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Ledger Enquirer riday July 22 1994 B7 gets record 26 Emmy nominations CBS feel blue with 91 emmy nominations but the ABC drama dethroned Street as nominee champion By Lynn Elber Associated Press LOS ANGELES The gritty and sometimes ris que police drama collared 26 Emmy nominations Thursday a record for a regular series to dominate the 46th annual prime time television awards The ABC series praised for its writing and acting but also criticized by some viewer groups for nudity and rough language was nominated as best drama and earned bids for two stars David Caruso and Dennis ranz also swamped the category of writing for a drama series with its episodes taking all five nominations CBS led the networks in nomi nations with 91 followed by ABC with 73 and NBC with 66 HBO received 34 bids and PBS had 25 Winners will be announced in September The previous record for nomi nations for a regular series was the 21 picked up by another police drama Street in the 1980 81 season Both shows are from producer Steven Bochco know we are doing a first rate show and we knew we would get a share of the nomi nations but this is Bochco from his Los Ange les home He credited little bn of luck and a lot of extraordi nary record setting pace in regular series television is overshadowed only by the 37 nominations for the 1977 mini series Also nominated as best drama were NBC CBS CBS and in an 7 i nn i wj A JM NS Hu Wt i bpo! David Caruso Dennis ranz and received Emmy nominations unusual recognition of a syndi cated show the departing Trek: The Next Contenders for the best come dy series Emmy were NBC ABC Larry Sanders HBO About NBC and NBC Lead actors competing for the comedy series Emmy included four from NBC shows: Kelsey Grammer in John Larroquette in "The John Larro quette Paul Reiser in About and Jerry Seinfeld in Also nom inated was John Goodman in on ABC Tim Allen star of top rated was ineligible for the nomina tion because his representatives missed the deadline for submit ting his name co star Patricia Rich ardson did snare a bid as outstanding lead actress in a comedy for her role in the show Richardson and Academy of Television Arts Sciences Pres ident Richard rank read the top nominees in a pre dawn ceremony When Richardson read the nominees for best comedy actor she began Allen just Later Richardson said she was ecstatic about her own nomination but regretted exclusion noting that it would have been the first year that the two stars and the series would all have been nominated Other nominees in that cate gory were Annie Potts in Helen Hunt in About You" Can dice Bergen in and Roseanne in Nominated with stars Caruso and ranz for lead actor in a drama were Peter alk for Mi chael Moriarty who has left and Tom Skerritt CBS) Nominees for lead actress in a drama were Jane Seymour in Quinn Medicine Wom Angela Lansbury in She Kathy Baker in and two actresses from the NBC series Sela Ward and Swoosie Kurtz Besides other shows that racked up numerous nominations include the HBO movie the Band Played the Bette Midler movie on CBS and and Other nominations for included two for support ing dramatic actor Nick Turtur ro and Gordon Clapp Three co stars received supporting ac tress bids: Gail Sharon Lawrence and Amy Brenneman Two PBS miniseries were among the nominees for the miniseries category: Tales of the and "Prime Suspect which ap peared as part of the series Other nominees are Living Confederate Wid ow Tells The and NBCIs War II: When Lions The shows nominated for best variety music or comedy spe cial were 66th Annual Academy ABC Relief HBO Kennedy Center CBS Tony CBS and Ull man Takes on New HBO A total of 343 nominations were announced Voting is done by Academy panels of directors actors and writers The awards ceremony will be broadcast Sept 11 by ABC from the Pasadena Civic Auditorium ABC had an exclusive four year Emmy broadcast deal but because of protests from the other networks agreed to relin quish its hold early Starting in 1995 the show will rotate THE NOMINEES Associated Press Nominees in top categories for the 46th Annual Emmy Awards announced Thursday by the Acade my of Television Arts Sciences: DRAMA SERIES: Order" NBC ern Exposure" CBS Blue" ABC ences" CBS "Star Trek the Next Generation" syndicated COMEDY SERIES: NBC "Home Im provement" ABC "The Larry Sanders Show" HBO "Mad About You" NBC "Seinfeld" NBC MINISERIES: "Armistead Tales of the City" PBS "Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All" CBS Suspect 3 PBS The Stand" ABC "World War II: When Lions Roared" NBC VARIETY MUSIC OR COMEDY SERIES: "Dennis Miller Live" HBO "Late Show With David Letter man" CBS Unplugged" MTV Night Live" NBC "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno" NBC VARIETY MUSIC OR