost out to "Schitt's Creek."

Apple TV+ animated movie "Wolfwalkers" has also been nominated for Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures by the PGA. Earlier this week, "Wolfwalkers" was nominated for 10 Annie Awards, which are accolades awarded by the Los Angeles branch of the International Animated Film Association.

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Still don't know why The Flight Attendant is in the comedy category. It's anything but a comedy. But go Ted Lasso!
 
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Dimwhit said:
Still don't know why The Flight Attendant is in the comedy category. It's anything but a comedy. But go Ted Lasso!
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Yeahhh, it's def not a comedy.

It was a decent show also. Sad it's probably not going to win any awards.
 
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Dimwhit said:
Still don't know why The Flight Attendant is in the comedy category. It's anything but a comedy. But go Ted Lasso!
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A dude's neck was sliced open! LOL!!! Oh, she's an alcoholic!!! LOL!!!! <spoilers that's pretty messed up>!! LOL!!!

In any case, I need to watch Ted Lasso now. (Yeah, I didn't get to watch it. I'm behind)
 
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Because Ted Lasso is the best comedy series of the year by a mile. Apple finally got its mega-hit, both with critics and prestige, and with audiences.
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It also has unfortunately good timing. The pandemic created quite a need for this show.
It’s funny and heartwarming. Even a British journalist from The Athletic praises the show - it’s fairly authentic in its (exaggerated) presentation of the culture.
 
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Alright, I love Ted Lasso, it's the best show on TV, etc. But these posts for every type of obscure award are getting to be a bit annoying. Especially when there are multiple in a 24hr period, lol. And I'm not the type to complain about what is posted to this site.

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Because Ted Lasso is the best comedy series of the year by a mile. Apple finally got its mega-hit, both with critics and prestige, and with audiences.
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I never would've guessed it. My initial reaction was that it was going to be an SNL skit dragged out into a TV show. My wife said she thought it sounded dumb and I had to convince her to try it because I heard it was good on here. Now it's one of her favorite TV shows and she recommends it to everyone and most the people she recommends it to are crazy about it as well.
 
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Just after winning the Critics Choice Award for best comedy series, Apple TV+ series "Ted Lasso" has been nominated for additional awards from the Director's Guide of America (DGA) and the Producer's Guild of America (PGA).
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Some small typos in that first paragraph:

Should be "Directors" and "Producers" (no apostrophes), and "Guild" (not "Guide") following the word "Directors."

Also, the article could be updated to indicate that the equally prestigious Writers Guild of America (WGA) also has nominated "Ted Lasso" for best comedy.

https://awards.wga.org/awards/nominees-winners
 
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macduke said:
But these posts for every type of obscure award are getting to be a bit annoying. Especially when there are multiple in a 24hr period, lol.
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A) Not obscure awards. Just because you have never heard of them does not make them obscure.

B) It is awards' season. We are only getting started. Maybe come back in a couple months because Ted Lasso is going to get nominated for EVERYTHING.
 
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Duane Martin said:
A) Not obscure awards. Just because you have never heard of them does not make them obscure.

B) It is awards' season. We are only getting started. Maybe come back in a couple months because Ted Lasso is going to get nominated for EVERYTHING.
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Dear Duane,

Please write to the publishers of the new Oxford American Dictionary for their patently false definition of obscure is causing far too much confusion! LOL

If I may offer a revision of your statement: “Just because you’ve never heard of them does make them obscure but doesn’t make them worthless.”

Which to both yours and the prior poster’s credit is truly what you were debating. And thankfully this common misconception of value being associated with popularity means you’re misuse of the the word was hardly an obscure occurrence.

And if I may make one final point… Awards of greater value generally have greater name recognition. Thus while these awards are not worthless, they are of lesser value than those given by entities that are more well recognized by the layperson. And tragically also come with the inevitable chiding of professionals looking for any chance to pull the rug out from under their colleagues in the entertainment industry.
 
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atomic.flip said:
Dear Duane,

Please write to the publishers of the new Oxford American Dictionary for their patently false definition of obscure is causing far too much confusion! LOL

If I may offer a revision of your statement: “Just because you’ve never heard of them does make them obscure but doesn’t make them worthless.”

Which to both yours and the prior poster’s credit is truly what you were debating. And thankfully this common misconception of value being associated with popularity means you’re misuse of the the word was hardly an obscure occurrence.

And if I may make one final point… Awards of greater value generally have greater name recognition. Thus while these awards are not worthless, they are of lesser value than those given by entities that are more well recognized by the layperson. And tragically also come with the inevitable chiding of professionals looking for any chance to pull the rug out from under their colleagues in the entertainment industry.
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Obscure - Not discovered or known about; uncertain.
How you equate that definition with your statement is not clear to me; where in the definition is the implication that obscure is defined by a single individual and therefore applicable to all? If I had never heard of Shakespeare would that make Shakespeare obscure? I will accept that the individual finds these awards "obscure" due to ignorance (please look up definition) but that does not make them obscure the to rest of the world. These awards happen every year, are reported on annually, and matter. They are not obscure by definition.

Now if I would post that you were an acyrolog that is arguably an obscure reference as it is not in common usage, though definitely applicable.

And I missed the memo that made you the arbiter of relative importance of awards. Perhaps you could provide a list of what is important and not important to the rest of us; please include some sense of authority to justify why you are in charge. The Oscars are well known but considered by some to be irrelevant due to the innate bias of the process. The DGA awards are seen by many in the industry to be more reflective of actual achievement in the categories being judged. So how do you assign "importance"?

Your post is well worded but has little meaning. Condescension goes both ways.
 
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Duane Martin said:
Obscure - Not discovered or known about; uncertain.
How you equate that definition with your statement is not clear to me; where in the definition is the implication that obscure is defined by a single individual and therefore applicable to all? If I had never heard of Shakespeare would that make Shakespeare obscure? I will accept that the individual finds these awards "obscure" due to ignorance (please look up definition) but that does not make them obscure the to rest of the world. These awards happen every year, are reported on annually, and matter. They are not obscure by definition.

Now if I would post that you were an acyrolog that is arguably an obscure reference as it is not in common usage, though definitely applicable.

And I missed the memo that made you the arbiter of relative importance of awards. Perhaps you could provide a list of what is important and not important to the rest of us; please include some sense of authority to justify why you are in charge. The Oscars are well known but considered by some to be irrelevant due to the innate bias of the process. The DGA awards are seen by many in the industry to be more reflective of actual achievement in the categories being judged. So how do you assign "importance"?

Your post is well worded but has little meaning. Condescension goes both ways.
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By that logic no one would ever possess the cumulative knowledge to claim anything is or is not obscure. Unless you claim to be omnipotent.

Look. I work in and with professionals in entertainment and by comparison and by the masses those organizations are comparatively obscure. In the same way that the fall session of CTIA which is geared towards enterprise business alone is also obscure to the layman.

sure we know about them and so do others in the profession but these are not the oscars or emmy’s. Those are absolute not obscure. Besides it’s an opinion.

and the entire point of my statement was to highlight that the issue at hand is clearly that each of you are taking issue with the perceived value of an award based on how “popular” or well known it is. And if you’re going to claim that most people know what those organizations are then so sorry but I know for a fact that is absolutely not true.

Just like most people don’t know what NATPE is which also gives out awards for media production as well as for innovation in new media formats.

I’ve been a panelist there and lectured there over the years though not any time recently.

but by and large outside the industry it’s an entirely obscure organization. Now can we move on? LOL
 
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