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| Poll Question: Will you watch the Emmys? | | Yes, pretty much the whole show • |
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| | No, not planning on it • |
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The 60th Primetime Emmy Awards show airs this Sunday at 8pm on ABC. Don't miss out!
A list of nominees is here. Here are some of the categories:
Outstanding Comedy Series
- 30 Rock
- Curb Your Enthusiasm
- Entourage
- The Office
- Two And A Half Men
Outstanding Drama Series
- Boston Legal
- Damages
- Dexter
- House
- Lost
- Mad Men
Outstanding Directing For A Comedy Series
- 30 Rock — Rosemary's Baby
- Entourage — No Cannes Do
- Flight Of The Conchords — Sally Returns
- Pushing Daisies — Pie-Lette
- The Office — Money (Parts 1 & 2)
- The Office — Goodbye, Toby
Outstanding Directing For A Drama Series
- Boston Legal — The Mighty Rogues
- Breaking Bad — Pilot
- Damages — Pilot
- House — House's Head
- Mad Men — Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (Pilot)
Outstanding Lead Actor In A Comedy Series
- 30 Rock — Alec Baldwin as Jack Donaghy
- Monk — Tony Shalhoub as Adrian Monk
- Pushing Daisies — Lee Pace as Ned
- The Office — Steve Carell as Michael Scott
- Two And A Half Men — Charlie Sheen as Charlie Harper
Outstanding Lead Actor In A Drama Series
- Boston Legal — James Spader as Alan Shore
- Breaking Bad — Bryan Cranston as Walt White
- Dexter — Michael C. Hall as Dexter Morgan
- House — Hugh Laurie as Dr. Gregory House
- In Treatment — Gabriel Byrne as Paul
- Mad Men — Jon Hamm as Don Draper
Outstanding Lead Actress In A Comedy Series
- 30 Rock — Tina Fey as Liz Lemon
- Samantha Who? — Christina Applegate as Samantha Newly
- The New Adventures Of Old Christine — Julia Louis—Dreyfus as Christine Campbell
- Ugly Betty — America Ferrera as Betty Suarez
- Weeds — Mary—Louise Parker as Nancy Botwin
Outstanding Lead Actress In A Drama Series
- Brothers & Sisters — Sally Field as Nora Holden—Walker
- Damages — Glenn Close as Patty Hewes
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — Mariska Hargitay as Olivia Benson
- Saving Grace — Holly Hunter as Grace Hanadarko
- The Closer — Kyra Sedgwick as Deputy Chief Brenda Johnson
Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Comedy Series
- Entourage — Jeremy Piven as Ari Gold
- Entourage — Kevin Dillon as Johnny Drama
- How I Met Your Mother — Neil Patrick Harris as Barney Stinson
- The Office — Rainn Wilson as Dwight Schrute
- Two And A Half Men — Jon Cryer as Alan Harper
Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Drama Series
- Boston Legal — William Shatner as Denny Crane
- Damages — Ted Danson as Arthur Frobisher
- Damages — Zeljko Ivanek as Ray Fiske
- Lost — Michael Emerson as Ben
- Mad Men — John Slattery as Roger Sterling
Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Comedy Series
- Pushing Daisies — Kristin Chenoweth as Olive Snook
- Samantha Who? — Jean Smart as Regina Newly
- Saturday Night Live — Amy Poehler, Performer
- Two And A Half Men — Holland Taylor as Evelyn Harper
- Ugly Betty — Vanessa Williams as Wilhelmina Slater
Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Drama Series
- Boston Legal — Candice Bergen as Shirley Schmidt
- Brothers & Sisters — Rachel Griffiths as Sarah Walker—Whedon
- Grey's Anatomy — Chandra Wilson as Dr. Miranda Bailey
- Grey's Anatomy — Sandra Oh as Cristina Yang
- In Treatment — Dianne Wiest as Dr. Gina Toll
Outstanding Writing For A Comedy Series
- 30 Rock — Rosemary's Baby
- 30 Rock — Cooter
- Flight Of The Conchords — Yoko
- Pushing Daisies — Pie-Lette
- The Office — Dinner Party
Outstanding Writing For A Drama Series
- Battlestar Galactica — Six Of One
- Damages — Pilot
- Mad Men — Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (Pilot)
- Mad Men — The Wheel
- The Wire — 30
Outstanding Reality-Competition Program
- American Idol
- Dancing With The Stars
- Project Runway
- The Amazing Race
- Top Chef
Outstanding Variety, Music Or Comedy Series
- Late Show With David Letterman
- Real Time With Bill Maher
- Saturday Night Live
- The Colbert Report
- The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
Maybe I shouldn't care so much, but the Two and a Half Men nominations infuriate me. Every single one of them. I can name thirty funnier shows, and that list would include some so-called dramas. Speaking of which, I must watch some crappy dramas because I haven't even heard of some of the nominees. Will Supernatural ever get recognition? Why can't they just let me choose?
