2008 Primetime Emmy Award Winners

• Drama Series: Mad Men (Amc)
• Comedy Series: 30 Rock (Nbc)
• Lead Actress in a Drama Series: Glenn Close, Damages (Fx)
• Lead Actor in a Drama Series: Brian Cranston, Breaking Bad (Amc)
• Lead Actress in a Comedy Series: Tina Fey, 30 Rock (Nbc)
• Lead Actor in a Comedy Series: Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock (Nbc)
• Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series: Jean Smart, Samantha Who? (Abc)
• Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series: Jeremy Piven, Entourage (Hbo)
• Supporting Actress in a Drama Series: Diane Wiest, In Treatment (Hbo)
• Supporting Actor in a Drama Series: Zeljko Ivanek, Damages (Fx)
• Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Movie: Tom Wilkinson, John Adams (Hbo)
• Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie: Dame Eileen Atkins, Cranford (Masterpiece) (Pbs)
• Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie: Laura Linney, John Adams (Hbo)
• Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Movie: Paul Giamatti, John Adams (Hbo)
• Directing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Program: Louis J. Horvitz, The 80th Annual Academy Awards
• Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Program: The Colbert Report (Comedy Central)
• Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Series: The Daily Show With John Stewart (Comedy Central)
• Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program: Don Rickles, Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project (Hbo)
• Directing for a Comedy Series: Barry Sonnenfeld, Pushing Daisies - "Pie-Lette" (Abc)
• Writing for a Comedy Series: Tina Fey, 30 Rock - "Cooter" (Nbc)
• Made for Television Movie: Recount (Hbo)
• Outstanding Miniseries: John Adams (Hbo)
• Directing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special: Jay Roach, Recount (Hbo)
• Writing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special: Kirk Ellis, John Adams - "Independence" (Hbo)
• Outstanding Reality/Competition Program: The Amazing Race (Cbs)
• Host for a Reality or Reality/Competition Show: Jeff Probst, Survivor (Cbs)
• Directing for a Drama Series: Greg Yaitanes, House - "House's Head" (Fox)
• Writing for a Drama Series: Matthew Weiner, Mad Men - "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes" (Amc)

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60th Annual Emmy Nominees Announced

The 60th annual Emmy nominees have been announced. You can see the full list here on the Emmys.tv website. Here are some highlights from coverage around the web.

• New York Magazine's Vulture blog has listed nominees for the more important categories.
• ET Online says Ugly Betty star America Ferrera is nominated again after winning an Emmy last year.
• Zap2It notes how well cable shows are faring in the nominations this year such as AMC's Mad Men which earned 16 nominations.
• EW's Popwatch blog is paying close attention to the Best Choreography nominees.
• The Hollywood Reporter says that the reality tv host nominees - including Ryan Seacrest and Heidi Klum - will be hosting the live Emmys show.

Posted on July 24, 2008
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2007 Emmy Award Winners

Here is a list of some of the 2007 Primetime Emmy Award winners.

Outstanding Comedy Series: 30 Rock

Outstanding Drama Series: The Sopranos

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series: Ricky Gervais for Extras

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series: America Ferrera for Ugly Betty

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series: James Spader for Boston Legal

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series: Sally Field for Brothers and Sisters

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series: Jeremy Piven for Entourage

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series: Jaime Pressly for My Name Is Earl

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series: Terry O'Quinn for Lost

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series: Katherine Heigl for Grey's Anatomy

The most controversial event of the night was when Sally Field's acceptance speech was censored by Fox. IMDB.com has a complete list of the winners here.


Posted on September 18, 2007
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Primetime Emmy Award Winners Announced

The winners of the Primetime Emmy Awards were announced Sunday. Everybody Loves Raymond and Lost picked up top awards. Winners actors and actresses included Tony Shalhoub, James Spader, Felicity Huffman and Patricia Arquette. MSNBC.com has a write-up about the show.

Everybody loved Raymond one more time, honoring the show Sunday as best comedy series for its final season. That denied the prize to newcomer Desperate Housewives while giving best drama honors to another first-year hit, Lost.

"All year long they've been asking us, 'Do you think, now that your show is going, is this the end of the sitcom?'" said Everybody Loves Raymond executive producer Phil Rosenthal. "I want to say, yes. Beyond that, it's the end of laughing and the end of smiling."

Felicity Huffman and Patricia Arquette became first-time Emmy winners as they received lead actress honors while Tony Shalhoub and James Spader once again proved favorites in the best actor category.

First-time Emmy Award Winner Felicity Huffman graciously thanked her Desperate Housewives co-stars:

"I've turned into one of those actresses and I'm sorry," Huffman, who plays an overwhelmed homemaker on ABC’s Desperate Housewives, said as she teared up at the start of her acceptance speech.

She thanked "the women of Wisteria Lane," her co-stars Marcia Cross and Teri Hatcher - also nominees in the category - and Nicollette Sheridan and Eva Longoria.

For more information about the winners E Online has a complete scorecard listing all the winners and the TV Squad blog live blogged the award show here.


Posted on September 21, 2005
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Primetime Emmy Award Nominees Announced

Nominations have been announced for the 57th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards. The Life and Death of Peter Sellers and took the lead with 16 each. They were followed by Desperate Housewives and Will and Grace with 15. Everybody Loves Raymon had 13 nominations and Lost had 12. E Online says the Emmy Noms look "desperate."

Desperate Housewives, TV's most watched new series of the 2004-05 season, now becomes TV's most nominated series in the race for the 57th Annual Primetime Emmys. It is a title shared with NBC's Will & Grace, which despite declining ratings scored nods for all of its stars (save Debra Messing), and several of its game stunt-casting participants. Only the HBO made-for-TV movies, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers and Warm Springs, hoarded more nominations--16 each--as the award-show field was announced at a predawn press conference in North Hollywood, California.

Though not short on drama, ABC's suburbia-skewering Housewives is competing as a comedy. As such, stars Marcia Cross, Teri Hatcher and Felicity Huffman will vie for Lead Comedy Series Actress honors against Everybody Loves Raymond's Patricia Heaton, a past winner, and Malcolm in the Middle's Jane Kaczmarek, a six-time nominee.

Posted on July 22, 2005
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Ellen DeGeneres Wins Five Daytime Emmys

Ellen DeGeneres won five Daytime Emmy Awards for The Ellen DeGeneres Show and ABC took the network lead with 12 Daytime Emmy Awards. Reuters has more on this year's Daytime Emmy award winners;

Among all programs, ABC's "All My Children" and the syndicated "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" won the most with five each. CBS's "As the World Turns" and "The Young and the Restless" and PBS's "Reading Rainbow" and "Sesame Street" each won four. Three each went to ABC's "General Hospital" and "One Life to Live" and the syndicated "Oprah Winfrey Show." Two awards each went to CBS's "The Bold and the Beautiful," Food Network's "Easy Entertaining," PBS's "Jakers" and the syndicated "Live with Regis and Kelly" and "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire."

It was the first outstanding drama series win for "General Hospital" since 2000. DeGeneres, who also hosted the show, won for talk show host and talk show.

Posted on May 25, 2005
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