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Emmys award Modern Family, Mad Men

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New hit comedy Modern Family took home three major statues last night at the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards (bringing the show’s overall total to six). But in the other categories, Emmy voters selected winners that were all-too-predictable.

Hopes were dashed for Lost to win for its final season, and major favorite Glee took home only two awards — one for actress Jane Lynch and one for show creator Ryan Murphy’s direction of the pilot. The big winner was HBO with eight total awards (most for miniseries Temple Grandin), followed by AMC with four (which was awarded for Mad Men), and three each for ABC and CBS.

But when you add in the awards given out at the Creative Arts Emmys last week, the totals stack up a little differently. HBO is still in first place with 25 total awards, but ABC is second with 18, followed by Fox with 11, CBS with 10, and NBC with 8.

Totals for shows look like this: 8 for HBO’s The Pacific, 7 for HBO’s Temple Grandin, 6 for ABC’s Modern Family, and 4 each for Disney’s Prep & Landing, Glee, and Mad Men.

The complete list of winners is after the jump.

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First Batch of Emmy Winners

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Emmy producers have streamlined this year’s Primetime Awards show by cutting several secondary categories and shoving them into the Creative Arts Emmys ceremony. As a result, a number of semi-major awards were announced Saturday night. Click through for a full rundown.

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Tweet Emmy Intros to Jimmy Fallon

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When Jimmy Fallon takes the stage this Sunday night to host the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards, you can Tweet suggestions for his on-camera introductions of the show’s celebrity presenters. Fallon and his staff will pick their favorites from the suggestions and he’ll use them on the show.

Fallon has used this tactic on his late-night show before, usually to very funny results. Plus, it gives fans at home a deeper investment in the goings-on when they Tweet something from their living room and five minutes later it’s on live television, going out to millions of people. Jimmy Fallon has always been the most tech-savvy late-night talk show host, having embraced gadgetry and social media from the very beginning of his run on NBC‘s Late Night.

To submit your introduction suggestions to Fallon & Co. for the Emmys, just Tweet your line using the hashtag “#imontheemmys” or visit nbc.com/imontheemmys. The site will also show other fans’ submissions and the full list of presenters.

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.