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LIVEBLOG: 2009 Primetime Emmy Awards
First Published: Sunday, September 20, 2009 2:46 PM
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Tonight is the night to honor television excellence in America, with the second most prestigious entertainment award -- The Emmy.
It's the 2009 Primetime Emmy Awards!
Let's face it, half the fun of watching an awards show is the yelling and the complaining and the celebrating and the snarkiness and the outfits (I guess?), and like a lot of things, it's always more fun in a group. And if you aren't throwing your own Emmy watching party tonight, well then Murmur can be your virtual Emmy party. Just use the coasters, and don't spill any of the spinach dip on the rug.
Every year my family does a Emmy ballot and throws some cash in and winner takes all. Most years I win beause I pay the most attention to what's going on in the world of television. But this year I have some serious doubts about my ballot. I'll be honest, I haven't done a lot of research. This year I went with my gut which has never... steered me... wrong... in the past... crap, I'm screwed.
Here's who I've got on my ballot:
Drama Series: Mad Men
Lead Actress - Drama Series: Glenn Close, Damages
Lead Actor - Drama Series: Jon Hamm, Mad Men
Supporting Actor - Drama Series: William Hurt, Damages
Supporting Actress - Drama Series: Hope Davis, In Treatment
Directing - Drama Series: Mad Men - The Jet Set, Phil Abraham
Writing - Drama Series: Mad Men - The Jet Set, Matthew Weiner
Comedy Series: 30 Rock
Lead Actress - Comedy Series: Tina Fey, 30 Rock
Lead Actor - Comedy Series: Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock
Supporting Actress - Comedy Series: Elizabeth Perkins, Weeds
Supporting Actor - Comedy Series: Neil Patrick Harris, How I Met Your Mother
Directing - Comedy Series: 30 Rock - Reunion, Beth McCarthy
Writing - Comedy Series: 30 Rock - Mamma Mia, Ron Weiner
Made For Television Movie: Grey Gardens
Miniseries: Generation Kill
Supporting Actress - Miniseries or Movie: Shohreh Aghdashloo, House of Saddam
Supporting Actor - Miniseries or Movie: Ken Howard, Grey Gardens
Lead Actor - Miniseries or Movie: Brendan Gleeson, Into The Storm
Lead Actress - Miniseries or Movie: Drew Barrymore, Grey Gardens
Writing - Miniseries, Movie, or Dramatic Special: Generation Kill - Bomb In The Garden, David Simon and Ed Burns
Directing - Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special: Susanna White, Generation Kill
Reality Competition Program: The Amazing Race
Host for Reality/Reality Competition Programs: Jeff Probst, Survivor
Directing - Variety, Music or Comedy Series: Don Roy King, Saturday Night Live, Host: Justin Timberlake
Writing - Variety, Music or Comedy Series: The Colbert Report
Variety, Music or Comedy Series: The Colbert Report
Original Music and Lyrics: 81st Annual Academy Awards, Hugh Jackman Opening Number
If you haven't made your picks yet, or are just curious, you can find all the nominations here.
The 2009 Primetime Emmy Awards roll out at 8pm EST/7CST! The very funny and charming Neil Patrick Harris is hosting! Let's do this!
Not very many memorable speeches this year. That tends to happen when they get super tough on the time limits. The best ones were probably the song writers from the Oscars and Bryan Cranston.
Highlight: Ricky Gervais (with Bob Newhart a close second)
Lowlight: Just about every other presenter's jokes.
Hey, what'd I miss?
This is what I get for having my only access to the Internet being in a different room than my only TV.
Aw, thanks. Just read over parts of the conversation. Looks like I missed tons of good discussion. Maybe I'd better make sure that doesn't happen next year.
Has it been 3 hours already?
This was a pretty good show by NPH and the crew. Definitely miles better then that reality show shit we got last year. I think NPH was good, but the beginning montage was pretty bland.
Very happy that Emerson and the Daily Show won again. Everything else was pretty much what I expected. Although I want to know when Colbert will win one damn award!! He has to win sometime right?
Overall good show, maybe the Oscars will be just as good next year? Oh wait, with 10 nominations for Best Picture it's already a bad sign..
I know I keep doing this -- I can't help it, I live in NYC and work in media! -- but I met her back in 2000 when she was a guest on a show I was working on (with Rachel Dratch). She was a writer then so we didn't really know who she was, but I kept asking who the hot girl with Rachel Dratch was.
