Main Cast: Candice Bergen, Charles Kimbrough, Joe Regalbuto, Faith Ford, Grant Shaud
Release Year: 1988
Country: US
Run Time: 30 minutes
Plot
Making its first appearance on November 14, 1988, the long-running, Emmy-winning CBS sitcom Murphy Brown starred Candice Bergen as the title character, the driving, driven, often overbearing but essentially likable star reporter of the Washington, D.C.-based TV magazine "FYI." A thorough professional, Murphy never gave less than her best before the cameras -- but behind the cameras, it was a different story. Constitutionally incapable of doing anything by halves, Murphy told her colleagues exactly what she thought of them at all times, seldom made a comment that wasn't laced with sarcasm, and was addicted to tobacco and, for a while, booze (this last shortcoming required her to do some time at the Betty Ford Clinic). Though the rest of the "FYI" staffers were accustomed to Murphy's mood swings and idiosyncrasies, outsiders tended to be scared off by our heroine: indeed, one of the series' most famous running gags was the fact that Murphy had a different secretary in practically every episode! Also in the cast were Charles Kimbrough as "FYI"'s uptight, humorless anchorman Jim Dial; Joe Regalbuto as the show's gonzo (and obviously toupeed) investigative reporter Frank Fontana, Faith Ford as "FYI"'s voluptuous, somewhat vacuous cub reporter and ex-Miss America Corky Sherwood, who considered Murphy to be her role model (often to Murphy's dismay) and who eventually married staff writer Will Forest (Scott Bryce), thereby becoming -- are you ready? -- Mrs. Corky Sherwood Forest; and Grant Shaud as "FYI"'s nebbishy executive producer Miles Silverberg, not exactly what one would call a born leader of men (or of Murphy!).
When not on the set of her show, Murphy could be found in her townhouse apartment, often conversing with quirky, philosophy-spouting house painter Eldin Bernecky (Robert Pastorelli), who spent day and night trying to finish redecorating Murphy's living room -- a job he still hadn't entirely completed when he left the series in season seven. Murphy also hung out with her co-workers at a neighborhood bar owned by another erstwhile philosopher named Phil (Pat Corley), at least until he reportedly died, whereupon Murphy and company purchased the bar themselves (as it turned out, reports of Phil's death were slightly exaggerated -- by Phil!). Additionally, Jay Thomas appeared intermittently as Geraldo-like journalist Jerry Gold, with whom Murphy frequently clashed -- when they weren't romancing one another, that is. As the series progressed, the basic throughline, and the characters, underwent a few changes. After her divorce from Will Forest, Corky eloped with Miles Silverberg, though she stayed in Washington when he left to run a CNN-style news service in New York. Murphy's brief fling with her ex-husband, Jake (Robin Thomas), produced a baby named Avery (who apparently grew up rather quickly, since he was played during the final season by Haley Joel Osment) -- and also stirred up a controversy when no less than Vice President Dan Quayle chastised Murphy Brown for eroding "family values" in America by bearing a child out of wedlock. Later on, dashing international reporter Peter Hunt (Scott Bakula) joined the "FYI" staff, sweeping Murphy off her feet and ultimately asking her to marry him (she didn't). Other additions to the cast included Garry Marshall as new network president Stan Lansing, who waged an ongoing war with Murphy over her non-PC attitude; Paul Reubens (aka Pee-Wee Herman) as Stan's whiny nephew Andrew, who was forced upon Murphy as her secretary -- and actually kept the job for more than a single episode; Christopher Rich as "FYI" co-anchor Miller