COMEDY SPECIAL: 66th Annual Academy Awards" ABC "Comic Re lief VI" HBO "The Kennedy Center Honors" CBS "The Tony Awards" CBS "Tracey Ullman Takes on New York" HBO ACTOR DRAMA SERIES: Peter alk bo" ABC Michael Moriarty "Law Order" NBC Dennis ranz "NYPD Blue" ABC David Caruso "NYPD Blue" ABC Tom Skerritt "Picket ences" CBS ACTRESS DRAMA SERIES: Jane Seymour "Dr Quinn Medicine Woman" CBS Angela Lansbury "Murder She Wrote" CBS Kathy Baker "Picket ences" CBS Sela Ward "Sisters" NBC Swooz ie Kurtz NBC ACTOR COMEDY SERIES: Kelsey Grammer NBC John Larroquette John Lar roquette Show NBC Paul Reiser "Mad About You" NBC John Goodman "Roseanne" ABC Jerry Seinfeld "Seinfeld" NBC ACTRESS COMEDY SERIES: Patricia Richard son Improvement" ABC Annie Potts War" CBS: Helen Hunt "Mad About You" NBC Candice Bergen "Murphy Brown" CBS Roseanne "Roseanne" ABC ACTOR MINISERIES OR SPECIAL: Matthew Modlne "And the Band Played On" HBO James Garner "Hallmark Hall of ame: Breathing Les sons" CBS Sam Waterston ly Away: Then and Now" PBS Hume Cronyn "Hallmark Hall of ame: To Dance With the White Dog" CBS Mi chael Caine War II: When Lions Roared Part Two" NBC ACTRESS MINISERIES OR SPECIAL: Joanne Woodward Hail of ame: Breathing CBS Kirstie Alley Mother" CBS Bette Midler "Gypsy" CBS Helen Mirren "Prime Suspect 3 PBS Jessica Tandy Hall of ame: To Dance With the White Dog" CBS SUPPORTING ACTOR DRAMA SERIES: Barry Corbin "Northern Exposure" CBS Nick Turturro "NYPD Blue" ABC Gordon Clapp Blue" ABC yvush inkel ences" CBS Ray Walston ences" CBS SUPPORTING ACTRESS DRAMA SERIES: Jill Eikenberry Law" NBC Gail O'Grady "NYPD Blue" ABC Sharon Lawrence ABC Amy Brenneman Blue" ABC Leigh Taylor Young ences" CBS SUPPORTING ACTOR COMEDY SERIES: Jerry Van Dyke ABC David Hyde Pierce NBC Rip Torn Larry Sanders Show" HBO Jason Alexander NBC Michael Richards NBC SUPPORTING ACTRESS COMEDY SERIES: Shelley abares ABC Liz Torres John Larroquette Show" NBC aith ord "Mur phy CBS Laurie Metcalf ABC Sara Gilbert ABC Julia Louis Dreyfus NBC SUPPORTING ACTOR MINISERIES OR SPE CIAL: Richard Gere the' Band Played On" HBO: Ian McKellan "And the Band Played On" Tom Skerritt and Kathy Baker of CBS drama HBO Alan Alda the Band Played On" HBO Michael Goorjian Mother" CBS: Mat thew Broderick "A Life In the Theatre" TNT SUPPORTING ACTRESS MINISERIES OR SPE CIAL: Lily Tomlin the Band Played On" HBO Swoosie Kurtz the Band Played On" HBO Anne Bancroft "Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells Ail" CBS Cicely Tyson Liv ing Conferate Widow Tells All" CBS Lee Purcell "Secret Sins of the NBC GUEST ACTOR DRAMA SERIES: Robin Wil liams "Homicide Life on the Street" NBC Dan Hedaya "NYPD ABC Richard Kiley ences: Burled Alive" CBS James Earl Jones "Picket ences: System Down" CBS Tim Curry "Tales rom the Crypt: Death of Some HBO GUEST ACTRESS DRAMA SERIES: Stockard Channing "Avonlea: The Wife" Disney aye Dunaway It's All In the Game" ABC Laura Dem Angels: Murder Showtime Bonnie Bedella An gels: The Quiet Room" Showtime Penny uller "NYPD Blue: Serge the Concierge" ABC Marlee Matlin ences: Dancing CBS GUEST ACTOR COMEDY SERIES: Jason Alex ander On: Oral Sex Lies and Videotape" HBO Paul Dooley "Dream On: Secret HBO: John Glover NBC Martin Sheen phy Brown: Angst for the Memories CBS: Judge Reinhold "Seinfeld: The Raincoats NBC GUEST ACTRESS COMEDY SERIES: Diane Ladd Under ire: Things Left ABC: Eileen Heckart War: You Make Me eel So Young" CBS Cyndi Luper "Mad About You: A Pair ol Hearts" NBC Marcia Wallace "Murphy Brown: Anything But CBS Mar lee Matlin The Lip NBC INORMATIONAL SERIES: "Cooking With Master Chefs Hosted by Julia Child" PBS ox "Entertainment Tonight" syndicated "Later With Bob NBC syndi cated Line up to block sale of Channel 38 PHOTO MICK WALSH SERVICE LEO The Generation (X) Gap HENNER SOMERS I 1 offJ Take a hike Ted KComca BY APPOINTMENT ONLY MEMBER Can we talk? Under the circumstances BRING IN 2 OR MORE WITH THIS COUPON ONE HOUR Agfa AGACOUM Regis and Kathie with a hour of fresh programs switched "Married With to 11 pm as a news alternative and scheduled the new and lor 6 And best of all opened the door for Notre Dame football broadcasts on Saturday afternoons Previously WLTZ was committed to the SEC football package on weekends WRBL has picked up the Jefferson Pilot SEC games this fall NO SITTING EE ONE POSE ONLY YOUK CHOIVt AUDI I IUNAL CHARGE OR GKOOHb A TV Guide survey says that 40 percent of teens and those in their early 20s rate and as their favorite television program The survey of the so called Generation population conducted by TV Guide found that 21 percent like Night ollowing in order of popularity are Hill and Show with David And you thought your kids were watching and by the you get the feeling that somebody in town want the proposed $43 million sale of WLTZ TV 38 to