58th Primetime Emmy Awards
Date	August 27, 2006
Site	Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California
Creative Arts Awards	August 19, 2006
Host	Conan O'Brien
Network	NBC
Producer	Ken Ehrlich and Jeff Ross

The 58th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards were held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California on Sunday, August 27, 2006 on NBC at 8:00pm ET (00:00 UTC) with Conan O'Brien hosting the show. The ceremony attracted 16.2 million viewers, 2½ million fewer than last year's ceremony, but still the ratings winner for the week.^[1] Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... August 27 is the 239th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (240th in leap years), with 126 days remaining. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... An early postcard view of the Shrine The Shrine Auditorium is a landmark large-event venue in Los Angeles, California, USA. It is also the headquarters of the Al Malikah Temple, a division of the Shriners. ... Nickname: City of Angels Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates: State California County Los Angeles County Incorporated April 4, 1850 Government  - Type mayor-council  - Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D)  - City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo  - Governing body City Council Area  - City  498. ... August 19 is the 231st day of the year (232nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... Conan Christopher OBrien (born April 18, 1963[2]) is an Emmy-winning American television personality best known as host of NBCs late-night talk/variety show Late Night with Conan OBrien. ... NBC (an acronym for National Broadcasting Company, its former corporate name) is an American television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ... The Primetime Emmy Awards are awards presented by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in recognition of excellence in American primetime television programming. ... An early postcard view of the Shrine The Shrine Auditorium is a landmark large-event venue in Los Angeles, California, USA. It is also the headquarters of the Al Malikah Temple, a division of the Shriners. ... Nickname: City of Angels Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates: State California County Los Angeles County Incorporated April 4, 1850 Government  - Type mayor-council  - Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D)  - City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo  - Governing body City Council Area  - City  498. ... August 27 is the 239th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (240th in leap years), with 126 days remaining. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... NBC (an acronym for National Broadcasting Company, its former corporate name) is an American television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ... Conan Christopher OBrien (born April 18, 1963[2]) is an Emmy-winning American television personality best known as host of NBCs late-night talk/variety show Late Night with Conan OBrien. ... The 57th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards were held Sunday, September 18, 2005, hosted by Ellen DeGeneres. ...

Nominations and winners

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A new voting system determined nominees in particular categories (mostly lead acting and outstanding series categories) by a "blue ribbon" panel of judges, which resulted in the exclusion of popular shows such as Desperate Housewives and Lost, and actors like Hugh Laurie from House. Lost's exclusion was mocked during the opening sequence (see below), when O'Brien, accompanied by Hugo "Hurley" Reyes, heads down a hatch to get to the Emmys. O'Brien asked Reyes if he wanted to come; Reyes says coyly, "Well, we weren't exactly invited", to which O'Brien replies "But you won last year!" HBO (Home Box Office) is an American premium cable television network. ... NBC (an acronym for National Broadcasting Company, its former corporate name) is an American television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ... The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) operates television and radio networks in the United States and is also shown on basic cable in Canada. ... For the animal, see Fox. ... CBS is one of the largest radio and television networks in the United States. ... Not to be confused with Public Broadcasting Services in Malta. ... Desperate Housewives is an Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning American television series of the dramedy genre, created by Marc Cherry, that began airing on October 3, 2004 on ABC. It is the most popular show in its demographic worldwide, with a worldwide audience of approximately 115-119 million viewers. ... Lost is an Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning serial drama television series that follows the lives of a group of plane crash survivors on a mysterious tropical island, somewhere in the South Pacific. ... James Hugh Callum Laurie OBE (born 11 June 1959) is an English actor, comedian and writer known as Hugh Laurie. ... House, also known as House M.D., is a critically-acclaimed American medical drama television series created by David Shore and executive produced by film director Bryan Singer. ... Hugo Reyes, better known by the nickname Hurley, is a fictional character on the ABC television series Lost played by Jorge Garcia. ... The 57th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards were held Sunday, September 18, 2005, hosted by Ellen DeGeneres. ...

Ellen Burstyn was nominated for the Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Special for her role in Mrs. Harris, even though she was onscreen for only 14 seconds. Ellen Burstyn (born December 7, 1932 as Edna Rae Gillooly in Detroit, Michigan) is an Academy Award-winning American actress. ... Mrs Harris is a 2006 TV film, starring Annette Bening and Ben Kingsley, directed by Phyllis Nagy. ...

The following is a partial list of nominees, with winners in bold:

Outstanding Drama Series

• Grey's Anatomy
• House
• The Sopranos
• 24
• The West Wing

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Outstanding Comedy Series

• Arrested Development
• Curb Your Enthusiasm
• The Office
• Scrubs
• Two and a Half Men

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Outstanding Mini-Series

• Bleak House
• Elizabeth I
• Into the West
• Sleeper Cell

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Outstanding Made for Television Movie

• Flight 93
• The Flight that Fought Back
• The Girl in the Café
• Mrs. Harris
• Yesterday

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Outstanding Reality-Competition Program

• The Amazing Race
• American Idol
• Dancing with the Stars
• Project Runway
• Survivor

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Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Series

• The Colbert Report
• The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
• Late Night with Conan O'Brien
• The Late Show with David Letterman
• Real Time with Bill Maher

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Outstanding Children's Program

• Classical Baby 2
• High School Musical
• I Have Tourette's But Tourette's Doesn't Have Me
• Nick News with Linda Ellerbee (episode: Do Something! Caring For The Kids Of Katrina)

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Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series

• Peter Krause for playing Nate Fisher on Six Feet Under
• Denis Leary for playing Tommy Gavin on Rescue Me
• Christopher Meloni for playing Elliot Stabler on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
• Martin Sheen for playing Josiah Bartlet on The West Wing
• Kiefer Sutherland for playing Jack Bauer on 24

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Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series

• Steve Carell for playing Michael Scott on The Office
• Larry David for playing himself on Curb Your Enthusiasm
• Kevin James for playing Doug Heffernan on The King of Queens
• Tony Shalhoub for playing Adrian Monk on Monk
• Charlie Sheen for playing Charlie Harper on Two and a Half Men

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Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Movie

• Andre Braugher for playing Nick Atwater on Thief
• Charles Dance for playing Mr. Tulkinghorn on Bleak House
• Ben Kingsley for playing Herman Tarnower on Mrs. Harris
• Donald Sutherland for playing Bill Meehan on Human Trafficking
• Jon Voight for playing Pope John Paul II on Pope John Paul II

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Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series

• Frances Conroy for playing Ruth Fisher on Six Feet Under
• Geena Davis for playing Mackenzie Allen on Commander in Chief
• Mariska Hargitay for playing Olivia Benson on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
• Allison Janney for playing C.J. Cregg on The West Wing
• Kyra Sedgwick for playing Brenda Johnson on The Closer

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Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series

• Stockard Channing for playing Lydia Barnes on Out of Practice
• Jane Kaczmarek for playing Lois on Malcolm in the Middle
• Lisa Kudrow for playing Valerie Cherish on The Comeback
• Julia Louis-Dreyfus for playing Christine Campbell on The New Adventures of Old Christine
• Debra Messing for playing Grace Adler on Will & Grace

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Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie

• Gillian Anderson for playing Lady Dedlock in Bleak House
• Kathy Bates for playing Jane Stern in Ambulance Girl
• Annette Bening for playing Jean Harris in Mrs. Harris
• Judy Davis for playing Sante Kimes in A Little Thing Called Murder
• Helen Mirren for playing Elizabeth I in Elizabeth I

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Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series

• Alan Alda for playing Arnold Vinick on The West Wing
• Michael Imperioli for playing Christopher Moltisanti on The Sopranos
• Gregory Itzin for playing Charles Logan on 24
• Oliver Platt for playing Russell Tupper on Huff
• William Shatner for playing Denny Crane on Boston Legal

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Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series

• Will Arnett for playing G.O.B. Bluth on Arrested Development
• Bryan Cranston for playing Hal on Malcolm in the Middle
• Jon Cryer for playing Alan Harper on Two and a Half Men
• Sean Hayes for playing Jack McFarland on Will & Grace
• Jeremy Piven for playing Ari Gold on Entourage

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Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Movie

• Robert Carlyle for playing Sergei Karpovich in Human Trafficking
• Clifton Collins, Jr. for playing Jack Hill in Thief
• Hugh Dancy for playing Earl of Essex in Elizabeth I
• Jeremy Irons for playing Earl of Leicester in Elizabeth I
• Denis Lawson for playing John Jarndyce in Bleak House

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Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series

• Candice Bergen for playing Shirley Schmidt on Boston Legal
• Blythe Danner for playing Izzy Huffstodt on Huff
• Sandra Oh for playing Cristina Yang on Grey's Anatomy
• Jean Smart for playing Martha Logan on 24
• Chandra Wilson for playing Miranda Bailey on Grey's Anatomy

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Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series

• Cheryl Hines for playing Cheryl David on Curb Your Enthusiasm
• Megan Mullally for playing Karen Walker on Will & Grace
• Elizabeth Perkins for playing Celia Hodes on Weeds
• Jaime Pressly for playing Joy Turner on My Name Is Earl
• Alfre Woodard for playing Betty Applewhite on Desperate Housewives

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Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie

• Ellen Burstyn for playing Former Tarnower in Mrs. Harris
• Shirley Jones for playing Aunt Batty in Hidden Places
• Cloris Leachman for playing Tarnower's sister in Mrs. Harris
• Kelly Macdonald for playing Gina in The Girl in the Café
• Alfre Woodard for playing Mrs. Brown in The Water is Wide

