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TCA: Paul McCartney Sends ‘Glee’ Mix Tape

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Monday August 2, 2010 @ 6:06pm PDTTags: Britney Spears, Emmy, Glee, Glee Guest Performers, Glee Guest Stars, Glee Music, Paul McCartney, Ryan Murphy, Ryan Murphy Glee, TCA

Diane Haithman is contributing to Deadline’s TCA coverage.

Sure, 19 Emmy nominations are nice – but Glee co-creators Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan realized another significant job perk recently:  A pitch from Paul McCartney suggesting that Glee feature some of his songs. “I got a mix tape from Paul McCartney a couple of days ago. I thought I was being punked,“ Murphy said at TCA.  “It just sort of came out of the blue, in a package, hand-written: ‘Hi ‘Ryan, I am hoping you would consider some of these songs for Glee. I was gobsmacked. I grew up with that guy.” Ryan added that McCartney admires the show because it supports arts education, which is a draw for many artists hoping to have their songs covered by the Glee cast.  “Our show is an ultimate pop culture fan letter to all of those artists,” Ryan said, adding that Glee has also given older generation songs another life through the show. He wants to keep the number of songs to around 5 or 6 each episode, instead of going for the 9 featured in that Madonna theme episode. READ MORE »

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Emmys: So Many Awards, So Little Time

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday July 30, 2010 @ 7:15pm PDTTags: 62nd Primetime Emmy Telecast, Don Mischer, Emmy, Emmy Awards, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Fallon Emmys, John Shaffner, NBC Emmy, TCA

Ray Richmond in contributing to Deadline’s Emmy and TCA coverage.

Primetime Emmy executive producer Don Mischer expressed some frustration at a TCA session hyping NBC’s 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards telecast: so many awards and so little time. “We’ve got to hand out 27 of them in 2 hours, 6 minutes, and 54 seconds — and we’re already running over,” he said. Mischer was responding to questions about categories already moved from the primetime telecast to the Creative Arts Ceremony eight days before. This includes the top reality host competition as well as writers and directors of comedy, variety and music series. All had been included in 2009 but will now be out of the telecast in favor of writers and directors for specials.

“We also have included the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award for the first time in six years,” Mischer added, “which will take another five minutes during the telecast.” (George Clooney will be receiving it.) Mischer maintained that he and the telecast don’t have nearly as much flexibility as people imagine. “On the longform awards, for example, we didn’t have the option of shifting the writers and directors for contractual reasons. And we really didn’t want to think about taking the made-for-TV movie or miniseries award out. The reality host award was one we didn’t have a commitment to in terms of keeping it in the telecast.” Read More »

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EMMYS: Waiting For That Producer List…

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday July 30, 2010 @ 5:40am PDTTags: Academy of Televison Arts and Sciences, Emmy, Emmy Producer Credit, PGA

Ray Richmond is contributing to Deadline’s 2010 Emmy coverage.

Word is that the Academy of TV Arts and Sciences could release as soon as today its list of both eligible and ineligible producers on programs nominated for Primetime Emmy Awards. It would dovetail with the common practice of burying controversial or … Read More »

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EMMYS: Producer Credits Still Controversial

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday July 29, 2010 @ 12:01am PDTTags: 30 Rock, Emmy, Emmy Producer Credit, Mindy Kaling, PGA, Producers, The Office

Ray Richmond is contributing to Deadline’s 2010 Emmy coverage:

It’s an anxious annual guessing game – the vetting of producers for the outstanding series Primetime Emmy Award nominees. Now it’s nearly complete inside the Academy of TV Arts & Sciences, with those who are ruled ineligible notified sometime this week. The Academy has aggressively cracked down on the producer lists submitted by nominated series contenders since about 2000, with the joint goals of weeding out the undeserving and capping the producing team’s size. Though there appears to have been a certain moderating of its stance by the Academy over the past couple of years.

