Pop Culture Curmudgeon

Award Shows Shouldn’t Be Taped for Later

Spike TV’s Scream Awards were held over the weekend, but we don’t get to see them on TV until Oct. 27.

Do we really have so many award shows that we can’t show them all at least the same day they happen? Live would be preferable, but the same day would keep me from, well, wanting to scream.

This ridiculous delay is even more asinine when you consider that the network owns the awards. Why would they possibly want to squander the award show hype by keeping it off the screens for 10 days?

If you want to know who won or to see some of the video of the event, visit the official page. Or, don’t. I mean, if the awards really mattered, Spike would play them on their network right away, right?