Redfield, just the sort of gorgeous-looking, empty-headed TV personality whom Murphy despised with every fibre of her being; and Lily Tomlin as Kay Carter-Shepley, "FYI"'s imperious, and not altogether competent, new executive producer. In addition to the main and supporting cast, the series featured a number of real-life news personalities as "themselves," among them Walter Cronkite, Connie Chung, Larry King, Katie Couric, and Paula Zahn. The series' tenth and final season found Murphy undergoing treatment for breast cancer, an outwardly grim situation that, amazingly enough, never intruded upon the laughter. Murphy Brown ended its network run on August 10, 1998. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Robert Pastorelli - Eldin Bernecky; Scott Bakula - Peter Hunt; Jay Thomas - Jay Gold; Scott Bryce - Will Forest; Garry Marshall - Stan Lansing; Paul Reubens - Andrew J. Lansing III; Lily Tomlin - Kay Carter-Shepley; Christopher Rich - Miller Redfield; Robin Thomas - Jake Lowenstein; Ritch Brinkley - Carl Wishnitski; John Hostetter - John (stage manager); Alan Oppenheimer - Gene Kinsella; Dyllan Christopher - Avery Brown; Jackson Buckley - Avery Brown; Haley Joel Osment - Avery Brown; Paula Korologos - McGovern; Pat Finn - Phil Jr.; Matt Greisser - Matthew
Credit
Diane English - Executive Producer, Joel Shukovsky - Executive Producer, Diane English - Show Creator
Episodes
Murphy Brown: Season 01 Murphy Brown: Season 02 Murphy Brown: Season 03 Murphy Brown: Season 04 Murphy Brown: Season 05 Murphy Brown: Season 06 Murphy Brown: Season 07 Murphy Brown: Season 08 Murphy Brown: Season 09 Murphy Brown: Season 10 Murphy Brown: A Butcher, a Faker, a Bummed-Out Promo Maker Murphy Brown: A Chance of Showers Murphy Brown: A Comedy of Eros Murphy Brown: A Man and a Woman Murphy Brown: A One Night Stan Murphy Brown: A Piece of the Action Murphy Brown: A Rat's Tale Murphy Brown: A Year to Remember Murphy Brown: Aftermath Murphy Brown: All in the Family Murphy Brown: All Talking! All Singing! All Miserable! Murphy Brown: All the Life That's Fit to Print Murphy Brown: Altered States Murphy Brown: Anchor Rancor Murphy Brown: Anchors Away Murphy Brown: And So He Goes Murphy Brown: And That's the Way It Was Murphy Brown: And the Whiner Is... Murphy Brown: Angst for the Memories Murphy Brown: Anything But Cured Murphy Brown: Baby Love Murphy Brown: Back to the Ball Murphy Brown: Bad Company Murphy Brown: Bad Girls Murphy Brown: Bah Humboldt Murphy Brown: Be Careful What You Wish For Murphy Brown: Be It Ever So Humboldt Murphy Brown: Birth 101 Murphy Brown: Black and White and Read All Over Murphy Brown: Black, White & Brown Murphy Brown: Blind Date Murphy Brown: Bob & Murphy & Ted & Avery Murphy Brown: Brown and Blue Murphy Brown: Brown in Toyland Murphy Brown: Brown Like Me, Part One Murphy Brown: Brown Like Me, Part Two Murphy Brown: Brown vs. the Board of Education Murphy Brown: Buddies Schmuddies Murphy Brown: Bump in the Night Murphy Brown: Burger, She Wrote Murphy Brown: But First a Word From Our Sponsor Murphy Brown: Bye Bye Bernecky Murphy Brown: Casa Nova Murphy Brown: Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are Murphy Brown: Contractions Murphy Brown: Corky's Place Murphy Brown: Crime Story Murphy Brown: Defending Your Life Murphy Brown: Desperate Times Murphy Brown: Devil With a Blue Dress On Murphy Brown: Dial and Substance Murphy Brown: Dick and Dottie Murphy Brown: Driving Miss Crazy Murphy Brown: Ectomy, Schmectomy Murphy Brown: Eldin Imitates Life Murphy Brown: Everytime it Rains...You Get Wet Murphy Brown: Executive Decision Murphy Brown: Fax or Fiction Murphy Brown: Fearless Frank Murphy Brown: Fjord Eyes Only Murphy Brown: Florence Night-en Corky Murphy Brown: Frank Cuts Loose Murphy