Primetime Emmy Awards 2010

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart has won the “Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Series” award at this year’s Primetime Emmy Awards.

Late Night host Jimmy Fallon hosted the ceremony this year and he did such a good job rumours are suggesting he’s being lined up to host the Academy Awards early next year.

Primetime Emmys – Winners press release
Hollyscoop – “How Was Jimmy Fallon as the Emmys Host?”

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Emmy nominations announced

The Tonight Show With Conan O’Brien has been nominated at this year’s Emmy Awards.

The now defunct NBC show is nominated for “Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Series” against The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report, Saturday Night Live and Real Time With Bill Maher.

Conan tweeted “Congrats to my staff on 4 Emmy nominations. This bodes well for the future of The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien”.

Jay Leno spoke about the nominations for The Tonight Show With Conan O’Brien on his show this week, saying “the big show business news is that the Emmy nominations were announced today… the good news: The Tonight Show got four nominations! The bad news: I didn’t get one of them… remember there’s no ‘me’ in Emmy”.

Saturday Night Live is also nominated in the “Guest Actress in a Comedy Series” category for Betty White and Tina Fey’s appearances on the show.

TV Squad – “Emmy Awards 2010 Nominees List”
TV Guide – “Jay Leno Pokes Fun at Losing Emmy Nominations to Conan O’Brien”
The Associated Press – “Reactions to the 62nd annual Emmy nominations”

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Stewart and Colbert contracts renewed

Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert have signed new deals to keep them at Comedy Central for a few more years.

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report will remain on Comedy Central to cover the next US election and beyond.

The Associated Press reports “Comedy Central said Tuesday that in separate agreements, Stewart agreed to host “The Daily Show” through June 2013 and Colbert will stick with “The Colbert Report” until the end of 2012. The two shows air in the 11 p.m. Eastern to midnight block”.

The Associated Press – “New Comedy Central deals for Stewart and Colbert”

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The Daily Show and The Colbert Report on iTunes UK

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report episodes can now be downloaded on iTunes for people in the UK.

This is the first time it’s been possible to download episodes through iTunes UK.

Thanks to Olivia Coghlan at Comedy Central UK for the headsup.

Go to www.comedycentral.co.uk/downloads for details on how to download the shows, or if you already have iTunes installed click the links below to open iTunes:

iTunes UK – The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
iTunes UK – The Colbert Report

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The Daily Show on More 4

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart will resume on More 4 from the 23rd February at 8.30pm. There are no episodes this week due to reruns airing in the US. Global Edition will air on CNN International as normal this weekend (Saturday at 2.30pm/8.30pm and Sunday at 9.30am).

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The Daily Show and Colbert in HD

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report both return to Comedy Central with brand new episodes tonight – the first new shows since the Christmas break. Both shows will now be broadcast in high definition for the first time.

Comedy Central’s US channel first went HD in early 2008 but The Daily Show and The Colbert Report stayed in SD. It’s taken a while for the shows to make the transition to HD because all the control rooms had to be updated. Broadcasting Cable says the upgrades we carried out “while continuing to put on a program four times a week”.

Broadcasting Cable – “‘Daily Show’ and ‘Colbert Report’ Going HD In Jan. 2010″

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CNN International schedule changes again

CNN International has changed back to its original schedule of airing The Daily Show Global Edition at 2.30pm & 8.30pm on Saturdays and 9.30am on Sundays.

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Bill Clinton’s interview on The Daily Show

Former US President Bill Clinton was a guest on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart on Thursday (last Friday on More 4).

In the interview the former President talks about the Clinton Global Initiative, negotiations with Kim Jong-il, lunch with Barack Obama and also discusses Obama’s health care reform plans.

Click here to watch the full unedited interview

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2009 Emmy Award Winners

The 61st Primetime Emmy Awards took place in Los Angeles last night. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart won the award for “Best Variety, Music or Comedy Series” & the award for “Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Series”. Justin Timberlake won the award for “Best Guest Actor, Comedy” for hosting Saturday Night Live. The award for “Best Guest Actress, Comedy” went to Tina Fey for her work on Saturday Night Live (particularly for her Sarah Palin impersonation).

Wikipedia – “61st Primetime Emmy Awards”
Official 2009 Primetime Emmy Awards website – Nominees & Winners
Examiner.com – “Complete List of Emmy Winners (and My Reactions)”
Digital Spy – “Emmy Awards 2009: The Winners”

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CNN International changes

CNN International weekend schedules have changed. The Daily Show Global Edition now only airs once – Saturday at 2.30pm. The Daily Show Global Edition also still airs on More 4 every Monday at 8.30pm.

