What do you mean "inside scoop"? What you see on TV is what they see on stage. The only difference is they see commercial breaks and pre-show awards which include award-winner announcements that they'll know only minutes before you do.
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle