A Grammy, an Oscar, maybe a Nobel, maybe now also an Emmy! Al Gore's cleaning up!

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Al Gore's Current TV network is now also nominated for a Grammy in the interactive category.

Any more awards you think he's "waiting for" before he makes the announcement we all want him to do soon?

From:
http://www.variety.com/awardcentral_article/VR1117971953.html?nav=news&categoryid=1985&cs=1

Posted: Thurs., Sep. 13, 2007, 4:56pm PT

Current TV nominated for Emmy
Al Gore network in interactive category

By TED JOHNSON
By the end of this weekend, Al Gore will have completed what could be described as the Hollywood loop: He will have been to the Grammys, the Oscars and, on Sunday, the Emmys.

He and business partner Joel Hyatt are nominated for Current TV, their two-year-old cable network that's aimed at the 18-34 demo and younger and that depends in part on viewer- generated content. Although Internet sites like YouTube, MySpace and Facebook draw the lion's share of attention, Current TV is available in 38 million U.S. homes and has been profitable since the end of last year.

Current is making its Emmy debut the same year that the Academy has decided to present the interactive TV nod at the live telecast instead of at the lower-profile Creative Arts Awards ceremony. Also nominated in the interactive category are MLB Mosaic, Bravo Media, DisneyChannel.com Broadband Video Player and BIAP Fantasy Football Television Tracker.

The shift to the primetime telecast, Hyatt said, shows the importance the TV Academy is placing on the award.

Gore, who was a presenter at the Grammys (he used the occasion to round up talent for the Live Earth concerts) and attended the Oscars as part of the team behind winning doc "An Inconvenient Truth," said the Emmy nom for Current "is an exciting recognition of the quality of user-generated content and the quality of the work of the people who are making this network hum every day."

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