Matthew Macfadyen's Little Dorrit scored 11 Emmy Award Nominations

The nominees for the 2009 Emmy Awards were just announced this morning and not only that P&P's Brenda Blethyn nominated for a 2009 Emmy Award for her guest appearance in Law & Order: SVU, Matthew Macfadyen's Little Dorrit scored 11 Emmy Nominations too.

Unfortunately, Matthew didn't get a nomination, but it's still great that Little Dorrit, a TV miniseries that he had a big part of, got a staggering 11 nominations!

Here are the categories that Little Dorrit is nominated for...

• Outstanding Mini-series
• Outstanding Casting for a Mini-Series, Movie or Special
• Outstanding Art Direction
• Outstanding Cinematography
• Outstanding Costumes
• Outstanding Director, Mini-series, Movie or Drama Special - Dearbhla Walsh
• Outstanding Hairstyling
• Outstanding Music Composition - John Lunn, composer
• Outstanding Supporting Actor, Mini-series - Tom Courtnay and Andy Serkis
• Outstanding Writing, Mini-series - Andrew Davies
  

Little Dorrit, the Andrew Davies’ BBC miniseries adaptation of Charles Dickens’ novel that appeared on UK television in November and last March 29 - April 26, 2009 on PBS' Masterpiece here in the U.S., starred the amazing, multi-talented Matthew Macfadyen in the lead role as Arthur Clennam.

The Little Dorrit DVD set is now available for those who missed this wonderful miniseries on PBS!

The 61st Prime Time 2009 Emmy Awards will be held on Sunday, September 2oth at 8 PM ET/7 CT on CBS.