

First of all, there are 95 entries for Outstanding Comedy Series this year (though that is down from last year). I would have added even Hulu’s very funny Reboot, but it was wrongly canceled after just eight episodes and thus doesn’t have a prayer.ĬAN A LONG SHOT GO ALL THE WAY FOR COMEDY SERIES? THE JURY IS OUTīut here is my pitch: What if a genuine long shot, but a totally deserving one that is actually going viral lately, came up on the inside in a late-breaking bid to get into genuine contention? It ain’t easy. Newcomers with lots of heat over the past year could break through into one of the eight spots like Netflix’s Wednesday, Apple TV+’s Shrinking (also from the Lasso producers), Hulu’s award-winning The Bear, Peacock’s Poker Face among others. Maisel, Only Murders in the Building, Abbott Elementary etc., etc. Then we have the stalwarts like Barry, Marvelous Mrs.

In Comedy Series, any newcomer has to face Apple TV+ juggernaut Ted Lasso in supposedly its third and final season after winning the past two years in a row. The defimation suit between Scholz and the Boston Herald is still pending.In Drama Series it is HBO’s to lose thanks to the likes of Succession and The White Lotus, both big winners last year ( Lotus has been re-catergorized from Limited Series to Drama Series much to the objection of its producers, one of whom told me they appealed the decision to no avail more than once). Quite contrary to what the article implies, Brad’s fear of the repercussions from the event between us was not the reason that he decided to end his life.” She tells the Boston Herald: “In the years that followed Brad’s death it has seemed that Tom Scholz has desperately tried to find someone to blame for Brad’s decision to take his life. He’d countered that Delp’s depression was caused by “an extremely upsetting and embarrassing incident,” although he’d refused to provide details.īut Meg Sullivan says Delp had told Pamela about the camera, and the couple were dealing with the issue. Soon after revealing the incident to his fiancée, Delp took his own life by lighting two charcoal grills while sealed inside his bathroom, succumbing to carbon monoxide poisoning.Īfterwards the Boston Herald reported he’d been “beaten down by the years of dealing with Tom Scholz,” which the bandleader says amounts to blaming him for the singer’s death. He didn’t like the thought of having to do that.” “He essentially apologized for half an hour,” said Winmill. I acted out of some impulse that is still not completely fathomable to me,” Boston sound engineer and Meg Sullivan’s then boyfriend Todd Winmill ordered him to tell his fiancée about the entire incident.

The evidence given in the defamation suit between Boston frontman Tom Scholz and the Boston Herold suggests that Delp was extremely ashamed and apologetic the following days after getting caught – contrary to what Scholz claims as the Heralds implication that he was to blame for his bandmate’s death.Īt the time before his suicide, Delp was engaged to Pamela Sullivan while her sister Meg Sullivan resided in the singer’s house.Īlthough the relationship between the two has been described as “platonic,” in February of 2007 Sullivan left to stay with her boyfriend after discovering a hidden camera and confronting Delp about it.Īlthough Delp soon apologized in an e-mail, stating: “I feel sick about this, and deservedly so. ĭelp was found dead on Main his home in Atkin, New Hampshire of an apparent suicide by self-carbon monoxide poisoning. New evidence has come to light that Boston singer Brad Delp had committed suicide only nine days after being caught installing spy camera’s in his fiancée’ sister’s bedroom.
