Awards Season

It's been an awards kind of week--not winning awards, just being bombarded by emails and posts and thoughts about them. For, while the online soap reboots-slash-Stamford-slash-Soap Camp (wow, that's a mouthful) may have ended, both the Television Academy (NATAS) and the Directors Guild (DGA) have acknowledged that it was not all a figment of our imaginations. They have created award categories that include our efforts in Stamford (as well as the efforts of many other teams producing soaps for the Internet). And as a member of what is fondly known as "the Daytime Community," (that has kind of a nice ring to it, doesn't it?), I have ended up in the loop for making sure these productions get the proper consideration.

 

What's a bit funny about all of this is that, while it is paying tribute to something that for now is in the past, it is actually looking forward as well--acknowledging the fact that television, or what we used to call television, is now available in many formats, and that those of us who have created television are now expanding into realms we might never have imagined. Yay for us!
 

A year ago, I was marveling at the fact that I could  submit material I had worked on in the last two weeks at ABC. Now, I am marveling at the fact that what at times seemed like a grand experiment is now part of a new set of awards. So maybe it mattered a little more than we thought. Maybe, rather than a blip, it was actually a step. For us, and for the storytellers who come after us.