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‘Modern Family’ Cast To Poke Fun At Salary Negotiations In Emmy Awards Video

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Saturday September 22, 2012 @ 3:30pm PDTTags: ABC, Modern Family, Primetime Emmy Awards
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Modern Family videos are becoming a mainstay at the Primetime Emmy Awards telecasts. Two years ago, a pre-recorded Modern Family clip that brainstormed ways to improve the show and featured a cameo by George Clooney was one of the highlights at the ceremony. With ABC, the network home of Modern Family, hosting the Emmys this year, showcasing the top-rated comedy was a natural.

In the video this year, I hear the cast of the show will address their recent highly publicized salary renegotiations. After protracted talks, the Emmy-nominated adult Modern Family stars skipped a table read and filed a lawsuit against their employer before things were settled. I hear the video also will take a shot at the Chick-fil-A controversy and portray the youngest cast member, Aubrey Anderson-Emmons, who plays Lily, as a Bad Seed-type baddie. And keeping with tradition, the video features a big star. (Watch Modern Family‘s Emmys 2011 video below):

In his first turn hosting the Emmys, Jimmy Kimmel is still fine-tuning his material. He is expected to take on Emmy-nominated series, including doing a Breaking Bad skit.

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2012 Primetime Emmy Awards Party List

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday September 21, 2012 @ 3:25am PDTTags: Primetime Emmy Awards
Nellie Andreeva

Like a gypsy wedding which can go on for days, the festivities surrounding the 64th Primetime Emmy Awards are kicking into high gear and will make for a busy week leading into Emmy night on Sunday. Here is a list of the pre- and post-Emmy bashes. Notably missing is the Entertainment Tonight Emmy After Party as the celebrity newsmagazine is putting an end to a decade-old tradition (and some great gift bags). Speaking of an end of an era, NBC’s pre-Emmy party is moving from its long-time home at Spago to Boa. (Note: This list was originally posted last Sunday)

Directors  Nominees Reception, Sept. 18, 7:00 – 9:00pm Directors Guild of America 7920 W. Sunset Blvd. Los Angeles

Writers Nominees Reception, Thursday, Sept. 20, 7:30 PM, Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, 5220 Lankershim Blvd, North Hollywood

TV Academy Performers Nominees Reception, Friday Sept. 21, 7:30 PM, Spectra by Wolfgang Puck, Pacific Design Center, 8687 Melrose Ave At San Vicente

UTA Emmy Party, Friday, Sept. 21, 7:30 PM, at the Brentwood home of UTA Managing Director Jay Sures and his wife, interior designer Molly Isaksen

CAA Emmy Party, Friday, Sept. 21, 8PM – 1AM, Bouchon, 235 North Canon Drive, Beverly Hills

Women in Film & Variety Party celebrating 2012 female Emmy nominees, Friday, Sept. 21, 8:30-11:30 PM, Scarpetta at the Montage, 225 North Canon Drive, Beverly Hills

WME Emmy Party, Friday, Sept. 21, 9 PM-12 AM, Milk Studios, 855 Cahuenga Blvd., Los Angeles

Entertainment Weekly Pre-Emmy Party, Friday, Sept. 21, 9 PM, Fig & Olive, 8490 Melrose Place, West Hollywood

ICM Partners Emmy Brunch, Saturday, Sep. 22, 11:30 AM, Fig & Olive, 8490 Melrose Place, West Hollywood Read More »

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TV Academy Names Juried Winners In Animation & Costuming

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday August 22, 2012 @ 12:15pm PDTTags: Academy Of Television Arts & Sciences, Animation, Primetime Emmy Awards

NoHo Arts District, CA, August, 22, 2012 – The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced today the juried winners for the 64th Primetime Emmy® Awards in the categories of Individual Achievement in Animation and Costumes for a Variety Program or Special. These awards will be handed out during the Creative Arts Emmy Awards on Saturday, September 15. The 2012 juried winners include:

