Emmys 2012 winners

Winners at the 64th Primetime Emmy Awards:

Drama Series: Homeland

Comedy Series: Modern Family

Miniseries or Movie: Game Change

Variety, Comedy or Musical Series: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

Reality-Competition Program: The Amazing Race

Host, Reality or Reality-Competition Program: Tom Bergeron, Dancing With the Stars

Supporting Actor, Comedy: Eric Stonestreet, Modern Family

Supporting Actress, Comedy: Julie Bowen, Modern Family

Guest Actor, Comedy: Jimmy Fallon, Saturday Night Live

Guest Actress, Comedy: Kathy Bates, Two and a Half Men

Lead Actor, Comedy: Jon Cryer, Two and a Half Men

Lead Actress, Comedy: Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Veep

Supporting Actor, Drama: Aaron Paul, Breaking Bad

Supporting Actress, Drama: Maggie Smith, Downton Abbey

Guest Actress, Drama: Martha Plimpton, The Good Wife

Guest Actor, Drama: Jeremy Davies, Justified

Lead Actor, Drama: Damian Lewis, Homeland

Lead Actress, Drama: Claire Danes, Homeland

Supporting Actress, Miniseries or Movie: Jessica Lange, American Horror Story

Supporting Actor, Miniseries or Movie: Tom Berenger, Hatfields & McCoys

Lead Actress, Miniseries or Movie: Julianne Moore, Game Change

Lead Actor, Miniseries or Movie: Kevin Costner, Hatfields & McCoys

Writing, Comedy: Louis C.K., Louie

Writing, Drama: Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon and Gideon Raff, Homeland

Writing, Variety, Music or Comedy Special: Louis C.K., Louis C.K. Live at the Beacon Theatre

Writing, Miniseries or Movie: Danny Strong, Game Chan

30 Rock Live Episodes!

30 Rock,this week gave a double surprise – a live show and 2 versions of it .The East coast and West coast. There were subtle differences; some planned,and others because of live improvisation. Interesting though, were the tweaks made between the two different versions taped for the east and west coast .The whole cast has the live acting experience ,mostly on Saturday Night Live! hence the show was expected to be error free.

Performing in front of an audience, the producers and writers came up with hilarious and smart ways to maintain 30 Rock’s signature single camera, whip around style and included some very welcome surprise cameos that added to the show’s crispiness.Special mention for how Julia Louis-Dreyfus is introduced as flashback Liz Lemon.

The live show concept also helped to bring lots of terrific cameos from Mad Men’s Jon Ham, Leo Spaceman, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Matt Damon. But I did miss Avery(Elizabeth banks) and Cerie (Katrina Bowden)in those cameo cavalcades.The live shows had lots of meta jokes -references to Seinfeld, Slumdog Millionaire,Bones, Happy Days, Oprah,Brett Farve and his texting his ‘deal’ indiscretions and Barack Obama’s troubles mid way into his term, so on and so forth.

30 Rock has been awesome for the whatever episodes we have seen this season and looks as good as it was in the first 3 .But doing a live show and that too twice ,one for each coast and time difference,deserves praise. As always it was funny, entertaining and cerebral.

http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/10/the_17_differences_between_30.html?f=most-commented-24h-10

As for the differences that crept up during both the versions-click on the link above,to know more.