The 2000 Emmy Awards, the annual television ceremony honoring an old season as a new season approaches the starting gate, was all about respect. Does the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences respect the commercial-free drama about a neurotic New Jersey mob boss and his cronies that it largely rejected last year?
Or do the cast of a new series about the inner workings of a fantastical White House spend the evening triumphantly shaking hands with various presenters? NBC's "The West Wing" is the first production missing only a Best Actress nomination from a similar slate of nominations.
Source: New York Daily News