Outstanding Individual Achievement In Animation

Disney Phineas And Ferb • Doof Dynasty • Disney Channel • Disney Television Animation
Jill Daniels, Background Paint

Disney Prep & Landing: Naughty Vs. Nice • ABC • Walt Disney Animation Studios
Bill Schwab, Character Design

Secret Mountain Fort Awesome • Nightmare Sauce • Cartoon Network • Cartoon Network Studios
Robertryan Cory, Character Design

Secret Mountain Fort Awesome • Nightmare Sauce • Cartoon Network • Cartoon Network Studios
Chris Tsirgiotis, Background Design

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EMMYS: Matthew Weiner And Maria Jacquemetton On ‘Mad Men’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday August 16, 2012 @ 9:00pm PDTTags: Awardsline, Emmys, Primetime Emmy Awards, TV

Anthony D’Alessandro is managing editor of AwardsLine

When Jared Harris received an email from the Mad Men production crew asking him whether his signature had a calligraphic flair, he finally saw the writing on the wall: His character, Lane Pryce, the nebbish British partner of the Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce ad agency, was being eliminated from the show.

Mad Men“I figured, ‘Oh, he’s forging a check,’ and if he’s doing it in secret, that’s not good”, explains Harris, who learned during the episode 10 shoot that Lane would hang himself in episode 12 after Don Draper (Jon Hamm) discovers he embezzled ad agency funds.

It might have taken 10 episodes for Harris to find out about his character’s fate, but Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner dropped hints all season: Don drew a noose during a meeting with Lane (episode “Signal 30”), and Pete Campbell (Vincent Kartheiser) and his train buddy Howard Dawes (Jeff Clarke) converse about insurance and suicide (“Lady Lazarus”). Read More »

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Little Diversity Among Past Emmy Winners

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday August 15, 2012 @ 9:00pm PDTTags: Awardsline, Emmys, Primetime Emmy Awards, TV

Ray Richmond is a contributor to AwardsLine

One of the dirty little secrets that haunts the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences is its woeful (some might even say shameful) track record in honoring African-American actors and actresses with Emmy Awards. Consider that were Giancarlo Esposito of AMC’s Breaking Bad to win this year for supporting actor in a drama series, or the mixed-race Maya Rudolph to take the comedy guest actress prize for NBC’s Saturday Night Live, they would become the first black performers to win in their respective categories ever. Similarly, if Don Cheadle triumphs in the lead actor in a comedy race for his work in the Showtime half-hour House of Lies, he’d become only the second African-American in history to win in that category.

In fact, the four lead comedy actor/actress and supporting comedy actor/actress races have found African-American performers winning Emmys a grand total of four times–once in each category. Combining the victories for black actors and actresses in all 16 performing categories throughout the 63-year history of the Primetime Emmys results in 35, or roughly 5% of the total number of statuettes handed out. Read More »

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EMMYS: Vince Gilligan And Bryan Cranston On ‘Breaking Bad’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday August 14, 2012 @ 9:00pm PDTTags: Awardsline, Emmys, Primetime Emmy Awards, TV

Ray Richmond is an AwardsLine contributor

It began with the simple pitch “Mr. Chips evolves into Scarface,” but the man doing the pitching — Vince Gilligan — never thought that Breaking Bad would ever see the light of day, much less a supersized, two-part, 16-episode fifth season and 13 Emmy nominations.

“I still pinch myself that it’s even on the air,” Gilligan admits. “I feel like I’m just extraordinarily lucky, much as a lottery winner is lucky.”

You hear the word “lucky” a lot when talking with showrunner Gilligan as well as the cast of the mega-intense AMC drama whose fan base is not so much huge as it is profoundly devoted. People don’t watch the show, they live it. And even as Breaking Bad prepares to depart this mortal coil with a final eight installments that head into production this November for air in summer 2013, the zealous multitudes (Badheads?) already are beginning to feel severe pangs of coming withdrawal. Read More »

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EMMYS: The Drama Race

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday August 13, 2012 @ 9:00pm PDTTags: Awardsline, Emmys, Primetime Emmy Awards, TV

Michael Ausiello is Editor-in-Chief of TVLine.

