page_title: 59th Primetime Emmy Awards
section_title: Winners and nominees
hierarchical_section_title: 59th Primetime Emmy Awards / Winners and nominees
caption_attribution_description: Ricky Gervais at Comedy Central's "Night of Too Many Stars" in 2010.
context_page_description: The 59th Primetime Emmy Awards were held on Sunday, September 16, 2007, honoring the best in U.S. prime time television programming at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California. The ceremony was televised live on Fox at 8:00 p.m. EDT for the first time in high definition. It was also the most recent Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony to be held at the Shrine Auditorium, as it was then relocated to the Nokia Theater from the following year. The ceremony was hosted by Ryan Seacrest.
  The ceremonies were supposed to be produced by Nigel Lythgoe and Ken Warwick, executive producers of American Idol, but because of their heavy work load with Idol, Ken Ehrlich, last year's producer, resumed the producer's role for the fourth time. Ratings plunged further down to a near an all-time low as an estimate 12.87 million, 19% lower than the past year, making it the second smallest television audience in Emmy history, behind the 1990 telecast.
  The nominations were announced on July 19 at 5:40 a.m. PDT by Jon Cryer and Kyra Sedgwick.
  Meanwhile, the Creative Arts Emmy Awards ceremony, hosted by comedian-actor Carlos Mencia, were presented eight days earlier on September 9.
context_section_description: Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold:
caption: Ricky Gervais, Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series winner
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