[L.N. Smithee]

Someone dropped the ball here. Big time.

I disagree. I doubt anyone who really was affected by the plane crash was watching the Emmy Awards. If they were offended by the Lost deal, I would hope they wouldn't have taken it personally and thought the whole world should stop for them.

NBC has armies of writers and producers on a show the scope of the Emmy Awards. They could have come up with something to replace the Lost sketch, and if it was really lame a simple explanation that they had replaced a planecrash sketch out of respect for those lost in the Comair crash would have been right and classy.

This was the worst writing on an awards show in years, IMHO. They didn't apologize that what made it to the screen was lame.

[RedCell]

I doubt anyone who really was affected by the plane crash was watching the Emmy Awards. If they were offended by the Lost deal, I would hope they wouldn't have taken it personally and thought the whole world should stop for them.

You never know. The Emmy's came on right after a recap of the news so perhaps a lot of folks in the area had left the tube on. If I were the one making the decision (and it's easy from where I sit, of course) I would have opted to go with something else. But that's just me and that's the reason why I said someone dropped the ball.