For the first time in ages, it isn’t a foregone conclusion that the drama series Emmy will be given to Mad Men. Though in any other year AMC’s crown jewel could probably eke out a victory, even in the wake of its … Read More »

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Q&A: Jimmy Kimmel On Hosting Emmys

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Sunday August 12, 2012 @ 9:17am PDTTags: Awardsline, Emmys, Jimmy Kimmel, Primetime Emmy Awards, TV

Ray Richmond is a contributor to AwardsLine

When the 64th annual Primetime Emmy Awards are handed out Sept. 23 at L.A. Live’s Nokia Theater (and telecast live on ABC), Jimmy Kimmel will be the man on the hot seat in his first Emmy hosting gig. But after presiding over the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in April and emerging unscathed, Kimmel suddenly looks positively bulletproof. Not that he necessarily sees it that way. He spoke to AwardsLine about the Emmys, the late-night wars, the competition, and a certain business venture he’s got an eye on.

Jimmy Kimmel Emmy HostAwardsLine: So it seems as if after 9½ years hosting Jimmy Kimmel Live, you’ve got the job at this point. What lessons have you learned after nearly a decade in late night?

Jimmy Kimmel: Oh about a million of ’em, big ones and little ones. I think the most important lesson is that you have to look at this as a long-term thing. And every show matters. You might not make the impact you’d like to with one thing that you’re proud of, but it all adds up. And people notice consistency.

AwardsLine: Do you find that you’re more relaxed on the air now?

Kimmel: Yeah, definitely. I think that part of it is, a lot of the guests didn’t know who I was or what I was doing there at the beginning. It made me feel very insecure and like I had to prove something to them in each interview. That part has changed. It’s just like being in high school, really. Your first year you’re terrified, you’re scared on the bus, and by year four you’re sneaking up behind the chemistry teacher and giving him a wedgie. Read More »

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EMMYS: Steven Levitan And Christopher Lloyd On ‘Modern Family’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Saturday August 11, 2012 @ 12:36pm PDTTags: Awardsline, Emmys, Modern Family, Primetime Emmy Awards, TV

Diane Haithman is an AwardsLine contributor

After two Emmy wins, it is no shocker that ABC’s megahit Modern Family has been nominated again for comedy series. What does come as a bit of a surprise is that having the most Emmy noms of any series this season, 14, hasn’t kept this from being jitters time for Levitan and Lloyd. In much the same way that Meryl Streep said she feared “Streep Fatigue” would cost her the Oscar for Iron Lady at this year’s Academy Awards, cocreators Steven Levitan and Christopher Lloyd both say it’s tough to decide how to react when you are top dog.

“We don’t have fatigue, but I think we do worry that people won’t root for us as much as they did before we won”, Levitan admits. “We’re still very much invested in winning and whatever comes with that. Winning and what it represents”.

“But it’s very difficult, because you don’t want people to think we don’t care and [that] we’re past that”, he continues. “We’re not. We do care. But at the same time, you don’t want to seem presumptuous. This is a very strange and new experience for me, to be in this position where we have won two Emmys in a row and are going for a third. We have to be even better because there will be a lot of people looking to say, ‘Where else can I cast my vote?’ ” Read More »

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EMMYS: Chuck Lorre And Bill Prady On ‘Big Bang Theory’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Saturday August 11, 2012 @ 10:06am PDTTags: Awardsline, Emmys, Primetime Emmy Awards, The Big Bang Theory CBS, TV

Adam Buckman is an AwardsLine contributor

This was the season The Big Bang Theory became ubiquitous. Perched at the top of the primetime ratings, its reruns became omnipresent on TBS and local TV stations, which together air as many as 24 episodes of the show every week. Yet the show’s ascendance to the summit of the pop-culture mountain has not altered the routines of those who work on the hit CBS show.

