An Early Look at This Year's Emmy Race
The Primetime Emmy Awards (hosted by Neil Patrick Harris) aren't until September, and there's more than a month to go until nominations are announced. But the voting begins tonight.
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Here's another reason to be mad at Seth MacFarlane. MacFarlane's show Family Guy decided to campaign for the Emmys by spoofing Girls and making light of one of that show's most controversial scenes in order to make a point about Family Guy's outsider status.
The Primetime Emmy Awards (hosted by Neil Patrick Harris) aren't until September, and there's more than a month to go until nominations are announced. But the voting begins tonight.
The former child doctor turned mugging sitcom star has been tapped by CBS to host the Emmys, and he's also hosting the Tony Awards for CBS this year. Sure, there will be lots of crowing about the network's success, but what's wrong with a little gloating on an already boastful evening?
Today in showbiz news: MTV sends us to West Virginia with its new show Buckwild, a Stephen King series is headed to CBS, and more Sundance films have been announced.
Reports have everyone's favorite Twilight twinklers living in the same house again, so swoon away. Elsewhere in the world of celebrity gossip today: Pam Anderson suffers a setback, a look at Emmys parties, and Lindsay Lohan is not sleeping with someone.
A Real Housewife gets her own talk show, surely enraging all the other Real Housewives. Also in show business news today: Emmy ratings are both up and down, The Bachelor feels snubbed, and Justin Bieber wins again.
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Without the star power of the Oscars and the energetic musical interludes of the Grammys, the Emmys sometimes seem like the red-headed stepchild of the awards ceremonies.
Sunday night marks the glittery broadcast of the Primetime Emmy Awards, television's low-rent version of the Oscars, so it's time to pick out winners so you can win that big pool you have going with yourself and your cat. Who will win? Who should win?
Richard Lawson's post on the Emmy nominations had some of our commenters dreaming up absurd award categories. Who would you nominate for "Best Scowl in a Comedy Series?"
The Primetime Emmy Award nominations will be announced tomorrow, and as is Emmys tradition, we probably shouldn't expect many surprises. But that doesn't mean we have to stop hoping that some of our dream nominees will have their names read in the a.m.
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