ACADEMY OF TELEVISION ARTS & SCIENCES ANNOUNCES
58^TH ANNUAL PRIMETIME EMMY® AWARDS NOMINATIONS

Stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Brad Garrett Join Television Academy
Chairman Dick Askin to Reveal 2005-2006 Nominees

Awards Telecast Airs Live on NBC Sunday, August 27

North Hollywood, CA, July 6, 2006 – Nominations for the 58th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, for the period of June 1, 2005 through May 31, 2006, were announced today (July 6) by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences from the Leonard H. Goldenson Theatre, North Hollywood, California.

Brad Garrett, Julia Louis-Dreyfuss

Julia Louis-Dreyfuss, Dick Askin and Brad Garrett

Photos: Mathew Imaging

The Academy’s Chairman of the Board & CEO Dick Askin presided, assisted by Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Brad Garrett.

The awards telecast, presenting Emmys in 27 categories, will be televised by the NBC Television Network on Sunday, August 27, live from the Los Angeles Shrine Auditorium. Conan O’Brien will host.

The Academy's Governors Ball will follow the telecast at the Shrine Exhibition Hall, adjacent to the auditorium.

This year's Emmy telecast will be executive-produced by Ken Ehrlich and Jeff Ross and directed by Louis J. Horvitz.
 
On Saturday, August 19, also at the Shrine Auditorium, 63 awards “categories” (a single award) and “areas” (possibility of one, more than one or no award) will be presented to recipients at a black-tie presentation. Lee Miller will chair the event, Michael A. Hoey will executive produce; John Moffitt with Spike Jones, Jr. will produce; and Ron de Moraes directs. E! will televise the ceremony (date to be announced).

Additional awards may also be given for the four "juried areas" (no nominations) of Costumes for a Variety or Music Program, Voice-Over Performance, Individual Achievement in Animation and Interactive Television.

The announcement of these awards, if any, will be released in mid-July.  Two additional awards may also be given for Engineering Development and the Governors Award. These awards, if any, will be announced later this month.

Nominations Totals Per Network

A total of 451 separate nominations in 90 categories and areas, compiled by the independent accounting firm of Ernst & Young LLP, were distributed as follows:

A&E – 9	Lifetime – 6
ABC – 63	National Geographic – 2
BBC America – 1	NBC – 47
Bravo – 5	Nickelodeon – 2
Cartoon Network – 2	PBS – 34
CBS – 47	Sci Fi Channel – 7
Comedy Central – 8	Showtime – 19
Discovery Channel – 7	TCM – 2
Disney Channel –8	The History Channel – 7
ESPN2 – 1	TNT –17
FOX – 41	UPN – 2
FX Network – 8	USA – 2
Hallmark Channel – 1	WB – 4
HBO – 95	Commercials – 4
	(No network affiliation)

Nomination rosters will be finalized during the period July 6 to July 20, 2006.  The rosters may be revised in cases where names or titles are incorrect, or appeals for changes—including the addition or removal of names—are approved by the National Awards Committee.

This year producer eligibility is based on both credit and function rather than just credit, which was the sole criterion in 2006 (and has been since 1993, the last time credit and function were both used as eligibility criteria).  A review of title and function will be conducted by the Producers and Non-Fiction Peer Groups, and the nominees in the program categories will be announced during the week of July 17.

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