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Reactions to Coco’s Emmy nominations

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As we reported yesterday, The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien scored four Emmy nominations yesterday. O’Brien got all the Emmy love — for his show that was shut down after 7 months, so Jay Leno could resume hosting the show. But Leno — who most have cast as the villain of this sordid tale — got no love at all.

Everyone involved has now responded to the Emmy news, and their thoughts are below.

Conan O’Brien was the first to fire off a response, just a couple hours after the nominations were announced, via Twitter:

Congrats to my staff on 4 Emmy nominations. This bodes well for the future of The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien.

NBC, home to The Tonight Show, was the next to issue a formal statement, but took the respectful route:

“We congratulate Conan and all our nominees on their creative accomplishments and their deserved nominations.”

Jay Leno weighed in last, during last night’s Tonight Show, saying during his opening monologue:

“The good news is ‘The Tonight Show’ got four nominations. The bad news is I didn’t get one of them!”

I think the takeaway from this is that O’Brien is just plain funnier off-the-cuff than Leno (or his former bosses at NBC).

And the nominees are…

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The 2010 Primetime Emmy Awards nominees were announced at a traditionally early-morning ceremony today in L.A. And if there’s one message that the 62nd Emmy Award nominations sent, it’s that it’s good to be Glee.

The freshman musical/dramedy racked up more nods than any other ongoing television series, scoring a whopping 19 nominations — including best comedy series, best comedy actor for Matthew Morrison, best comedy actress for Lea Michele, supporting comedy actor for Chris Colfer, and supporting comedy actress for Jane Lynch. Three of its guest stars even got a nod each, and there were any number of hair, makeup, directing nominations as well.

The most total nominations went to the HBO miniseries The Pacific, which nabbed an incredible 24 nods. Other big winners include Mad Men, with 17 nominations; 15 noms each for Temple Grandin, 30 Rock, and You Don’t Know Jack; and 14 nominations for ABC’s freshman comedy series Modern Family. [Read more…]

Jimmy Fallon to host Emmy Awards

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Jimmy Fallon has realized the latest fringe benefit from his job as host of Late Night: he’s signed on as the host of the 62nd annual Primetime Emmy Awards. The Emmy Awards will air on August 29th, on NBC.

Perhaps the most interesting aspect of this news is that it represents a new wrinkle in the Conan O’Brien/Jay Leno debacle. The last two times NBC aired the Emmy Awards — 2002 and 2006 — O’Brien was the host they hired for the job. After O’Brien moved on from Late Night to the Tonight Show — a story which we all know ends with O’Brien’s removal from that job so Leno could have it back — Fallon was hired to take O’Brien’s old seat at Late Night.

So effectively, NBC has replaced O’Brien with Fallon twice now.

2010 TV Land Awards

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TV Land Awards is over but people are still talking about the Glee tribute during the awards show. Glee bagged the “Future Classic” award, and though I love Glee this kind of award is obviously a “let’s-wait-and-see-if-that-does-pan-out” thing. What we can be sure though is the “TV Land Glee club’s” rendition of “Don’t Stop Believing” is a mega hit. The performance included David Hasselhoff and Marilou Henner as the lead singers (is that what Rachel and Finn will look like 30 years from now?). Other glee club members include: Todd Bridges, Joyce Dewitt, Jamie Farr, Marla Gibbs, Howard Hesseman, Shirley Jones, Richard Karn, Richard Moll, Marion Ross, Jimmie Walker, Marcia Wallace and Fred Willard. The twist of having the old and familiar faces on TV paying tribute to the new is just totally fun and surprisingly good to watch. The original Glee rendition was better of course but theirs wasn’t live, was it?

Other shows that took home an award on the 25th include:

Love Boat – Fan Favorite Award
Charlie’s Angels – Pop Culture Award
Everybody Loves Raymond – Impact Award

Also honored during the awards were Bosom Buddies, now on its 30th anniversary; Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner, for being legends in comedy; and Farah Fawcett, whose tribute was presented by Ryan O’Neal.

CNN Heroes 2009

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2009_CNN_Hero_EfrenMy head is aching a little bit and my eyes are still a bit puffy. If you watched CNN Heroes several hours ago like I did I bet you know exactly why I still have severe side effects from that awards show.

Last year when I saw CNN Heroes it wasn’t planned and just happened to tune in to CNN exactly at the middle of the show during a replay. Needless to say I was hooked. So hooked that one year later I was one of the avid viewers who clicked repeatedly on my hero hoping for a win. My hero didn’t win but I am not at all bitter because Efren Penaflorida, the hero from the Philippines who taught children Saturdays from a pushcart classroom, deserved the win just as much as any of the 10 nominees did.

If you didn’t see CNN Heroes or don’t even know what it is, it is the best awards show right now. What CNN does is it asks people to nominate ordinary people doing extraordinarily heroic things every single day. This year CNN got over 9,000 nominations out of which their blue ribbon panel selected the 10 CNN Heroes of 2009. Each of the 10 I believe deserved the to be Hero of the Year but since there can only be one I can only be happy for Mr Penaflorida and all the children his pushcart classroom will reach because of the $100,000 grant.

There are no words for the emotions and the inspiration one will feel seeing people strive to make a difference get recognition, so just make sure you see the rerun of CNN Heroes.