"30 Rock" rocks at the Emmys!
Hello, everybody. "30 Rock" dominated the 60th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday, taking top honors for Best Comedy and Lead Acting for Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin; the latter last week brought down the house with her dead-on Sarah Palin on "Saturday Night Live."
On the drama side, AMC's "Mad Men" got Best Drama honors; the first for a basic cable series (HBO and Showtime have won numerous awards, but they're premium networks). In acting, Bryan Cranston ('Breaking Bad", also AMC) and Glenn Close (FX's "Damages") also won big. Other acting winners include Jean Smart (Supporting Actress-Comedy, "Samantha Who?"), Jeremy Piven (Supporting Actor-Comedy, "Entourage"), Zeljko Ivanek (Supporting Actor-Drama, "Damages"), Dianne Wiest (Supporting Actress-Drama, "In Treatment", and 82-year-old Don Rickles for "Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project", which also got Variety/Music/Comedy Special.
And there's absolutely no stopping "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" and "The Amazing Race", as they're both 6-0 now in their respective wins (Variety/Music/Comedy Series and Reality-Competition Program)!!!!
All five Reality-Competition Program Host nominees -- Tom Bergeron, Heidi Klum, Howie Mandel, Jeff Probst, and Ryah Seacrest in his second stint -- shared hosting duties this time around, with "Survivor's" Probst taking that prize. The night's big highlights were courtesy of Josh Groban and his medley of TV themes (which I know is already a hit on YouTube), and Christina Applegate in her first public appearance since battling breast cancer.
Speaking of Applegate, she was dressed to the nines on the red carpet, along with Klum (Giorgio Armani Prive), Nicollette Sheridan (Angel Sanchez), Brooke Shields (Badgely Mischka), and Mariska Hargitay (Carolina Herrera). Applegate and Hayden Panettiere (the latter who looked much better than last year) both get my choice for best-dressed of the night, while "House's" Lisa Edelstein? She was not a heart-stopper herself, so were Lauren Conrad and Jennifer Love Hewitt.
After all was said and done, HBO as always took the most Emmy loot with 26 awards, followed by ABC (12), CBS, NBC, and PBS all with 10 each, AMC (8), Showtime (5), and Fox with four.
The 60th Primetime Emmy Awards may have been on ABC and coming to us from the Nokia Theatre in downtown Los Angeles (right next door to the Staples Center), but it was indeed a night for AMC in the end. Who knew that a cable channel who used to run classic movies around the clock would end up winning big on television's biggest night? That befuddles me.
Now like I said, Tina Fey's return to "SNL" as Sarah Palin had the entire world talking, and it's another example why the rest of America have been crazy for Palin in the last few weeks. What's up with that, and most of all...are we getting sick of it? Thursday in my 30th birthday blog, I'll try to get into the epicenter of this whole mess with a special commentary I call "Palinmania: Have We Had Enough?" Till then, so long and stay strong.
Hello, everybody. "30 Rock" dominated the 60th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday, taking top honors for Best Comedy and Lead Acting for Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin; the latter last week brought down the house with her dead-on Sarah Palin on "Saturday Night Live."
On the drama side, AMC's "Mad Men" got Best Drama honors; the first for a basic cable series (HBO and Showtime have won numerous awards, but they're premium networks). In acting, Bryan Cranston ('Breaking Bad", also AMC) and Glenn Close (FX's "Damages") also won big. Other acting winners include Jean Smart (Supporting Actress-Comedy, "Samantha Who?"), Jeremy Piven (Supporting Actor-Comedy, "Entourage"), Zeljko Ivanek (Supporting Actor-Drama, "Damages"), Dianne Wiest (Supporting Actress-Drama, "In Treatment", and 82-year-old Don Rickles for "Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project", which also got Variety/Music/Comedy Special.
And there's absolutely no stopping "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" and "The Amazing Race", as they're both 6-0 now in their respective wins (Variety/Music/Comedy Series and Reality-Competition Program)!!!!
All five Reality-Competition Program Host nominees -- Tom Bergeron, Heidi Klum, Howie Mandel, Jeff Probst, and Ryah Seacrest in his second stint -- shared hosting duties this time around, with "Survivor's" Probst taking that prize. The night's big highlights were courtesy of Josh Groban and his medley of TV themes (which I know is already a hit on YouTube), and Christina Applegate in her first public appearance since battling breast cancer.
Speaking of Applegate, she was dressed to the nines on the red carpet, along with Klum (Giorgio Armani Prive), Nicollette Sheridan (Angel Sanchez), Brooke Shields (Badgely Mischka), and Mariska Hargitay (Carolina Herrera). Applegate and Hayden Panettiere (the latter who looked much better than last year) both get my choice for best-dressed of the night, while "House's" Lisa Edelstein? She was not a heart-stopper herself, so were Lauren Conrad and Jennifer Love Hewitt.
After all was said and done, HBO as always took the most Emmy loot with 26 awards, followed by ABC (12), CBS, NBC, and PBS all with 10 each, AMC (8), Showtime (5), and Fox with four.
The 60th Primetime Emmy Awards may have been on ABC and coming to us from the Nokia Theatre in downtown Los Angeles (right next door to the Staples Center), but it was indeed a night for AMC in the end. Who knew that a cable channel who used to run classic movies around the clock would end up winning big on television's biggest night? That befuddles me.
Now like I said, Tina Fey's return to "SNL" as Sarah Palin had the entire world talking, and it's another example why the rest of America have been crazy for Palin in the last few weeks. What's up with that, and most of all...are we getting sick of it? Thursday in my 30th birthday blog, I'll try to get into the epicenter of this whole mess with a special commentary I call "Palinmania: Have We Had Enough?" Till then, so long and stay strong.
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