European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 10, 1995, Darmstadt, Hesse                                To world prepares for emmy night Lynn elber the associated press Jason Alexander co Host of the 47th  emmy awards has modest expectations for a role that never promises  Don t expect to Light the world on fire Asco Host said Seinfeld s Alexander who shares emmy duties with cybill Shepherd Star of Cybul. Both Are nominees for their series. An to will broadcast the ceremonies live Mon Day at 2 . Get. An also will replay the program monday night at 6 40. I have a pretty Good sense of humor about the awards show itself Alexander said and i think the important thing is that it remains an awards show and whatever entertainment value we can give it  and How is he preparing i understand valium is very helpful he joked. Sedatives aside producer Don Mischer shares Al expander s attitude that the awards be the focus of the ceremony airing live from the Pasadena civic auditorium. The front runner with 23 nominations is Abc s energetic Hospital drama or followed by Abc s Nype Btu with 13 and Abc s Fras Erwith 12. We Don t have time to put much Glitz in said Mischer producing his third emmy ceremony. We give 27 awards and we need to keep it mov ing briskly that Means Brief acceptance speeches 30 to 45 seconds. Using single presenters for the most part to eliminate the artificial unfunny banter that drags Down shows and keeping the comedy Bright and Brief. Mischer writes to each nominee explaining that bows have to be Quick. And he s prepared to drown out any verbose Winner by signalling the orchestra to _ play them off stage although he s never had to make Good on the threat. You hate doing that. For some of these people Sybili Shepherd of q Bill will help hand out awards to the top television programs. The front runner is Abc s or with 23 nominations. Jason Alexander of Seinfeld who last year did a musical tribute to theme songs will be co Host of this year s emmy broadcast which will be shown live on an to at 2 . Monday. This is going to be the highlight of the car career the proudest moment of their  when it comes to the single presenter Rule exc up. Tips arc planned. Putting David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson stars of the a files together and putting Anthony Edwards and George Clooney or stars and Nomi nees together docs make sense Mischer said. For the most part comedy will be left to Comodi r ans presenters such As Ellen  last year s co Host with Patricia Richardson Jerry Seinfeld Paul Reiser Garry Shandling and Jay Leno. " although a musical production number or two was planned Akin to Alexander s Celebration of to. " theme songs last year Mischer hoped to Shine a Light on the Best of television with extended film clips of nominees. --.,. -. The television business is under a lot of scrutiny and a lot of criticism some of it deserved he said but on this night we get a Chance to look at the Kelsey Grammer of Fonsier holds his Best actor award from last year. Candice Bergen of Murphy Brown was chosen Best actress in 1994. Best work that television has  both Animas and sit coms he said have shown a willingness to explore serious social issues confronting Ameri Ca. I took my first look at a film package we re putting together and it s powerful Mischer said. Also impressive is the work of an exceptional group of actresses nominated in the Niin i scrips or special category he said including Glenn close Sally Field Anjelica Huston Diane Keaton and Alfric Woodarck. There May be recognition of three special special award Lucs a group John  of the Academy of television arts and sciences Calls virtually the triumvirate of Early television Sid Caesar Carl Reiner and Milton Berle. Their awards were to be presented during the non televised creative arts emmy ceremony saturday night. Lever Cnoc awards director Lor the Academy sees some nominations As particularly significant among them barbra Streisand whose bar Brit Streisand the concert Hob garnered 10 nominations to rank among the top five nominees she is nominated in. The categories of producer perform Rand a virtually unheard of co directing  pig Litile Rridon liver Cnoc said. Fox s the a files about two Fri agents who investigate paranormal and ufos cases i nominated for Best drama. The network s first nomination in the category certainly shows a maturing of the programming Quality on the Fox network Leverence.  also think it s indicative of the Broad Range of the voters in the to  Overall la Vorence noted that the networks continue to lose emmy ground to Cable programmers. More and More Cable networks Are represented in the awards some with a commanding number of bids .".-. R " you can really Sec an erosion of the network share of the nominations which i think is parallel with the network audience share erosion la Vic Nix  v although Abc is the most nominated network with 96 bks followed by lbs with91, s 48 nominations placed it ahead of Abc which earned Only 39. That s the worst showing Ever for a major Broad. , a sour note for a company having an -. Otherwise exceptional year with its Walt Disney co. Merger and a no. 1 ranking in the tvs ratings. For a network at the height of its game and Suc Cess to be coming in with so few . I found extraordinary levered ice said. Tube notes lbs thin morning which talked big this summer about maybe moving into a Broad Way theater just like David let Turman has dropped that talk. Instead on monday oct. 16, the perennial third place morning show will unveil an All new for mat which will include a new set and a daily live audience of about 100 but in the same studio on new York s West 57th Street. As an added fillip that monday Colin Powell will be the. Soc guest for the second hour of the program., Gerardo Rivera has signed a two year seven Fig ure Deal to continue hosting Rivera live the High. Cost rated show on the Cnoc Cable network. September 10, 1995 Page 9