Sure, Seeley Booth is a catch. But what if Bones teamed up with Don Draper? And wouldn’t it be super bloodsuckingly cool if Alexander Skarsgard got all vampiric on Betty White!?

Here’s hoping the Television Academy takes these mashups into consideration. 

The final presenters were announced Thursday for the 62nd annual Primetime Emmy Awards, and they run the gamut from a mystery novelist to a single mother … even married CIA agents. (Well, the actors who play those parts will be there.)

Rounding out the list of presenters are a few nominees:  Claire Danes (“Temple Grandin”),  Ted Danson, (“Damages”) and Mariska Hargitay ("Law & Order: Special Victims Unit"). Also announced to present are Emily Deschanel  (“Bones”),  Nathan Fillion (“Castle”), Lauren Graham (“Parenthood”), Boris Kodjoe and Gugu Mbatha-Raw (“Undercovers”),  Christopher Meloni (“Law & Order: Special Victims Unit”), Tom Selleck (“Blue Bloods”) and Maura Tierney (“The Whole Truth”).

They join previously announced presenters Will Arnett, Stephen Colbert, Edie Falco, Tina Fey, Laurence Fishburne, Ricky Gervais, Jon Hamm, Neil Patrick Harris,  January Jones, John Krasinski, LL Cool J, John Lithgow, Ann-Margret, Julianna Margulies, Joel McHale, Matthew Morrison, Steven Moyer, Eva Longoria Parker, Jim Parsons, Anna Paquin, Matthew Perry, Jeff Probst, Keri Russell, Skarsgard, Blair Underwood, Sofia Vergara and White. 

The show will be broadcast live on NBC  from the Nokia Theatre  on Sunday  at 5 p.m. PDT.

ShowTrackers, let’s play musical presenters! Share with us in the comments section who you’d like to see team up.

--Yvonne Villarreal
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Photos:  Alexander Skarsgard and Betty White. Credit: Getty Images.

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Jimmy Fallon falling all over himself to host Emmys this year

The Emmy Awards may be less than a week away, but Jimmy Fallon has yet to lose his cool over hosting Sunday's 62nd annual prime-time event.

"We're getting the final touches on the opening thing that we're doing. It's really fun," Fallon told us Monday night at the Hollywood premiere of "Going the Distance." "I’m at the Nokia Theater all day long now, from now until the Emmys. Just getting ready. It’s a long process, a lot of rehearsals, stuff like that."

(He didn't explain, why, exactly, he was on the red carpet for the Drew Barrymore/Justin Long romantic comedy, which he's not a part of. Maybe to support Barrymore, with whom he starred in 2005's "Fever Pitch"?)

Fallon was disappointingly tight-lipped about what audiences can expect from this year's telecast, saying only that a lot of our "favorite TV stars" will be "helping him out" during the show's opening segment. He also would not reveal which nominees he was rooting for.

But he did make one thing clear -- the Emmys won't share many similarities with his late night talk show.

"There's no Roots, sadly. The Roots didn't come with me from New York. Kind of miss them," he said, referring to his show's band. "I think if it’s too much me, it takes away from the fun of the Emmys. My job as a host is to keep moving fast and to let the other people shine, the nominees. Make it a fun night for everybody."

-- Amy Kaufman

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Show Trackers, Jimmy Fallon wants you!

Well, he wants your thumbs and best celebrity overtures (preferably in 140 characters or less).

The public will be able to submit an introduction through Twitter for up to 15 Emmy presenters handing out trophies at the 62nd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards. Fallon ( @jimmyfallon to his Twitter followers), who's hosting the ceremony, will read the best tweet as each star takes the stage.

Starting Wednesday, a list of the presenters will be posted at NBC's website (www.nbc.com/emmys/imontheemmys), along with a Twitter link to enter suggested introductions.

So here’s your chance to practice! The TV academy has already announced “Mad Men" hunk Jon Hamm, "Glee" mentor Matthew Morrison, "30 Rock" writer/star Tina Fey and "The Office" creator Ricky Gervais among this year's presenters.  Stretch those thumb muscles and give us your best intros in the comments section.

The Emmys air live Sunday at 5 p.m. PST, from the downtown Nokia Theatre.

--Yvonne Villarreal

twitter.com/villarrealy

Photo: Fallon arrives at the 2010 Teen Choice Awards at Gibson Amphitheatre on Aug. 8 in Universal City. Credit: Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images

 

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Our colleagues at the Gold Derby attended the Creative Arts Emmys ceremony in Los Angeles on Saturday and blogged the results.

