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  • HBO US goes ‘Six Feet Under’ for the fourth time next month

    HBO US goes ‘Six Feet Under’ for the fourth time next month

    MUMBAI: HBO’s award winning black comedy Six Feet Under is going from strength to strength in the US. The fourth season of the show kicks off on 13 June. In India the show airs on Zee English.

    Using dramatic irony and dark, situational humour, the show approaches the subject of death through the eyes of the Fisher family. They own and operate the Fisher & Diaz Funeral Home in Los Angeles.

    At the close of the third season one marriage had come to a tragic end, another was beginning, and a third was on the rocks. The first episode is called Falling Into Place.

    The cast includes Peter Krause, Michael C. Hall, Rachel Griffiths, Frances Conroy. The show deals with a family that run a funeral parlour. Guest stars appearing in the fourth season include American Beauty’s Mena Suvari, Ellen DeGeneres and Oscar winner Kathy Bates Misery.

    HBO issued a release stating that the third season inspired critical raves, with the New York Times calling it required viewing in the canon of pop culture as well as engrossing.

  • HBO dominates 55th Emmy awards nominations

    LOS ANGELES: The darkly amusing drama Six Feet Under and its parent network HBO, dominated television’s Emmy Award nominations.
    The 55th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards will be held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on 21 September 2003. HBO scored 109 nominations to lead second-place NBC, which had 77. CBS is in third spot with 59 nominations.


    The domination by HBO explains why the network was so keen to gain exclusive TV rights to the event last year. The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences however rejected the bid for fear of antagonising the big four American networks – ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox. In the US, the show will air on the Rupert Murdoch-owned Fox.
    A Reuters report states that Six Feet Under earned 16 nominations in total, including one for best TV drama where it faces tough competition from three-time winner, White House show The West Wing, mafia drama The Sopranos, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and the Keifer Sutherland thriller 24. In India, the first three shows air on Zee English while the last two air on action oriented AXN.


    The cast of 24
    CBS’ Everybody Loves Raymond (airs in India on Star World) and HBO’s Sex and the City (not yet debuted in India) shared honours as the most-nominated comedies, landing in 13 groups each, including best comedy. They are joined in that category by last year’s winner, Friends (airs in India on Zee English and Star World) and Will & Grace (airs on Zee English). In the US, they air on NBC.


    The report indicates that the nominees mirrored the choices of last year. One of the few surprises was the absence of NBC’s Law and Order from the drama category, where a nomination would have marked a record 12 straight. In India, the show airs on Star World.
    The competition in the best dramatic actor group is difficult as expected. They are 2002 winner Michael Chiklis playing a corrupt cop in The Shield, James Gandolfini for The Sopranos, Martin Sheen in The West Wing, Peter Krause for Six Feet Under and Kiefer Sutherland in 24.
    HBO chairman Chris Albrecht has been quoted in another report saying: ”Our plan isn’t to go out and get Emmys. It’s our plan to do interesting and provocative work.”

  • HBO leads television networks with 93 Emmy nominations

    HBO leads television networks with 93 Emmy nominations

    LOS ANGELES:HBO has received 93 Primetime Emmy nominations, leading all networks for the second year in a row in the race for the prestigious awards.

    Popular series Six Feet Under with Peter Krause and Rachel Griffiths has got 23 nominations, the maximum any TV show has bagged this season, and the most in a single season for any HBO show ever. According to an official release, Band of Brothers, the 10 part series that sank without creating any ripples in the ratings charts when telecast in India earlier this year, has received 19 nominations. The comedy Sex and the City received 10 nominations including Outstanding Comedy Series, Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series (Sarah Jessica Parker) and Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series (Julie Rottenberg, Elisa Zuritsky). 

    HBO’s film The Gathering Storm has received nine nominations. Its stars Albert Finney, Vanessa Redgrave and Jim Broadbent all got recognised. Another film Path to War garnered eight nominations including nods to actors Michael Gambon and Alec Baldwin. The film is set in the mid 1960s when US president Johnson and his foreign-policy team debate the decision to withdraw from or escalate the war in Vietnam. 

    The network also scored five nominations for In Memoriam: New York City, 9/11/01, including Outstanding Non-Fiction Special. The show aired worldwide on CNN International. 

    The 54th Primetime Emmy Awards will be announced on 22 September.