The Big Bang Theory“That has nothing to do with what you do every day, just to try and find a good story and execute it”, cocreator and executive producer Chuck Lorre says mildly, making the achievement seem ordinary.

“There’s actually a cognitive disconnect between the impact that the show has culturally, on television, and all that stuff, and your day-to-day experience”, adds cocreator and executive producer, Bill Prady. “You drive to a lot, you go to an office, you procrastinate a little bit, you go sit in a room with writers, you do your best to write an entertaining show about the characters you have in front of you, you (do) run-throughs, you do rewrites, you shoot in front of an audience–and none of that changes”. Read More »

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EMMYS: The Comedy Race

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday August 10, 2012 @ 12:22am PDTTags: Awardsline, Emmys, Primetime Emmy Awards, TV

Michael Ausiello is Editor-in-Chief of TVLine.

If ABC were to go into Emmy night confident that Modern Family was about to add its third comedy series statuette to the network’s trophy case, no one would be the slightest bit surprised. … Read More »

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Jimmy Kimmel On Primetime Emmy Awards: TCA

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday July 27, 2012 @ 5:47pm PDTTags: Jimmy Kimmel, Primetime Emmy Awards, TCA

Ray Richmond contributes to Deadline’s TV coverage.

Jimmy Kimmel, flanked by Primetime Emmy exec producer Don Mischer and TV Academy chairman and CEO Bruce Rosenblum, says he has the modest goal as this year’s awards show host of simply not disappearing from the telecast for lengthy periods of time. ”I’d like to be part of the show throughout”, he said this afternoon during a TCA panel on the September show. “It would be nice to be able to comment on things as they’re happening. Hopefully I’ll be able to insert myself in the entirety of the broadcast”. That was as close as anyone came to divulging specifics, other than expressing that it would be much easier to put on an entertaining telecast if they didn’t have to hand out a whopping 26 awards. “We want to keep the show really fast-paced and really funny”, Mischer expressed. Kimmel joked that the most economical way to meet that objective would be to “load all of the awards into a t-shirt cannon and fire them into the audience”. But Kimmel expressed that he isn’t feeling any nerves in anticipation of his first Emmy hosting gig — certainly not as many as he felt prior to his April gig fronting the White House Correspondents Dinner in Washington, D.C, in April. “I think I’m more comfortable in front of an audience of shallow Hollywood stars”, he concluded.

Related: EMMYS: Jimmy Kimmel On A Hot Streak With First Nomination Read More »

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TV Academy Re-Ups Longtime General Counsel Dixon Dern

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday November 8, 2011 @ 2:08pm PSTTags: Academy Of Television Arts & Sciences, Primetime Emmy Awards

North Hollywood, CA November 8, 2011 — The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced today that is has extended the services of its general counsel Dixon Q. Dern for another three years. Dern has represented the Television

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EMMYS: Producers Under Pressure To Cut Charlie Sheen From Broadcast

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Sunday September 18, 2011 @ 2:09pm PDTTags: Bruce Rosenblum, Charlie Sheen, Chuck Lorre, Fox, Primetime Emmy Awards, Warner Bros. TV
Nellie Andreeva

Charlie Sheen To Make Surprise Appearance On Sunday

EXCLUSIVE: I hear that there has been some pressure put on the TV Academy and the producers of tonight’s Primetime Emmy Awards telecast not to have former Two and a Half Men star Charlie Sheen as a presenter. Here is what I’ve learned has happened: Two and a Half Men creator Chuck Lorre, who was the subject of many of Sheen’s public insults last spring and is currently being sued by the actor over his termination from the show, confronted TV Academy chairman John Shaffner, who is the production designer of two of Lorre’s comedy series, Two and a Half Men and The Big Bang Theory. I hear that Lorre demanded that Sheen’s planned appearance be cut from the broadcast. Meanwhile, Warner Bros Television Group president Bruce Rosenblum — who oversees the studio producing Men, Warner Bros TV, which also is being sued by Sheen — made a call to Fox chairman Peter Rice asking whether it would be possible for Sheen to be dropped. After Rice couldn’t commit to doing so, Rosenblum asked him to at least not give Sheen an open mike that the actor may use to embarrass Lorre or the other Emmy nominees from his shows, all produced by WBTV. Read More »