A few things we noted:

"Modern Family" picked up an Emmy for best casting in a comedy series. Does that mean an Emmy for outstanding comedy is on its way? Most TV critics are predicting the ABC single-camera comedy as the winner next Sunday. This could be a sign the academy agrees.

"Mad Men" nabbed the nod for best casting in a drama series. We do love the cast, but hope this doesn't mean the AMC series will pick up its third Emmy in a row in that category. With "Lost's" final season in the mix and spectacular seasons for "Dexter" and "Breaking Bad," there's got to be a new winner, no?

Choreographer Mia Michaels may have turned off a lot of viewers when she replaced Mary Murphy at the judge's table of "So You Think You Can Dance" this season. But arguing against her immense talents as a choreographer is futile. She deserves the Emmy she won Saturday night.

"Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution" won the Emmy for best reality program, and that's not a bad pick. The charming naked chef took on children's obesity in this weight-loss show and struck a chord with viewers.

Of course, Jeff Probst won his third Emmy for best reality show host for his work on "Survivor." As long as he's in the running, it's not likely anyone will ever beat him. No one can elicit information from contestants and direct a reality competition the way he can. (Boo to the academy for not including this award in the regular telecast Aug. 29).

John Lithgow did amazing work on "Dexter" last season as the Trinity Killer and won an Emmy on Saturday for it. Apparently, he thanked HBO instead of Showtime for the opportunity. Hope Dexter didn't hear that.

Ann-Margret picked up a guest actress Emmy in a drama for her work on "Law & Order: SVU." She apparently knew what network that show is on.

Neil Patrick Harris hasn't won an Emmy for his role on "How I Met Your Mother" but he won Saturday for his guest spot on Fox's "Glee."

Betty White is still on fire. She won an Emmy for guest actress on "Saturday Night Live." But she got bested in the best commercial category by the Old Spice dude. Apparently, you can't have it all Betty.

-- Maria Elena Fernandez

twitter.com/writerchica

Photo: John Lithgow at the Creative Arts Emmys on Saturday.

Credit: Chris Pizzello / Associated Press

With the Emmy Awards just a week and a half away, Ernst & Young LLP, the accounting firm in charge of counting the thousands of votes, will now kick into high gear figuring out who will be going home with a trophy come Aug. 29.

The deadline to get ballots in was 5 p.m. Tuesday. The last vote, as always, was turned in by veteran actress Jody Carter, who actually comes down to the firm's downtown offices to fill out her ballot in person and turn it in to Andy Sale, the Ernst & Young lead partner for the prime-time Emmy Awards.

The counting of the votes has actually already begun, but there is always a ton of ballots that come in on the final day that the firm is allowed to accept them. 

"We will ride a pink wave of ballots," said Sale. As for Carter's insistence on voting in person at the firm's offices, Sale said, "Jody is so passionate about making sure her ballot is counted that she hand delivers it to me."

Carter, who has been acting for decades, has credits including "Cagney & Lacey," "Days of Our Lives," "Scrubs" and "Til Death."

-- Joe Flint 

Photo: Actress Jody Carter hands her ballot to Andy Sale of Ernst & Young. Credit: Ernst & Young.

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What could be better than ultra-suave Don Draper in a suit? Maybe Jimmy Fallon pretending to be ultra-suave Don Draper in a suit … and failing.

The 62nd Annual Emmy Awards are just weeks away, and funnyman host Jimmy Fallon has already started the promotion campaign by taping a few TV spots.

One includes lasers. The other sees Fallon strolling through the Manhattan offices of Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce, greeted by a red-lipped Joannie (Christina Hendricks), whose show “Mad Men” is up for 17 awards. You'll be happy/sad to know he didn't make her lick his hat for $10 -- guess he forgot with all that smoke in the way.

 

The Emmys will air on Aug. 29 on NBC at 5 p.m. PDT.

[Updated: 5:54 p.m. File under "premature."

It seems Fallon's Emmy promo spoofing AMC's "Mad Men" came too little too soon.

The spot (the first of three odes to "Mad Men") aired Wednesday night on NBC. It has been removed from the network's site, NBC sources confirmed to ShowTracker.

It seems the parody didn't have everyone laughing, especially rivals in the drama series category, considering the voting window is still open, as one network pointed out to the Hollywood Reporter.

"This promo was posted prematurely, and the Television Academy appreciates NBC pulling the content until after the voting window closes," according to a Television Academy spokeswoman.

The spot won't air again until after the voting window closes on Tuesday.]

So ShowTrackers, think we're in for a treat with Fallon? Into what other shows would you like to see Fallon insert himself?