Ellen Burstyn (born December 7, 1932 as Edna Rae Gillooly in Detroit, Michigan) is an Academy Award-winning American actress. ... Mrs Harris is a 2006 TV film, starring Annette Bening and Ben Kingsley, directed by Phyllis Nagy. ... Shirley Jones, in a still from the opening credits of The Partridge Family Shirley Mae Jones (born March 31, 1934) is an Academy Award-winning singer and actress, perhaps best known for her role as Shirley Partridge, the widowed mother of five children, in the television series The Partridge Family... Cloris Leachman Cloris Leachman, DFA (h. ... Mrs Harris is a 2006 TV film, starring Annette Bening and Ben Kingsley, directed by Phyllis Nagy. ... Kelly Macdonald (born February 23, 1976) is a Scottish actress, born in Glasgow, Scotland. ... The Girl in the Café is a British one-off television drama, produced by independent production company Tightrope Pictures for BBC Wales, and originally screened on BBC One in the UK on Saturday June 25, 2005. ... Woodard as Betty Applewhite on Desperate Housewives. ... The Water is Wide is a 1972 novel by author Pat Conroy. ...

Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series

• Michael J. Fox for Boston Legal
• Christian Clemenson for Boston Legal
• James Woods for ER
• Kyle Chandler for Grey's Anatomy
• Henry Ian Cusick for Lost

For other persons named Michael Fox, see Michael Fox (disambiguation). ... Boston Legal is an Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning American dramedy television series that began airing on ABC on October 3rd, 2004. ... Christian Clemenson (born November 11, 1959) is an American film and television actor. ... Boston Legal is an Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning American dramedy television series that began airing on ABC on October 3rd, 2004. ... James Howard Woods (born April 18, 1947) is an Oscar-nominated American actor. ... ER is a long-running American serial medical drama created by novelist Michael Crichton and set primarily in the emergency room of fictional County General Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. ... Kyle Chandler in the titles for Early Edition Kyle Chandler (born September 17, 1965, in Buffalo, New York) is an Emmy nominated American television actor. ... Greys Anatomy is an Emmy, SAG, and Golden Globe award-winning American primetime television medical drama. ... Henry Ian Cusick (born April 17, 1967) is an Emmy nominated actor of stage, television, and motion pictures. ... Lost is an Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning serial drama television series that follows the lives of a group of plane crash survivors on a mysterious tropical island, somewhere in the South Pacific. ...

Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series

• Patrick Stewart for Extras
• Ben Stiller for Extras
• Martin Sheen for Two and a Half Men
• Alec Baldwin for Will & Grace
• Leslie Jordan for Will & Grace

Patrick Stewart, OBE, (born July 13, 1940) is an English film, television, and stage actor and Vice-Chancellor of Huddersfield University. ... Extras is a sitcom about extras working on movie sets and theatre. ... Benjamin Edward Stiller (born November 30, 1965) is an Emmy-winning American comedian, actor, film producer and director. ... Extras is a sitcom about extras working on movie sets and theatre. ... Martin Sheen (born Ramón Gerardo Antonio Estévez on August 3, 1940) is an American actor, perhaps best known for his role in the film Apocalypse Now and, most recently, as President Josiah Bartlet on the acclaimed television drama The West Wing. ... Two and a Half Men is an Emmy Award nominated television sitcom centered around a hip single bachelor whose lifestyle is interrupted when his newly separated brother moves in. ... Alexander Rae Baldwin III (born April 3, 1958) is an Academy Award-nominated, Screen Actors Guild Award-winning, and Golden Globe Award-winning American actor. ... Will & Grace was a popular Emmy Award-winning American television situation comedy that focused on Will Truman, a gay lawyer and his best friend Grace Adler, a straight Jewish woman who runs her own interior design firm, as well as Karen Walker, a very rich socialite and Jack McFarland, an... Official headshot for actor Leslie Jordan Leslie Allen Jordan (born April 29, 1955) is an American actor. ... Will & Grace was a popular Emmy Award-winning American television situation comedy that focused on Will Truman, a gay lawyer and his best friend Grace Adler, a straight Jewish woman who runs her own interior design firm, as well as Karen Walker, a very rich socialite and Jack McFarland, an...

Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series

• Kate Burton for Grey's Anatomy
• Christina Ricci for Grey's Anatomy
• Swoosie Kurtz for Huff
• Patricia Clarkson for Six Feet Under
• Joanna Cassidy for Six Feet Under

Kate Burton (born on 10 September 1957 in Geneva, Switzerland) is an American actress. ... Greys Anatomy is an Emmy, SAG, and Golden Globe award-winning American primetime television medical drama. ... Christina Ricci (born February 12, 1980) is a Golden Globe- and Emmy Award-nominated American actress. ... Greys Anatomy is an Emmy, SAG, and Golden Globe award-winning American primetime television medical drama. ... Swoosie Kurtz (born on September 6, 1944, in Omaha, Nebraska) is an American actress. ... Huff was a Showtime television series about a successful psychiatrist whose life changes abruptly when a 15-year-old client commits suicide in his office after rejection from exposing his homosexuality to his parents. ... Patricia Clarkson as Sarah OConnor on Six Feet Under Patricia Davies Clarkson (born December 29, 1959) is an American Academy Award-nominated actress. ... Six Feet Under is an American television drama created by Alan Ball that was originally broadcast from 2001 to 2005. ... Joanna Cassidy (b. ... Six Feet Under is an American television drama created by Alan Ball that was originally broadcast from 2001 to 2005. ...

Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series

• Shirley Knight for Desperate Housewives
• Kate Winslet for Extras
• Cloris Leachman for Malcolm in the Middle
• Laurie Metcalf for Monk
• Blythe Danner for Will & Grace

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Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program

• Barry Manilow for Barry Manilow: Music and Passion
• Stephen Colbert for playing Stephen Colbert on The Colbert Report
• Craig Ferguson for The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
• David Letterman for The Late Show with David Letterman
• Hugh Jackman for The 59th Annual Tony Awards

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Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series

• Rodrigo Garcia for Big Love (episode: Pilot)
• Jack Bender for Lost (episode: Live Together, Die Alone)
• Alan Ball for Six Feet Under (episode: Everyone's Waiting)
• Tim Van Patten for The Sopranos (episode: Members Only)
• David Nutter for The Sopranos (episode: Join the Club)
• Jon Cassar for 24 (episode: 07:00 a.m. - 08:00 a.m.)
• Mimi Leder for The West Wing (episode: Election Day Part I)

Rodrigo Garcia (born 1959, Havanna, Cuba) is an American/Cuban television and film director. ... Big Love is an HBO television drama about a polygamous family, starring Bill Paxton, Chloë Sevigny, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Ginnifer Goodwin and Amanda Seyfried. ... Jack Bender is an American film and television and also an actor. ... Lost is an Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning serial drama television series that follows the lives of a group of plane crash survivors on a mysterious tropical island, somewhere in the South Pacific. ... Live Together, Die Alone is the 47th episode of Lost. ... Alan Ball (born in Atlanta, Georgia circa 1957) is an Academy Award-winning screenwriter, director, producer and occasional actor, who is best known for writing the screenplay for the Oscar-winning film American Beauty. ... Six Feet Under is an American television drama created by Alan Ball that was originally broadcast from 2001 to 2005. ... Everyones Waiting is the 63rd episode of the HBO original series, Six Feet Under. ... Tim Van Patten (born June 10, 1959) is an American film director. ... This article is about the TV series. ... Members Only is the 66th episode of the HBO original series, The Sopranos. ... David Nutter is an Emmy Award winning director. ... This article is about the TV series. ... Join the Club is the 67th episode of the HBO original series, The Sopranos. ... Brief Biography Jon Cassar, born April 27, 1958, is well known as the director and producer of the show 24 (TV series), as well a number of other film-related works. ... 24 is an Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning American television series created by Joel Surnow and Robert Cochran, and produced by Imagine Television. ... Mimi Leder (born January 1, 1957) is an American film director. ... The West Wing is an American television serial drama created by Aaron Sorkin that was originally broadcast from 1999 to 2006. ... Election Day Part I is episode 148 of The West Wing. ...

Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series

• Michael Patrick King for The Comeback (episode: Valerie Does Another Classic Leno)
• Robert B. Weide for Curb Your Enthusiasm (episode: The Christ Nail)
• Dan Attias for Entourage (episode: Oh, Mandy)
• Julian Farino for Entourage (episode: The Sundance Kids)
• Marc Buckland for My Name Is Earl (episode: Pilot)
• Craig Zisk for Weeds (episode: Good Shit Lollipop)

Michael Patrick King (born September 14, 1954) is an Emmy winning director, writer and producer for television shows. ... The Comeback was an HBO original series which stars former Friends star, Lisa Kudrow. ... The Comeback was an HBO original series which stars former Friends star, Lisa Kudrow. ... Robert B. Weide (born June 20, 1959) is a U.S. writer, producer, and director, perhaps best known for his documentaries and his work on Curb Your Enthusiasm. ... Curb Your Enthusiasm is an American sitcom starring Seinfeld writer, co-creator, and executive producer Larry David. ... The following is a chronological episode list for the HBO television series Curb Your Enthusiasm. ... Daniel Attias is an American television director. ... Entourage is an HBO original series created by Doug Ellin that chronicles the rise of Vincent Chase — a young A-list movie star — and his childhood friends from Queens, New York as they navigate the unfamiliar terrain of Hollywood, California. ... Oh, Mandy is an episode from Season 2 of the dramedy television series Entourage. ... Julian Farino is a British film and television director. ... Entourage is an HBO original series created by Doug Ellin that chronicles the rise of Vincent Chase — a young A-list movie star — and his childhood friends from Queens, New York as they navigate the unfamiliar terrain of Hollywood, California. ... The Sundance Kids is an episode from Season 2 of the dramedy television series Entourage. ... My Name Is Earl is an Emmy Award-winning American sitcom created by Greg Garcia. ... This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ... Craig Zisk is an American director and producer. ... Weeds is an American dark comedy television series about an affluent fictional California suburb and its residents, a handful of whom are involved in the distribution and consumption of marijuana. ... Good Shit Lollipop is the 3rd episode of the Showtime series, Weeds. ...

Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special

• Justin Chadwick for Bleak House
• Tom Hooper for Elizabeth I
• Peter Markle for Flight 93
• David Yates for The Girl in the Café
• Kenny Ortega for High School Musical
• Phyllis Nagy for Mrs. Harris

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Outstanding Directing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Program

• Louis J. Horvitz for 78th Academy Awards
• Bruce Gowers for American Idol
• Jim Hoskinson for The Colbert Report
• Chuck O'Neill for The Daily Show
• Beth McCarthy Miller for Saturday Night Live

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Outstanding Art Direction For A Single-Camera Series

• Desperate Housewives for episode There's Something About A War
• House for episodes Autopsy, Distractions and Skin Deep
• Nip/Tuck for episode Ben White
• Rome for episodes Caesarion, Triumph and Kalends of February
• Six Feet Under for episodes Hold My Hand, Singing For Our Lives and Everyone's Waiting

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Outstanding Art Direction For A Multi-Camera Series

• How I Met Your Mother for episode Pilot
• Stacked for episode iPod
• Will & Grace for episode I Love L. Gay

How I Met Your Mother is a CBS sitcom that premiered on September 19, 2005. ... The following is an episode list for the show How I Met Your Mother Spoiler warning: 1 References 2 External links Episode Guide at epguides. ... Stacked was an American television show originally aired in 2005 on FOX. It was hailed as the opposite of Cheers, instead of a smart person in a dumb place, it is based on the concept of perceived-as-dumb person in a smart place. ... Stacked was an American television show originally aired in 2005 on FOX. It was hailed as the opposite of Cheers, instead of a smart person in a dumb place, it is based on the concept of perceived-as-dumb person in a smart place. ... Will & Grace was a popular Emmy Award-winning American television situation comedy that focused on Will Truman, a gay lawyer and his best friend Grace Adler, a straight Jewish woman who runs her own interior design firm, as well as Karen Walker, a very rich socialite and Jack McFarland, an... List of Will & Grace episodes: // Will & Grace season 1 dvd cover. ...

Outstanding Art Direction For A Miniseries Or Movie

• Bleak House
• Elizabeth I
• The Girl in the Café
• Into the West
• Stephen King's Desperation

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Outstanding Art Direction For A Variety, Music Program, or Special

• 78th Annual Academy Awards
• American Idol for Episode 519
• Dancing with the Stars for Episode 206
• MADtv for Episode 1115
• Rome: Engineering an Empire

78th Academy Awards Sunday, March 5, 2006 at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California Hosts Preshow: Billy Bush, Chris Connelly, Cynthia Garrett, Vanessa Minnillo Show: Jon Stewart Crew Producer: Gil Cates Director: Louis J. Horvitz Duration 3 hours, 33 minutes Network ABC The 78th Academy Awards, honoring the best in... AMERICAN IDOL HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO DEATH OF SIMON ...  United Kingdom |- ! style=font-size: 100%; background: #C6C9FF; text-align: center; colspan=2 | Production |- ! Running time | 61-91 minutes (Live) |- ! style=font-size: 100%; background: #C6C9FF; text-align: center; colspan=2 | Broadcast |- ! Original channel | ABC |- ! Picture format | 480i (SDTV), 720p (HDTV) |- ! Original run | June 1, 2005 – present |- ! style=font-size... MADtv is an American sketch comedy television series based on the humor magazine, Mad. ...

Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series

• Shonda Rhimes for Grey's Anatomy (episodes: It's the End of the World and (As We Know It))
• Krista Vernoff for Grey's Anatomy (episode: Into You Like a Train)
• Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof for Lost (episode: The 23rd Psalm)
• Alan Ball for Six Feet Under (episode: Everyone's Waiting)
• Terence Winter for The Sopranos (episode: Members Only)

