Stargate Atlantis: Compilation of People's Choice Awards links (photos, videos, transcripts)

[wraithfodder]

Collection of links for the 2008 34th Annual People’s Choice Awards and Stargate Atlantis’ win!

[First a note: the mainstream press barely covered it – past a “they won” type mention, but you can count on fans to document the event!]

So anyway, since the news came fast and furious, it's scattered. I took some time today (during lunch and when I got home from work) and put together this compilation.


(C) MGM

The above photo is from  http://stargate.mgm.com/news_detail.php?id=50

 

Accepting on behalf of the entire cast and crew were (front row, left to right): Jewel Staite, Joe Flanigan, David Hewlett and Rachel Luttrell.

On hand to congratulate the cast were members from MGM: (back row, left to right): Joe Patrick, Executive Vice President, North American Television Distribution, MGM; Charles Cohen, Senior Executive Vice President, Finance and Corporate Development, MGM; Jim Packer, Co-President, MGM Television; and Gary Marenzi, Co-President, MGM Television. 

Now, on to the list!

David Hewlett’s ‘suspicious’ Twitter mention on

Fly to L.A. for an MGM promo taping...something to do with the People's Choice Awards!? 09:47 AM January 03, 2008 from web

 

An MGM employee posts about meeting the SGA cast at a 1.5 hour breakfast!

http://jeninason.blogspot.com/2008/01/breakfast-in-heaven.html

 

Jewel Staite also posted at http://jewelstaite.com/?p=16

Stargate: Atlantis has just been chosen by you, the fans, as favorite sci-fi show for the People’s Choice Awards! Which means I got to buy a new outfit, even if it was only seen for three seconds on the aired broadcast! Oh well. ... (it was posted around midnight but is no longer on the site but did pull up on a search . Odd)

 

And now, new pictures of Joe Flanigan and David Hewlett with the People’s Choice Award, er, award, um, statue!

http://jeninason.blogspot.com/2008/01/we-are-people-people.html

 

or just visit http://jeninason.blogspot.com/ and just scroll down for more photos of relaxed shots of Joe Flanigan, David Hewlett, and Jewel Staite.  Love the shots of David holding the award, yet gnashing his teeth at Joe, who has a cup of coffee. Hmm, maybe David wants the coffee…

 

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A video capture of the televised “We won!” speech (all four seconds or so) is available at

http://wraithfodder.livejournal.com/155849.html

 

A nice selection of caps from the “We won!” televised snippet are available at http://katstale.livejournal.com/52463.html

 

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Go to this URL -  http://www.pcavote.com/pca/show.jsp - and you can find the SGA cast’s ‘fan question’  - ‘are any of you tech geeks in real life’? 34 seconds (and apparently it’s Joe Flanigan who’s the tech geek, not David!)

 

Go to this URL - http://www.pcavote.com/pca/history.jsp - and you can find the can find the SGA cast’s acceptance speech – the real one (although it doesn’t have the “We won!” segment, darn). Just scroll down till you find Favorite Sci-Fi show, then click on VIEW SPEECH.  Approx. 48 seconds.

 

You can find a transcript and lots of pretty screencaps of the above video at

http://watcher652.livejournal.com/12403.html

 

Snerching one cap from the above journal to show you what you’ll miss if you don’t visit…

 

 

 

You can view past award videos at

http://www.technorati.com/videos/tag/people%27s+choice+stargate

and hopefully they will load up the 2008 ‘speeches’

 

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A few press snippets

 

http://www.tvweek.com/blogs/james-hibberd/2008/01/the_peoples_choice_is_nbc.php

The return of the People’s Choice Awards was down 54% from last year. CBS’ presentation of the annual event garnered a weak 1.6 preliminary rating among adults 18 to 49, according to Nielsen.

… For those morbidly curious, "House" won for favorite drama, "Two and a Half Men" for comedy, "Stargate Atlantis" for sci fi show (beating "Battlestar Galactica"), "Dancing With the Stars" for reality, "The Simpsons" for animated, "Deal or No Deal" for game show and Katherine Heigl and Patrick Dempsey were the favorite female and male performers.

 

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Now, there were pros and cons to this awards program. Pro – Stargate Atlantis won!!! Con -  having to watch the whole mess before the four or so seconds for SGA. It was very wise of them to cancel the Golden Globes if this is what award programs will look like. It was like an award show on speed. Were they hanging a sword of doom over the winner’s head – “You’ve got 15 seconds for your speech! Don’t dawdle!” and then they waste time showing OLD clips. I mean, hello? Do they think the viewing audience is that dense they won’t realize they’re from an old show, especially when you see ‘2005’ across the screen. Er, maybe I shouldn’t ask that…  And award shows DO need all the inane speeches, the laughter, the presenters/acceptees making mistakes.  Never thought I’d say that.  Wait, wait, now I know what it reminded me – an informercial! Shudder.

 

Too bad SGA wasn’t filming right now – they could have filmed their speech from the gateroom with the entire cast!  (I only saw half the awards, changed to L&O: SVU after SGA won, but I thought Joaquin Phoenix and Robin Williams had the best ‘speeches,’ past  the squeeful acceptance by the SGA cast, of course).

