Tuesday, Mar. 01, 2011
Angela Lansbury, 1993 Emmys
She had hosted the Tony Awards many a time, and by the early '90s had been nominated for an Emmy more than a dozen times, most of those for her work on Murder, She Wrote. So it seemed a natural fit for Angela Lansbury to take over hosting duties for prime-time television's biggest night. But coming off two years of hosting (or co-hosting) by comedian Dennis Miller, Lansbury struck a too-traditional tone, and almost every Emmy ceremony since has gone the route of having a comedian as host.