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EMMYS: Fox Nixes Alec Baldwin Joke About News Corp Phone-Hacking Scandal In Opening Bit; Baldwin Walks, Replaced By Leonard Nimoy

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Sunday September 18, 2011 @ 11:26am PDTTags: Alec Baldwin, Fox, Phone-Hacking Scandal, Primetime Emmy Awards, Rupert Murdoch
Nellie Andreeva

UPDATE: Alec Baldwin confirmed our story via Twitter. “Fox did kill my NewsCorp hacking joke,” he wrote. “Which sucks bc I think it would have made them look better. A little.”

EXCLUSIVE: The opening video for tonight’s Primetime Emmy Awards on News Corp-owned Fox was supposed to feature 30 Rock star Alec Baldwin playing a fictional president of television. But after a joke about News Corp topper Rupert Murdoch and the ongoing UK phone-hacking scandal involving his media empire was cut from the pretaped bit, Baldwin pulled out. He was replaced at the last minute by Star Trek veteran Leonard Nimoy, who re-did the skit sans the News Corp joke. Baldwin vaguely referenced the incident in a Sept. 17 tweet. “I did a short Emmy pretape a few days ago. Now they tell me News Corp may cut the funniest line.” Sources say that Baldwin worked with the writers who penned the script for the skit. He taped it, but after hearing that the Murdoch joke was being cut, he told the network that he prefers if the bit with him doesn’t air at all. Read More »

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EMMYS: ‘Jersey Shore’ Spoof, Lonely Island Number Among Highlights, Ton Of Cameos

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Saturday September 17, 2011 @ 4:33pm PDTTags: Jane Lynch, Jersey Shore, Primetime Emmy Awards
Nellie Andreeva

UPDATE: Will Jane Lynch be channeling her inner Snooki? We’ve learned that the Emmy ceremony tomorrow will also feature a Jersey Shore spoof featuring the Emmy host donning a 40-lb. wig.

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Source: Charlie Sheen To Make Surprise Appearance At The Emmys On Sunday

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Saturday September 17, 2011 @ 10:10am PDTTags: Charlie Sheen, Primetime Emmy Awards

EXCLUSIVE: He may have not submitted himself for an Emmy nomination this year, but it seems Charlie Sheen will still be going to the Primetime Emmy Awards. Deadline has learned that the former Two and a Half Men star is … Read More »

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HAMMOND: Ridley And Tony Scott Build TV Empire And Invade The Emmy Awards

By PETE HAMMOND | Monday August 22, 2011 @ 11:29am PDTTags: Blade Runner, CBS, David Zucker, Gettysburg, Primetime Emmy Awards, Ridley Scott, Scott Free Productions, Starz, The Good Wife, Tony Scott, Top Gun, Unstoppable
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EXCLUSIVE: Last week, Deadline’s Mike Fleming reported that Ridley Scott is planning another Blade Runner film, while brother Tony Scott plots to do a remake of the 1969 Sam Peckinpah Western classic The Wild Bunch. These are just a couple of many film projects the indefatigable pair are involved in after careers that have spawned some of the most successful pictures of recent years. For Ridley, that would include three Best Director Academy Award nominations for the likes of Best Picture Oscar winner Gladiator, Black Hawk Down and Thelma and Louise, and for Tony a resume that includes such hits as Top Gun, Crimson Tide and most recently last year’s Unstoppable. He’s currently prepping Hell’s Angels, while Ridley is working on the 2012 summer release Prometheus. It’s remarkable that they actually have time for anything else, but since 1995 they have been heavily involved in their very prolific joint production company Scott Free, which not only produces their big-screen vehicles (and many others) but also has become a force in television, receiving 23 Emmy nominations this year in multiple categories covering scripted, nonfiction and miniseries. In 2010, it received the Britannia Award for Worldwide Contribution to Filmed Entertainment.

