The nominees for the 60th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards have been announced! That’s right, folks, an entire year has gone by and it’s time once more for the most magical night in TV Land. Check out the list of potential winners right here, let us know what you think of them.

Among the pickups were two comedy-driven, New York-based police procedurals: the Nathan Fillion starrer “Castle” and ensembler “The Unusuals.” On the comedy side, the Victor Fresco-penned laffer “Better Off Ted” scored an order, as did the Alyssa Milano sitcom “Single With Parents.”

The 684-page report’s conclusions singled out advertising/marketing as well as movies as likely influences on youth smoking. With regard to films, the chief recommendation made in the report is that “anti-tobacco advertisements” should be included before feature films “to partially counter the impact of tobacco portrayals in movies.

Although ‘Stargate Atlantis’ has been a solid ratings performer for the SCI FI Channel — and was its highest-rated original program ever when it premiered in July 2004 — in recent years series like ‘Eureka’ have supplanted it in the “Live” ratings. The show will go on, though, with a 2-hour movie written by executive producers Joseph Mallozzi and Paul Mullie that will air on SCI FI in 2009, and then be released on DVD by MGM.

After four full seasons of stories, enemies and changes in the main cast, David Nykl (”Dr. Radek Zelenka”) remains a phone call away in supporting the mantle of technobabble carried by McKay and his science team.

“Jericho” had a stability index rating of 92.9, while “Moonlight” had a stability index rating of 87.9. The numbers, which show the amount of audience retained based on the show’s highest overnight rating versus its average, is meant to give a snapshot look of how much audience a show retained during the season.

The writers of gangland TV drama ‘Underbelly’ have won one of the highest honours from their peers at the Australian Writers’ Guild awards last night. Peter Gawler, Greg Haddrick and Felicity Packard won the award for best television mini series adaptation.

The award-winning comedian suffered from sarcoidosis, an inflammatory lung disease that produces tiny lumps of cells in the body’s organs, but had said the condition went into remission in 2005. He recently was hospitalized and treated for pneumonia, which his publicist said was not related to the disease.

Whereas March’s Stargate: The Ark of Truth was meant to tie up the story from the last two years of the television show, Continuum is much more of a stand-alone story — a wild adventure with time travel, tons of amazing special effects, and a host of bad guys back from the grave.

‘Kings’, which will air on NBC during 2009, will be a modern retelling of the King David story, set in a nondescript modern metropolis reminiscent of New York.