About the Show

            Following are the production credits for THE 61ST PRIMETIME EMMY® AWARDS, a new television special to be broadcast Sunday, Sept. 20:

ON AIR:                                                          8:00-11:00 PM, live ET/delayed PT

ORIGINATION:                                             Los Angeles

FORMAT:                                                       Awards ceremony honoring outstanding achievements in the television industry

SCHEDULED PRESENTERS:                        Justin Timberlake, Simon Baker, Tina Fey, Jon Hamm, Kiefer Sutherland, Chandra Wilson, Dana Delany, Jimmy Fallon, Alyson Hannigan, Blake Lively, Leighton Meester, Stephen Moyer, Jason Segel, Kevin Bacon, Alec Baldwin, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Ricky Gervais, Jim Parsons, Amy Poehler, Kyra Sedgwick, Sigourney Weaver, Kaley Cuoco, Cat Deeley, Johnny Galecki, LL Cool J, Chris O'Donnell, Anna Torv, Kate Walsh, Michael J. Fox, Ellen Burstyn, Jon Cryer, Tracy Morgan, Bob Newhart, Patricia Arquette, David Boreanaz, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Rob Lowe, Hayden Panettiere, Josh Radnor and Cobie Smulders.

SCHEDULED PERFORMERS:                      Singer/songwriter Sarah McLachlan, dance duo Maksim Chmerkovskiy and Karina Smirnoff, guitarists Dean Parks and Ray Parker, Jr., keyboardist Michael Bearden, saxophonist Tom Scott, bassist Darryl Jones, percussionist Lenny Castro

PRODUCED BY:                                           

Don Mischer Productions

PRESENTED BY:                                          

The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER:                           

Don Mischer

PRODUCED BY:                                           

Charlie Haykel

Neil Patrick Harris

CO-PRODUCER:                                          

Danette Herman

DIRECTED BY:                                             

Glenn Weiss

HEAD WRITER:                                            

Joe Kelly

WRITTEN BY:                                               

Paul Greenberg

Bill Grundfest

Jon Macks

David Wild

MUSIC DIRECTORS:                                   

Steve Jordan

David Paich

PRODUCTION DESIGNED BY:                  

Steve Bass

CHOREOGRAPHERS:                                  

Napoleon Dumo

Tabitha Dumo

EDITED BY:                                                   

Mike Polito

John Zimmer

Ben Jehoshua

Tamir Shapira

Baynard Stryker

RATING:  To Be Announced

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Cindy Marshall 818-655-1586             cindy.marshall@cbs.com