New hit comedy Modern Family took home three major statues last night at the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards (bringing the show’s overall total to six). But in the other categories, Emmy voters selected winners that were all-too-predictable.

Hopes were dashed for Lost to win for its final season, and major favorite Glee took home only two awards — one for actress Jane Lynch and one for show creator Ryan Murphy’s direction of the pilot. The big winner was HBO with eight total awards (most for miniseries Temple Grandin), followed by AMC with four (which was awarded for Mad Men), and three each for ABC and CBS.

But when you add in the awards given out at the Creative Arts Emmys last week, the totals stack up a little differently. HBO is still in first place with 25 total awards, but ABC is second with 18, followed by Fox with 11, CBS with 10, and NBC with 8.

Totals for shows look like this: 8 for HBO’s The Pacific, 7 for HBO’s Temple Grandin, 6 for ABC’s Modern Family, and 4 each for Disney’s Prep & Landing, Glee, and Mad Men.

The complete list of winners is after the jump.

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When Jimmy Fallon takes the stage this Sunday night to host the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards, you can Tweet suggestions for his on-camera introductions of the show’s celebrity presenters. Fallon and his staff will pick their favorites from the suggestions and he’ll use them on the show.

Fallon has used this tactic on his late-night show before, usually to very funny results. Plus, it gives fans at home a deeper investment in the goings-on when they Tweet something from their living room and five minutes later it’s on live television, going out to millions of people. Jimmy Fallon has always been the most tech-savvy late-night talk show host, having embraced gadgetry and social media from the very beginning of his run on NBC’s Late Night.

To submit your introduction suggestions to Fallon & Co. for the Emmys, just Tweet your line using the hashtag “#imontheemmys” or visit nbc.com/imontheemmys. The site will also show other fans’ submissions and the full list of presenters.

Emmy producers have streamlined this year’s Primetime Awards show by cutting several secondary categories and shoving them into the Creative Arts Emmys ceremony. As a result, a number of semi-major awards were announced Saturday night. Click through for a full rundown.

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Following Glee’s very long list of Emmy nominations — the most of any show this year — the freshman show walked away with top honors at the 2010 Television Critics Association Awards ceremony Saturday night. Glee scored wins for overall Program of the Year, Outstanding New Program, and Individual Achievement in Comedy for actress Jane Lynch. Glee was the only winning show to receive multiple awards.

Outstanding Comedy went to Modern Family, while Lost and Breaking Bad tied for Oustanding Drama. Individual Achievement in Drama (essentially, “Best Actor or Actress”) went to Julianna Margulies for her work on The Good Wife. Yo Gabba Gabba was for the second time in a row named Outstanding Youth Program, while Oustanding News & Information Program went to The Discovery Channel’s much-hyped Life miniseries.

HBO’s one and only win was for its Outstanding Miniseries, The Pacific. A pair of legacy awards were given to M*A*S*H and James Garner, for the influence both had on culture and small-screen entertainment.

The TCA Awards (in case you didn’t know) are voted on by the 200 members of the Television Critics Association. It’s considered the highest honor bestowed by television critics.

As we reported yesterday, The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien scored four Emmy nominations yesterday. O’Brien got all the Emmy love — for his show that was shut down after 7 months, so Jay Leno could resume hosting the show. But Leno — who most have cast as the villain of this sordid tale — got no love at all.

Everyone involved has now responded to the Emmy news, and their thoughts are below.

Conan O’Brien was the first to fire off a response, just a couple hours after the nominations were announced, via Twitter:

Congrats to my staff on 4 Emmy nominations. This bodes well for the future of The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien.

NBC, home to The Tonight Show, was the next to issue a formal statement, but took the respectful route:

“We congratulate Conan and all our nominees on their creative accomplishments and their deserved nominations.”

Jay Leno weighed in last, during last night’s Tonight Show, saying during his opening monologue:

“The good news is ‘The Tonight Show’ got four nominations. The bad news is I didn’t get one of them!”

I think the takeaway from this is that O’Brien is just plain funnier off-the-cuff than Leno (or his former bosses at NBC).

The 2010 Primetime Emmy Awards nominees were announced at a traditionally early-morning ceremony today in L.A. And if there’s one message that the 62nd Emmy Award nominations sent, it’s that it’s good to be Glee.

The freshman musical/dramedy racked up more nods than any other ongoing television series, scoring a whopping 19 nominations — including best comedy series, best comedy actor for Matthew Morrison, best comedy actress for Lea Michele, supporting comedy actor for Chris Colfer, and supporting comedy actress for Jane Lynch. Three of its guest stars even got a nod each, and there were any number of hair, makeup, directing nominations as well.

