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by David Thiel, Program Director for WILL-TV
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PBS Scores Dozens of Emmy Nominations
This week, PBS was recognized with 67 Emmy nominations by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Twenty-six were for so-called "primetime" programs, with another 41 in news and documentary categories. Top honorees included the Masterpiece presentation of "Little Dorrit" with 11 nods, and the documentary series P.O.V. with ten.
Outstanding Miniseries nominee "Dorrit" led the pack among those PBS shows cited in the Primetime Emmy Nominations announced Thursday, July 16. Tom Courtenay and Andy Serkis were recognized for their work as Supporting Actors in that production.
PBS picked up three nominations for Outstanding Lead Actor In A Miniseries Or A Movie: Kenneth Branagh for "Wallander" (Masterpiece Mystery!), Kevin Kline for "Cyrano de Bergerac" and Sir Ian McKellen for "King Lear" (both from Great Performances).
Other major primetime nominees were Antiques Roadshow for Outstanding Reality Program; and American Experience and American Masters for Outstanding Nonfiction Series. Outstanding Special Class Programs included George Carlin: The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize, and Great Performances for "Carnegie Hall Opening Night 2008."
On Tuesday, July 14, NATAS announced its News and Documentary Emmy nominees, and PBS was the undisputed leader with 41, nearly twice as many as second-place CBS. Adding to the ten for P.O.V. were seven for Frontline and Frontline/World, and four for Nova. Other news and documentary series series singled out included Bill Moyers' Journal, Independent Lens, Nature, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Now on PBS, Secrets of the Dead, Wide Angle and Worldfocus.
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