HOLLYWOOD ACTOR PREP by Dana Kaminski

Here are The Creative Arts Emmys Actor-Presenters,  Host, etc…

I  have a friend who works at The Emmys, and he says the “The Creative Arts Emmys” are,  actually, the most  fun. They take place a week  prior to the “Primetime Emmys“.

Confused?

What’s the diff between the different Emmys?

The Creative Arts Emmys are separate from the Primetime Emmys, because The  Creative Arts Emmys honor and award the professionals, in television,  who do the creative jobs…and who aren’t called “talent“.

♦Yeah, I know…Like  creatives  aren’t  talent, and talent  aren’t  creative…

♦But, those are the accepted and used Hollywood terms

Of note, in this press  release:

• There will be a few “talent” awards [which means actors]–”Guest Star Emmys”
• There is going to be a broadcast, of The Creative Emmys,  on the E!  Channel, but not  live, nor will it broadcast on the  same  date.
• The host will be Kathy Griffin.

Here it is, copied from my email to you all:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

GABRIELLE ANWAR, FRED ARMISEN, CAROL BURNETT, LOUIS C.K., CHRISTIAN CLEMENSON, TED DANSON, LISA EDELSTEIN, DONALD FAISON, JERRY FERRARA, JOHNNY GALECKI, PENN JILLETTE, JOHN MICHAEL HIGGINS, NIGEL LYTHGOE, SETH MACFARLANE, KATHRYN MORRIS, ELISABETH MOSS, SHARON OSBOURNE, ANDREA ROTH, JAMIE-LYNN SIGLER, ELAINE STRITCH, MARY LYNN RAJSKUB, KATEY SAGAL, JIMMY SMITS, ASHLEY TISDALE, CALLIE THORNE TO PRESENT AT

2009 CREATIVE ARTS EMMYAWARDS

KATHY GRIFFIN TO HOST

E! ENTERTAINMENT TELEVISION

TO AIR EXCLUSIVE TELECAST OF SHOW AS A 2-HOUR SPECIAL ON

FRIDAY, SEPT. 18 AT 1 P.M. ET/PT

NORTH HOLLYWOOD, CA, Sept. 8, 2009 –

Gabrielle Anwar (Burn Notice),

Fred Armisen (Saturday Night Live),

Carol Burnett,

Louis C.K. (Saturday Night Live),

Christian Clemenson (Boston Legal),

Ted Danson (Damages),

Lisa Edelstein (House),

Donald Faison (Scrubs),

Jerry Ferrara (Entourage),

Johnny Galecki (The Big Bang Theory),

Penn Jillette (Penn & Teller Bull$*it),

John Michael Higgins (Kath & Kim),

Nigel Lythgoe (So You Think You Can Dance),

Seth MacFarlane (Family Guy),

Kathryn Morris (Cold Case),

Elisabeth Moss (Mad Men),

Sharon Osbourne (America’s Got Talent),

Andrea Roth (Rescue Me),Jamie-Lynn Sigler (The Sopranos),

Elaine Stritch (30 Rock), Mary Lynn Rajskub (24),

Katey Sagal (Sons of Anarchy),

Jimmy Smits (Dexter),

Ashley Tisdale (Suite Life on Deck), and

Callie Thorne (Rescue Me)

….have been confirmed as presenters for the 2009 Creative Arts Emmy® Awards, it was announced today by Lee Miller, Steve Venezia, executive producers, and Spike Jones, Jr., producer of the 2009 Creative Arts Emmy Awards.

The ceremony will take place on Saturday, Sept. 12, at the NOKIA Theatre. E! Entertainment Television will air the awards show as a 2-hour special on Friday, Sept. 18, at 1:00 p.m. (ET/PT). Two-time Primetime Emmy® Award winner Kathy Griffin (My Life on the D-List) will host. Carole Propp is coordinating producer, Chris Donovan will direct and Tony DeSena is co-producing.

The 2009 Creative Arts Emmy Awards will award 82 Emmys including those given for Outstanding Guest Actor/Actress in a Comedy Series, Outstanding Guest Actor/Actress in a Drama Series, Outstanding Reality Series and Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special.