The following things make me happy: all the 30 Rock and Pushing Daisies love, Dexter and Michael C. Hall being nominated, NPH for HIMYM, Flight of the Conchords recognized for writing and directing (especially nice since they lost the Creative Arts Award), Michael Emerson for Lost, and 4/5 of the reality category.
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| Message Posted On Saturday, September 20th 2008 At 4:34 am |
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Yeah, I'll probably watch a bit of it. I'm happy for any nomination that relates to Lost, Boston Legal, The Office, and Pushing Daisies, and the actors and directors for those.
And I share your disgust for the nominations for Two and a Half Men. I admit I watch the show sometimes because it's on syndication at 7 pm when there's nothing else on. But as I'm watching it, I realize it's crap. Certainly not worthy of an Emmy, nor is Charlie Sheen. I think he just plays himself.
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| Message Posted On Saturday, September 20th 2008 At 9:00 am |
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| Quote: | | Certainly not worthy of an Emmy, nor is Charlie Sheen. I think he just plays himself. |
Ugh, exactly! It's one of my friend's favorites, so I get stuck watching it when I'm with her. I have to admit that I do love the opening credits, though. And now the theme song is in my head. |
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| Message Posted On Saturday, September 20th 2008 At 1:57 pm |
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| Message Posted On Saturday, September 20th 2008 At 1:59 pm |
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If you watched better television, you'd appreciate the Emmys. |
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| Message Posted On Saturday, September 20th 2008 At 2:02 pm |
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You're right. I look forward to when they present Sunset Tan with a lifetime achievement award in 5 years. |
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| Message Posted On Saturday, September 20th 2008 At 2:12 pm |
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Speaking of Sunset Tan, LC needs to lay off the spray on tanner. She is like an oompa loompa! 
I expected a recap from Kelly, but nope. |
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| Message Posted On Sunday, September 21st 2008 At 6:21 pm |
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I considered it, but then I remembered my brother was coming over to use the computer. There would have been an unforgivable gap in my recap. |
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| Message Posted On Sunday, September 21st 2008 At 7:07 pm |
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| Message Posted On Monday, September 22nd 2008 At 6:20 am |
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I think seeing Tina Fey win (multiple times) was the best part of the whole show. I loved the line about her parents raising her to have confidence that is disproportionate with her looks and abilities.
I also liked Josh Groban singing the theme songs. I thought that was well done.
I'm glad that Alec Baldwin won, though I would have been happy with Steve Carell or Lee Pace, too.
I was bummed that Zeljko Ivanek won over Michael Emerson. To be fair, though, I've never watched Damages. And ugh, Jeremy Piven AGAIN? NPH or Rainn Wilson should have won.
Hated the hosts. Please, never have multiple hosts again. Speaking of which, why was Howie Mandel even nominated? Deal or No Deal is a game show. He didn't fit in with the others. |
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| Message Posted On Monday, September 22nd 2008 At 2:03 pm |
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I hated the multiple hosts too. I loathe Tom Bergeron and Howie Mandel, so that was two strikes before it even got going. |
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| Message Posted On Monday, September 22nd 2008 At 3:26 pm |
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South Park won for Animated Program (One Hour or More), right? That's kewl.. I guess. |
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| Message Posted On Monday, September 22nd 2008 At 3:45 pm |
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Yeah, but animated awards are part of the Creative Arts Emmys, so it wasn't shown on last night's broadcast. |
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| Message Posted On Monday, September 22nd 2008 At 3:56 pm |
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| Message Posted On Monday, September 22nd 2008 At 4:00 pm |
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I third the Tina Fey love. And the hosts hate.
Neil Patrick Harris and Michael Emerson need to be awarded Emmys as some point, but I'm not too upset about Zeljko Ivanek because I've liked him in a few roles now and Emerson still has time left on his role, anyway.
The Mad Men win was nice, predictable as it was.
Okay, I know The Amazing Race is awesome and everything (I don't watch, but I hear things), but does it seriously deserve to be the ONLY show to win its category in the SIX years that the category has been in existence? At some point, it needs to pull an Oprah and take itself out of the running to let someone else win. |
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