Under the day-to-day guidance of president of television David Zucker, Scott Free has seen growing critical and ratings success in the medium even as both are often in far-flung corners of world making movies. When I caught up with them in a conference call last week, Tony was in London, Ridley was in the South of France, and David was in Los Angeles. Nevertheless, they were thrilled about the Emmy love and planned to be here for the Sept. 18 prime time ceremony, where the CBS hit drama series The Good Wife, now moving into Season 3, is nominated for nine Emmys and the elaborate Starz miniseries Pillars of the Earth collected seven nominations. Their nonfiction entry Gettysburg is a major player also, with seven nods in the Creative Arts awards to be handed out a week earlier.

Previous TV projects includes the long-running CBS series Numbers, HBO’s Into the Storm and The Gathering Storm, A&E’s The Andromeda Strain and TNT’s spy thriller The Company, among many others.

The secret to all this success, they say, is smart creative choices and independence. “In terms of the creative ambitions of the company, as well as profitability, Ridley and Tony decided a few years ago to go entirely independent, so we have the flexibility to partner with ambitious and like-minded production companies like Tandem Communications but also the freedom to align on network projects or cable projects, with whatever studio or broadcaster that suits the material,” Zucker says. “I think the mandate that has always been the case for the company is that it’s very talent-driven, it’s very writer-driven, so when we happen upon something fiction or nonfiction that excites everyone and that Ridley and Tony want to pursue, then it’s all about finding the right home and about finding the right partner, and so the flexibility of being independent has been critical to being able to have this variety of projects.” Read More »

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TCA: ‘Glee’s Sue Sylvester Will NOT Host Emmys, ‘In Memoriam’ Won’t Be ‘Bummer’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday August 5, 2011 @ 6:17pm PDTTags: Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Emmys, Jane Lynch, John Shaffner, Mark Burnett, Primetime Emmy Awards, TCA Press Tour, Television Critics Association, TV

Diane Haithman is contributing to Deadline’s coverage of TCA.

Jane Lynch said that executive producer Mark Burnett surprised her on the plane back to L.A. from the TV upfronts in New York earlier this year by asking her to save a place on her dance card to host the 2011 Emmys. Burnett, the reality kingpin behind Survivor and The Voice, told her he didn’t have the authority to actually offer her the job, but she said yes on the spot. Lynch, an Emmy winner herself for Glee, has already poked fun at her upcoming hosting role Sept. 18 with TV spots in which she admits to saying to producers upon being asked: “You know I’m not Ellen DeGeneres, don’t you?”

On today’s lively panel with Lynch, Burnett and John Shaffner, chairman and CEO of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Lynch said she would be sitting in the writers’ room throughout the development of the awards telecast (her friend Jill Soloway will be among the writers group). Of live hosting duties, Lynch said she brings “the necessary energetic cocktail of excitement, anticipation and fear.” And both she and Burnett say that viewers will be seeing Jane Lynch, not a version of her Glee character, no-nonsense coach Sue Sylvester, which Lynch used in her emcee duties at the Fox upfronts the last 2 years. “A little Sue Sylvester goes a long way,” she said.  “We will probably leave her track suit on the Paramount lot.” She also said she hopes to avoid classic awards show disasters such as Rob Lowe’s Snow White number on the Academy Awards. For his part, first-time Emmy producer Burnett says he will use his reality TV experience to keep the show’s pacing clipping right along. “The most important thing, [because] the Emmys are three hours long, is pacing,” saying there would be a lot of comic bits to keep things moving along.” Read More »

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