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Posted By: Michael King
Last Modified: 7/8/2010 11:25:37 AM

In Thursday morning's primetime Emmy announcements, "The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien" received four Emmy nominations, including one for outstanding variety, music or comedy series, while the Jay Leno version was ignored.


Conan's "Tonight" is up against "The Colbert Report," "The Daily Show," "Real Time With Bill Maher" and "Saturday Night Live," in that category.


Team Coco also garnered nominations for directing, writing and art direction.


"The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," which replaced Conan's version in March, and "The Jay Leno Show," which aired in primetime on NBC during the first part of the season both came out with no nominations.


The Emmys will be awarded on a live telecast on NBC and 11Alive on Sunday, August 29 -- which could lead to the potentially awkward position of NBC, who fired Conan, airing his Emmy acceptance speech, should he win.


His new show, now with the working title of "The Conan O'Brien Show," is set to premiere on TBS on November 8.





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