-- Yvonne Villarreal

twitter.com/villarrealy

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Jennifer Lopez might be in the running for Fox’s “American Idol,” but if that doesn’t pan out for Jenny from the Block, the Peacock network might have a good use for her assets.

“I don’t want to give away things like that because surprise is a nice emotion,” said Jimmy Fallon, host of the upcoming Emmy Awards, which will broadcast Aug. 29. “We’ve booked J.Lo and Steven Tyler.”

Of course Fallon was joking, we think, we hope. But one thing Fallon promises for sure when viewers tune in to watch him take the stage for the first time as Emmy host is that it will be about embracing the season’s biggest hits.

“It’s not ‘Late Night With Jimmy Fallon’ hosting, it’s me hosting. It’s not about me, it’s about celebrating great television,” he said during the press tour. “New shows like ‘Modern Family’ and ‘Glee’ and old shows going away like ’24’ and ‘Lost’ – I’m still trying to figure out what happened [in the finale].”

With Fallon’s trademark off-brand humor, it’s only natural to assume that each Emmy winner would end up licking their statuette for $10. While we’re not sure this is the case, Fallon did assure us that everything he has up his sleeves has gotten NBC’s stamp of approval. He says he’s learned just how far he can go during his “Saturday Night Live” days.

“The academy has been so great with us, almost no notes. I think the only note is we have to give out awards. We wrote up some great stuff,” Fallon said. “We do throw away a lot of jokes sometimes, if they are too mean. But they are funny. I don’t dislike anyone, just a playful jab here and there.”

-- Gerrick D. Kennedy

twitter.com/GerrickKennedy

Photo credit: NBC

George Clooney will receive the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award during the Primetime Emmy Awards on Aug. 29. The presentation will mark the first time in six years that the award has been handed out.

Clooney is being honored for his work in several areas, including his advocacy to stop genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan and his involvement in quickly mobilizing the entertainment industry for the "America: A Tribute to Heroes" event in the wake of Sept. 11.

Oprah Winfrey, Bill Cosby and Danny Thomas have been the previous recipients of the award, which is presented to an "individual in the telecommunications industry whose humanitarian works have brought credit to the industry and whose deeds and actions have a lasting impact on society," said a statement from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

— Greg Braxton

PBS flexed its usual strength when the News and Documentary Emmy nominations were announced Thursday, racking up 37 nods for its coverage of Taliban youth, the death of Iranian protester Neda Agha-Soltan and a community battle over a mosque in West Virginia, among other topics.

The public television system was followed closely by CBS, which had a particularly good showing, scoring 31 nominations, including 16 for its long-running Sunday newsmagazine “60 Minutes.” HBO placed third with 20 nominations, one of its largest hauls ever, followed by National Geographic, which earned 19. NBC had 17 and ABC got 9.

“CBS Evening News With Katie Couric” may trail its rivals in the ratings, but it earned eight nominations, the most of the network evening broadcasts, including two for its “Follow the Money” investigative series. The top-rated “NBC Nightly News With Brian Williams” got six nods, while ABC’s “World News,” anchored last year by Charles Gibson, had one.

For the third year in a row, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences is recognizing “new approaches” to news, documentary and arts programming, categories that require entrants to demonstrate some form of innovation. That has led to a sizable representation of online productions, particularly by newspapers, which have stepped up their video work in recent years.

The websites of the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Boston Globe, San Jose Mercury News, Time and Canada’s Globe and Mail all scored nominations Thursday.

Latimes.com was nominated for best new approach to documentary programming for “Alabama’s Homeboys,” a multimedia piece about a program in which the Los Angeles gang intervention program Homeboy Industries sends former gang members to work with impoverished children in rural Alabama.

The academy announced that this year’s lifetime achievement award will be given to the accomplished documentarian Frederick Wiseman, who has made 30 films, many of them iconic pieces about American institutions.

Also up for an Emmy: Robert “Joe” Halderman, the former CBS “48 Hours Mystery” producer who pleaded guilty in March to attempted grand larceny for trying to extort late-night host David Letterman. Halderman, who is currently serving a six-month jail sentence, was part of a team that produced a piece about Amanda Knox, an American exchange student convicted of killing her roommate in Italy. The story was nominated for best continuing coverage of a news story by a newsmagazine.

— Matea Gold

twitter.com/mateagold

In keeping with Thursday's Emmy vibe, we introduce a new awards race: the Did They Actually Say This? Awards.