Previously, the caps on the number of individual producers who can be nominated for a comedy series (11) and drama series (10) were viewed throughout the industry as arbitrary and punitive. This year, the program producer maximums are based, according to the 2010 Primetime Emmy Rules and Procedures, on “the average team size of eligible producers in the category over a prior five-year period.” But that still seems too random. Read More »

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Is This Any Way To Judge Emmy Awards?

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday July 22, 2010 @ 1:28pm PDTTags: Academy of Televison Arts and Sciences, ATAS, Creative Arts Emmy Awards, Emmy, Emmy Ballots, Glee, Modern Family, Nurse Jackie, The Good Wife

Ray Richmond is contributing to Deadline’s 2010 Emmy coverage:

emmyThe Primetime Emmy screeners and ballots for at-home judging are in the mail. It happens that the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences is one of the last organizations in the land to depend … Read More »

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EMMYS: Do Cable Dramas’ Scheduling Patterns Give Them An Emmy Advantage?

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday July 22, 2010 @ 11:32am PDTTags: AMC, Breaking Bad, Cable TV, Cable TV Scheduling, Creative Arts Emmy Awards, Dexter, Emmy, Emmy Ballots, Mad Men, Matthew Weiner, Sopranos, True Blood, TV Scheduling
Nellie Andreeva

emmyIt’s hard to look around and not come across an ad for the upcoming fourth season of AMC’s drama Mad Men. There are billboards, promos, reviews, stories, and interviews with the cast and creator Matthew Weiner seemingly everywhere this week, which leads … Read More »

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EMMY: Agency Breakdown For Actor Noms

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Wednesday July 21, 2010 @ 5:55pm PDTTags: 62nd Emmy Nominations, APA, CAA, Emmy, ICM, IFA, Innovative Artists, Paradigm, The Gersh Agency, UTA, WME

emmysI can’t do a full agency breakdown of the Emmy nominations yet because the series producers have not been announced. For now, here’s the rep breakdown of the acting categories floating around the tenpercenteries:

WME: 22 Nominations
Amy Poehler, Andre Braugher, Claire Danes, … Read More »

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EMMYS: George Clooney To Receive ATAS’ Bob Hope Humanitarian Award

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday July 21, 2010 @ 8:30am PDTTags: Academy of Televison Arts and Sciences, Emmy, Emmy Awards, George Clooney
Nellie Andreeva

george_clooneyNorth Hollywood, CA, July 21, 2010 – The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced today that it has selected George Clooney to be the recipient of the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award.  The award will be presented — for the first time in six years — to Clooney on Sunday, August 29 at the Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE during the Primetime Emmy® Awards telecast on NBC.

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EMMYS: No Conan Snub In Writing Category

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday July 20, 2010 @ 10:40am PDTTags: DGA, Don Mischer, Emmy, Late Night Emmys, NBC Emmy, Primetime Emmy Awards, The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien, WGA
Nellie Andreeva

This can be chalked up to a pure misunderstanding magnified by the power of Twitter. Deon Cole, one of the writers on The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien, created some shock waves online after he tweeted yesterday that the show’s writers had been informed that the writing for variety, music … Read More »

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‘Nurse Jackie’ Moves Writers Room To NYC

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday July 20, 2010 @ 9:13am PDTTags: Cable TV, Emmy, Linda Wallem, Liz Brixius, Nurse Jackie, Rajiv Joseph, Showtime, Showtime Nurse Jackie, TV
Nellie Andreeva

UPDATED: Showtime’s set-in-New York and filmed-in-New York dark comedy series Nurse Jackie will now also be written in New York. I hear that the writers’ room of the show, which recently landed 8 Emmy nominations in its first year of eligibility, is being relocated from Los Angeles to New York … Read More »

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FX ‘Damages’ Saved By New DirecTV Deal

