How Burnett and Lynch Will Steer the Emmy Ship

6:00 AM PDT 9/13/2011 by Alex Ben Block, Lesley Goldberg

This year's telecast producer and host come clean about how they first paired up (on an airplane!), what wakes them up at night and the edgy stuff they're prepping for Fox's Sept. 18 show.

If you had to pick the ideal pairing to jazz up this year's Emmys, you probably couldn't ask for more than TV's most prolific producer and comedy's "It" actress. Here, Mark Burnett -- the first reality producer to oversee the telecast -- and Jane Lynch, Glee's Emmy-winning mistress of sarcasm, talk about the stress and late-night panic attacks that come with putting together the TV biz's biggest night.