The Emmy announcement was a few minutes ago and sadly Anna didn’t make the cut in the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series category. Pushing Daisies was also snubbed and failed to get a nomination as Best Comedy Series.

Both Lee Pace and Kristin Chenoweth were nominated in the Outstanding Lead Actor and Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy categories though, and the show was nominated to several other awards. Congrats to the cast and crew of Pushing Daisies! Let’s hope Anna’s amazing work and this great show are recognized by the Television Academy next year.

Source: Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Official Site

June Sarpong is one of those celebrities that it’s a pleasure to see. And last night saw the former T4 star launch her newest venture – a website designed to encourage young people to get interested in politics and issues that affect us all! Political news from around the world will be reported and then next to reports will be explanations of what it all actually means! I think this is a great idea considering so much political news is full of random phrasing that hardly any of us can understand!

June has got a full team of journalists working on the site, www.politicsandthecity.com, and is going to put in a load of time and effort working on the pages herself.

Politics and the City will feature lots of blogs in the coming from celebrities including Lily Cole, Kylie and Dannii Minogue and Anna Friel. Lily’s just posted her first blog and she talks about seeing Stevie Wonder and what she thinks of the US Presidential Election.

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Source: Dean Piper’s World

Hey everyone, my name is Tatiana and I just joined the staff of I Heart Anna. I’m looking forward to working on the site and bringing you the latest on the lovely lady. Without further ado, the latest –

June Sarpong has said that she is hoping to work on a movie with Anna Friel in 2009.

The former T4 presenter revealed that a TV sitcom she devised is currently being turned into a film.

“Daisy Donovan is doing re-writes for us and we’re talking to Anna Friel so fingers crossed it should all come together for next year,” Sarpong told Metro. “The idea was my own. I used to be a plugger for a record company before I did TV.

She added: “It’s like a Devil Wears Prada but in the music industry.”

Source: Digital Spy

Better late than never: The short list of potential Emmy nominees for Best Comedy Actress has been released, and Anna Friel made it. Anna is being considered specifically for her performance in “Bitter Sweets“, the second-to-last episode of Pushing Daisies‘ first season. We’ll be waiting eagerly to hear co-star Kristin Chenoweth read Anna’s name when the official nominees are revealed on July 17!

A deal has been struck between the major media companies and the Writers Guild of America to end the writers’ strike, former Walt Disney chief executive Michael Eisner revealed on CNBC.

“It’s over,” Eisner said. “They made the deal, they shook hands on the deal. It’s going on Saturday to the writers in general.”

Eisner, speaking live on CNBC’s “Fast Money,” seemed to hesitate initially about whether it was possible that the writers could still reject the agreement, but finally suggested the deal’s acceptance was inevitable.

“A deal has been made, and they’ll be back to work very soon,” Eisner said, adding, “I know a deal’s been made. I know it’s over.”

Eisner did not elaborate on terms of the agreement. He said he expects most of the media companies affected by the strike to have “small” write-downs as a result of the deal. Eisner said the deal was struck last Friday.
As a result of studio cutbacks, however, many of the writers who went on strike are unlikely to return to the same big-money contracts they’d had as individuals with the studios, Eisner said.