How seriously can you take an award that also nominates Family Guy? What's the name of that award High Times gives out? They earned that one.
Newheart should just take the Emmy from the winner and hand it to someone else saying it's all a dream.
I just feel for John Hamm, he gets stuck behind Cranston getting the role of his career. Not saying that he in undeserving, but without that show Hamm is the shoe in winner.
It's all going to come down to Outstanding Drama for the pool win. We've all got 30 ROCK in my pool for comedy; and in drama I've got MAD MEN and the person I'm tied with has LOST.
breaking bad season 1 disc 1 is *still* sitting on top of my xbox waiting to be played. maybe this will prompt some viewing.
I'm still amazed that the father from Malcolm in the Middle is winning these awards.
Really missing out not watching Breaking Bad.
The more I see of this and Twitter, the more I think we here in the midwest are a good thirty seconds behind the rest of you.
With three categories left, I'm tied for the lead in my pool with 9. Man, that's a really poor showing.
moss is great, but i'm not sure she gets enough screen time to compare to the other lead actresses that have shows built around them.
Yeah, it's a great scene, so I don't really blame them, but there are still other things they could have picked.
No argument there Paul, just glad I finished Season 2 before watching this. Would have ruined that moment on its first viewing
@ohcarolione: Eh, if you're more than a year behind a show you have to sort of acknowledge that the rest of the world gets to talk about it and you might get something ruined. Someone once got mad at us for spoiling something on BSG that was over two years old. We have become paralyzed by spoilers.
Those DVD's have only been out for a couple months, and this isn't like having something spoiled in a random conversation. It's an awards show aimed at people they want to get to watch their programming.
I guess this means Season 2 of MAD MEN is going to rule my world. ;-) (Stuck on Season 1 Ep. 9, the audio on the disc squelched out as Don was about to reveal his past to Rachel. I'm a sad monkey.)
I didn't see it but I heard Michael J. Fox did an amazing job on Rescue Me. Good for him for still acting.
I'm going to miss Walter Cronkite the most. He helped define what greatness is for journalism. There will never be another man like him for that industry.
Journalism really lost a master and probably lost the last thread to creditablity to the industry.
I'm glad to see Swayve, Farrah Fawcett and Cronkite placed above Jackson, because it's the last time it's ever going to happen.
Eartha Kitt
Patrick McGoohan
Karl Malden
James Whitmore
Henry Gibson
Dom DeLuise
David Carradine
Michael Crichton
Beatrice Arthur
Ricardo Montalbon
Ed McMahon
Paul Newman
Michael Jackon
Patrick Swayze
Don Hewitt
Farrah Fawcett
Walter Cronkite
and to the others honored tonight; you truly entertained us in one form or another and helped changed the way entertainment is today. We salute you.
There's more love for Eartha Kitt than Patrick McGoohan? For shame.... (I mean, she was the best Catwoman...).
you know what i never need? "i will remember you" playing over anything remotely sad. be back when this is over, folks.
Now, I don't know about you, but I've seen that Boston Legal, and if it's a drama I'm a caesar salad.
Boy, The Surrogates sure was a good book.
This might be one of those True Blood, the-changes-make-it-fun-a-second-time situations, though.
Jimski trivia: every time I see Sarah Palin raising the roof, my jaw clenches shut for forty-five minutes.
Because he's lazy (his words). He doesn't need to. He collects a ton of checks for the fifty versions of THE OFFICE that are made all around the world and he makes movies.
i can only handle him in small doses. that "making everyone uncomfortable" bit and the "making fun of how awful i am" bit get old kinda quickly for me.
I would still like to see him host the oscars. But your right, his style of humor might get annoying after awhile.
Oh man... I really wanted Carol Brown to win. :-( (FYI: Just found out about the Live Blog.) I didn't really care for the Opening to the Oscars. But these guys are pretty funny.
it's always fun to watch the clips for the nominations of the writers for variety. the conan one was good.
so very glad that award shows are realizing that multifaceted performers (like jackman, nph) make better hosts than standup comedians.
Noooo!
They should a mistake for the segment! Why should that be considered a win? Colbert gets screwed again!!
I gotta remember to mount that defense of Jimmy Fallon this week.
This song from the Colbert Christmas special makes me cry. Is that weird? Sorry, I should ask: how weird is that?
