A festa contará com a participação de grandes nomes da indústria da TV norte-americana da atualidade e, além disso, o Emmy Awards trará performances musicais de Tony Bennett e Christina Aguilera (cantando “Steppin’ Out With My Baby”), do elenco de “Family Guy”, dos elencos do musical “Jersey Boys” e do seriado “The Sopranos”, de Kanye West e Rainn Wilson (de “The Office”), entre outras.

A noite será imperdível e terá transmissão do canal Sony Entertainment Television (a partir das 20hs.) e do canal E! Entertainment Television (a partir das 17hs., com o post-show da premiação começando a meia-noite).

O blog “Cinéfila por Natureza” passou as duas últimas semanas analisando as principais categorias do Emmy 2007 e agora relembra seus palpites para todas as categorias do telecast:

COMEDY SERIES: The Office
COMEDY LEAD ACTOR: Steve Carell, The Office (“Business School”)
COMEDY LEAD ACTRESS: America Ferrera, Ugly Betty (“Pilot”)
COMEDY SUPPORTING ACTOR: Jeremy Piven, Entourage (“Manic Monday”)
COMEDY SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Jenna Fischer, The Office (“The Job”)
COMEDY DIRECTING: Richard Shepard, Ugly Betty (“Pilot”)
COMEDY WRITING: Tina Fey, 30 Rock (“Tracy Does Conan”)

DRAMA SERIES: The Sopranos
DRAMA LEAD ACTOR: James Gandolfini, The Sopranos (“The Second Coming”)
DRAMA LEAD ACTRESS: Sally Field, Brothers & Sisters (“Mistakes Were Made, Part 2”)
DRAMA SUPPORTING ACTOR: Michael Imperioli, The Sopranos (“Walk Like A Man”)
DRAMA SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Sandra Oh, Grey’s Anatomy (“From A Whisper to a Scream”)
DRAMA DIRECTING: Alan Taylor, The Sopranos (“Kennedy & Heidi”)
DRAMA WRITING: Terence Winter, The Sopranos (“The Second Coming”)

MADE FOR TV MOVIE: Longford
MINISERIES: Broken Trail
MOVIE/MINISERIES LEAD ACTOR: Robert Duvall, Broken Trail
MOVIE/MINISERIES LEAD ACTRESS: Helen Mirren, Prime Suspect: The Final
Act
MOVIE/MINISERIES SUPPORTING ACTOR: Thomas Haden Church, Broken Trail
MOVIE/MINISERIES SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Samantha Morton, Longford
MOVIE/MINISERIES DIRECTING: Walter Hill, Broken Trail
MOVIE/MINISERIES WRITING: Alan Geoffrion, Broken Trail

REALITY/COMPETITION PROGRAM: American Idol (“Idol Gives Back – Part 2” 4/25/07)

VARIETY PERFORMANCE: Tony Bennett: An American Classic – Tony Bennett
VARIETY SERIES: Daily Show with Jon Stewart (“Bill Richardson 3/28/07”)
VARIETY DIRECTING: Tony Bennett: An American Classic – Rob Marshall
VARIETY WRITING: Daily Show with Jon Stewart

Post-edit: O Sony Entertainment Television vai anunciar, durante a transmissão do Emmy 2007, quais as séries novas do seu primetime. Alguns nomes já estão confirmados, como os da série “Samantha Who?” (com Christina Applegate), “Rules of Engagement” (com David Spade), “My Boys”, além do “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart” (que costumava ir ao ar todos os sábados na CNN International). No entanto, boatos da Internet dão conta que a grande notícia a ser divulgada hoje à noite é que o Sony Entertainment Television finalmente anunciará a transmissão do seriado “Ugly Betty” a partir de Novembro deste ano. Os fãs agradecem, se esta notícia for realmente verdadeira.