The first season of the HBO series Treme, set in post-Katrina New Orleans, has been nominated for two Emmys.
Treme was nominated in two categories: “Outstanding Directing For A Drama Series,” and “Outstanding Original Music And Lyrics.”
In the directing category, the show’s pilot, “Do You Know What It Means,” was given the nod. “This City,” which was composed by singer songwriter Steve Earle, was recognized in the music competition.
Here’s the competition for Outstanding Direction: Outstanding Directing For A Drama Series Breaking Bad • One Minute • AMC • Sony Pictures Television Michelle MacLaren, Director
Dexter • The Getaway • Showtime • Showtime Presents, John Goldwyn Productions, The Colleton Company, Clyde Phillips Productions Steve Shill, Director
Lost • The End • ABC • Grass Skirts Productions, LLC in association with ABC Network and Studios Jack Bender, Director
Mad Men • Guy Walks Into An Advertising Agency • AMC • Lionsgate Television Lesli Linka Glatter, Director
Treme • Do You Know What It Means (Pilot) • HBO • Blown Deadline Productions in association with HBO Entertainment Agnieszka Holland, Director
And for Original Music: Outstanding Original Music And Lyrics Family Guy • Extra Large Medium (Song title: Down’s Syndrome Girl) • FOX • Fox Television Animation Walter Murphy, Music By Seth MacFarlane, Music & Lyrics By
How I Met Your Mother • Girls Vs. Suits (Song title: Nothing Suits Me Like A Suit) • CBS • Twentieth Century Fox Television Carter Bays, Music & Lyrics By Craig Thomas, Music & Lyrics By
Monk • Mr. Monk And The End Part II (Song title: When I’m Gone) • USA • Universal Cable Productions in association with Mandeville Films and ABC Studios Randy Newman, Composer
Rescue Me • Disease (Song title: How Lovely To Be A Vegetable) • FX Networks • Apostle, Dreamworks Television and The Cloudland Company in association with Sony Pictures Television Peter Tolan, Music & Lyrics By Brad Hatfield, Music By
Saturday Night Live • Host: Blake Lively (Song title: Shy Ronnie) • NBC • SNL Studios in association with NBC Studios and Broadway Video Aleric Banks, Music By Andy Samberg, Lyrics By Akiva Schaffer, Lyrics By Jorma Taccone, Lyrics By
Treme • I’ll Fly Away (Song title: This City) • HBO • Blown Deadline Productions in association with HBO Entertainment Steve Earle, Composer/Lyricist
The Emmy Awards will be broadcast live, August 29, 7 p.m. CST, on NBC.
There will soon be a whole lot of shakin’ going on at Benny’s Sportshack Supplement Depot, a new concept by Opelousas native Benny Nele. Located at 2002 Johnston St., the supplement shop, smoothie bar and café, featuring hot off the press paninis and wraps, plans to open in late May.
Philip deMahy Sr., a once respected New Iberia ad exec, was sentenced May 2 to spend the next two years (he faced up to 100 years) in a state penitentiary after state and federal investigators found dozens of images depicting children engaged in lewd sexual acts on his personal computer.
This year’s Cool Town issue is all about people who are not native to South Louisiana but made a conscious decision to be here, to be among us, to participate in our culture and contribute to it.
A shelved ordinance transferring $200,000 from a northside drainage project to a south Lafayette development may not break any laws, but it stinks to high heaven.
An effort to restore a shuttered dancehall and document other vacant or razed honky-tonks could serve as a model for saving an endangered species of entertainment.
Lafayette’s gene pool has been host to a long line of eccentric characters who have blurred the lines between crazy, genius, disturbed and curiously entertaining.
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