Emmy Award

 United States By MARCI SINGER | Petoskey News-Review The six-time Emmy award winner and co-owner of Creative i in Petoskey has written themes for NBC Sports, ESPN and HBO. He has composed four scores for the Super Bowl and composed a symphony for which he conducted ...

 United States On those annual mid-July mornings when the nominations for the prime- time Emmy Awards are announced, Hanson always hopes to see his show among the list of award contenders. And he is almost always let down. "It's very troubling to me," says Hanson, ...

By Tempo Rating: Four stars. There must be something Tina Fey isn’t good at. Fey’s perky version of Gov. Sarah Palin helped make a resurgent “Saturday Night Live” must-see TV. Fey’s delightful show, “30 Rock” (8:30 p.m. Thursday, WMAQ-Ch. 5), won the best-comedy Emmy for the second time in September. And...

By Tempo Some good improvised comedy came when Ricky Gervais, co-creator of the original British version of “The Office,” mocked Steve Carell for running up to grab the Emmy that Gervais won last year as best actor in a comedy. Gervais didn’t make it to the Emmys last year, so presenters Jon Stewart...

By Tempo Cable programs have been dominating critics’ Top 10 lists for years, and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences took up cable’s cause on Thursday. 30 Rock," from Second City veteran Tina Fey, also made history with its 17 nods -- the largest Emmy-nomination tally ever for a comedy ser...

By Tempo The number of worthy TV shows has exploded in the last decade, yet the Television Academy of Arts and Sciences doles out a mere five slots in each of the major acting categories and in the best comedy and drama categories. These are the same five slots that were available when the Emmys judged...

By Tempo I've said it before and it's worth saying again -- every single year, the 16-person Peabody board does a much, much better job of honoring excellence in television than the Emmy organization ever has. From the Peabody PR staff on Wednesday: 67th Annual Peabody Awards Winners Announced