Primetime Emmy Award winner Elaine Stritch will present the prestigious Governors Award to HBO’s Sheila Nevins. Nevins is the 15th individual to receive this honor since the award’s inception in 1978. For more information on the 2009 Creative Arts Emmy Awards, go to Emmys.com.

I climbed up the fountain and did a yoga pose at the base of the giant Emmy Statue, at The Academy Of Television Arts And Sciences.

Basically, The Academy Of Television Arts And Sciences Announced This Week…

…That they were dropping the changes they were going to make in the format of the upcoming Emmy Broadcast.

In case you didn’t know, The Emmys were going to make the show part live,  and part recorded.

Now they are going back to the old way: live.

That’s all you need to know about the whole  deal.

If You Do Doubt The Power Of The Creatives In This Industry, Read On…

The Emmys said that they wanted to have the Primetime Emmys appeal to a more “general audience”.

Not sure how their proposed remedy would do serve to accomplish that; but they said that, amongst other changes, they would take 8 award categories and pre-record them.

Somehow, at available  moments, they planned to slip these pre-recorded Emmy Award Acceptances,  into the live show.  And example was given: Like when someone was walking from their seat to get to the stage to receive an award.

Yes, it does sound like too-much-fancy-footwork required.

Not by the Award-Accept-ee…but by the Emmys Broadcast techs, during the show…

But the Accidents-Just-Waiting-To-Happen weren’t what upset so much of  Hollywood’s creatives.

:: And the Actors and Writers unions.

:: And TV Writer-Producer Chiefs, Called Showrunners.

:: And the Cable Network Companies.

Whether Intentional Or Not,  It Looked Like The Real Quality Shows

That Happen To Come From Cable TV Networks, and That  Usually Win Emmys

…Would not win their awards, live.

Would they be relegated to a second string, B-level appearance, in the Emmy Broadcast?

…After having worked their butts off all year to make some very high-quality shows, that are Emmy-worthy?

They also thought that it appeared that since the Emmys are broadcast on one of the three major television networks (revolving each year), that it appeared that the Primetime Emmys may be trying to highlight  NBC, ABC, and CBS. So, even if those networks weren’t winning Emmys, they would somehow appear more important, to the Emmy Broadcast Audience.

[Apparently in prior years,  HBO and other Cable Networks had offered to broadcast  the Emmys,  for big bucks..Millions, But the Academy Of Television turned them down.]

So the Cable Television Networks complained.

The Directors Guild complained.

The Writers Guild Complained.

They didn’t want their writers cheated.  (See the funny thing they did, it’s in the article I posted below…!)

SAG Complained for the Actors.

They didn’t want their winning actors cheated, nor did they want the speeches cut or reduced.

And the TV Showrunners, who are the often the people who created these shows…

Just didn’t want their “babies” cheated out of full recognition.

Overall, it was an interesting debate,  with two very different sides.  It  wasn’t a simple problem either.

Some people reduced it down to money vs art.

I’m not sure, and we  will never know.

It doesn’t matter now.  Because a lot of the Hollywood Creatives spoke out, the Academy listened.

…And once again…

The Primetime Emmys Will Be About Quality Television.

Live.

And the shows that deserve awards, will have the live audience attention. And get the press.

And the evolution of television quality will continue.

[That's what I really care about.]

Here’s Some Industry Press Coverage  …

From The Hollywood Reporter:

It has been a season of reversals for the Primetime Emmy Awards. First, the ceremony was shifted from Sept. 20, only to be returned to that date two weeks later. Now, in an even bigger about-face, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences has scrapped a plan to time-shift eight categories on this year’s broadcast after a firestorm of criticism from the creative community.

As a result, all 28 categories slated for the CBS broadcast will be awarded live.

“This decision was made to mend relationships within the television community and to allow executive producer Don Mischer to focus his full attention on producing the creative elements in the telecast,” TV academy chairman and CEO John Shaffner said. “Our goal is to celebrate the year in television and honor excellence and this year’s great achievements with the support of our industry colleagues and our telecast partner.”

Last month, Mischer proposed and ATAS’ board of governors voted to approve a time-shift of eight awards.

