59th Primetime Emmy Awards
The 59th Primetime Emmy Awards were held on Sunday, September 16, 2007, honoring the best in U.S. prime time television programming at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California. The ceremony was televised live on Fox at 8:00 p.m. EDT for the first time in high definition. It was also the most recent Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony to be held at the Shrine Auditorium, as it was then relocated to the Nokia Theatre from the following year. The ceremony was hosted by Ryan Seacrest.
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Ricky Gervais, Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series winner
America Ferrera, Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series winner, first Latin woman to do so
James Spader, Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series winner
58th Primetime Emmy Awards
The 58th Primetime Emmy Awards were held on Sunday, August 27, 2006, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California on NBC at 8:00 p.m. ET with Conan O'Brien hosting the show. The ceremony attracted 16.2 million viewers, 2.5 million fewer than the previous year's ceremony, but still the ratings winner for the week. The Discovery Channel received its first major nomination this year.
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Tony Shalhoub, Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series winner
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series winner
Kiefer Sutherland, Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series winner