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  • ‘Lost’, ‘Desperate Housewives’ left out of Emmy Awards

    ‘Lost’, ‘Desperate Housewives’ left out of Emmy Awards

    MUMBAI: Nominations for the 58th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards in the US were announced by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

    Among the networks, HBO got 95 nominations. ABC got 64 nods while CBS managed to get 47 nominations. Surprisingly, ABC’s two hit shows Lost and Desperate Housewives failed to be nominated in the main categories.

    The awards presentation telecast awarding Emmys in 27 categories before a black-tie audience will be televised by NBC on 27 August from the Los Angeles Shrine Auditorium and will be hosted by talk show host Conan O’Brien.

    The nominees for best drama series are Grey’s Anatomy, House, The Sopranos, 24 and The West Wing. Competing in the comedy series are Arrested Development, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Office, Scrubs and Two and a Half Men.

    Discovery’s The Flight That Fought Back is competing in the television film category along with A&E’s Flight 93, and three HBO films The Girl in the Cafe, Mrs. Harris and Yesterday.

    The nominees for actor in a drama are Denis Leary for Rescue Me, Peter Krause for Six Feet Under, Christopher Meloni for Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Kiefer Sutherland for 24 and Martin Sheen for the Presidential drama The West Wing.

    The actresses nominated are Kyra Sedgwick for The Closer, Geena Davis for the now cancelled ABC show Commander in Chief, Mariska Hargitay for Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Frances Conroy for Six Feet Under and Allison Janney for The West Wing.

    The comic men who have ben nominated are Larry David for Curb Your Enthusiasm, Kevin James for The King of Queens, Tony Shalhoub for Monk, Steve Carell for The Office and Charlie Sheen for Two and a Half Men.

    Among the women, the nominees are Lisa Kudrow for The Comeback, Jane Kaczmarek for Malcolm in the Middle, Julia Louis-Dreyfus for The New Adventures of Old Christine, Stockard Channing for Out of Practice and Debra Messing for Will and Grace.

    The nominations have received a mixed response from critics. Some feel that the snub of Desperate Housewives which is a non traditional comedy might mean less glamour. There seems to be some agreement though that the drama shows nominated are better than Lost.

  • Zee Cafe announces three new shows for prime time

    Zee Cafe announces three new shows for prime time

    MUMBAI: Zee Café will unveil three new shows in June 2006. The shows ER season IX, Bikini Destinations and Full House Season II & IV will be launched this month in the prime time.

    ER Season IX – Launches June 15, 2006, Thursdays at 10:00 pm: The most nominated drama series in Emmy history, ER, begins its latest season on Zee Café. Even after a record 104 Emmy nominations, 22 Emmy Awards and two prestigious Peabody Awards, ER continues to thrill and entertain audiences around the world. 

    Bikini Destinations – launches June 19, 2006 from Monday to Friday at 11:30 pm: Follow top bikini models as they set sail on a array of adventures to the world’s most alluring locations. Every half-hour episode will witness glamorous swimsuit models on calendar photo shoots around the world. From the beautiful white sand beaches of the Bahamas to the exotic islands of Tahiti, Bikini Destinations is an invitation to enchantment, states an official release.

    Full House Seasons III & IV – Launches on 20-June from Tuesday to Saturday at 6:30 pm : Zee Café is bringing back the first family in American sitcoms to your telly tubes.

  • MipTV reports a marginal rise in attendance

    MipTV reports a marginal rise in attendance

    MUMBAI: The recently concluded television event in Cannes, France MipTV featuring Milia had an attendance of 12,249 participants, compared to 12,163 in 2005.

    Company participation rose to 4,201 from 4,138 last year, while the number of acquisition executives in Cannes was 3,565, a five per cent increase on the 2005 level of 3,393.

    Reed Midem’s television division director Paul Johnson says, “MipTV featuring MILIA 2006 saw a significant rise in the number of companies and executives coming from the digital sector, particularly IPTV, mobile and interactive television specialists. Our figures show that we welcomed some 1,800 companies from the Internet and mobile sectors.

    “Our conference programme and a series of new initiatives such as Content 360 and the International Interactive Emmy Awards, reflect the changes taking place in the industry. MipTV featuring MILIA is not just a television market, it’s a content market.”

    The event had 45 sessions and over 170 speakers. For the first time ever, the conference programme welcomed seven keynote speakers, including AOL chairman and CEO Jonathan Miller, reality television producer Mark Burnett, BBC new media head Ashley Highfield, FremantleMedia’s Gary Carter, Takeshi Natsuno of NTT DoCoMo and Erik Huggers of Microsoft.

    Miller at the event announced that AOL had brought programming originally produced for its Internet video channels and was selling the shows to traditional broadcasters.

    A highlight of MipTV was the inaugural International Interactive Emmy Awards, organised by the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and Reed Midem. This is the first time that an Emmy Awards ceremony has taken place outside the US. A gala dinner, hosted by Desperate Housewives star Roger Bart.

    Among the other new initiatives launched in 2006, Content 360 set out to commission innovative content and interactive applications for mobile and broadband. Organised in partnership with the BBC, the Korean Broadcasting Commission and the National Film Board of Canada, Content 360 rewarded six company projects and provided €80,000 of development funding to be divided between the winners.

    For the first time in MipTV’s history, the annual Lifetime Achievement Award was attributed not to an industry individual but to a whole company, in the form of Japanese production powerhouse TOEI. TOEI Company chairman Tan Takaiwa and TOEI Animation chairman Tsutomu Tomari accepted the tribute on behalf of the entire TOEI group.

    Now in its ninth year, the two-day Mipdoc documentary and factual programme screenings, which precede MipTV, saw a 14 per cent rise in participation with 438 companies from 57 countries attending. Production and sales companies sent 1,192 programmes to the digital screening library, of which 769 were appearing at a market for the first time.

  • International talents to host Interactive Emmy Awards at MIPTV

    International talents to host Interactive Emmy Awards at MIPTV

    MUMBAI: The first International Interactive Emmy Awards at MIPTV in Cannes will have many international talents as presenters.

    Television and film star Dennis Haysbert (24, The Unit) will join producer Mark Burnett (Survivor, The Apprentice), The Bold and The Beautiful’s Jack Wagner, French leading actress Corinne Touzet and RCTV (Venezuela) telenovela actors Veronica Schneider and Alejandro Otero to present the Awards on 5 April. Desperate Housewives star Roger Bart will host the black-tie event.

    Academy president, CEO and president of Hearst Entertainment Bruce Paisner, said, “Their participation will help bring the industry’s focus to the significant developments in the interactive world.”

    Mark Burnett will present the Pioneer Prize to AOL, chairman and CEO Jonathan F. Miller for his innovative contributions to the field of interactive television.

    The International Interactive Emmy Awards at MIPTV 2006 is the first Emmy Awards ceremony ever organized outside of the United States. There are 12 nominees in 3 categories: Interactive Program, Interactive Channel and Interactive TV Service.