Emmys Coming Early in 2010
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When it comes to the Emmys, NBC is definitely not ready to play ball.
Due to a scheduling conflict with its Sunday Night Football franchise, the Peacock has decided to push up next year's 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards to Aug. 29 from its usual September berth.
We're guessing NBC isn't too worried about the switcheroo. The last time the statuettes were doled out in the dog days of summer was Aug. 27, 2006—which happened to pull in bigger ratings than any Emmycast since.
Nominations will be unveiled July 8.
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Rob Lowe on Patrick Swayze: "He Loved Life"
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If ya haven't heard, the flick St. Elmo's Fire is being developed into a television dramedy series.
Rob Lowe, who costarred in the movie alongside Demi Moore, Emilio Estevez, Andrew McCarthy and others, says he wasn't aware of the new project until we asked him about it yesterday at the Emmys.
But no biggie, because the Brat Pack flick actually isn't Lowe's top choice to be made for the small screen...
Twilight's Justin Chon: Dark Eclipse, Tighter Security
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Get ready for darkness.
Twilight star Justin Chon tells me that director David Slade's Eclipse isn't exactly taking his lead from Catherine Hardwicke or Chris Weitz.
"He's done pretty dark films, so that's where I see [Eclipse] really gravitating toward—more of a dark kind of moody film," Chon said yesterday at BAFTA's pre-Emmy tea party. "Just shooting the scenes that I'm in, the mood is definitely different."
How so? Read on for more...
Twi-Screenwriter on Robsten: Leave Their Private Lives out of It!
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Just because Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart are such a perfect match on screen, Twilight screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg thinks it's time we mind our own business about what goes once the cameras stop rolling.
"Their chemistry on film is so extraordinary," Rosenberg told us at the Entertainment Weekly/Women In Film pre-Emmy party. "They were beautifully cast for those roles and their chemistry is amazing. I think people often confuse chemistry onscreen with chemistry offscreen.
"I think people should just enjoy what's onscreen and leave their privates lives wherever they are," she continued. "I don't actually know what they are."
So what scoop did Ms. Rosenberg tell us about our fave vampire movies? Read on to find out…
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Cat Deeley Fears Her Sunday Night Emmy Gig
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So You Think You Can Dance's Cat Deeley deserves a spot among Ryan Seacrest, Jeff Probst and Heidi Klum as an Emmy nominee for Best Reality-Show Host. You've said it, we've said it to her and, apparently, she hears it all the time.
"That's the second time someone has said that to me, and I've only been here for about 20 minutes," the blond beauty told E! News at the G-Star Raw fashion show earlier this week. "But I'm going on Sunday!"
Sure enough, the leggy Brit is presenting on television's big night. And even though she's been on the Kodak Theatre stage before—SYTYCD's most recent finale was filmed there...
"I'm a little bit nervous about it, though," she confessed.
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Ryan Seacrest: I'm the Reason Simon Won't Be at the Emmys!
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Is Simon Cowell ditching the Emmys on Sunday to avoid the possibility of having to witness Ryan Seacrest take home the award for Outstanding Reality Host?
"Simon has placed himself as far away from Los Angeles on Emmy night as possible, just in case I happen to get lucky enough to win one," Seacrest told us last night at Santa Monica's Huntley Hotel, where he was celebrating his new ad campaign for Scope Outlast and Crest Plus Scope Outlast toothpaste.
"He's confirmed he will be in London just so he's not there in case of the little possibility that I walk away with it," he said.
Even so, Seacrest has a plan in place to rub it in the American Idol judge's grouchy face…
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True Blood Star Blasts Emmy Snubs: "F--k Awards!"
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Michelle Forbes doesn't hold back when saying how she feels about True Blood being pretty much shut out of this year's Emmys.
"Excuse me, but f—k awards!" says Forbes, who plays the very evil but deliciously sexy Maryann Forrester in the hit vampire series.
