HBO, NBC Lead Emmy Nods

LOS ANGELES, August 28:
HBO and NBC were the big winners at the Primetime Emmys last night, which
crowned FOX’s 24 as best drama,
NBC’s The Office as best
comedy, the HBO/Channel 4 co-production Elizabeth I as best mini-series, and the HBO/BBC co-production
Girl in the Café for best TV
movie.

For the fourth year in a
row, CBS’s The Amazing Race
took home the Emmy for outstanding reality/competition program.

HBO picked up a total of
nine awards, followed by six for NBC, three for FOX and two for CBS. ABC, a big
winner last year with Desperate Housewives and Lost—snubbed
this year in the Emmy nominations—picked up one award.

In the lead actor and
actress drama categories, the winners were 24’s Kiefer Sutherland and Law & Order: SVU’s Mariska Hargitay. In the mini-series categories,
Andre Braugher won for Thief,
while Helen Mirren picked up the Emmy for her lead role in Elizabeth I. For comedy, Tony Shalhoub won for USA Network’s Monk, while Julia Louis Dreyfus picked up the lead
actress award for The New Adventures of Old Christine.

In the supporting
categories for comedy, the winners were Megan Mullally for Will & Grace and Jeremy Piven for HBO’s Entourage. In the supporting drama categories, awards went
to Alan Alda for The West Wing
and Blythe Danner for Showtime’s Huff. In the mini-series category, supporting actress went to Kelly
Macdonald for HBO’s The Girl in the Café, while Jeremy Irons picked up the supporting actor nod for Elizabeth
I.

The Daily Show with Jon
Stewart picked up two awards, for
outstanding variety, music or comedy series and outstanding writing for a
variety, music or comedy program.

Marc Buckland won for
outstanding comedy direction for My Name is Earl, which also scored Greg Garcia an Emmy for
outstanding writing for a comedy series. The drama direction award went to Jon
Cassar for 24, while the
writing award went to Terence Winter for The Sopranos.