Brown: Frank's Appendectomy Murphy Brown: Frankly Speaking Murphy Brown: From Here to Jerusalem Murphy Brown: From the Terrace Murphy Brown: Full Circle Murphy Brown: Funnies Girl Murphy Brown: FYI of the Hurricane Murphy Brown: Games Mothers Play Murphy Brown: Going to the Chapel, Part 1 Murphy Brown: Going to the Chapel, Part 2 Murphy Brown: Guess Who's Coming to Luncheon Murphy Brown: He-Ho, He-Ho, It's Off to Lamaze We Go Murphy Brown: Heart of Gold Murphy Brown: Heartfelt Murphy Brown: Here's to You Mrs. Kinsella Murphy Brown: Hero Today, Gone Tomorrow Murphy Brown: Hoarse Play Murphy Brown: How to Marry a Billionaire Murphy Brown: Humboldt IV: Judgment Day Murphy Brown: I Don't Know You From Madam Murphy Brown: I Hear a Symphony Murphy Brown: I Never Sang for My Husband Murphy Brown: I Want My FYI Murphy Brown: I Want My MTV-Jay Murphy Brown: I Would Have Danced All Night Murphy Brown: I'm As Much of a Man as I Ever Was Murphy Brown: I'm Dreaming of a Brown Christmas Murphy Brown: If You're Going to Talk the Talk Murphy Brown: Inside Murphy Brown Murphy Brown: It Came From College Murphy Brown: It's How You Play the Game Murphy Brown: It's Just Like Riding a Bike Murphy Brown: It's Miller Time Murphy Brown: It's Not Easy Being Brown Murphy Brown: Jingle Hell, Jingle Hell, Jingle All the Way Murphy Brown: Kyle Murphy Brown: Life After Birth Murphy Brown: Loco Hero Murphy Brown: Loose Affiliations Murphy Brown: Love is Blonde Murphy Brown: Lovesick Murphy Brown: Make Room for Daddy Murphy Brown: Male Call Murphy Brown: Mama Miller Murphy Brown: Mama Said Murphy Brown: McGovern: Unclothed Murphy Brown: Me Thinks My Parents Doth Protest Too Much Murphy Brown: Midnight Plane to Paris Murphy Brown: Miles Away Murphy Brown: Miles' Big Adventure Murphy Brown: Miller's Crossing Murphy Brown: Mission Control Murphy Brown: Model Relationship Murphy Brown: Montezuma's Retreat Murphy Brown: Moscow on the Potomac Murphy Brown: Murphy and the Amazing Leaping Man Murphy Brown: Murphy Buys the Farm Murphy Brown: Murphy Redux Murphy Brown: Murphy's Law Murphy Brown: Murphy's Pony Murphy Brown: My Dinner with Einstein Murphy Brown: My Fair Miller Murphy Brown: My Movie with Louis Murphy Brown: Never Can Say Goodbye, Part 1 Murphy Brown: Never Can Say Goodbye, Part 2 Murphy Brown: Night of Living News Murphy Brown: Nobody's Perfect Murphy Brown: Nowhere to Run Murphy Brown: Off the Job Experience Murphy Brown: Office Politics Murphy Brown: Oh, Danny Boy Murphy Brown: Old Flames Murphy Brown: On Another Plane, Part 1 Murphy Brown: On Another Plane, Part 2 Murphy Brown: On the Road Again Murphy Brown: On the Rocks Murphy Brown: One Murphy Brown: Operation: Murphy Brown Murphy Brown: Opus One Murphy Brown: Petty Woman Murphy Brown: Phil is Dead--Long Live Phil's Murphy Brown: Phil's Not So Silent Partner Murphy Brown: Political Correctness Murphy Brown: Power Play Murphy Brown: Prelude to a Kiss Murphy Brown: Q&A on FYI Murphy Brown: Rage Before Beauty Murphy Brown: Reaper Madness Murphy Brown: Reporters Make Strange Bedfellows Murphy Brown: Requiem for a Crew Guy Murphy Brown: Respect Murphy Brown: Retreat Murphy Brown: Retrospective, Part 1 Murphy Brown: Retrospective, Part 2 Murphy Brown: Roasted Murphy Brown: Rootless People Murphy Brown: Rumble in the Alley Murphy Brown: Second Time Around Murphy Brown: Seems Like Gold Times Murphy Brown: Send in the Clowns Murphy Brown: Separation Anxiety Murphy Brown: Set Me Free Murphy Brown: Sex or Death Murphy Brown: Ship of Phil's Murphy Brown: Signed, Sealed, Delivered Murphy Brown: Small Murphy Brown: Son of Dottie Murphy Brown: Soul Man Murphy Brown: Sox and the Single Girl Murphy Brown: Specific Overtures Murphy Brown: Stepping Out Murphy Brown: Strike Two Murphy Brown: Subpoena Envy Murphy Brown: Tempus Fugit Murphy Brown: Terror on the 17th Floor Murphy Brown: That's the Way the Corky Crumbles Murphy Brown: The 390th Broadcast Murphy Brown: The Anchorman Murphy Brown: The Awful Truth Murphy Brown: The Best and Not-So-Brightest Murphy Brown: The Bickners Murphy Brown: The Big Thaw Murphy Brown: The Bitch's Back Murphy Brown: The British Invasion Murphy Brown: The Brothers Silverberg Murphy Brown: The Bummer of 42 Murphy Brown: The Bus Stops Here Murphy Brown: The Deal of the Art Murphy Brown: The Egg & I Murphy Brown: The Feminine Critique Murphy Brown: The Fifth Anchor Murphy Brown: The Gold Rush Murphy Brown: The Good Nephew Murphy Brown: The Humboldt Doldt Murphy Brown: The Intern Murphy Brown: The Last Laugh Murphy Brown: The Last Temptation of Murphy Murphy Brown: The Memo That Got Away Murphy Brown: The More Things Change Murphy Brown: The More Things Stay the Same Murphy Brown: The Morning Show Murphy Brown: The Murphy Brown School of Broadcasting Murphy Brown: The Novel Murphy Brown: The Queen of Soul Murphy Brown: The Secret Life of Jim Dial Murphy Brown: The Smiths Go to Washington Murphy Brown: The Square Triangle Murphy Brown: The Strike Murphy Brown: The Summer of '77 Murphy Brown: The Ten Percent Solution Murphy Brown: The Thrill of the Hunt Murphy Brown: The Tip of the Silverburg Murphy Brown: The Unshrinkable Murphy Brown Murphy Brown: The Usual Suspects Murphy Brown: The World According to Avery Murphy Brown: The Young & the Rest of Us Murphy Brown: Then and Now Murphy Brown: Ticket to Writhe Murphy Brown: Till Death or Next Thursday Do We Part Murphy Brown: To Have and Have Not Murphy Brown: To Market, to Market Murphy Brown: Trick or Retreat Murphy Brown: Trickster, We Hardly Knew Ye Murphy Brown: Trouble in Sherwood-Forrest Murphy Brown: Turpis Capillus Annus (Bad Hair Day) Murphy Brown: TV or Not TV Murphy Brown: Two for the Road Murphy Brown: Uh-Oh, Part 1 Murphy Brown: Uh-Oh, Part 2 Murphy Brown: Uh-Oh, Part 3 Murphy Brown: Underdogs Murphy Brown: Up in Smoke Murphy Brown: Waiting to Inhale Murphy Brown: Wee Small Hours Murphy Brown: What Are You Doing New Year's Eve? Murphy Brown: When A. Lansing Loves a Woman Murphy Brown: When One Door Closes... Murphy Brown: Where Have You Gone, Joe DiMaggio? Murphy Brown: Who Do You Truss? Murphy Brown: Whose Garbage is it Anyway? Murphy Brown: Why Do Fools Fall in Love? Murphy Brown: Winners Take All Murphy Brown: You Don't Know Jackal Murphy Brown: You Say Potatoe, I Say Potatoe, Part 1 Murphy Brown: You Say Potatoe, I Say Potatoe, Part 2
The show achieved a level of political notoriety in the 1992 presidential election when Dan Quayle mentioned the show in a campaign speech, known as the "Murphy Brown speech".
The show began in the Monday 9/8PM timeslot and remained there until its final season when it was moved to Wednesday at 8:30/7:30PM. The series finale aired in its original Monday timeslot.
Brown (born May 9,1948 in Beverly Hills, California) was a recovering alcoholic, who, in the show's first episode, was returning to FYI for the first time since a stay at the Betty Ford Clinic. Her colleagues at FYI included stuffy anchor Jim Dial (Charles Kimbrough), who affectionately addressed Murphy as "Slugger"; reporter Frank Fontana (Joe Regalbuto, who hated the toupée he had to wear for the show); and the scatterbrained Corky Sherwood (Faith Ford), a former Miss America. Sherwood was first runner-up until the winner was forced to resign (Sherwood remarked in the first episode, "She told everyone she loved animals, but who knew to take her literally?"). New to the staff was producer Miles Silverberg (Grant Shaud), who, at 25 and fresh from work in public television, was perfect for utter torture from Murphy.
