Archive for July 17th, 2008

17
Jul
08

The 60th Primetime Emmy Awards… And the Nominees Are…

Here are the nominees for the major categories of the 60th Primetime Emmy Awards.. They are scheduled to air on ABC on the 21st of September…

COMEDY SERIES
“30 Rock” (NBC)
“Curb Your Enthusiasm” (HBO)
“Entourage” (HBO)
“The Office” (NBC)
“Two and a Half Men” (CBS)

DRAMA SERIES
“Boston Legal” (ABC)
“Damages” (FX)
“Dexter” (Showtime)
“House” (Fox)
“Lost” (ABC)
“Mad Men” (AMC)

ACTOR IN A COMEDY
Alec Baldwin — “30 Rock” (NBC)
Steve Carell — “The Office” (NBC)
Lee Pace — “Pushing Daisies” (ABC)
Charlie Sheen — “Two and a Half Men” (CBS)
Tony Shalhoub — “Monk” (USA)

ACTOR IN A DRAMA
Gabriel Byrne — “In Treatment” (HBO)
Bryan Cranston — “Breaking Bad” (AMC)
Michael C. Hall — “Dexter” (Showtime)
Jon Hamm — “Mad Men” (AMC)
Hugh Laurie — “House” (Fox)
James Spader — “Boston Legal” (ABC)

ACTRESS IN A COMEDY
Christina Applegate — “Samantha Who?”(ABC)
America Ferrera — “Ugly Betty” (ABC)
Tina Fey — “30 Rock” (NBC)
Julia Louis-Dreyfus — “New Adventures of Old Christine” (ABC)
Mary-Louise Parker — “Weeds” (Showtime)

ACTRESS IN A DRAMA
Glenn Close — “Damages” (FX)
Sally Field — “Brothers & Sisters” (ABC)
Mariska Hargitay — “Law and Order: SVU” (NBC)
Holly Hunter — “Saving Grace” (TNT)
Kyra Sedgwick — “The Closer” (TNT)

REALITY HOST
Tom Bergeron – “Dancing With the Stars”
Heidi Klum – “Project Runway”
Howie Mandel – “Deal or No Deal”
Jeff Probst – “Survivor”
Ryan Seacrest – “American Idol”

WRITING FOR A COMEDY SERIES
Flight Of The Conchords — Yoko — HBO
The Office — Dinner Party — NBC –
Pushing Daisies — Pie-Lette — ABC
30 Rock — Rosemary’s Baby — NBC
30 Rock — Cooter

WRITING FOR A DRAMA SERIES
Battlestar Galactica — Six Of One — Sci Fi Channel
Damages — Pilot — FX Networks
Mad Men — Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (Pilot) — AMC
Mad Men — The Wheel — AMC
The Wire — 30 — HBO

STUNT COORDINATION
Chuck — Chuck Versus The Undercover Lover — NBC
Criminal Minds — Tabula Rasa — CBS
CSI: NY — Playing With Matches — CBS
NCIS — Requiem — CBS
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles — Gnothi Seauton — FOX

REALITY-COMPETITION PROGRAM
The Amazing Race — CBS
American Idol — FOX
Dancing With The Stars — ABC
Project Runway — Bravo
Top Chef — Bravo

REALITY PROGRAM
Antiques Roadshow — PBS
Dirty Jobs — Discovery Channel
Extreme Makeover Home Edition — ABC
Intervention — A&E
Kathy Griffin: My Life On The D-List — Bravo

VARIETY, MUSIC OR COMEDY SERIES
The Colbert Report — Comedy Central
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart — Comedy Central
Late Show With David Letterman — CBS
Real Time With Bill Maher — HBO
Saturday Night Live — NBC

MINISERIES
The Andromeda Strain — A&E
Cranford (Masterpiece Theatre) — PBS
John Adams — HBO
Tin Man — Sci Fi Channel

GUEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES
Curb Your Enthusiasm — HBO — Shelley Berman as Nat David
30 Rock — NBC — Rip Torn as Don Geiss
30 Rock — NBC — Will Arnett as Devin Banks
30 Rock — NBC — Steve Buscemi as Len
30 Rock — NBC — Tim Conway as Bucky Bright

GUEST ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES
ER — NBC — Stanley Tucci as Dr. Kevin Moretti
In Treatment — HBO — Glynn Turman as Alex Sr.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — NBC — Robin Williams as Merritt Rook
Mad Men — AMC — Robert Morse as Bertram Cooper
Nip/Tuck — FX Networks — Oliver Platt as Freddie Prune
Rescue Me — Charles Durning as John Gavin, Sr.

GUEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES
Desperate Housewives — ABC — Polly Bergen as Stella Wingfield
Desperate Housewives — ABC — Kathryn Joosten as Karen McCluskey
Monk — USA — Sarah Silverman as Marci Maven
30 Rock — NBC — Carrie Fisher as Rosemary Howard
30 Rock — NBC — Edie Falco as Celeste “C.C.” Cunningham
30 Rock — NBC — Elaine Stritch as Colleen Donaghy

GUEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES
Big Love — HBO — Ellen Burstyn as Nancy Dutton
Grey’s Anatomy — ABC — Diahann Carroll as Jane Burke
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — NBC — Cynthia Nixon as Janis Donovan
Medium — NBC — Anjelica Huston as Cynthia Keener
Nip/Tuck — FX Networks — Sharon Gless as Colleen Rose

SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES
Entourage — HBO — Jeremy Piven as Ari Gold
Entourage — HBO — Kevin Dillon as Johnny Drama
How I Met Your Mother — CBS — Neil Patrick Harris as Barney Stinson
The Office — NBC — Rainn Wilson as Dwight Schrute
Two And A Half Men — CBS — Jon Cryer as Alan Harper

SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES
Boston Legal — ABC — William Shatner as Denny Crane
Damages — FX Networks — Ted Danson as Arthur Frobisher
Damages — FX Networks — Zeljko Ivanek as Ray Fiske
Lost — ABC — Michael Emerson as Ben
Mad Men — AMC — John Slattery as Roger Sterling

SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES
Pushing Daisies — ABC — Kristin Chenoweth as Olive Snook
Samantha Who? — ABC — Jean Smart as Regina Newly
Saturday Night Live — NBC — Amy Poehler as Performer
Two And A Half Men — CBS — Holland Taylor as Evelyn Harper
Ugly Betty — ABC — Vanessa Williams as Wilhelmina Slater

SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES
Boston Legal — ABC –Candice Bergen as Shirley Schmidt
Brothers & Sisters — ABC — Rachel Griffiths as Sarah Walker-Whedon
Grey’s Anatomy — ABC — Chandra Wilson as Dr. Miranda Bailey
Grey’s Anatomy — ABC — Sandra Oh as Cristina Yang
In Treatment — HBO — Dianne Wiest as Dr. Gina Toll

17
Jul
08

Terminator: Salvation Trailer

The News just keeps coming!!
The Trailer for the movie Terminator: Salvation starring Christian Bale is finally out..
It is just a teaser for now…
Here it is…

In other news… the nominees for the 60th Primetime Emmy Awards have also been declared… and will be featured in my next post.

So… Whaddaya think?

17
Jul
08

TV Updates: 24, Scrubs, Heroes, The Office

So… Whats new….
Well for instance… the following:

24:
Mary Lynn Rajskub, the actress who plays Chloe O’Brian… is pregnant. Although she will still be appearing in season 7 of 24 for a major part of the show, she will have to take a few epsodes off…
Her departure will apparently be written into the show…. I hope this means nothing bad for her.. given the history of the show!!

25:
no, wait…
Scrubs:
Zach Braff (J.D.) will surely be leaving after Season 8 of Scrubs… However he is open to the possibility of guest appearences, and may even guest direct for the show if it continues…
What did the creator say… The show must go on… or in his words: ‘You cant kill this show.”
Zach Braff will busy himself now with ‘Open Hearts’ his next movie project in which he will act and direct…

Heroes:
Nothing much here… not pertaining to the show atleast… but ofscreen…
Apprently Milo (Peter ‘Sponge’ Petreli) who had been ‘hanging out’ with Hayden (Claire ‘The Indestructible Cheerleader’ Bennet), and has now proposed to the fresly turned 18 Hayden…
All I can say is WTF? Never been in a line before bud?

The Office:
There was plans of an Office spinoff to be included in this fall’s lineup… however it now appears that the spinoff wont actually be a spinoff… due to lack of a clear concept….
I believe this is for the best… The Office is AWESOME.. and I wouldnt want it spoilt by a cheep ass imitation…

17
Jul
08

Heroes: Going Postal – Websodes – Episode 1: A Nifty Trick

Webisodes seem to be in fashion these days… with websiodes coming out for almost all major tv series like, LOST, The Office , Battlestar Galactica… etc

So why not Heroes?

I guess heroes would have had webisodes too.. much earlier if there had never been any plans for a full fledged tv spin-off series Heroes: Origins, which in the end never panned out, due to the writers strike…

Well now FINALLY, we have a Heroes webisode series: Heroes: Going Postal

Here is the first episode of the series ‘A Nifty Trick’: