September 1, 2008
Fans are already awaiting the upcoming third season of 30 Rock, which hits NBC beginning October 30th at 9:30pm. The Golden Globe, Emmy Award WGA and TCA Award-reaping comedy series is now in its third year, and has set the record for having the most program nominations for a comedy series in a single awards year. The fact that the Emmys have a guest actor and actress category helped in reaping in the awards, as the show managed to land seven out of the 11 nomination spots.
Nonetheless, 30 Rock executive producer Marci Klein says that it’s the brilliant writers behind the show that should be given credit for coming up with the content and the faces to play the characters they’ve written. She adds, “Tina (Fey) is really brilliant -- as well as Robert (Carlock) and John Riggi, all the writers there. They're all really good at writing for someone's voice. If that person reads the script, it's obvious they would want to do it because it's just written for them.”
August 29, 2008
These Emmy voters. Who are they? Considering the process they must go through to watch the nominated episodes for Best Comedy and Best Drama, you'd think they were locked in a closet for eleven and a half months out of the year. The system seems overly complicated: to get your show up for initial consideration, you send the Emmy voters one episode of your series. When the field is then pared down to the final nominees (as they are now), each series provides six episodes (or, six hours for dramas, six half-hours for comedies) to the voters. First, however, the academy places those six episodes on three separate tapes. The tapes are then randomly distributed to the Emmy voters, all of whom receive two of the three tapes. This means, of course, that not every Emmy voter is seeing the same episodes. Perhaps this makes sense to some people (probably the same people who were responsible for nominating Two and a Half Men for Best Comedy). Anyways, the fine folks at Gold Derby recently got a hold of the specific episode lists that each Best Comedy series sent out to voters. You will find those lists below, along with some commentary.
August 18, 2008
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Network: NBC
Premiere: Thursday, October 30, 9:30pm
Cast: Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin, Tracy Morgan, Jane Krakowski, Jack McBrayer, Judah Friedlander
Previously on 30 Rock: Jack got a job in the government, but after seeing the troubling state of things, conspired to get fired. Tracy finished work on his porn computer game. Liz thought she was pregnant with Dennis's baby, but it was a false alarm. Liz decided she wants to adopt.
July 24, 2008
Television audiences know Edie Falco from her incredible guest performance on 30 Rock. Even critics took notice, and she earned an Emmy Award nomination for playing Celeste “C.C.” Cunningham, alongside Alec Baldwin's Jack Donaghy. This time, the network Showtime has announced that Falco will be playing the lead in a new series, Nurse Jackie.
Nurse Jackie, still a tentative title, is a half-hour dark comedy which will run for twelve episodes. Edie Falco will be playing the iconoclastic, strong-willed Jackie O'Hurley from New York City, juggling her career duties at an urban hospital while contending with her ragged personal life. The very flawed character sports a lapsed faith in Catholicism as well as a weakness for Vicodin and Adderall.
July 21, 2008
The NBC executive session at the TCA press tour featured many scheduling announcements. Jay Leno's final episode of The Tonight Show will be Friday, May 29, 2009 and Conan O'Brien will take over the following Monday, June 1. Conan will be stopping his current show in early 2009 and Jimmy Fallon will take over in either March or April, following a virtual preview of the show that will exist online prior to its network premiere.
The other big story was Amy Poehler's role on the new show from The Office writers Greg Daniels and Michael Schur which is officially NOT an Office spin-off. Though Daniels is also developing a spin-off that would include characters currently on The Office, the Amy Poehler show will be tonally similar but has no direct connection to The Office.
July 19, 2008
While accepting the Television Critics Association Award for Outstanding Miniseries for John Adams, executive producer Tom Hanks was thankful that the TCA Awards are not televised due to his random, somewhat dirty humor. After attending Saturday night's ceremony, I feel just the opposite, because the awards themselves and particularly the acceptance speeches were so hilarious that it's a shame more people don't get to see them,
The TCA Awards recognize the best in television, and this year the awards were divided among three shows: 30 Rock, Mad Men and the HBO miniseries John Adams. In an odd moment of mutual adoration from critics and the industry, those just happen to be the three most nominated programs at this year's Emmys.
July 16, 2008
Below is the audio of our discussion, and the ten semi-finalists for the category and the episode they sent in for consideration. For Best Actor, only the top 7 semi-finalists were leaked, but five nominees will likely come from the below seven actors.
Ricky Gervais won in a surprising result last year for the HBO series Extras. In doing so, both Steve Carell and Alec Baldwin were snubbed. Look for one of those two actors to take home the statue this year. This category, as always, is full of big-name actors. They are mostly deserving, save for Charlie Sheen.
July 2, 2008
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The list of acting finalists for this year's Emmy Awards is nearly complete thanks to Tom O'Neil at Gold Derby. He has already uncovered all the major Drama categories, and now he has both Supporting Actor and Actress categories on the Comedy side. The lists are largely dominated by NBC, thanks to three apiece for past Emmy champions The Office and 30 Rock.
Continue reading for these top 10s and a little analysis.