The most total nominations went to the HBO miniseries The Pacific, which nabbed an incredible 24 nods. Other big winners include Mad Men, with 17 nominations; 15 noms each for Temple Grandin, 30 Rock, and You Don’t Know Jack; and 14 nominations for ABC’s freshman comedy series Modern Family. continued →

Jimmy Fallon has realized the latest fringe benefit from his job as host of Late Night: he’s signed on as the host of the 62nd annual Primetime Emmy Awards. The Emmy Awards will air on August 29th, on NBC.

Perhaps the most interesting aspect of this news is that it represents a new wrinkle in the Conan O’Brien/Jay Leno debacle. The last two times NBC aired the Emmy Awards — 2002 and 2006 — O’Brien was the host they hired for the job. After O’Brien moved on from Late Night to the Tonight Show — a story which we all know ends with O’Brien’s removal from that job so Leno could have it back — Fallon was hired to take O’Brien’s old seat at Late Night.

So effectively, NBC has replaced O’Brien with Fallon twice now.

TV Land Awards is over but people are still talking about the Glee tribute during the awards show. Glee bagged the “Future Classic” award, and though I love Glee this kind of award is obviously a “let’s-wait-and-see-if-that-does-pan-out” thing. What we can be sure though is the “TV Land Glee club’s” rendition of “Don’t Stop Believing” is a mega hit. The performance included David Hasselhoff and Marilou Henner as the lead singers (is that what Rachel and Finn will look like 30 years from now?). Other glee club members include: Todd Bridges, Joyce Dewitt, Jamie Farr, Marla Gibbs, Howard Hesseman, Shirley Jones, Richard Karn, Richard Moll, Marion Ross, Jimmie Walker, Marcia Wallace and Fred Willard. The twist of having the old and familiar faces on TV paying tribute to the new is just totally fun and surprisingly good to watch. The original Glee rendition was better of course but theirs wasn’t live, was it?

Other shows that took home an award on the 25th include:

Love Boat – Fan Favorite Award
Charlie’s Angels – Pop Culture Award
Everybody Loves Raymond – Impact Award

Also honored during the awards were Bosom Buddies, now on its 30th anniversary; Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner, for being legends in comedy; and Farah Fawcett, whose tribute was presented by Ryan O’Neal.

My head is aching a little bit and my eyes are still a bit puffy. If you watched CNN Heroes several hours ago like I did I bet you know exactly why I still have severe side effects from that awards show.

Last year when I saw CNN Heroes it wasn’t planned and just happened to tune in to CNN exactly at the middle of the show during a replay. Needless to say I was hooked. So hooked that one year later I was one of the avid viewers who clicked repeatedly on my hero hoping for a win. My hero didn’t win but I am not at all bitter because Efren Penaflorida, the hero from the Philippines who taught children Saturdays from a pushcart classroom, deserved the win just as much as any of the 10 nominees did.

If you didn’t see CNN Heroes or don’t even know what it is, it is the best awards show right now. What CNN does is it asks people to nominate ordinary people doing extraordinarily heroic things every single day. This year CNN got over 9,000 nominations out of which their blue ribbon panel selected the 10 CNN Heroes of 2009. Each of the 10 I believe deserved the to be Hero of the Year but since there can only be one I can only be happy for Mr Penaflorida and all the children his pushcart classroom will reach because of the $100,000 grant.

There are no words for the emotions and the inspiration one will feel seeing people strive to make a difference get recognition, so just make sure you see the rerun of CNN Heroes.

And the 61st Emmy Award Winners are….

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series
Alec Baldwin, as Jack Donaghy (30 Rock)

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series
Toni Collette, as Tara Gregson (United States Of Tara)

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series
Bryan Cranston, as Walter White (Breaking Bad)

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series
Glenn Close, as Patty Hewes (Damages)

Outstanding Lead Actor in a MiniSeries or Movie
Brendan Gleeson, as Winston Churchill (Into The Storm)

Outstanding Lead Actress in a MiniSeries or Movie
Jessica Lange, as Big Edie (Grey Gardens)

Outstanding Comedy Series
30 Rock – NBC

Outstanding Drama Series
Mad Men – AMC

Outstanding MiniSeries
Little Dorrit – PBS

Outstanding Reality-Competition Program
The Amazing Race – CBS

Outstanding Reality Program
Intervention – A&E

Outstanding Made for TV Movie
Grey Gardens – HBO

Outstanding Nonfiction Series
American Masters – PBS

Outstanding Nonfiction Special
102 Minutes That Changed America – HISTORY

Outstanding Animated Program (for programming less than 1 hour)
South Park – Margaritaville
Comedy Central

Outstanding Animated Program (for programming 1 hour or more)
Destination Imagination (Foster’s Home For Imaginary Friends)
Cartoon Network

Exceptional Merit in Nonfiction Filmmaking
The Memory Loss Tapes – HBO

Outstanding Children’s Nonfiction Program
Nick News With Linda Ellerbee Coming Home: When Parents Return from War – Nickelodeon

Outstanding Children’s Program
Wizards Of Waverly Place – Disney Channel

For the complete list of winners go to http://www.emmys.com/