The proposal included mostly longform categories: best movie and best miniseries; writing for movie/miniseries; directing for movie/miniseries; supporting actor and actress in TV movie/miniseries; writing for drama series; and directing for variety, music and comedy series.

“We try to make the Emmys more relevant to mainstream viewers while honoring the choice of the academy properly and appropriately,” Mischer said at the time.

But the move drew criticism from the WGA, DGA, SAG and several networks, including HBO, which dominates the longform field. More than 100 writer-producers, including Shonda Rhimes, Seth MacFarlane, Matthew Weiner and John Wells, signed a letter protesting the decision.

That petition was the wake-up call for the Academy that created the momentum to scrap the plan, WGA West president Patric Verrone said.

“It’s important that the TV Academy appreciates the power that writers and showrunners wield when they work together and they are a force to be reckoned with,” he said.

…

“There will be more going forward to prevent unilateral decisions like this being made without consulting with a very important part of the creative process — writers,” Verrone said.

The creative community’s public outcry over the plan spilled into the recent Television Critics Assn. press tour, where talent and executives univocally condemned the idea and CBS execs were forced to defend it.

…

Mischer said the decision to keep all Emmy categories live “was made because ultimately it is in the best interest of the show” and “in the best interest of the entertainment industry.”

“We had attempted to make room in the show for more live performances. However, our community did not embrace the plan, which is a very important consideration,” he said.

This year’s Emmycast is a crucial one for the academy coming off last year’s ceremony, which hit an all-time ratings low, and entering the final year of its contract with the broadcast networks.

With ratings for other main awards shows rebounding, the academy and CBS have been looking for ways to liven up the telecast, which includes more categories awarded live than its counterparts.

Here’s the fun one, from Movieline:

Upon learning their categories would be relegated to the hour before the live Emmy broadcast, then rattled off in a video package as a time-saving measure, outraged TV writers mobilized. They [wrote up a signed document] called the Declaration of TV Writer Importance, which expressed their strong feelings that they be allowed to enjoy their moment live, with everyone else (and designated an area encompassing the Farmers Market and the WGA building as their sovereign homeland). Today, CBS and TV Academy have conceded, as the Emmys have officially abandoned the time-shifting measures.

Best,

Dana

The 61st Emmy Awards Calendar

I know that we are past many of these dates, but I am putting it on Hollywood Actor Prep, for your information.

I found it interesting…

2009 PRIMETIME EMMY AWARDS CALENDAR

June 1, 2008 – May 31, 2009

Eligibility period

Week of March 9

Online entry process begins. Rules and Procedures available at www.emmys.tv

April 17

Deadline to reinstate or apply for membership in the Academy for eligibility to vote in the primetime

competition

April 24

Entry deadline for ALL entries that were originally presented 6:00 PM – 2:00 AM,

June 1, 2008 – May 31, 2009

June 5

Nominating ballots are posted on the Television Academy’s website

June 26, 5:00 PM

Deadline for returning the nominating ballots to Ernst & Young

July 16, 5:35 AM

Nominations are announced live from the Leonard H. Goldenson Theatre

Week of August 3

At-home judging DVDs for Creative Arts Awards categories are mailed

Week of August 10

At-home judging DVDs for Telecast Awards categories are mailed

August 21, 5:00 PM

Deadline for returning at-home judging ballots for Creative Arts Awards categories to Ernst & Young

August 28, 5:00 PM

Deadline for returning at-home judging ballots for Telecast Awards categories to Ernst & Young

September 12

Creative Arts Awards and Ball

September 20

CBS Telecast and Governors Ball

Actors In Emmy Widgets, Actors In Emmy Flipbooks…

Look at these fun, new, techie, visual ways to see who is nominated… You can watch some of the better television acting performances right here; this widget shows the Emmy nominated performances. I like that Variety, and ‘The Television Academy” is doing this kind of thing. Being inventive…current…fresh. Shows they’re loosening up, having some fun. To watch scenes from other nominated acting performances, you can find this widget on Variety’s Emmy Page.

