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Danes, Danson to be Emmys presenters

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Published: Aug. 26, 2010 at 4:40 PM

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 26 (UPI) -- Claire Danes, Ted Danson and Mariska Hargitay have been booked as presenters at Sunday's Emmy Awards show in Los Angeles.

Also set to hand out prizes honoring the season's best in television are Emily Deschanel, Nathan Fillion, Lauren Graham, Boris Kodjoe, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Christopher Meloni, Tom Selleck and Maura Tierney, it was announced Thursday.

They join previously announced presenters Will Arnett, Stephen Colbert, Edie Falco, Tina Fey, Laurence Fishburne, Ricky Gervais, Jon Hamm, Neil Patrick Harris, January Jones, John Krasinski, LL Cool J, John Lithgow, Ann-Margret, Julianna Margulies, Joel McHale, Matthew Morrison, Steven Moyer, Eva Longoria Parker, Jim Parsons, Anna Paquin, Matthew Perry, Jeff Probst, Keri Russell, Alexander Skarsgard, Blair Underwood, Sofia Vergara and Betty White.

The telecast is to be broadcast live coast-to-coast from NOKIA Theatre L.A. LIVE Sunday.

Topics: Edie Falco, Emily Deschanel, Lauren Graham, Laurence Fishburne, Mariska Hargitay, Maura Tierney, Nathan Fillion, Ricky Gervais, Stephen Colbert, Ted Danson, Tom Selleck

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