To qualify for these trophies, Emmy nominees must reject our request for interviews and offer up nifty statements, issued by their publicists and most likely written by them as well. We received 11 of those on Thursday, and here's how they stacked up:

In the BREVITY category, the winner is clear:

“It’s honor enough to be able to work with Al, Barry, Susan and Brenda. WOW."

That came from John Goodman, who was nominated for supporting actor in a miniseries or movie for HBO's "You Don't Know Jack." Not only was it one for the Twitter era, the writer could not be bothered to look up last names for us.

In the LONG and BORING category, there were three nominees:

“This is incredible news!  Even to be nominated is such an honor, and such pat on the back for the TV and campaign teams and for the good people of Huntington, West Virginia, for all their hard work.  Balancing program-making with a real live campaign is always a challenge, so everyone involved should take this nomination as an encouragement to keep on fighting the good fight!”  -- Jamie Oliver, whose show, "Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution," was nominated for reality program.

“I am honored that the Academy chose to recognize my work on ‘American Idol’ and ‘Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution’ – two projects that I am both deeply devoted to. ‘Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution’ has inspired so many Americans affected by obesity while ‘American Idol’ has inspired millions to go after their dreams. I feel lucky to have been part of such moving programming and it has been an incredible experience to contribute to both shows.”   -- Ryan Seacrest, who was nominated as a producer for "Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution" and for reality TV show host for "American Idol."

"It's such an honor to be nominated for an Emmy and to feel part of the club! We're working hard on the show as we speak and it's turning out to be a great season, especially now that we're going to be 90 minutes. I'm excited to attend the Emmys this year. And who knows -- maybe sixth time's the charm?" -- Heidi Klum, who was nominated as a reality TV show host, and as a producer for "Project Runway," which was nominated for reality competition series

And the winner is: Jamie Oliver. We believe in his good work and we appreciate the fact that he calls TV producing "program-making." Sounds like something he'd bake.

In the FORCED HUMOR category, there were three nominees:

"This is great news. We're grateful and excited. Especially since today is the fifth anniversary of the day NBC forgot to cancel us." -- Tina Fey, who was nominated for lead actress in a comedy and writing on "30 Rock," which was nominated for comedy series.

"Two nominations this year? That's fantastic. Maybe next year I'll get three! At that rate, by the year 2107 I'll be a lock for every single category. Wish me luck..." -- Neil Patrick Harris, who was nominated for supporting actor in a comedy for "How I Met Your Mother" and guest role for "Glee."

"This is such exciting news! It is such an honor to be included in this group of funny talented women! I am indebted to Tina Fey and the greatest comedy writing team on television. I am going to celebrate by eating a piece of cheese. Just kidding, designers, I promise, no cheese will cross these lips or hips until after the ceremony." -- Jane Krakowski, who was nominated for supporting actress in a comedy for "30 Rock."

And the winner is: Tina Fey. The "NBC forgot to cancel us" joke is recycled. We're green and everything, but you can do better than that.


In the Painfully Grateful category, there were two nominees:

"I'm so grateful to all the people who poured their hearts and efforts into making 'O'Keeffe.' I thank everyone who worked on the film and am very appreciative that the Emmy voters have acknowledged their enormous contributions. Thank you!!!!!" -- Joan Allen, who was nominated for lead actress in a miniseries or movie for "Georgia O'Keefe."

"Once again, I am grateful and delighted to be nominated. And I am deeply indebted to Tina, Robert Carlock, Lorne, Marci Klein and Jeff Zucker." -- Alec Baldwin, who was nominated for lead actor in a comedy series for "30 Rock."

And the winner is Joan Allen. Doesn't she sound like she's won already? It means so much to her!


In the Outstanding Achievement category, there is again a clear winner:

"I was relieved to see that the Academy spelled my name right and as I am now a free agent, Lebron and I will be announcing our plans later this evening."

That gem came from Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who was nominated for lead actress in a comedy for "The New Adventures of Old Christine." Not only does she get a pass for not doing phone interviews because CBS has canceled her sitcom, but she actually was funny and topical.

That brings to a close our 1st Annual Did They Actually Say This? Awards. If you want to avoid being nominated -- or worse, winning -- these distinguished awards next year, pick up the phone. These statements are as lame as our awards! (Except yours, Julia.)

--Maria Elena Fernandez
twitter.com/writerchica

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John Goodman on set of 'Treme' in New Orleans. Credit: Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times

Jamie Oliver. Credit: Chris Jackson / Getty Images.

Tina Fey. Credit: Danny Moloshok / Reuters

Joan Allen at the Screen Actor Guild Awards. Credit: Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times

Julia Louis-Dreyfus on set of 'The New Adventures of Old Christine." Michael Ansell / Warner Bros. Television

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