HBO, 24 Lead Emmy Nods

LOS ANGELES, July 6: HBO
yet again led the Primetime Emmy nominations with 95 nods in total for titles
such as Elizabeth I and The
Sopranos, while FOX’s 24 came up with the most nominations for a TV series.
ABC’s Lost and Desperate
Housewives were notably absent
from the best drama and comedy categories.

Among 24’s 12 nominations was outstanding drama series,
where it is up against Grey’s Anatomy, which has 11 nods; House,
The Sopranos and The West
Wing. Up for lead actor in a drama
series are Christopher Meloni for Law & Order: SVU, Denis Leary for FX’s Rescue Me, Peter Krause for HBO’s Six Feet Under, Kiefer Sutherland for 24 and Martin Sheen for The West Wing. In the lead actress category, the
nominees are Kyra Sedgwick for TNT’s The Closer, Geena Davis for ABC’s Commander in
Chief, Mariska
Hargitay for Law & Order: SVU, Frances Conroy for Six Feet Under and Allison Janney for The
West Wing. In the supporting actor
category, Boston Legal’s William Shatner
is up against Huff’s Oliver Platt, The
Sopranos’ Michael Imperioli, Gregory Itzin
for 24 and Alan Alda for The West
Wing. In supporting actress, meanwhile,
Sandra Oh and Chandra Wilson from Grey’s Anatomy are up against Candice Bergen from Boston Legal, Blythe Danner from Huff and Jean Smart from 24.

In the
outstanding comedy series category, FOX’s cancelled Arrested Development was nominated alongside HBO’s Curb
Your Enthusiasm, NBC’s
The Office and Scrubs and CBS’s Two and a Half Men. The nominees for lead actor are Larry
David for Curb Your Enthusiasm, Kevin James for The King of Queens, Tony Shalhoub for Monk, Steve Carell for The Office and Charlie Sheen for Two and a
Half Men. Sheen’s
co-star Jon Cryer is up for best supporting, alongside Arrested Development’s Will Arnett, Entourage’s Jeremy Piven, Bryan Cranston for Malcolm
in the Middle and Sean
Hayes for Will & Grace. Hayes’ co-star Debra Messing is up for lead actress with Lisa
Kudrow from HBO’s The Comeback, Jane Kaczmarek for Malcolm in the Middle, Julia Louis-Dreyfus for The New
Adventures of Old Christine and Stockard Channing for Out of Practice. Actresses nominated in the supporting
category are Cheryl Hines for Curb Your Enthusiasm, Alfre Woodard for Desperate
Housewives, Jaime
Pressly for My Name is Earl, Elizabeth Perkins for Weeds and Megan Mullally for Will & Grace.

TNT’s Into
the West secured the
most nods for any individual program, with 16, including outstanding
mini-series. Its competition includes PBS’s Bleak House, HBO’s Elizabeth I and Showtime’s Sleeper Cell. The titles up for best made for TV
movie, meanwhile, are A&E’s Flight 93, Discovery’s The Flight That Fought Back and HBO’s The Girl in the Café, Mrs Harris and Yesterday. The nominees for lead actor in a
mini-series or movie are Charles Dance for Bleak House, Donald Sutherland for Lifetime’s Human
Trafficking, Ben
Kingsley for Mrs Harris, Jon Voight for Pope John Paul II and Andre Braugher in FX’s Thief. Up for lead actress are Kathy Bates
for Lifetime’s Ambulance Girl, Gillian Anderson for Bleak House, Helen Mirren for Elizabeth I, Judy Davis for Lifetime’s A Little
Thing Called Murder
and Annette Bening for Mrs Harris.

For reality
program, the nominees are PBS’s Antiques Roadshow, National Geographic’s The Dog
Whisperer, ABC’s Extreme
Makeover: Home Edition,
Bravo’s Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List and Showtime’s Penn & Teller:
Bullshit. For
reality-competition program, the nominees are CBS’s The Amazing Race and Survivor, FOX’s American Idol, ABC’s Dancing with the Stars and Bravo’s Project Runway.

The nominees
for outstanding variety, music or comedy series are Comedy Central’s The
Colbert Report and The
Daily Show with Jon Stewart, NBC’s Late Night with Conan O’Brien, CBS’s Late Show with David Letterman and HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher.

Disney’s
mega-hit High School Musical is up for an Emmy in the outstanding children’s program category
with HBO’s Classical Baby 2 and I Have Tourette’s But Tourette’s Doesn’t Have Me and Nickelodeon’s Nick News with
Linda Ellerbee.

The 58th
Primetime Emmy Awards will be presented August 27 and will air live on NBC.