How many award shows do people in movie and television need?  Not only do they need a lot of them, apparently, but they need to televise all of them.  We have the Emmy's, the Daytime Emmys, the Oscars, the Golden Globes, the SAG Awards, the People's Choice and a few others I am probably forgetting.  That is not even listing the half dozen different award shows for music.  OMG!!!!  Talk about narcissism at its worst.  The thinking must go something like this,

Hollywood Type #1:  "You know, we are great."

Hollywood Type #2: "You are right!  We should have an award show to tell our people how great they are."

Hollywood Type #1: "That is a great idea.  It's so great, we should have at least seven award shows that basically give the same awards with different names to the same people!"

Hollywood Type #2: "Outstanding!  And we can let each of those people spout inane babble, empty platitudes, and irrelevant social and political commentary when they get their awards!  And we can put it all on TV!!!"

Hollywood Type #1: "Excellent!  Let's do it!!!!  Ummmmm, what does platitudes mean?"

I guess the only thing sadder is that the American public tunes in to enough of these shows in sufficient numbers to make them financially viable.  If you are a movie buff or TV buff then I guess I can see you being interested enough to watch one show.  Apparently its a big deal for a certain gender that is not male to tune in to see what everyone wears to these preen-fests.  But six plus shows?  Come on, get a life already!  And I'm talking to both sides of this sad situation.