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday July 19, 2010 @ 3:15pm PDTTags: Damages, Digital, Digital Satelite TV, DirecTV, Emmy, Friday Night Lights, Sony Pictures TV
Nellie Andreeva

damages_DirecTV has become the patron saint of lost TV causes, saving yet another high-quality series from untimely death. Following its deal with NBC Universal for Friday Night Lights, DirecTV has inked a pact with Sony Pictures TV for the Emmy nominated Damages taking over the ratings-challenged legal drama with an order for 20 new episodes to run over two consecutive seasons, the show’s fourth and fifth, in 2011 and 2012. But unlike the deal for FNL, in which the original network, NBC, got a second window on the series, Damages‘ new episodes will only air on DirecTV. DirecTV has also acquired the rights to Damages‘ first 3 seasons, which ran on FX. Here is the official release on the deal, which had been in the works for the past several months with Sony as the driving force: Read More »

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EMMYS: PBS, ’60 Minutes’ Dominate News and Docu Emmy Nominations; Jailed Letterman Extortionist Gets a Nom Too

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday July 15, 2010 @ 1:18pm PDTTags: 48 Hours Mystery, 60 Minutes, ABC News, CBS News, David Letterman, Emmy, Emmy News and Documentary, NBC News, PBS
Nellie Andreeva

emmyPBS once again leads the News and Documentary Emmy nominations announced today with 37 noms, followed by CBS with 31 noms, including 16 for venerable newsmagazine 60 Minutes, the most nominated program by a mile; HBO (20); National Geographic (19); NBC … Read More »

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Jay Reacts To Conan’s Emmy Nominations

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday July 8, 2010 @ 9:01pm PDTTags: 62nd Emmy Nominations, David Letterman, Emmy, Jay Leno, Late Night TV, Late Show with David Letterman, The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Video
Nellie Andreeva

UPDATED: A relatively self-deprecating response from Jay Leno to the 4 Emmy nominations for his interim replacement at the helm of The Tonight Show that would’ve been pretty classy had Leno at least mentioned Conan O’Brien by name. At the opening of tonight’s show, Leno said, “The Emmy nominations were … Read More »

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Emmy Voters Give ‘Modern Family’s Ed O’Neill The Al Bundy Treatment

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday July 8, 2010 @ 3:25pm PDTTags: 62nd Emmy Nominations, Emmy, Emmy Supporting Actor Category, Modern Family, Modern Family Emmy, Primetime Emmy Awards, TV
Mike Fleming

modern-familyEven though Ed O’Neill is the patriarch of TV’s hottest show Modern Family, Emmy nominators today treated him like his Married…With Children lovable loser character Al Bundy. I told you in April that O’Neill made a magnanimous gesture by submitting himself in … Read More »

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End Of An Era For Letterman As Emmy Streak Is Halted, Conan Keeps His Alive

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday July 8, 2010 @ 2:59pm PDTTags: 62nd Emmy Nominations, CBS, David Letterman, Emmy, Late Night Emmys, Late Night TV, Late Show with David Letterman, NBC, Saturday Night Live, The Colbert Report, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien
Nellie Andreeva

I feel like the late-night Emmy categories featured the most intrigue this year. And not just because of the four nominations for The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien, including best variety, music or comedy series and best writing for such series.

This year also marked the end of a pretty … Read More »

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Tina Fey Channels Steve Carell On Emmys

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday July 8, 2010 @ 10:14am PDTTags: 30 Rock, 62nd Emmy Nominations LA, Emmy, Glee, Kay Cannon, Modern Family, NBC, NBC Comedy, Steve Carell, The Office, Tina Fey, Tina Fey 30 Rock, TV, TV Shows
Nellie Andreeva

Tina Fey was a good sport about her NBC comedy 30 Rock surrendering the spotlight to new kids Glee and Modern Family this year, issuing two funny statements on two of her nominations for 30 Rock (she also shares a writing nom with Kay Cannon):

- on 30 Rock‘s best series nom: ”This … Read More »

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Emmy Analysis: Newcomers Score Big

