New rules make Emmy race harder to call
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Tony Soprano and his thugs will be  back, looking to grab a piece of the action, and &quot;The West  Wing&quot; politicians will make one last bid for re-election when  the Emmy Award nominations are handed out on Thursday.
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America&#39;s favorite mob family, &quot;The  Sopranos,&quot; is favored to rub out the competition at Sunday&#39;s  Primetime Emmy Awards and notch a place in the record books of  U.S. television&#39;s top honors along the way.
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By LYNN ELBER, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  Sometimes a TV series needs a tuneup. Tweak the plots, juice the promotion, and it may end up a challenger in the ratings race.
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Awards or money: It's hard to earn both at the same time.
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Daytime talk show host Ellen  DeGeneres drew a million more U.S. TV viewers to the Oscars  than last year's telecast, but some critics found her  easy-going style too low-key for Hollywood's biggest night.
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LOS ANGELES  - If you wanted to take a few swipes at Sunday night's Oscar ceremony, it wouldn't be that hard.
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It can be a case of too many cooks in the kitchen, but the frequent practice of writing television by committee has some advantages, according to a group of Emmy-nominated writers.
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When it came time to hand out the award for best reality show at the 56th annual Emmy Awards there was only one way to do it &#151; in a reality show format.
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Television news executives, still  smarting from the debacle of Election Night coverage in 2000,  say their desire to be first in calling a winner will take a  back seat this year to a loftier goal -- getting it right.
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Tony Soprano&#39;s fate may remain a  mystery, but he is almost certain to muscle his way back into  the Emmy race one last time when nominations for U.S.  television&#39;s highest honors are unsealed on Thursday.
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Three networks -- cable TV&#39;s HBO  and broadcasters NBC and ABC -- tied the race for the most  Primetime Emmys on Sunday with six apiece, but it could be  low-rated NBC and its comedy &quot;30 Rock&quot; that gain the most.
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The thrills of &quot;24&quot; and the sex appeal of &quot;Grey&#039;s Anatomy&quot; eclipsed last year&#039;s Emmy darlings &quot;Lost&quot; and &quot;Desperate Housewives&quot; in the award nominations Thursday, while shows that have fallen off the TV schedule scored a number of high-profile bids.
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They watch TV so you don't have to. An army of bloggers have been parsing every second of tonight's Emmy broadcast in a form that's come to be called "live-blogging." Quips, riffs and rundowns are the tools of this trade. The best of these blogs unfold like watching the show with an outrageously funny friend.
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Ofcom has unveiled tighter restrictions on participation TV programmes including surprise spot checks to ensure TV broadcasters are complying with new licence conditions. By Mark Sweney
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HOLLYWOOD has started another season of glittering back-patting and gushing acceptance speeches with the Emmy awards rebuking the major television networks.
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The inclusion of a prize for Hawaiian music in this year's Grammys has prompted a debate over what qualifies for the category.
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A little-known Emmy fact: The statuette that a winner is handed on stage is not the one they take home.