Shonda Rhimes (born January 13, 1970 in Chicago, Illinois) is a screenwriter, director and producer. ... Greys Anatomy is an Emmy, SAG, and Golden Globe award-winning American primetime television medical drama. ... This article contains episode summaries as well as directing and writing credits from Season 2 of the American medical drama television series Greys Anatomy. ... This article contains episode summaries as well as directing and writing credits from Season 2 of the American medical drama television series Greys Anatomy. ... Krista Vernoff is a television script (or teleplay) writer. ... Greys Anatomy is an Emmy, SAG, and Golden Globe award-winning American primetime television medical drama. ... This article contains episode summaries as well as directing and writing credits from Season 2 of the American medical drama television series Greys Anatomy. ... Carlton Cuse at the 2006 San Diego Comic Convention Carlton Cuse Born Aurthur Cuse is a television writer and executive, most recently for the ABC television series Lost where he serves as writer and executive producer. ... Damon Lindelof, 2006 Damon Laurence Lindelof (born April 24, 1973) is an American television writer, executive, hack, and most recently noted as the co-creator, executive producer, head writer and show runner for the hit television series Lost. ... Lost is an Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning serial drama television series that follows the lives of a group of plane crash survivors on a mysterious tropical island, somewhere in the South Pacific. ... The 23rd Psalm is the 35th episode of Lost. ... Alan Ball (born in Atlanta, Georgia circa 1957) is an Academy Award-winning screenwriter, director, producer and occasional actor, who is best known for writing the screenplay for the Oscar-winning film American Beauty. ... Six Feet Under is an American television drama created by Alan Ball that was originally broadcast from 2001 to 2005. ... Everyones Waiting is the 63rd episode of the HBO original series, Six Feet Under. ... Terence Winter is an American screenwriter and television producer most notably known for his work on the HBO series, The Sopranos which he joined the writing staff during the shows second season. ... This article is about the TV series. ... Members Only is the 66th episode of the HBO original series, The Sopranos. ...

Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series

• Chuck Tatham, Jim Vallely, Richard Day and Mitchell Hurwitz for Arrested Development (episode: Development Arrested, aka Harboring Resentment)
• Doug Ellin for Entourage (episode: Exodus)
• Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant for Extras (episode: Kate Winslet)
• Greg Garcia for My Name Is Earl (episode: Pilot)
• Michael Schur for The Office (episode: Christmas Party)

This page may be a user page mistakenly created as an article. ... Mitchell Hurwitz is the creator of the television program Arrested Development, and is a previous contributor to The John Larroquette Show and Golden Girls. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Development Arrested aka Harboring Resentment was the fifty-third episode aired of the TV comedy series Arrested Development. ... Doug Ellin (Born April 6, 1968) is the creator of the 2004 HBO television series, Entourage. ... Entourage is an HBO original series created by Doug Ellin that chronicles the rise of Vincent Chase — a young A-list movie star — and his childhood friends from Queens, New York as they navigate the unfamiliar terrain of Hollywood, California. ... Exodus is an episode from Season 2 of the dramedy television series Entourage. ... Ricky Gervais (IPA: or ) (born June 25, 1961) is an English comic writer and performer from Reading, Berkshire. ... Stephen Merchant (born 24 November 1974 in Bristol, England) is an Emmy, British Comedy Award, and three-time BAFTA-winning writer, director, and comedic actor. ... Extras is a sitcom about extras working on movie sets and theatre. ... Extras is a British television sitcom about extras working on film sets and in theatre. ... Gregory Thomas Garcia, also known as Greg Garcia, is a writer and producer of television series, including the long-running sitcom, Yes, Dear and the Emmy Award winning My Name Is Earl. ... My Name Is Earl is an Emmy Award-winning American sitcom created by Greg Garcia. ... This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ... Michael Schur is a television producer and writer. ... The Office is an Emmy Award-winning American television comedy that debuted on NBC as a midseason replacement on March 24, 2005. ... Christmas Party is the tenth episode of the second season of The Office. ...

Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special

• Andrew Davies for Bleak House
• Nigel Williams for Elizabeth I
• Nevin Schreiner for Flight 93
• Richard Curtis for The Girl in the Café
• Phyllis Nagy for Mrs. Harris

There are several well-known people named Andrew Davies, including: Andrew Davies (writer) Andrew Davies (politician) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Bleak House is a fifteen-part BBC television drama serial adaptation of Charles Dickens novel Bleak House, which was originally published in 1852–53. ... Nigel Williams may refer to: Nigel Williams (author) Nigel Williams (hockey) ... Image:Helen duke. ... Flight 93 is a 2006 made-for-TV film chronicling the events aboard United Airlines Flight 93 on September 11, 2001. ... Richard Curtis in London, 1999 Richard Curtis CBE, (born 8 November 1956), is a New Zealand-born British screenwriter, best known for the TV programmes Blackadder and The Vicar of Dibley as well as movies such as Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, and Love Actually. ... The Girl in the Café is a British one-off television drama, produced by independent production company Tightrope Pictures for BBC Wales, and originally screened on BBC One in the UK on Saturday June 25, 2005. ... Phyllis Nagy is a television director and writer. ... Mrs Harris is a 2006 TV film, starring Annette Bening and Ben Kingsley, directed by Phyllis Nagy. ...

Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Program

• The Colbert Report
• The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
• Late Night with Conan O'Brien
• The Late Show with David Letterman
• Real Time with Bill Maher

The Colbert Report (pronounced )[1] is an American satirical television program on Comedy Central that stars comedian Stephen Colbert, who previously became well known as a senior correspondent for The Daily Show. ... The Daily Show (currently The Daily Show with Jon Stewart) is a Peabody and Emmy Award-winning half-hour American comical news television program produced by and run on the Comedy Central cable television network. ... Late Night with Conan OBrien is an American late night talk show on NBC, that is also syndicated world-wide. ... Late Show with David Letterman is an hour-long weeknight comedy and talk show broadcast by CBS from the Ed Sullivan Theater on Broadway in New York City. ... Real Time with Bill Maher is a talk show that airs weekly on HBO, hosted by comedian and political satirist Bill Maher. ...

