Primetime Emmy Awards 2009

The Emmy nominations are out and Ryan has been nominated in the Outstanding Host For A Reality Or Reality-Competition Program category for American Idol. The other nominees in his category are Phil Keoghan who hosts The Amazing Race, Tom Bergeron host of Dancing with the Stars, Heidi Klum from Project Runway, last year’s winner Jeff Probst who hosts Survivor and a joint nomination for Padma Lakshmi and Tom Colicchio of Top Chef. Congrats on the nomination Ryan, and we hope they get it right this year!

American Idol is nominated in several other categories: Outstanding Reality-Competition Program; Outstanding Art Direction for Variety, Music or Nonfiction Programming; Outstanding Directing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Series; Outstanding Lighting Direction (Electronic, Multi-Camera) for Variety, Music or Comedy Programming; Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Variety or Music Series or Special; Outstanding Sound Mixing for Nonfiction Programming; Outstanding Technical Direction, Camerawork, Video Control for a Series.