Primetime Emmy Nominations (with video); Melissa McCarthy’s reaction, Mad Men’s 19 nominations and more!

The 63rd annual Primetime Emmy Award nominees were announced this morning by Mike & Molly star Melissa McCarthy and Fringe star Joshua Jackson.

The HBO miniseries Mildred Pierce received the most nominations overall with 21 including but since it’s still sitting on my TIVO waiting for me to watch it, I can’t say anything about it.

Mad Men (AMC) got 19 total nominations and will go up against The Good Wife (CBS), Friday Night Lights (NBC), Dexter (Showtime), Boardwalk Empire and Game of Thrones (both on HBO) in the Outstanding Drama Series.

Big Bang Theory (CBS), Glee (FOX), Modern Family (ABC) and The Office, 30 Rock and Parks and Recreations (NBC) got the nominations for Outstanding Comedy Series.

In both categories, you usually get a “WTF?” but not this year. All of the shows are great but I’m partial to Mad Men, Dexter and Boardwalk Empire in the Drama category. In Comedy, I can’t decide between Modern Family or Parks and Recreations, but any show that kills off a miniature horse, I think has the lead (Parks). Rest in Peace, Lil Sebastian.

In acting nominations, I loved that Mireille Enos (The Killing) and Elisabeth Moss (Mad Men) in the Drama categories. In  Comedy, I’d love it if Amy Poehler (Parks and Recreation) won, but with Melissa McCarthy (Mike & Molly), Martha Plimpton (Raising Hope) and Tina Fey (30 Rock) nominated, who can complain?

For the guys, Steve Buscemi (Boardwalk Empire) might be the one to beat in the Drama category, but come on… Timothy Olyphant (Justified), Michael C. Hall (Dexter), Kyle Chandler (Friday Night Light’s), Hugh Laurie (House) and Jon Hamm (Mad Men)? All of them are fantastic, although I would like anyone other than Hugh Laurie to win.

Louie C.K., nominated for lead comedy actor for his work on Louie should win hands down if there’s any justice in the world although Johnny Galecki (Big Bang Theory) who’s never been nominated might not help his cause. Also nominated, Jim Parsons (last year’s winner), Matt LeBlanc (Episodes),  Steve Carrell (The Office) and Alec Baldwin (30 Rock).

On the video below, there’s a great moment that has Melissa McCarthy’s reaction to her nomination. Check it out at the 4 minute mark!

The show airs Sept. 18 on Fox with Glee‘s Jane Lynch as the host.

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62nd Primetime Emmy Nominees

Outstanding Casting For A Comedy Series
Glee • FOX • A Ryan Murphy TV Production in association with 20th Century Fox TV
Robert J. Ulrich, CSA, Casting Director
Eric Dawson, CSA, Casting Director
Jim Carnahan, New York Casting Director

Modern Family • ABC • Twentieth Century Fox Television
Jeff Greenberg, CSA, Casting by

Nurse Jackie • Showtime • Showtime Presents, Lionsgate Television, Jackson Group Entertainment, Madison Grain Elevator, Inc. & Delong Lumber; A Caryn Mandabach Production
Julie Tucker, CSA, Casting by
Ross Meyerson, CSA, Casting by

30 Rock • NBC • Broadway Video, Little Stranger, Inc. in association with Universal Media Studio
Jennifer McNamara-Schroff, Casting by

United States Of Tara • Showtime • Showtime Presents, Dreamworks Television
Cami Patton, CSA, Casting by
Jennifer Lare, CSA, Casting by

Outstanding Casting For A Drama Series
Big Love • HBO • Anima Sola Productions and Playtone in association with HBO Entertainment
Junie Lowry Johnson, CSA, Casting Director
Libby Goldstein, Casting Director
Lisa Soltau, Casting Director

Dexter • Showtime • Showtime Presents, John Goldwyn Productions, The Colleton Company, Clyde Phillips Productions
Shawn Dawson, CSA, Casting by

Friday Night Lights • DirecTV • Imagine Entertainment in association with Universal Media Studios and Film 44
Linda Lowy, CSA, Casting Director
John Brace, Casting Director
Beth Sepko, CSA, Location Casting Director – Texas

The Good Wife • CBS • CBS Productions
Mark Saks, Casting by

Mad Men • AMC • Lionsgate Television
Laura Schiff, CSA, Casting by
Carrie Audino, CSA, Casting by

True Blood • HBO • Your Face Goes Here Entertainment in association with HBO Entertainment
Junie Lowry Johnson, CSA, Casting Director
Libby Goldstein, Casting Director

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Richard Schiff: SAG – Just Say No

From The Huffington Post:

I am far away from the fray. In London working for beans on toast and about to take another film here. As I contemplate the upcoming SAG contract vote I can’t help but see the irony that this next film’s subject is the 1968 women’s strike for equal pay at the Dagenham Ford Motor plant. This movement began as just a job grade increase request whereby the women wanted to be deemed as skilled workers so they would get the relative pay increase accompanying such a classification. It snowballed into the first job action and strike for women’s equal pay and led to a fundamental shift in the way women were treated in the work place world-wide.

England at the time was an economic disaster waiting to happen. Millions of workers went on strike every year trying to pound out a living wage and the environment was growing increasingly anti labor. So why was this women’s strike effective? Because no one could deny the fundamental fairness of the women’s position. Even as Ford shut down all production so as to incite the men to corral their female counterparts, the movement garnered its strength from the undeniable reality that they were on the right side of morality. That’s not to say that the gains were easily won; that unity was a foregone conclusion; that fellow union rank and filers weren’t antagonistic and combative; that fear of lost jobs and broken intra-union marriages weren’t colossal obstacles. These women united in force through and despite the army of opposition and the clamors for common sense and reasonable capitulation for the sake of the plant, the industry and the country.

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Send Your Stuff! Pilot – Parenthood

Yup, they’re trying it again. The Steve Martin movie that spawned a show back in 1990 and lasted for one season is about to get a second shot.

Although, this might be a little different. In the film and original TV show it had the Buckmans as the family. The new pilot has the Bravermans.

SCHIFF/AUDINO CASTING
TRIBECA WEST BUILDING
12233 WEST OLYMPIC BLVD
SUITE 380 – ROOMS 8-12
LOS ANGELES, CA 90067

Anyone remember the last one? It starred Ed Begley Jr and Leonardo DiCaprio?

Producer turns Actor: It's all who you know

Zvi Howard Rosenman, producer of such films as Buffy The Vampire Slayer & Family Man,  had never acted before but now he’s acting opposite Sean Penn in the upcoming film, “Milk.”

How did he get the part? He looked like the guy. Oh, and he knew Francine Maisler – the casting director. “When they were trying to cast David Goodstein (founder of The Advocate), Francine said to Gus (Van Sant), ‘We need someone who looks like Howard Rosenman, who talks like him and who has his size.’ I think all Gus said was, ‘Well, can he act?’ Francine called me and asked if I had any experience and I told her that I’d done ‘My Fair Lady’ when I was 14 at a Hebrew student camp.”

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