Jack Pezold uhhh Ruth Allen Ollison to go through without a challenge? ALAC Broadcast Partners licensee of WTVM 9 is the latest group to file an objection to the sale with the ederal Communications Commission It follows a Petition to Deny request filed last month by Avant Development Corp licensee of WRBL TV 3 ALAC using basically the same argument Avant presented in its petition contends that WXTX TV 54 owner Pezold and not Ollison will actually be in control of Channel 38 once the sale of the station by Lewis Broadcasting of Savannah to Piney Creek Broadcasting Corp is complete In asking for an CC hearing to investigate charges the sale would violate the duopoly rule (a single company is not allowed to own two television stations in the same market) ALAC contends that previous negotiations with Mr (Claude) Lewis concerning WLTZ Mr role in finding Ms Ollison as a purchaser of the station his role in funding the acquisition of the station by her his control of the finances programming and personnel under a Time Brokerage Agreement and Ms virtually complete lack of any benefits or burdens of ownership strongly suggest that Mr Pezold will in fact be in control of Piney Creek company formed simply for the purchase of WLTZ is expected to respond to the latest challenge later this month Long after ABC rids itself of its current entertainment president Ted Harbert his legacy of asking network shows to refrain from using introductory theme songs will live on Think about what asking If been at CBS in September 1972 Harbert would undoubtedly have asked producers to drop Johnny famed theme Is If been at ABC three years later he would have demanded producers of Back to drop John theme song which reached No 1 on the Billboard survey reasoning is that when a show with an opening theme comes on the air it allows the viewer the opportunity to switch to another channel Teddy boy Who in their right mind would tune out Ballard of Jed Tyler ive and In some cases the theme song was considerably better than the show that followed Case in point: Agent Hopefully Harbert will turn his attention to something really important like the gawd awful Night in featuring Marilu Henner formerly of Shade" (WLTZ 11 12 am) and exercise guru Susan Powter (WTVM 10 10:30 am) Holdover talk shows include (WRBL 9 10 am) (WTVM 4 5 pm) and (WRBL 56 pm) The lone locally produced chatfest remains in place at 6 am That show hosted by Calvin loyd enters its fourth season on the air The networks offer three daytime gab hours and Jane Whitney which is already on thin ice and and notice that perennial favorite Phil Donahue and the always perky Sally Jessy Raphael (both recently dropped by WTVM) are not on the fall schedule However their syndicate has been in touch with WRBL and since Channel 3 does have an opening at 10 am a chance that either could find a home there Sadly kidding!) the new Suzanne Somers talk show has not been picked up by a local station AfEA ALL HU IM ILM i 15 1 AGA Turns 24 Exposures You'll have it made in the shade sun indoors and out with brilliant Agfacolor XRG film and our store processing NOTHING ESCAPES AGA ILM 3 '500 Ron Bartlett programmer at WLTZ has done a pretty good job lining up Channel fall schedule seeing that if the sale of the station to the Ollison Pezold group is allowed probably be without a job Operating with very little Lewis capital Bartlett has added to his afternoon lineup (where it will team up with the successful the Heat of the replaced his prime access (7 8 pm) programming with Stories of 'V the Highway and brought in Jenny Jones to host a noon time talk show replaced the departed With Mick Walsh is madia columnist for The Lodger Enquirer ONE HOUR SERVICE with DRIVE THRU WINDOW ilm Batteries rames Enlargments CopyingRestoring Passport Photos AC WEBS The four full power TV stations have almost completed their fall schedules and as usual a preponderance of syndicated talk shows on the grid But need your TV Book to discover at which time and on which channel your favorite talk show will air or example: With Regis and Kathie moves from WLTZ to WTVM in September Air time: 9 am Ricki Lake leaves WLTZ for WRBL Air time: 4 pm which was carried by WRBL a year ago resurfaces at WLTZ in the fall Air time: 12 noon carried locally by WXTX moves to WTVM Air time: 12:05 am New to the market are nannannasn: PORTRAIT STUDIO DRIVE THRU II I ROLLS ILM nn TO BE PROCESSED PRINTED 1 11 Il GET A ROLL ILM (J 0 I I LOCATED AT 5762 MILGEN ROAD MILLER ROAD EXIT BEHIND SPECTRUM AMOCO STATION IN SHOPPING PLAZA HOURS: A MONDAY RIDAY 10:00 AM 7:00 PM SATURDAY 10:00 AM 5:00 PM CLOSED SUNDAY 21 PORTRAIT SPECIAL S1Q95 16 Half Wallets I uci dull ur riLin REE ALL ILMPROCESSING I OER GOOD TlfaU AUG 27 1 99 WITH THIS COUPON CAPTUBE i i' ONE HOUR Mata AGACOLOR.