I might do a Craig Ferguson article on here in the future. I am a little angry he got nothing for great material the best year.
Took a gamble that after giving everything to THE DAILY SHOW last year, the Academy would go with THE COLBERT REPORT this year. Oh, well!
Whichever nomination involves Bruce Springsteen running into the camera with his crotch, I want that one to win.
Netflix says, "Movies most like Grey Gardens -- "The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio". "Donnie Darko." "Bringing out the Dead."
WHAT??
When I think that both Neil Patrick Harris and Felicia Day are on the Emmys and both were at the iFanboy/TRS party last year, and Felicia Day was at the iFanboy/TRS party this year... everything gets more bizarre.
Finding out I'd spent half the night with my back to her five feet away on the patio made me feel like I had quantum-leaped into someone else's life.
weren't you also sitting at a table next to an absurd amount of firefly/serenity folks this year?
lucky bastards.
Without having seen any of the writing nominees, I'm pretty sure Simon & Burns deserved to win that one.
My aunt keeps reminding me a friend of hers did the casting. It could be about the space program or the holocaust for all i know.
it's a movie based on a play about two crazy women who got all agoraphobic in a castle in england (i may have the location wrong) who just happened to be related to jackie kennedy.
i am not a fan in general, but what i saw (but did not hear) on a flight last month looked better than what i expected, period costumey-wise.
I sat near Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick at a Springsteen concert at MSG. I just kept watching them to see if they knew the words.
I'm very intrigued by Into The Storm with Brendan Gleeson as Winston Churchill, so at least the Emmy's put it on my radar.
@Andrew: I watched INTO THE STORM. I thought that as a film it was very formless. There was not real story, just scenes from Churchill's life. There was no connective tissue to the scenes. But Gleeson was phenomenal as Churchill.
Only two nominations in the Miniseries category. It's sad that the once mighty TV institution has fallen so far.
i'm all caught up! i recommend using the reality portion to go back into the comments and see all the witty things i said 30-40 minutes after you all did ;)
"This is my sixth time winning this....So who else can I nominate? Thank you mailman for providing the mail for so many years..."
As much as I love Jon Hamm and Mad Men, I am utterly convinced that Bryan Cranston should lock up the best actor in a drama. It's crazy to think he was the dad from Malcom in the middle, Dr. Tim Watley in Seinfeld and Walter in Breaking Bad. Breaking Bad is a fantastic show!
This is my favorite winner so far. Probst rules. Also classy of him to obliquely reference last year's disastrous Emmys hosting job.
Huh. I can't tell is Probst just slammed NPH or joking about last year's horrible mistake of hosting.
What's amazing is how many of his bad choices I can think of that he didn't get a chance to mention. I watched 'Lyons' Den' --
At least he can joke about it.
I can see this being the year the Academy decides to honor other people after last year when 30 ROCK did so well.
Well I mean it did great last year. I'm just saying that they seem to be getting 3/6 nominations for every category and they aren't getting squat.
That doesn't make it a bad show, I love it. Just it's a bit odd to see no wins for it so far.
Getting multiple noms and not winning is better than not getting nominated at all. As my mom would remind us.
You honestly couldn't tell that that was a comedy bit? Not even when they cut away to Jon Cryer? That doesn't just happen at random...
I still think it isn't a bit. They could've done that mic in the media room on the fly. If NPH keeps doing it then we'll know.
Once again it was a gag. If it was live it would have looked crappy, plus u think the director would have let that happen
Director totally would've made that happen. What would get people talking more about this then a sudden spat between NPH and Jon Cryer?
Okay so maybe it was a bit, still I just think it's poor taste to joke about him winning. He won! Let him have his moment in the sun even if you do disagree with the win.
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THE EMMYS SHINE AGAIN
After two years of record-low ratings, the Primetime Emmy Awards roared back with 13.3 million viewers Sunday night. But the awards show was nevertheless trounced by NBC's Sunday Night Football (New York Giants vs. Dallas Cowboys), which averaged 21.67 million viewers. Indeed 18 million was recorded for CBS's own football overrun at 7:00 p.m. The awards telecast averaged over 14 million viewers for its first two hours but dropped to about 11 million in its final hour -- a surprise given the fact that the major trophies are handed out in that hour.
http://www.showbizdata.com/news/50309/THE-EMMYS-SHINE-AGAIN