 

It was great to see SGA win – David Hewlett’s Twitter mention was a suspicious giveaway – but don’t count your wraith till they hatch ;) I’d love to think that if the WGA strike were over, we would have seen Joe Flanigan in a tuxedo, along with David Hewlett (tux or not, hmm, hard to tell), Rachel Luttrell and Jewel Staite in glam dresses, go up to accept their award. Oh wait, brain cells come to screeching halt. Sci fi shows are the stepchildren of the entertainment world. Always have been, even when Star Wars came out. I bet we still would have been stuck with footage even if the show had been live, but then again, who knows, they might have actually made it up on stage. I can dream ;) . 

Comments

[ladyniko.livejournal.com]

At least the gals looked really nice... :) I see that both David & Joe are doing the "no shaving for off season" look. :-p

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

The no shaving seems to be the in thing during the strike, but in less than a month, think it's all gonna have to come off (unless David is going to play his evil twin in an alternate universe episode) ;)

[winter-elf.livejournal.com]

I bow to your web-foo. I'm always so amazed that you find all the goodies!! Thank for pointing out the pics :)

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

thanks :) I just know how to surf the web! :)

[witchofthedogs.livejournal.com]

That picture of everyone together is great! Our fuzzy boys and beautiful girls!!!

(BTW, I friended you - hope you don't mind.)

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

No problem.

[morebliss.livejournal.com]

Thanks for all these links! So much for working this afternoon ;)

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Ah, you must be on the west coast or further ;)

[morebliss.livejournal.com]

Little further ;) New Zealand to be precise.

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Ha! The kiwi was a dead giveaway ;) Duh...

[pisces227.livejournal.com]

I knew I could count on you for all the good info...thanks!

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

You're welcome.

[margec01.livejournal.com]

I'm wondering if the no shaving is for the show. As in they might be stranded somewhere at the end of the season?

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Hmm, and if that's the case, I soooo want Sheppard to rag on McKay about the 'evil goatee' ;)

[margec01.livejournal.com]

You are too fast! I started to edit my reply to say:

Thanks so much for all the links to some GREAT pics. I went through the ceremony at fast forward THREE times before I finally found the tiny SGA clip. How dumb was I to think that they might be on screen for more than four seconds?

I'm hoping all this good publicity could help with a sixth season, too!

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

You're welcome. And on the four second clip. Yeah, you'd think they'd give us more time, but oh well. At lesat they got the win!

[kristen999.livejournal.com]

aww hadn't seen the that first pic...they all look adorable..love our cast.

HUGS them all. Honestly its nice to see even if it was taped..means they all got together for this moment.

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

The first pic is brand new on MGM. Very nice!

[gblvr.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the round-up!

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

You're welcome !

[margec01.livejournal.com]

The full acceptance speech can be found at the PCA website--and it is VERY nice and fun. Thanks to the kimberlyfdr on the sga_noticeboard here: http://community.livejournal.com/sga_noticeboard/2012724.html

And they also answer a fan question, but I haven't watched that yet? Is it one of yours? (VBG)

[margec01.livejournal.com]

Whoops! Sorry, you beat me to it! LOL!

[le-mousquetaire.livejournal.com]

Thanks for all this links. You are the best!

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

You're welcome. BTW, cute icon :)

[nakedwesley.livejournal.com]

Thanks for all the great links. I'm so glad they put up longer clips at the pca site, as those 3 seconds last night were sadly lacking. I didn't understand why the couldn't give the current winners more time, and get rid of the fluff, but you're right, the taped speeches were stilted compared to the past stuff.

I'll bet we would have gotten shafted had the show been live too. I think the main reason the SGA win is of interest to critics, etc is for beating out BSG. Ha! We won!

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's not the same as being called out from the audience and everybody going "WOW!" The spontaneity wasn't there for the most part, but the SGA gang were having fun. They're always squabbling over awards ;)

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Ah, the old fluff stuff was boring. I wanted to see the NEW awards. I hear the ratings were pretty dreadful.

[annieb1955.livejournal.com]

Aw, David and Joe grew beards together - too cute

[a-pilgrim-soul.livejournal.com]

I'm a little concerned, in that top picture it looks like Joe's wearing a velvet jacket!

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Does look that way in that shot, but believe the other photos ensure he isn't ;) Ah, velvet: cat fur magnet!

[bluespirit-star.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for all this great info.

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

You're welcome :)

[vecturist.livejournal.com]

Hmm, a couple pictures give me an idea of how to sneak past security at Bridge studios - claim you're the coffee delivery...

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Heh, hmm, good idea!

[the-other-sandy.livejournal.com]

I bet we still would have been stuck with footage even if the show had been live, but then again, who knows, they might have actually made it up on stage.

I don't know. If the show had been live, there might've been real time set aside for the SF award with the expectation that critical darling BSG would win. Then our guys would've grabbed the on air time meant for BSG when SGA won instead. And there would've been much rejoicing.

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

True, the squeeing might have brought down the internet, or well, slowed it down a little ;)