Outstanding Reality Program

• Antiques Roadshow
• The Dog Whisperer
• Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
• Kathy Griffin: My Life On The D-List
• Penn & Teller: Bullshit!

Antiques Roadshow is a British human interest television show in which antique appraisers travel to various regions of the United Kingdom and appraise antiques brought in by local residents. ... The Dog Whisperer is a National Geographic Channel reality television series that began broadcasting in 2004 in which Cesar Millan rehabilitates canines and teaches owners to be the pack leaders that he believes their pets need. ... Extreme Makeover: Home Edition is an ABC reality television series that began broadcasting in 2003 in which a familys house, including all rooms, exterior and landscaping, is made over by a team of builders and designers in seven days. ...

Outstanding Animated Program (Less Than One Hour)

• Camp Lazlo for episode "Hello Dolly / Over Cooked Beans"
• Family Guy for episode "PTV"
• Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends for episode "Go Goo Go"
• The Simpsons for episode "The Seemingly Never-Ending Story"
• South Park for episode "Trapped in the Closet"

Camp Lazlo is an Emmy nominated, American animated television series created by Joe Murray, produced by Cartoon Network Studios and currently airs on Cartoon Network. ... It has been suggested that Parents Day (Camp Lazlo episode) be merged into this article or section. ... Family Guy is an American animated television series about a nuclear family in the suburb of Quahog (IPA or ), Rhode Island. ... PTV is an Emmy-nominated episode from season 4 of the FOX animated television series Family Guy. ... Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends is an Emmy award-winning, American animated television series created and produced at Cartoon Network Studios by animator Craig McCracken, who also created The Powerpuff Girls. ... This is a list of episodes for the American animated television series Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends. ... Simpsons redirects here. ... The Seemingly Never-Ending Story is the thirteenth episode of the seventeenth season of The Simpsons, and the ninth Emmy Award-winning episode. ... South Park is an American, Emmy Award-winning[1] animated television comedy series about four fourth grade school boys who live in the small town of South Park, Colorado. ... Trapped in the Closet is episode 912 (#137) of the Comedy Central series South Park. ...

Outstanding Animated Program (An Hour Or More)

• Before The Dinosaurs
• My Life as a Teenage Robot for the episode "Escape From Cluster Prime"

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Outstanding Voice-Over Performance

• Kelsey Grammer for portraying Sideshow Bob in The Simpsons episode The Italian Bob

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Opening sequence and subsequent controversy

The plane crash Lost parody

The opening sequence of the 58th Primetime Emmy Awards show depicted the host, Conan O'Brien, wearing a tuxedo, sitting in luxury on a plane, sipping champagne and mentioning to the flight attendant that this would be the second Emmy's broadcast that he would be hosting. O'Brien then rhetorically asked the flight attendant, "What could possibly go wrong?" Immediately after that, the plane began to experience turbulence and then was portrayed as having crashed on (or near) an island. O'Brien is then seen walking ashore on the beach and onto the island still wearing his (now drenched) tuxedo (the video of this opening sequence is here [1]). Hurley appears and then follows O'Brien to a hatch. When O'Brien asks if he wants to come along, Hurley says that they "weren't actually invited". Conan Christopher OBrien (born April 18, 1963[2]) is an Emmy-winning American television personality best known as host of NBCs late-night talk/variety show Late Night with Conan OBrien. ... Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and U.S. President Ronald Reagan wearing black tie with wives in Quebec, Canada, March 18, 1985. ... Champagne is often consumed as part of a celebration Champagne is a sparkling wine produced by inducing the in-bottle secondary fermentation of wine to effect carbonation. ... Flight attendant in an Embraer ERJ 145 LR (PBair, Thailand) Stewardess, circa 1949-50, American Overseas, Flagship Denmark, Boeing Stratocruiser In aviation, flight attendants—formerly known as sky girls, air hostesses, stewardesses or stewards—are members of a flight crew employed by airlines to ensure the the safety of the... A rhetorical question is a figure of speech in the form of a question posed to make a statement or initiate introspection rather than for the purpose of getting an answer. ... In fluid dynamics, turbulence or turbulent flow is a flow regime characterized by chaotic, stochastic property changes. ... The Beach in Calella, Spain. ... Hugo Reyes, better known by the nickname Hurley, is a fictional character on the ABC television series Lost played by Jorge Garcia. ...

