TV Themes Get Nixed from Emmy Awards

Television theme music writers have been dealt a blow by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. The Emmy Award category that has previously recognized the main title theme song for TV shows has been nixed by the awards committee, reports the Los Angeles Times.

Instead of a main title theme category, the Academy will now award the best music composition for a nonfiction program, a change blamed by the Academy on "the decreasing number of traditional television main title theme music."

Set to take place in 2011, the Academy hasn't put the final nail TV theme music's coffin, as it came back shortly after issuing the change in rules to give the music branch a chance to make a final decision, according to Variety.

Gone are the days of hit themes becoming pop culture fodder. For every 'Green Acres' and 'Gilligan's Island' theme of yesteryear is a single note on 'Lost.' The LATimes has collected a great montage of TV themes in its coverage of the Academy's rules change.