"That's not where the glory is. The glory is in the audience," she adds. "That's who we tell the stories for. It's not for, with all due respect, the critics and not for the awards shows, but for the audience."
And as we all know by now, True Blood not only has a loyal and dedicated audience (me included!), but…
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Maksim & Karina: Dancing Over to the Emmys
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Dancing With the Stars' real-life sweethearts Karina Smirnoff and Maksim Chmerkovskiy are waltzing their way into the Emmys.
A source exclusively reveals that the husband-and-wife-to-be (they got engaged on New Year's Eve) will be performing during the big awards show Sept. 20.
I know exactly what they'll be doing, but I think I'm gonna hold off on telling ya too much so you can be surprised. I promise, however, it's going to be fun.
The two have already shown us what kind of fancy footwork they could get themselves into...
Sigourney Weaver on Pole Dancing and Prop 8
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Move over, Miley Cyrus!
Sigourney Weaver is giving you a run for your pole-dancing money.
The Alien actress, 59, reveals that she not only dances the samba but also gets down with a pole in You Again, her upcoming comedy costarring Kristen Bell, Jamie Lee Curtis and Betty White.
"I didn't learn that at Yale [School of Drama]," she laughed with reporters during a recent media set visit to the movie. "Although it would have been useful."
No, Weaver does not strip down to, well, stripper clothes. "I wear the same thing [I did] for the samba," she said. "I have a little kind of Carmen Miranda costume."
On a more serious note, Weaver said she's been "very heartened" by the response she's received for Prayers for Bobby. Her role in the Lifetime movie, in which she plays a Bible-thumping mother whose son kills himself because he's gay, earned her an Emmy nomination.
Breaking Bad's Aaron Paul: No 90210 in His Future
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Just because Aaron Paul is dating 90210 actress Jessica Lowndes does not mean he's going to be appearing on the CW prime-time soap.
"I think there were pictures of me on set," Paul tells me about rumors he'd be making an onscreen visit to Beverly Hills.
Besides, Paul has enough work on his plate right now. Not only does he play Scott on Big Love, but he's also a first-time Emmy nominee this year for his work as crystal meth dealer Jesse Pinkman on AMC's Breaking Bad.
To say his work on Breaking Bad is intense would be an understatement...
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Jennifer Aniston: Will Sing in Upcoming Flick!
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Jennifer Aniston is getting ready to show off her vocal chops.
I can exclusively reveal that the actress, 40, will do her own singing in The Goree Girls, her upcoming real-life drama about a group of female prisoners who form a popular radio country-and-western band in the 1940s.
"She can sing," the movie's director, Michael Sucsy, tells me. "And she's going to learn how to play the Dobro [guitar]."
Aniston's fellow inmates haven't been cast yet. Sucsy isn't looking to fill the roles with real-life musicians…
We'd Like to Spank the Academy: Emmys Get Longer, More Boring
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That's one giant step for tedium and self-congratulation, one giant leap for irrelevancy.
Just when it seemed like forces were aligning to make this year's Emmy Awards slightly, well, watchable, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences has wussed out on plans to show mercy on viewers and cut eight categories from the prime-time kudosfest.
Instead, after complaints from the writers, directors and actors guilds, HBO and showrunners from more than 100 series (including 30 Rock, 24 and Weeds), the Academy will shoehorn the categories back into the telecast.
That means viewers will find out in real (long) time the winners for Best TV Movie and Miniseries, as well as Writing, Directing, Supporting Actor and Supporting Actress for the long-form productions, along with Directing for Variety, Music and Comedy Series and Writing for a Drama Series.
All told 28 categories will be presented on air, pretty much ensuring the show will run overtime.
The original plans were to pretape their presentations and splice them back into the broadcast in more palatable, bite-size forms.
So much for playing to the audience. Pressure's on, NPH.
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Check out who's up for an award on the big night in our 2009 Emmys: Notable Nominees gallery.
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