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Nominations for Primetime Emmy Awards

The nominations for the 2009 Emmy Awards have been announced.

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BAFTA TV nominations revealed

The nominations for this year’s TV BAFTA awards have been announced.

Jonathan Ross is nominated in the Best Entertainment Performance category for Friday Night With Jonathan Ross, and The Daily Show With Jon Stewart is nominated in the International category.

Jonathan Ross being nominated for an award has been a controversial subject for some people, because of the BBC Radio 2 incident with Russell Brand last year, leading to Jonathan’s temporary suspension from the BBC.

The BAFTA TV awards ceremony takes place on Sunday 26th April.

BAFTA – “Television Awards Nominations”
Digital Spy – “Sachs shocked by Ross’s BAFTA nod”

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Bruce Springsteen on The Daily Show

Bruce Springsteen stopped by The Daily Show With Jon Stewart on Thursday night. Jon Stewart is a huge fan of Bruce, and you could tell he was overcome to meet him.

In addition to an interview on the programme, Bruce Springsteen also did a fantastic music performance of Working On A Dream.

It’s very rare for The Daily Show to have music on the programme – the last music performance was Coldplay back on the 25th June last year.

Click here to watch the interview and the music performance of Working On A Dream

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Jon Stewart’s criticism of US financial TV networks

David Letterman welcomed The Daily Show host Jon Stewart to the Late Show on Thursday night.

Jon Stewart criticized US financial TV networks saying “there are three 24-hour financial networks… all their slogans are like ‘we know what’s going on on Wall Street’ but then you turn it on during the crisis and they’re like ‘we don’t know what’s going on’”.

This continues on from CNBC’s Rick Santelli pulling out of his appearance on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart earlier this week.

This resulted in Jon doing a piece on The Daily Show panning CNBC saying how wrong it has been in reporting the economic crisis.

As the Entertainment Weekly website says, Santelli “is the CNBC reporter who became an online celebrity after an on-air rant where he castigated the Obama Administration’s housing plan for bailing out ‘losers’ who couldn’t manage their mortgages” but that “CNBC has explained [Santelli pulling out of his appearance on The Daily Show] by saying it’s ‘just time to move on to the next story’”.

Entertainment Weekly – “Jon Stewart takes another swipe at CNBC on ‘Letterman’”

Click here to watch Jon Stewart’s appearance on the Late Show With David Letterman and to watch the “CNBC Gives Financial Advice” piece on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart

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The Daily Show to air LIVE on Inauguration Day

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart will air live on Inauguration Day this Tuesday. The show will go out at 11pm on Comedy Central, but it won’t be pre-recorded beforehand. The last live broadcast Comedy Central did featuring Jon Stewart was the Indecision 2008 programme on election night, which was co-hosted by Stephen Colbert from The Colbert Report.

The Daily Show won’t have live coverage of the Obama inauguration ceremony as that’s taking place during the day (you can keep up to date on that though on the Indecision 2008 blog), but it will have a live roundup of the day’s events at 11pm.

So if you live in the US, tune into Comedy Central on the 20th January at 11pm to watch live. If you’re in the UK, More 4 will air this episode on Wednesday at 8.30pm.

There will be live blogging on the Indecision 2008 blog throughout the show and also live blogging throughout the day of the inauguration ceremony.

Indecision 2008 blog – “The Daily Show LIVE on Inauguration Day”
Indecision 2008 blog – “Indecision’s Inauguration Day Coverage”

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The 2008 Weblog Awards – “Indecision 2008″

Vote for the “Indecision 2008″ blog from The Daily Show and The Colbert Report teams. The Comedy Central blog is nominated in the (rather oddly named) “Best Very Large Blog” category in The 2008 Weblog Awards. Click here to cast your vote. Polls close tomorrow (13th January) at 10pm GMT (UK) so head on over there now before it’s too late.

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Stewart/Colbert in ‘The 10 Best US TV shows of 2008′ list

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report are jointly at number 10 in The Guardian’s list of “The 10 Best US TV shows of 2008″.

The Guardian says “In a year dominated by election coverage… the best political commentary was still found on Comedy Central where Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert skewed everyone regardless of political affiliation”.

The Guardian – “The 10 Best US TV shows of 2008″

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