The intention of this opening sequence was to parody the premise of the ABC television series Lost; however, the sequence reportedly disturbed some viewers because of the Comair Flight 5191 aircraft disaster that had occurred earlier in the day.^[2] Parody of Back to the Future In contemporary usage, a parody is a work that imitates another work in order to ridicule, ironically comment on, or poke some affectionate fun at the work itself, the subject of the work, the author or fictional voice of the parody, or another subject. ... The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) operates television and radio networks in the United States and is also shown on basic cable in Canada. ... A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ... Lost is an Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning serial drama television series that follows the lives of a group of plane crash survivors on a mysterious tropical island, somewhere in the South Pacific. ... Comair Flight 5191 was a domestic U.S. flight from Lexington, Kentucky, to Atlanta, Georgia, operated on behalf of Delta Connection by Comair. ...

Entertainment industry critics, such as LA Weekly columnist Nikki Finke, lambasted NBC's decision to not pull the plane crash portion of the opening sequence, in light of the aforementioned crash earlier that day. Finke stated that she believes NBC could have – with relative ease – instructed their writers to come up with a different sketch at the last minute, which could have been used as a substitute [2]. The entertainment industry consists of a large number of sub-industries devoted to entertainment. ... L.A. Weekly is a free weekly tabloid-sized newspaper (a so-called alternative weekly) in Los Angeles, California. ... A columnist is a journalist who produces a specific form of writing for publication called a column. Columns appear in newspapers, magazines and the Internet. ... Nikki Finke is a controverisal American entertainment journalist and social commentator who owns, edits, and publishes a daily on-line entertainment magazine called Deadline Hollywood Daily, (DHD) which she describes as her forum to break news about the infotainment industry. ... NBC (an acronym for National Broadcasting Company, its former corporate name) is an American television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ... Capt. ...

Other parodies

The skit also parodied shows such as The Office, 24, House, South Park, and Dateline NBC (specifically, the "To Catch a Predator" segments). An animated Tom Cruise from the South Park episode "Trapped in the Closet" appears in a skit where an animated O'Brien hides in Stan Marsh's closet, only to run away when he discovers Cruise has already occupied the closet. The Office is an Emmy Award-winning American television comedy that debuted on NBC as a midseason replacement on March 24, 2005. ... 24 is an Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning American television series created by Joel Surnow and Robert Cochran, and produced by Imagine Television. ... House, also known as House M.D., is a critically-acclaimed American medical drama television series created by David Shore and executive produced by film director Bryan Singer. ... South Park is an American, Emmy Award-winning[1] animated television comedy series about four fourth grade school boys who live in the small town of South Park, Colorado. ... Current co-anchors Stone Phillips and Ann Curry. ... To Catch A Predator title card To Catch a Predator is a series of hidden camera investigations by the television newsmagazine Dateline NBC devoted to the subject of identifying and detaining potential child sexual abusers who attempt to contact children over the Internet. ... Tom Cruise (born Thomas Cruise Mapother IV on July 3, 1962) is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe Award-winning American actor and film producer. ... Trapped in the Closet is episode 912 (#137) of the Comedy Central series South Park. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...

Tributes

The show featured tributes to two TV legends : Dick Clark ("America's Oldest Teenager"), and Aaron Spelling, producer of such classic TV shows as Dynasty and Beverly Hills, 90210. The former tribute was presented by Simon Cowell, American Idol judge, with a performance by Barry Manilow, who won an Emmy later that evening. Joan Collins, Heather Locklear, and Stephen Collins, along with the original three Charlie's Angels, gave the tribute for Spelling. Dick Clark redirects here. ... Aaron F. Spelling (April 22, 1923 – June 23, 2006) was an American film and television producer. ... Dynasty was an American primetime television soap opera that aired on ABC from January 12, 1981 to May 10, 1989. ... other Beverly Hills, 90210 is a popular primetime television soap opera that aired from October 4, 1990, to May 17, 2000, on FOX in the United States and subsequently on various networks around the world. ... Simon Philip Cowell (October 7, 1959) is a British artist and repertoire (A&R) executive for Sony BMG in the UK, but is best known as a judge on the television programs Pop Idol, The X Factor and American Idol. ... AMERICAN IDOL HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO DEATH OF SIMON ... Barry Manilow (born Barry Alan Pincus, June 17, 1943[1] in Brooklyn, New York) is an American singer and songwriter best known for his recordings I Write the Songs, Mandy and Copacabana. His career achievements include selling more than 75 million records worldwide. ... An Emmy Award. ... Joan Henrietta Collins OBE (born May 23, 1933) is an English actress and bestselling author. ... Heather Deen Locklear (born September 25, 1961 in Westwood, California) is an American actress, best known for her role as the vixen Amanda in Melrose Place. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... This article is about the television series. ...

References

1. ^ http://www.calendarlive.com/tv/cl-et-tvratingstext30aug30,0,7856317.htmlstory
2. ^ http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/15376874.htm

External links

• Official list of all nominees
• Nikki Finke Asks: "What Was NBC/Conan Thinking?"
• Video of the Plane Crash Sequence from the 58th Primetime Emmy Broadcast