Aug 23 2012

Good Morning America's Josh Elliott and Lara Spencer, Chris Harrison (The Bachelor/The Bachelorette) and Clinton Kelly (The Chew, What Not to Wear) have been named to host Emmys Red Carpet Live, which begins the festivities of TV’s biggest night, coast-to-coast, on Sunday, September 23, from 7:00-8:00 p.m., ET/4:00-5:00 p.m., PT, immediately followed by the award ceremonies, live from 8:00-11:00 p.m., ET/5:00-8:00 p.m., PT.

Live from the red carpet at the NOKIA Theatre L.A. LIVE, the hosts will chat with some of today’s biggest stars as they make their way into the theater. While Josh and Chris interview the celebrities and the evening’s nominees, Clinton will team with Lara to interview the stars and talk Emmy fashion.

Following Emmys Red Carpet Live, Jimmy Kimmel, star and executive producer of the late-night ABC talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live, will host the 64th Primetime Emmy® Awards.

Emmys: First Creative Arts Presenters Unveiled

by THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday September 6, 2012

NoHo Arts District, CA, September 6, 2012 – Today the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences along with producer Spike Jones, Jr. announced the first presenters for the 2012 Primetime Creative Arts Emmy® Awards. Similar to years past, the awards will be presented by pairings of showrunners with talent from the shows they produce.

Presenters announced today include Lisa Kudrow & Dan Bucatinsky (“Web Therapy”), Chris O’Donnell & Shane Brennan (“NCIS: Los Angeles”), Christina Hendricks & Matthew Weiner (“Mad Men”), Jennifer Morrison, Adam Horowitz, & Edward Kitsis (“Once Upon a Time”), Martha Plimpton & Greg Garcia (“Raising Hope”), Silas Weir Mitchell & Jim Kouf (“Grimm”), Morena Baccarin & Howard Gordon (“Homeland”), Frances Conroy & Ryan Murphy (“American Horror Story”), and Padma Lakshmi, Dan Cutforth, & Jane Lipsitz (“Top Chef”).

The Primetime Creative Arts Emmys will be held on Saturday, September 15th at the Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE in Los Angeles. A two-hour, edited presentation of the Creative Arts Emmys will air Saturday, September 22 at 8:00 PM (ET/PT) on REELZCHANNEL. 

NoHo Arts District, CA – Primetime Emmy® Award winners Jeremy Davies and Martha Plimpton and nominees Jon Cryer, Claire Danes, Zooey Deschanel, Tina Fey and Melissa McCarthy along with Emily Van Camp and Kerry Washington have been announced as additional presenters for the 64th Primetime Emmy® Awards. The telecast will air live from the NOKIA Theatre L.A. LIVE in Los Angeles on Sunday, September 23rd, (8:00 PM EDT live / 5:00 PM PDT live) on ABC.

JON CRYER. – Nominee for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series (“Two and a Half Men”)

CLAIRE DANES – Nominee for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series (“Homeland”)

JEREMY DAVIES – Winner for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series (“Justified”)

ZOOEY DESCHANEL – Nominee for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series (“New Girl”)

TINA FEY – Nominee of three Primetime Emmy Awards including Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series (“30 Rock”)

MELISSA MCCARTHY – Nominee for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series (“Mike & Molly”)

MARTHA PLIMPTON – Winner for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series (“The Good Wife”)

EMILY VAN CAMP – Star of the ABC series “Revenge”

KERRY WASHINGTON – Star of the ABC series “Scandal”

They join previously announced presenters Louis C.K., Ricky Gervais, Ginnifer Goodwin, Mindy Kaling, Jim Parsons and Amy Poehler.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — After rolling out the red carpet Wednesday morning in anticipation of Sunday's Emmy ceremony, host Jimmy Kimmel warned he's planning a prank on folks not watching the show.

"I have an idea for a prank, and if it goes well, will be great," the first-time Emmy host teased after ceremoniously unraveling the red carpet. "If it goes badly, it won't be so great. I think it will go well. If you're watching, you'll be in on it. If you're not, you might get caught up in the prank."

Kimmel, whose "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" received its first nomination for outstanding variety series this year, is looking forward to seeing what TV stars look like out of costume Sunday.

"There's certain shows you watch, like 'Game of Thrones' for instance, and you see these people in their medieval fantasy garb," Kimmel said. "I don't know what these people look like in real life. I'm kind of anxious about it. I want to see the kid who breast feeds his mother. That's who I want to meet most of all."

For the fifth year, the show will be held at the Nokia Theatre in downtown Los Angeles. The massive red carpet — more like a red sidewalk, really — will canvass the entire plaza across the street from the Staples Center for Sunday's TV extravaganza.

"I think that you're going to see a fresh point of view on the television industry, the year in television and some trends in television, which is going to be coming from Jimmy Kimmel," said Emmy executive producer Don Mischer. "I think his point of view is unique and quite distinctive. There will be irreverence and humor — a lot of humor."

Kimmel said the most difficult thing about emceeing the 64th annual Primetime Emmys is juggling hosting duties with his day job.

"There's a lot of work to be done," Kimmel said. "I've been up very late working on this stuff. You have to write every presenter intro, and then the presenters change or the combinations change, and then you have to change those things. What I'm trying to say is this is a real pain."

Inside the Nokia Theatre, stagehands were hard at work on the sweeping art deco-style set. The stage has been accented with silver tiles and features a voluminous circular screen hanging above several curved walls that can double as screens.

Place cards on the chairs in front of the stage's glittery silver stairs illustrated that Tiny Fey, Clive Owen and "Modern Family" stars Ed O'Neil, Sofia Vergara and Ty Burrell will have the best seats in the house: front-row center. Other nominees with sweet front-row seat assignments included Jon Hamm, Nicole Kidman, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Betty White, Kevin Costner and Bryan Cranston.

It seems several stars won't be seated next to their co-workers: the "Modern Family" cast is spread out across four rows; Zooey Deschanel is a couple of lanes ahead of her "New Girl" co-star Max Greenfield; and the "Downton Abbey" residents are occupying different parts of the orchestra section.

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