http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=entertainmentNews&storyID=2006-08-28T221710Z_01_N28370978_RTRUKOC_0_UK-EMMYS-CRASH.xml&archived=False

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - NBC apologised on Monday for the opening skit of its Emmys broadcast, which showed comedian host Conan O'Brien in a plane crash on a day that an air crash killed 49 people in Lexington, Kentucky.

In the prerecorded skit, O'Brien's crash mimicked the incident that launched "Lost," the hit TV series about people stranded on an island after a plane crash.

Tim Gilbert, president and general manager of WLEX, NBC's affiliate in Lexington, said he was stunned by the skit and if station managers had seen it beforehand it never would have been aired.

Forty-nine of 50 people aboard a Comair jet were killed in the crash at Lexington on Sunday morning.



NBC said in a statement, "Our hearts and prayers go out to the many families who lost loved ones in the plane crash in Kentucky on Sunday. ... In no way would we ever want to make light of this terrible tragedy.

"The film's opening during the Emmy telecast was meant to spoof some of television's most well-known scenes. The timing was unfortunate and we regret any unintentional pain it may have caused."

NBC is owned by the NBC Universal unit of General Electric Co..

:duh :duh :oops :yes

I am sure that was pure coincidence. So sad for all involved though.

Someone should have been on the ball with that one. Prerecorded or not, someone should have thought long enough to realize that it had to be pulled.

Someone should have been on the ball with that one. Prerecorded or not, someone should have thought long enough to realize that it had to be pulled.
I was thinking the same thing.

it was a parody of lost. i'm sorry the people died in the plane crash but people also fall through roofs of buildings but from what i hear they did a spoof of the office with someone falling in the roof should they have not shown that. maybe i'm being insensitive but i'm just sick of all the PC bullshit.

Yeah but the plane wreck was fresh...like the day before. They should have shown tact.

i didn't actually watch the emmy's...i have no desire to see people win awards for being pretty basically (i know that's not what the emmy's are really for but it just seems like a waste of 3 1/2 hours on t.v.). i have no idea how "dramatic" or "true to life" the spoof was but from what i hear it wasn't super "dramatic" that it was intended to be humerous and the audience weren't the ones pissed it was the viewers at home. that's what i got on the radio today.

Personally- im thinking that people are just being over sensitive. I mean it was just a skit from Lost. Ok im sure the timing offended a few people. But thats life. Would they get offended if Lost was on that night? Probably. Why? Because it involves a plane crash. Im thinking its just purely coincidental and perhaps the timing was a little off- but it really wasn't meant to offend anyone.

Personally- im thinking that people are just being over sensitive. I mean it was just a skit from Lost. Ok im sure the timing offended a few people. But thats life. Would they get offended if Lost was on that night? Probably. Why? Because it involves a plane crash. Im thinking its just purely coincidental and perhaps the timing was a little off- but it really wasn't meant to offend anyone.

:yes :yes :agree wholeheartedly