Four-Time Emmy-Winning Animation Series Favorite “South Park” Receives Tenth Nomination
COMEDY CENTRAL earned nine nominations in the 2009-2010 Primetime Emmy® Awards competition, it was announced today by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (ATAS).
Four-time Emmy-winner “South Park,” the adult animation phenomenon, home to Kyle, Stan, Kenny and Cartman, received its tenth Emmy nomination for Outstanding Animated Program. Nominated for “200 / 201,” the show in its 14th season remains COMEDY CENTRAL’s highest-rated show. It too has won the prestigious Peabody® Award for Excellence in Broadcasting.
Thirteen-time Emmy-winner (seven times for program and six for writing) “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” the network’s unique news parody series, is nominated this year in five categories: Outstanding Variety, Music Or Comedy Series, Outstanding Writing For A Variety, Music Or Comedy Series and Chuck O’Neil, singled out for the seventh year-in-a-row for Outstanding Directing For A Variety, Music Or Comedy Series.
Two additional nominations came in the Technical Direction category and The Daily Show Ask a Correspondent piece, “The Meaning of Life,” credited to thedailyshow.com, COMEDY CENTRAL Digital. This brings the grand total of Primetime Emmy nominations for the “Daily Show” to 37. The program is also a two-time winner of the prestigious Peabody® Award for Excellence in Broadcasting.
“The Colbert Report,” with Stephen Colbert assuming a dismissive, Bill O’Reilly-like persona while commenting on the issues of the day, received three Emmy Award nominations: Outstanding Variety, Music Or Comedy Series, Outstanding Writing For A Variety, Music Or Comedy Series, a category in which it won its first Emmy in 2008, and Director Jim Hoskinson was cited for Outstanding Directing For A Variety, Music Or Comedy Series. The show has been nominated in each of these categories for four years-in-a-row; its total number of nominations now stands at 18. The show has also been honored with the prestigious Peabody® Award for Excellence in Broadcasting.
The Emmy Awards will be presented in two ceremonies. The first, primarily for creative arts categories, will take place on Saturday, August 21, while the balance of the Emmys, primarily for the performing arts, will be announced before a black-tie audience during a primetime telecast (NBC) on Sunday, August 29. Both ceremonies will take place at the NOKIA Theatre L.A. LIVE in Los Angeles, CA.
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