The FYI team also frequently socialized at Phil's, a bar across the street from their studio in Washington, D.C.. Phil, the bar owner, was played by Pat Corley.
Brown was unmarried, but had a home life as well: she hired a philosophy-dispensing house painter named Eldin Bernecky (Robert Pastorelli) to repaint her house, but he had so many grand ideas that he was with the show for six seasons.
Murphy becomes a single mother
In the show's 1991–1992 season, Murphy became pregnant. When her baby's father expressed his unwillingness to give up his own lifestyle to be a parent, Murphy chose to have the child and raise it alone. This story line made the show a subject of political controversy during the 1992 American presidential campaign. On May 19, 1992, then Vice PresidentDan Quayle spoke at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco. During his speech, he criticized the Murphy Brown character for ignoring the importance of fathers and birthing a child alone.[1]
Quayle's remarks caused a public discussion on family values, culminating in the 1992-93 season premiere, "You Say Potatoe, I Say Potato", where the television characters reacted to Quayle's comments and produced a special episode of FYI showcasing and celebrating the diversity of the modern American family. Because Quayle's actual speech made little reference to Murphy Brown's fictional nature (other than the use of the word character), the show was able to use actual footage from his speech to make it appear that, within the fictional world of the show, Quayle was referring to Murphy Brown personally, rather than to the fictional character. At the end, Brown helps organize a special edition of FYI focusing on different kinds of families then arranges a retaliatory prank in which a truckload of potatoes is dumped in front of Quayle's residence, while a disc jockey commenting on the incident notes the Vice President should be glad people were not making fun of him for misspelling "fertilizer". (On 15 June 1992, at a spelling bee in Trenton, New Jersey, Quayle had erroneously corrected an elementary school student's spelling of "potato" to "potatoe".) When Candice Bergen won another Emmy that year, she thanked Dan Quayle. The feud was cited by E! as #81 on its list of "101 Reasons the '90s Ruled."[2]
In 2002, Bergen said in an interview that she personally agreed with much of Quayle's speech, calling it "a perfectly intelligent speech about fathers not being dispensable" and adding that "nobody agreed with that more than I did."[3]
Quayle would eventually display a sense of humor about the incident—after the controversy died down, he appeared for an interview on an independent Los Angeles TV station and for his final question was asked what his favorite TV show was. He responded with "Murphy Brown—Not!" The station would later use the clip of Quayle's response to promote its showing of Murphy Brown re-runs in syndication.
Later years
Shaud left the series in 1996, and was replaced by Lily Tomlin as producer Kay Carter-Shepley for the show's final seasons. Kay proved that she had just as little experience as Miles Silverberg when he started with the show; the only experience Kay had in television was producing a daytime game show.
In the show's final season, a year-long story arc aired in which Murphy battled breast cancer. The show's handling of the subject was credited with a 30 percent increase in the number of women getting mammograms. The storyline was not without controversy; an episode in which she used medical marijuana to relieve side effects of chemotherapy was attacked by conservative groups, and a women's health group protested an episode in which Murphy, while shopping for prosthetic breasts, uttered the line "Should I go with Demi Moore or Elsie the Cow?"
However, Bergen was presented an award from the American Cancer Society in honor of her role in educating women on the importance of breast cancer prevention and screening.
In the show's final episode, Murphy met and interviewed God (played by Alan King) and Edward R. Murrow in a dream while undergoing surgery. Computer editing was used to insert footage of the real Murrow, who died in 1965, into the show. Diane English, who created the show, made a cameo appearance as a nurse who delivered the results to Murphy after her surgery. At the end of the episode, Murphy walks through her house seemingly alone, only to have Eldin appear at the end to offer to repaint her house.
Running gags
The show did not have an opening theme song, but instead many episodes began with a Motown song whose lyrics were somehow relevant to the plot of the episode. The show did have a theme song, but played it at the end of an episode.
Many characters often commented that Murphy was especially difficult or grouchy due to premenstrual syndrome around the 18th of every month. (Corky Sherwood said in one episode: "Circle the 18th. We all do!")
For a few seasons, Corky Sherwood was known as "Corky Sherwood Forrest" after marrying a lawyer named Will Forrest (Scott Bryce) in the show's 1989-1990 season. Corky and Will later divorced. Faith Ford's real-life husband at this time was named Robert Nottingham.
