Did you know that Seth MacFarlane, creator of Family Guy and American Dad, is the highest-paid television writer? After two or three years of negotiations he reached a $100 million deal with Fox to keep Family Guy and American Dad running on Fox until 2012. Didn’t know that? Well, now you do. 
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You gotta love US news stations:
I’m watching MSNBC as I write this, and they’re twenty minutes into live helicopter coverage of NY Governor Eliot Spitzer’s SUV driving across Manhattan so he can theoretically resign. Forget all the other issues involved… my question is, do these news folks really think there’s a chance Spitzer’s gonna run?
Is it just me or is following a governor in a helicopter for twenty minutes totally insane? Wake up, America!
(via Mark Verheiden’s blog)
Listen to our lord, the one and only, Bruce Campbell:
If you have it, you don’t need it. If you need it, you don’t have it. If you have it, you need more of it. If you have more of it, you don’t need less of it. You need it to get, and you certainly need it to get more of it. But if you don’t already have any of it to begin with, you can’t get any of it to get started, which means you really have no idea how to get it in the first place, do you? You can share it, sure, you can even stockpile it if you’d like, but you can’t fake it. Wanting it, needing it, wishing for it. The point is, if you’ve never had any of it, ever, people just seem to know.
Writers are still striking in Hollywood and at Broadway, leaving actors, movie makers and TV presenters speechless:
Donald Trump left a $10,000 tip for a waiter at the Buffalo Club in Santa Monica on December 03, 2007.
Du weißt nicht, was du dir im Fernsehen anschauen sollst? Es kommt nur Trash? Dann schau hier für die Filmhighlights der Woche: http://filmrezensent.blogspot.com/2007/09/tv-tipps-22-28092007.html
NBC today offered a new option for people who want to watch TV shows online: free downloads with commercials. Many users still prefer downloading to streaming, because the quality is better and you can watch the video whenever you want.
The new service, which will launch in October, is called “NBC Direct”. After downloading a video you can watch it for seven days. The video will degrade after this seven-day period, “Kind of like ‘Mission: Impossible,’ only I don’t think there would be any explosion and smoke.“
Here’s the list of winners at the 59th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards:
Drama Series: The Sopranos (HBO)
Comedy Series: 30 Rock (NBC)
Actor in a Drama Series: James Spader, Boston Legal (ABC)
Actress in a Comedy Series: America Ferrera, Ugly Betty (ABC)
Actress in a Drama Series: Sally Field, Brothers & Sisters (ABC)
Actor in a Comedy Series: Ricky Gervais, Extras (HBO)
Reality Competition Show: The Amazing Race (CBS)
Writing in a Comedy Series: Greg Daniels, The Office (NBC)
Directing in a Comedy Series: Richard Shepard, Ugly Betty (ABC)
Individual Performance in a Variety, Musical or Comedy Program: Tony Bennett, Tony Bennett: An American Classic (NBC)
Writing for Drama Miniseries or Movie: Frank Deasy, Prime Suspect (BBC)
Directing for Drama Miniseries or Movie: Philip Martin, Prime Suspect: The Final Act (BBC)
Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie: Helen Mirren, Prime Suspect (BBC)
Made-for-TV Movie: Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee (HBO)
Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie: Judy Davis, The Starter Wife (USA)
Variety, Music or Comedy Special: Tony Bennett: An American Classic (NBC)
Variety, Music or Comedy Series: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (Comedy Central)
Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series: David Chase, The Sopranos (HBO)
Outstanding Director for a Drama Series: Alan Taylor, The Sopranos (HBO)
Outstanding Miniseries: Broken Trail (AMC)
Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Movie: Robert Duvall, Broken Trail (AMC)
Directing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Program: Rob Marshall, Tony Bennett: An American Classic (NBC)
Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Program: Late Night with Conan O’Brien (NBC)
Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series: Katherine Heigl, Grey’s Anatomy (ABC)
Best Supporting Actor in a Miniseries: Thomas Haden Church, Broken Trail (AMC)
Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series: Jaime Pressly, My Name Is Earl (NBC)
Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series: Jeremy Piven, Entourage (HBO)
Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series: Terry O’Quinn, Lost (ABC)
This year the nominees for the Primetime Emmy Awards are:
Outstanding Comedy Series
- 30 Rock
- Entourage
- The Office
- Two And A Half Men
- Ugly Betty
Outstanding Directing For A Comedy Series
- 30 Rock: Scott Ellis
- Entourage: Julian Farino
- Extras: Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant
- Scrubs: Will Mackenzie
- The Office: Ken Kwapis
- Ugly Betty: Richard Shepard
Outstanding Directing For A Drama Series:
- Battlestar Galactica: Felix Alcala
- Boston Legal: Bill D’Elia
- Friday Night Lights: Peter Berg
- Heroes: David Semel
- Lost: Jack Bender
- Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip: Thomas Schlamme
- The Sopranos: Alan Taylor
Outstanding Directing For A Miniseries, Movie Or A Dramatic Special:
- Broken Trail: Walter Hill
- Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee: Yves Simoneau
- Jane Eyre: Susanna White
- Prime Subject: The Final Act: Philip Martin
- Tsunami, The Aftermath: Bharat Nalluri
Outstanding Directing For A Variety, Music or Comedy Program:
- American Idol: Bruce Gowers
- Saturday Night Live: Don Roy King
- The Colbert Report: Jim Hoskinson
- The Daily Show With Jon Stewart: Chuck O’Neil
- Tony Bennett: An American Classic: Rob Marshall
Outstanding Drama Series:
- Boston Legal
- Grey’s Anatomy
- Heroes
- House
- The Sopranos
Outstanding Lead Actor In A Comedy Series:
- 30 Rock: Alec Baldwin
- Extras: Ricky Gervais
- Monk: Tony Shalhoub
- The Office: Steve Carell
- Two And A Half Men: Charlie Sheen
Outstanding Lead Actor In A Drama Series:
- 24: Kiefer Sutherland
- Boston Legal: James Spader
- House: Hugh Laurie
- Rescue Me: Denis Leary
- The Sopranos: James Gandolfini
Outstanding Lead Actor In A Miniseries Or A Movie:
- Broken Trail: Robert Duvall
- Jesse Stone: Sea Change: Tom Selleck
- Longford: Jim Broadbent
- Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From The Stories Of Stephen King: William H. Macy
- The Ron Clark Story: Matthew Perry
Outstanding Lead Actress In A Comedy Series:
- 30 Rock: Tina Fey
- Desperate Housewives: Felicity Huffman
- The New Adventures Of Old Christine: Julia Louis-Dreyfus
- Ugly Betty: America Ferrera
- Weeds: Mary-Louise Parker
Outstanding Lead Actress In A Drama Series:
- Brothers & Sisters: Sally Field
- Law & Order: Mariska Hargitay
- Medium: Patricia Arquette
- The Closer: Kyra Sedgwick
- The Riches: Minnie Driver
- The Sopranos: Edie Falco
Outstanding Lead Actress In A Miniseries Or A Movie:
- Life Support: Queen Latifah
- Prime Subject: The Final Act: Helen Mirren
- The Robber Bride: Mary-Louise Parker
- The Starter Wife: Debra Messing
- What If God Were The Sun: Gena Rowlands
Outstanding Made For Television Movie:
- Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee
- Inside The Twin Towers
- Longford
- The Ron Clark Story
- Why I Wore Lipstick To My Mastectomy
Outstanding Miniseries:
- Broken Trail
- Prime Subject: The Final Act
- The Starter Wife
Nominees for supporting roles and best writing can be found at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences’ website.