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday July 8, 2010 @ 7:08am PDTTags: 62nd Emmy Nominations LA, Emmy, Primetime Emmy Awards
Nellie Andreeva

Conan O’Brien, Betty White Get Noms
62nd Primetime Emmy Nominees

UPDATED: The Emmys finally brought out some new blood… and a lot of blood in general, with vampire drama True Blood and serial killer … Read More »

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Emmy Bites: Conan, Betty White Get Noms

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday July 8, 2010 @ 6:02am PDTTags: 62nd Emmy Nominations LA, Betty White, Conan O'Brien, Emmy, Primetime Emmy Awards
Nellie Andreeva

Emmy Analysis: Newcomers Score Big
62nd Primetime Emmy Nominees, End of An Era For Letterman as Emmy Streak Is Halted

UPDATED: It was on the air for only seven months and NBC didn’t campaign for it, but The Tonight … Read More »

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62nd Primetime Emmy Nominees

By NIKKI FINKE AND NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday July 8, 2010 @ 5:26am PDTTags: 30 Rock, 62nd Emmy Nominations LA, ABC Emmy, Academy of Televison Arts and Sciences, CBS Emmy, Emmy, Fox Emmy, Glee, HBO Emmy, Mad Men Emmy, Modern Family, NBC Emmy, Saturday Night Live, Temple Grandin, The Pacific, TV, TV Shows, You Don't Know Jack

emmyAnalysis: Newcomers Score Big
Conan, Betty White Get Noms

The nominees for the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards were announced this morning at Los Angeles’ Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

HBO’s The Pacific received the most nominations with 24, Fox’s Glee 19, AMC’s Mad Men 17, NBC’s 30 Rock and HBO’s Made For TV movies Temple Grandin and You Don’t Know Jack 15, ABC’s Modern Family 14, NBC’s Saturday Night Live 12, ABC’s Dancing With The Stars 9, Showtime’s Nurse Jackie 8, CBS’ Two And A Half Men 6, CBS’ Big Bang Theory 5, HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm and CBS’ How I Met Your Mother and NBC’s The Office 4.

Overall in nominations, HBO led with 101, ABC with 63 received the most nominations of any broadcast network, followed by CBS 57, NBC 48, FOX 47, and PBS 32. AMC had 26, Showtime 23, Discovery Channel 14, Lifetime 11, FX Networks 9, Comedy Central 8, Cartoon Network 7, Bravo and History and Syfy 6, Disney Channel 5, USA and DirecTV 4, TNT 3, Nickelodeon and Animal Planet and Sundance Channel and IFC and A&E 2, BET and Travel Channel and TCM and NGC and EPIXHD 1. As for studios, 20th TV 49, Lionsgate received 26, Warner Bros TV 23.

Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
62nd Primetime Emmy Award Nominations

Outstanding Comedy Series
Curb Your Enthusiasm • HBO • HBO Entertainment

Glee • FOX • A Ryan Murphy TV Production in association with 20th Century Fox TV

Modern Family • ABC • Twentieth Century Fox Television

Nurse Jackie • Showtime • Showtime Presents, Lionsgate Television, Jackson Group Entertainment, Madison Grain Elevator, Inc. & Delong Lumber; A Caryn Mandabach Production

The Office • NBC • Deedle-Dee Productions and Reveille LLC in association with Universal Media Studios

30 Rock • NBC • Broadway Video, Little Stranger, Inc. in association with Universal Media Studio

Outstanding Drama Series
Breaking Bad • AMC • Sony Pictures Television

Dexter • Showtime • Showtime Presents, John Goldwyn Productions, The Colleton Company, Clyde Phillips Productions

The Good Wife • CBS • CBS Productions

Lost • ABC • Grass Skirts Productions, LLC in association with ABC Network and Studios

Mad Men • AMC • Lionsgate Television

True Blood • HBO • Your Face Goes Here Entertainment in association with HBO Entertainment Read More »

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