While the other news anchors produced many serious news stories, Corky's running gag was that her stories were frivolous. Examples included a retrospective on Bert Parks, where to take one's cat while one goes on vacation, and "a dinner with the Van Patten family."
The network regularly sent Murphy incompetent secretaries, with a different secretary in almost every episode. On one occasion, it was Carol (Marcia Wallace) from The Bob Newhart Show, who proved really good at the job but quit when Bob Hartley (Bob Newhart) showed up and begged her to come back to his office in Chicago. Other secretaries included a crash test dummy, a prostitute who operated a phone sex line from her desk, and a rapper who related all Murphy's phone messages to her in verse. In the show's final season, the secretaries were played by celebrities, including Bette Midler, Don Rickles, Rosie O'Donnell, Sally Field, Laura Kightlinger, Cecily Adams, Paul Reubens, John F. Kennedy Jr. and Julie Brown. Over the course of the series, 93 different secretaries appeared in all. In the ninth season, Murphy learns of her former secretaries' support group, which included a Hitler look-alike, a woman who spoke with a long pause after every word and a mentally unstable man. In addition to the above list of secretaries appearing on the actual show, "The Keys" episode of Seinfeld featured Kramer appearing as one of Murphy's secretaries.
When Murphy became a mother in season four, she went through nannies the same way she went through secretaries, and Eldin Bernecky, the house painter, ended up looking after Avery most of the time.
A number of recurring characters also appeared during the show's run:
John Hostetter played John, the stage manager in 62 episodes.
Janet Carroll appeared frequently as Doris Dial, anchorman Jim Dial's wife, in several episodes. In one episode she performed and sang expressing her singing talents.
Jay Thomas appeared in several episodes as tabloid talk show host Jerry Gold, who became a friend of Murphy's and an occasional love interest, despite their significantly different journalistic values.
Colleen Dewhurst appeared in a number of episodes as Murphy's mother, Avery Brown. Dewhurst won several Emmy Awards for her appearances. When Dewhurst died in 1991, the writers chose to have her character die as well, and dedicated the episode to the memory of Dewhurst. Murphy, who was pregnant at the time of her mother's death, named her son Avery in her mother's memory the following season.
Darren McGavin appeared in several episodes as Murphy's father. He earned an Emmy nomination in 1990 for his performance as Bill Brown.
Scott Bakula appeared as reporter (and occasional love interest for Murphy) Peter Hunt.
Jane Leeves appeared in a number of episodes as Miles' girlfriend Audrey. Her appearances ended when she joined the cast of Frasier as Martin Crane's physiotherapist and Niles' love-interest, Daphne.
Robin Thomas appeared as Jake, Murphy's ex-husband. Murphy and Jake had another brief relationship, and Jake was the father of her child.
Christopher Rich played Miller Redfield, a reporter with the local affiliate who had semi-regular appearances on the show, first as a substitute anchor when Jim was on leave, and also when the team went on strike.
Paula Cale appeared as McGovern, a conservative young reporter based on MTV's Kennedy.
Paul Reubens, better known as Pee-Wee Herman, appeared as Lansing's nephew Andrew J. Lansing, III, in several episodes. He is introduced as one of Murphy's 93 secretaries du jour and, with Carol Kester (Marcia Wallace), is one of only two who measure up to Murphy's standards. Like Carol, Andrew is lured away from Murphy by another job by the end of the episode; in his case, he is promoted to a network executive position through nepotism. He periodically appears in later episodes in that capacity.
Julia Roberts, appeared in one episode, having a crush on Frank.
Warner Home Video released the first season of Murphy Brown on DVD in Region 1 on February 8, 2005. Due to low sales, no future releases are planned.[7] Should a surge in sales arise, however, the studio would "happily consider" releasing additional season sets. [8] A listing for Murphy Brown Season 2 exists on Amazon.com, but neither details nor a release date is given.
DVD Name
Ep #
Release Date
The Complete First Season
22
February 8, 2005
Awards and nominations
Bergen won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress - Comedy Series five times over the course of the series, a record for a television actress in a continuing role. After her fifth Emmy, Bergen voluntarily withdrew her name from the Emmy nominations.
