Emmys live on Bio

The Biography Channel will air the 59th Annual Emmy Awards live in real time from 10am Monday September 17.

Ryan Seacrest from American Idol has been announced as host. This year it seems super-smooth will take precedence over comedy.

Foxtel has a long history of live-to-air award telecasts including The Golden Globes and The Tony Awards.

Bio will also screen the Red Carpet Arrivals, an Emmys Guide To Show, Emmys Countdown, and Emmys Fashion Wrap Show.

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Press Release:

See The 59th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards coverage exclusively LIVE on FOXTEL’S Bio. channel on Monday, September 17, from 8.00am EST.

American Idol star Ryan Seacrest will host The 59th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards which will be televised LIVE from Los Angeles’ Shrine Auditorium, in a star- studded gala spectacular.

Bio.’s live coverage starts at 8.00am with the official red carpet arrivals which set the scene for television’s most prestigious award ceremony commencing at 10.00am.

A new red carpet host and fashion expert will grace the red carpet this year, with Lisa Rinna controversially replacing mother-daughter duo Joan and Melissa Rivers. Lisa will bring her inimitable fashion sense and celebrity appeal to viewers as she covers this years Emmy’s fashion hits and misses.

The Emmy Awards recognize excellence within various areas of the television industry. The awards are a symbol of peer recognition from over 12 000 members of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Each member casts a ballot for the category of competition in their field of expertise. The Primetime Emmy Awards celebrate excellence in national prime time programming.

Of the 54 nominations for comedy and drama programs as well as lead and supporting performers, 33 were not included among last year’s nominees - a 60% rate of fresh faces and shows. A total of 27 categories will be presented at this year’s Primetime Emmys Awards ceremony.

A vast array of programs exclusively shown on FOXTEL are nominated for Primetime Emmy Awards, including: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (THE COMEDY CHANNEL), Entourage (ARENA), The Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan (Bio.), Rescue Me (W.), Deadwood (SHOWTIME), The Colbert Report (THE COMEDY CHANNEL), Late Night with Conan O’Brien (THE COMEDY CHANNEL), Saturday Night Live (THE COMEDY CHANNEL), Spongebob SquarePants (NICKELODEON), Hannah Montana (Disney Channel), The Sopranos (ARENA), Engineering An Empire (THE HISTORY CHANNEL) and Inside The Actors Studio (Bio.).

Bio. will air the Emmys Guide To Show on Thursday, September 13 at 8.30pm in the lead up to the Emmys Awards.

For those super keen fans, Emmys day (Monday, September 17) begins on Bio. at 5.30am with the Emmys Countdown show. (Prior to the LIVE red carpet coverage from 8.00am.)

For those fashionistas, don’t forget to check out the Emmys Fashion Wrap Show, screening on Thursday, September 20 at 8.30pm, on Bio.

Ken Ehrlich is Executive Producer of this year’s 59th Primetime Emmy Awards, veteran Bruce Gowers will Direct the awards and Renato Basile will act as Producer.

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Power of Ten for Nine

The Nine Network has announced yet another game show it will develop, Power of Ten (slightly unfortunate title, guys?).

The show has recently launched to good ratings in the US where it is hosted by Drew Carey.

Essentially the show has contestants predict the outcome of pop culture and general knowledge questions which have been polled amongst Americans. Yep, another variation on the premise of Family Feud aka The Rich List aka Power of Ten.

In the US the show's top prize is $10M, but so far it has given away $1M.

Nine is promising to make a local version of the show, with a yet-to-be-announced host. It follows Nine's fanfare on The Singing Bee and Who Wants to be a Millionaire returning. Meanwhile, there is still no word on the previously announced game show, Show Me The Money which Nine announced at the end of 2006 as part of its 07 slate. It was a show which folded in the US.

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Wedged out?

TEN is dropping The Wedge from its Sunday schedule.

The sketch show will not screen this Sunday, instead replaced by a movie, Happy Gilmore.

This week the show only had 529,000 (ep 1) and 347,000 viewers (ep 2).

TEN came fourth behind the ABC for the night.

As the show still gives TEN local quota points, expect to see the remaining episodes later in the year.

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Lock it in, Eddie.

Who Wants to Be A Millionaire is on the way back, five nights a week at 7pm.

Channel Nine confirmed the news yesterday to the Herald Sun.

Making a nightly version of the show will mean Temptation is to be moved, in all likelihood, to a 5:30pm slot, though this has yet to be confirmed.

Recent speculation has suggested that Eddie would host a nightly chat show and that National Nine News might be on the move to 5pm.

It is not the first time WWTBAM has produced half-hour versions of the show, with previous attempts at the show in shorter, late afternoon spots before. The quiz will return this year.
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