Please send your actor friends to Hollywood Actor Prep.  Here’s a line to copy-and-paste in an email,  or on Twitter:

[http://www.hollywoodactorprep.com]

—Or simply use the techy widgets that I always have  at the end of every post—- Oh yeah, and please tweet this page!  (See the “t’ button ;}  ! )

Have a Wonderful Summer, ;~Dana

The Academy Of Television Arts And Sciences Now Is Awarding Emmys For Interactive Media

And, they are looking for self-submission entries… For  ”Interactive Digital Media Components” to give Emmys to…

Interested? Watch this video: 

All of the information and instructions are here, at the Emmy Website.

The fall television season is underway. Want an easy schedule?

t night.   

Tonight:

 ABC 

UGLY BETTY 

(2 hours of) GREY’S ANATOMY

NBC

THE OFFICE  (followed by THE OFFICE SPINOFF*)

MY NAME IS EARL

ER

Jamie Pressley :: Actor :: My Name Is Earl

“30 Rock”, the big Emmy winner, won’t be premiering until late October.

No “Lost”, yet, (still my favorite show)—and it won’t be premiere-ing for a while…boo hoo!

No  “Miami CSI” yet either…they are scheduled for winter…

Harvey Keitel on Television

That’s really big news.  As far as great acting goes, well, Harvey Keitel is his own genre…

Movie actors didn’t used to migrate between television and film: it was really strict–one or the other, as a classification.  

What a great character he will be on the new show, called “Life On Mars”!  What great casting–  a hardened, weathered, New York detective.  

This show was already a hit, where it was conceived, in England.  On the BBC.

(Thank you, BBC, for creating and proving a hit; perhaps too creative to ever have passed up our past our “Network Brass”  to make it to air, here in the States.)

Another reason that it went right up, with a big pass, thru-the-ranks-of -network–was, that it started out as a David Kelley production (duh, “Boston Legal” etc)

[--and if you don't know who David Kelley is, may I send you, please, to the back of the room---]

He’s no longer involved, and the show is still on the lineup; with a few changes…cast  and city changes–it went from LA to NYC.

The story concept– “Life On Mars”:

Cop, in the middle of work, gets transported back to the 1970’s.  Same day, different year; same job, different cultural period!

Great.  Let’s hope it plays out that way!

The cast is a good, solid,  ”real actors”:

• Gretchen Mol
• Lisa Bonet
• Harvey Keitel (and again, I say: Harvey K.)
• Michael Imperioli 
• Jonathan Murphy
• Jason O’Mara   (Actor from Scotland, orig.)

Jason O'Mara

Best,

; Dana

[This post is outdated, so I took out the link.  The post that was linked to this one, can be found in the archives of this blog. Outside of the parenthesis, the post reads the same as before, except for a change in the last few lines.]  

The Cheat Sheet for the Emmy categories of Acting Nominees, and Best Show, that I posted two days ago…

turned out to be a surprisingly popular post.   Since, the Emmys are on tonight, I thought I would provide a link for those who might need it last minute.  Use it either straight off of your computer screen; or you can print it out, to  keep a “hard copy” next to you, while the show goes along.

It’s really just a show “program”, that lists all the nominees, of the most popular categories.

It contains everyone who is nominated for the actor category; which category, type of role, show they were acting in,  etc.  Similarly, the shows that are nominated, are all in their respective categories; with corresponding information.

Favorites, then, for the Emmy, can be decided, and rooted for…if you haven’t had a chance to catch-up on who all the nominees are, prior.

Just go to the sidebar of this blog, and look in the archives…You’ll see the Emmy Nominations Cheet Sheet post listed there…Enjoy!

Here is a widget, for the Emmys!  Plays little Emmy videos right from The Hollywood Actor Prep Blog!

(Special author’s note: 

I had to delete the Emmy widget; the Emmys have long been awarded and are over, and the widget was making some technical problems, so I replaced it with a surprise video…Clue: aren’t all actors a little vain??? Tee hee! )

Also has a countdown clock!  New, fun technology…kinda cool,  ABC !

But, just before I show that: 

Above is the Emmy Awards seating chart, held by Louis J. Horvitz, the director of the Emmy Awards Show. He is also nominated for an Emmy; so tomorrow as he directs, he will, simutaneously, be up for an award! (That’s performing under pressure, I’d guess!)  

Good luck, Mr. Director, sir; and to everyone else, have a great time watching the Emmys!