It’s an Honor to Be Nominated

Yay for Fox’s 28 Emmy nominations! Here’s some that might interest you:
Outstanding Drama Series
House

Outstanding Lead Actor In A Drama Series
House • Hugh Laurie as Dr. Gregory House

Outstanding Directing For A Drama Series
House • “House’s Head” • Greg Yaitanes, Director

Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less Than One Hour)
King Of The Hill • “Death Picks Cotton”The Simpsons • “Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind”

Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming One Hour Or More)
Blue Harvest (Family Guy)

Outstanding Special Visual Effects For A Series
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles • “Pilot”

Outstanding Stunt Coordination
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles • “Gnothi Seauton” • Joel Kramer, Stunt Coordinator

Outstanding Music Composition For A Series (original Dramatic Score)
Family Guy • “Lois Kills Stewie” • Ronald Neal Jones, ComposerHouse • “Guardian Angels” • Jon Ehrlich, Music By and Jason Derlatka, Music By
The Simpsons • “Treehouse of Horror XVIII” • Alf Clausen, Music by

Outstanding Single-camera Picture Editing For A Drama Series
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles • “Pilot” • Paul Karasick, Editor

Blogging the TCA Blogs #7 - “The Simpsons”

THR’s The Live Feed with the scoop on the upcoming Seth Rogan-penned episode:

Comic Books Guy creates a superhero, it’s turned into feature film and Homer plays the hero. Seth plays Homer’s personal trainer. Homer gets into great shape, but then when the movie is over he can’t afford the personal trainer anymore and his life falls apart.

TV Squad has exec producer Al Jean answer about upcoming guest stars:

“(W)e had Mark Cuban and Jeff Bezos playing themselves with what’s probably the richest supporting cast in the history of –” which is when (Matt) Groening chimed in with the second-best line of the day: “Other than the The Simpsons cast.”

The Con — Still On

Warner Bros. TV’s plans for “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles” and “Fringe” at Comic-Con plus more details on what 20th Century Fox TV will be doing.

It’s all right here.

The Con is On

20th Century Fox TV confirms its presence at Comic-Con.

Whedon.
Kiefer.
MacFarlane.
Groening.
Wentworth.
Boreanaz.
And more.

Season Premiere Dates

Monday, Sept. 1
8:00-10:00 PM PRISON BREAK (2-Hour Premiere)

Wednesday, Sept. 3
8:00-10:00 PM BONES (2-Hour Premiere)

Monday, Sept. 8
8:00-9:00 PM TERMINATOR:THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES
9:00-10:00 PM PRISON BREAK (Time Period Premiere)

Tuesday, Sept. 9
8:00-10:00 PM FRINGE (2-Hour Premiere)

Wednesday, Sept. 10
8:00-9:00 PM BONES (Time Period Premiere)
9:00-9:30 PM ‘TIL DEATH
9:30-10:00 PM DO NOT DISTURB

Sunday, Sept. 28
8:00-8:30 PM THE SIMPSONS
8:30-9:00 PM KING OF THE HILL
9:00-9:30 PM FAMILY GUY
9:30-10:00 PM AMERICAN DAD

Respect the Rich*

From the official press release: “FOX has ordered an historic 20th season of THE SIMPSONS, which will tie the series with “Gunsmoke” as the longest-running series in the history of primetime television.”

*”‘The Simpsons Movie’ was released in July and has grossed $526 million worldwide to date.” What did you think we were referring to?

Everyone’s a Comedian

At least stay through to Kal Penn’s last line at the end of the clip.

Springfield’s Most Wanted

Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein are the new showrunners on Sit Down, Shut Up. They are the guys who wrote some of the greatest Simpsons episodes, like Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy, $pringfield, and Who Shot Mr. Burns Part One and Two.

“Mitch (Hurwitz) wants to be in more of a supervisory role, like Ron Howard on ‘Arrested,’ ” Oakley said in Variety.

Sit Down is “extremely character based, like ‘Arrested Development,’ and has different rhythms than other animated shows like ‘The Simpsons’ or ‘King of the Hill,’” Oakley said.

Mo Willems, who created Cartoon Network’s “Sheep in the Big City,” is handling animation on the show.