Former presidential cadidate Al Gore will receive an International Emmy in November for his work in broadcasting, including Current TV, his cable channel featuring user-generated content, and his book and documentary An Inconvenient Truth, which examines the effects of manbearpig global warming. I'm not sure what the International Emmy has to do with his movie, exactly, but there you go.

Gore is actually receiving the Founders Award, which honors those who "touch our common humanity." More importantly, Gore needs more gold statues which he will melt down in order to create a solid gold island he plans to live on once global warming has turned the Earth into a aquatic wasteland. Gore will then elect himself king of the mer-people and begin the breeding process for this new race of Earth creatures, who will claim to adore him but ultimately elect someone else as their king.

After Steven Spielberg talked about network responsibility and his joy of doing miniseries, he picked up a Founders Award at the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences' Emmy presentation last night in New York. What are the International Emmys, you're asking? They honor shows that are produced outside the United States.

Considering no one here at TVS or most of you have ever heard of them before, I'm pretty sure they don't quite hold the prestige of the U.S. Emmys or whatever the Emmy equivalent is in other countries. But at least it's a chance for people to get dressed up in evening wear and applaud each other. The entertainment industry doesn't have nearly enough of stuff like that (can you hear my eyes rolling as I typed that?).