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6 July 2006 | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

The Fox drama 24 and the TNT miniseries Into the West took front and center today (Thursday) as the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences announced nominations for this year's Emmy Awards. 24 received half as many nominations, 12, the most for any regular series, while Into the West received 16 nominations. 24 was closely followed by the ABC medical drama Grey's Anatomy, with 11 nominations. Besides Grey's and 24, Fox's House, HBO's The Sopranos, and NBC's final season of The West Wing were also nominated in the drama series category. Shows nominated for best comedy included Fox's Arrested Development, NBC's The Office and Scrubs, CBS's Two and a Half Men, and HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm. Last year's big winners, Lost and Desperate Housewives did not receive nominations in the best series categories. For the sixth straight year, HBO received the most nominations, 95. ABC was second with 64. Winners are due to be announced on August 27.

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20 March 2006 | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Producers of Steven Spielberg's TV series Into The West are being sued by a Mescalero Apache family in southern New Mexico, who claim a stylist violated tribal customs by cutting an eight-year-old girl's hair. The girl's father Danny Ponce filed the lawsuit against Turner Films and the unnamed stylist at Albuquerque's US District Court on March 6. The papers seek $250,000 for emotional distress and a further $75,000 in damages. Ponce alleges the company cut his daughter's hair to make her look like a boy, because their casting department had failed to find enough young male actors. Mescalero families traditionally grow their daughters' hair so it is waist-length for their sacred Coming of Age ceremony. Ponce says, "It's part of our culture not to cut a girl's hair until her Coming of Age ceremony. The only ones allowed to do that are the parents. Nobody asked for permission. This has to do with the culture of a tribal member. It was cut very short above her ears. She looked like a boy. Just because you're wealthy, you don't do something without checking first."

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