Live Blogging the Emmy Red Carpet...

Scoot on over here tonight beginning at 6pm for live Red Carpet blogging Emmy style. Till then, whet your award-show appetite with the nominees list...

TV's biggest night – which CBS will broadcast live Sunday starting at 8 p.m. – is still expected to shower plenty of gold upon NBC's comedy 30 Rock and AMC's drama Mad Men, just like last year, but with How I Met Your Mother star Neil Patrick Harris as the ceremony's first-time host after his stellar turn emceeing June's Tony Awards, the evening should also benefit from some categories starring new contenders. [people]

Best Series, Drama

• 'Big Love'
  
• 'Breaking Bad'
  
• 'Damages'
  
• 'Dexter'
  
• 'House'
  
• 'Lost'
  
• 'Mad Men'
  

Best Series, Comedy

• '30 Rock'
  
• 'Entourage'
  
• 'Family Guy'
  
• 'Flight Of The Conchords'
  
• 'How I Met Your Mother'
  
• 'The Office'
  
• 'Weeds'
  

Best Actor, Drama

• Bryan Cranston
  'Breaking Bad'
• Michael C. Hall
  'Dexter'
• Hugh Laurie
  'House'
• Gabriel Byrne
  'In Treatment'
• Jon Hamm
  'Mad Men'
• Simon Baker
  'The Mentalist'
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Best Actor, Comedy

• Alec Baldwin
  '30 Rock'
• Tony Shalhoub
  'Monk'
• Jim Parsons
  'The Big Bang Theory'
• Steve Carell
  'The Office'
• Charlie Sheen
  'Two And A Half Men'
• Jemaine Clement
  'Flight Of The Conchords'
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Best Actress, Drama

• Sally Field
  'Brothers & Sisters'
• Glenn Close
  'Damages'
• Mariska Hargitay
  'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'
• Holly Hunter
  'Saving Grace'
• Kyra Sedgwick
  'The Closer'
• Elisabeth Moss
  'Mad Men'
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Best Actress, Comedy

• Tina Fey
  '30 Rock'
• Christina Applegate
  'Samantha Who?'
• Julia Louis-Dreyfus
  'The New Adventures Of Old Christine'
• Sarah Silverman
  'The Sarah Silverman Program'
• Mary-Louise Parker
  'Weeds'
• Toni Collette
  'United States Of Tara'
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Best Supporting Actor, Drama Series

• William Shatner
  'Boston Legal'
• Christian Clemenson
  'Boston Legal'
• Aaron Paul
  'Breaking Bad'
• Michael Emerson
  'Lost'
• John Slattery
  'Mad Men'
• William Hurt
  'Damages'
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Best Supporting Actress, Drama Series

• Rose Byrne
  'Damages'
• Hope Davis
  'In Treatment'
• Chandra Wilson
  'Grey's Anatomy'
• Sandra Oh
  'Grey's Anatomy'
• Dianne Wiest
  'In Treatment'
• Cherry Jones
  '24'
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Best Supporting Actor, Comedy Series

• Kevin Dillon
  'Entourage'
• Tracy Morgan
  '30 Rock'
• Neil Patrick Harris
  'How I Met Your Mother'
• Rainn Wilson
  'The Office'
• Jon Cryer
  'Two And A Half Men'
• Jack McBrayer
  '30 Rock'
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Best Supporting Actress, Comedy Series

• Kristin Chenoweth
  'Pushing Daisies'
• Kristen Wiig
  'Saturday Night Live'
• Amy Poehler
  'Saturday Night Live'
• Jane Krakowski
  '30 Rock'
• Vanessa Williams
  'Ugly Betty'
• Elizabeth Perkins
  'Weeds'
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Best Reality-Competition Program

• 'American Idol'
  
• 'Dancing With The Stars'
  
• 'Project Runway'
  
• 'The Amazing Race'
  
• 'Top Chef'
  
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Best Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program

• Ryan Seacrest
  'American Idol'
• Tom Bergeron
  'Dancing With the Stars'
• Phil Keoghan
  'The Amazing Race'
• Heidi Klum
  'Project Runway'
• Jeff Probst
  'Survivor'
• Padma Lakshmi and Tom Colicchio
  'Top Chef'
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Best Variety, Music or Comedy Series

• 'Late Show With David Letterman'
  
• 'Real Time With Bill Maher'
  
• 'Saturday Night Live'
  
• 'The Colbert Report'
  
• 'The Daily Show With Jon Stewart'
  
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