The 60th Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony will be awarded on Sunday, September 21st 8/7c. on ABC.

Here are a few of the nominations:

Outstanding Host For A Reality Or Reality-Competition Program

American Idol
Ryan Seacrest, Host

Dancing With The Stars
Tom Bergeron, Host

Deal Or No Deal
Howie Mandel, Host

Project Runway
Heidi Klum, Host

Survivor
Jeff Probst, Host

Outstanding Choreography

Dancing With The Stars • Routine: Mambo / ‘Para Los Rumberos’
Julianne Hough, Choreographer

High School Musical 2 • Routines: ‘What Time Is It?’, ‘Fabulous’, ‘Work This Out’, ‘I Don’t Dance’, ‘You Are the Music In Me’, ‘For One’
Kenny Ortega, Choreographer
Charles Klapow, Choreographer
Bonnie Story, Choreographer

So You Think You Can Dance • Routine: Hummingbird and Flower / ‘The Chairman’s Waltz’
Wade Robson, Choreographer

So You Think You Can Dance • Routine: Transformers / ‘Fuego’
Shane Sparks, Choreographer

So You Think You Can Dance • Routine: Table / ‘Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)’
Mandy Moore, Choreographer

Outstanding Cinematography For Reality Programming

Carrier • Rites Of Passage

Project Runway • En Garde!

Survivor • Just Don’t Eat The Apple

The Amazing Race • Honestly, They Have Witch Powers Or Something

Top Chef • Finale (Part 1)

Outstanding Reality-competition Program

American Idol

Dancing With The Stars

Project Runway

The Amazing Race

Top Chef

Outstanding Reality Program

Antiques Roadshow

Dirty Jobs

Extreme Makeover Home Edition

Jeanne Kazumi Petrone, Produced By
Intervention

Kathy Griffin: My Life On The D-List

Get the complete list of nominations Emmy Nominations

Here’s the music featured in Episode 2 of MTV’s Exiled. You can find the music from previous episodes of MTV’s Exiled here.

Ryan Frisinger
“Bring You Flowers”

Busbee
“I Can Pretend”

Cary Brothers
“Loneliest Girl in the World”

Santogold
“Lights Out”

BLOOM
“Spinning World”

Atreyu
“My Fork In The Road (Your Knife in My Back)”

Copperpot
“Annie”

Our Spoiled Sweet 16er is now a 20 year old college sophomore majoring in global studies. Ava says she loves to travel and experience new cultures. She’s even been to Third World countries … but always travels first class and stays in high-end hotels.

Ava is ‘exiled’ to the remote jungles of Thailand. Her mom hopes this field trip will teach Ava to be self-sufficient and understand what life is like outside of Beverly Hills. Ava is confident that she can handle anything Thailand has to offer.

Wrong!

Ava was not prepared for this trip. She behaved very badly in my opinion. She was rude, disrespectful and made little effort to learn about these people who embraced her. She did not have a ‘change of heart’ until the very end of the trip when she learned that she didn’t have to do any manual labor and got to have some fun. Suddenly she was all smiles.

Favorite moment:

Right around this point Ladee, Ava’s host sister, had enough of her complaining and told her to ’shut up’. The look on Ava’s face was priceless. I think that may have been the first time in her life that someone had said that to her.

Am I the only one that finds it odd that in many of these third world countries, there is no electricity or running water but the people have cell phones? Who are they talking to?

Based on what was shown on TV, I do not feel that Ava learned much from this trip. Oh wait! I forgot, she was inspired to donate some of her clothes to charity. She also had a moment of honesty when she said that while Global Studies is what she wants to pursue, she does not want to roll up her sleeves and work directly with helping people. She wants to do something easy like donate money or educate others on the world’s plights.

When I read about how desperate the people are in the area that Ava visited and then think about how much time was devoted to Ava acting like a small child, I am left with a bad taste in my mouth.

What I’ve learned from watching the first three episodes of Exiled.

This show should be a great opportunity to introduce young people to the plights of the world and to encourage participation with the Think Organization to work on change. Unfortunately, there are glaring flaws with the show.

–The show is 30 min. with commercials, limiting how much information gets to the viewer.
–The focus is on the personal drama of the exiled teen rather than the plight of the host teen.
–The show documents only five days of interaction with the host family. Three of those days are spent highlighting the whinning and complaining of the spoiled teen.

The show is promoted as a televised punishment for spoiled teens so the main focus is on the teen. But viewers just wanting to enjoy the teens misery are probably not going to go online and research the area or people covered in the program. Only the information revealed on the show will be processed. Isn’t that why these global families agreed to be part of the show, to better their situation? The financial compensation for their time is just a temporary fix. Getting people interested in their situation is needed for long term change.

Is it really punishment to spend five days in an exotic location? Most of the people who are talkng about this show would love the opportunity to take one of these week long field trips. I know I would.

Just from an entertainment stand point, the drama offered has not lived up to the hype. The subliminal promise of the show is that these little brats are going to finally get their comeuppance. Problem is these teens know they are safe because they have a crew of at least 30 following them around. They know it’s only for a week and nothing too painful or humiliating will be allowed to happen. It’s just a primitive vacation they can boast about to their friends, rather than a learning experience. I think they should not be told how long they are going to be exiled. This would create more drama and stimulate the soul searching required for real change.

After their ‘life changing’ experience we see them return home to parents who do not even try to pretend that their spoiling days are over. All the parents should have been exiled with their kids. Maybe they would appreciate what they really have to offer their kids and take their role as parents more seriously.

What do we get from watching this show?

We get to see the wasted opportunities of people who are in a position to do something worthwhile.