Thursday, July 06, 2006

Emmy Nominations 2006: The Yays, Nays and WTFs

So much for BIG changes at the Emmys this year that everyone has been talking about...

The Yays:
  • 24 getting 12 nominations (the most). It's about time they noticed how great this show is.
  • Grey's Anatomy getting 11. I'm a believer now.
  • Arrested Development getting nominated for Best Comedy Series giving it a chance to pull a Ben Stiller 1
  • Desperate Housewives getting shut out of the Best Comedy Series nomination because this season really did suck
  • The Girl in the Cafe getting a nominated for TV movie because I really liked it even though it was a little preachy
  • Gregory Itzin (President Logan) & Jean Smart (Martha Logan) getting supporting nods for 24.
  • Will Arnett (G.O.B.) getting a supporting nod for Arrested Development
  • The Office and Scrubs getting best comedy series nominations
  • Dennis Leary getting a best acting nomination. Never thought I'd see that day come.
  • Patrick Stewart getting nominated for his guest stint on Extras. "Make it so!"
  • Chandra Wilson (Dr. Bailey) getting a supporting nomination for Grey's Anatomy
  • Jaime Pressley getting nominated for My Name Is Earl. Never thought she would get nominated for anything in her life except maybe a Cinemax Lifetime Achievement Award but she deserved it.
The Nays:
  • The Two And A Half Men Enigma continues. Best Comedy Series? Really? So out of all the shows on television, Two and A Half Men is funnier than Entourage, How I Met Your Mother, Extras, Everybody Hates Chris and My Name Is Earl? Who votes for these things?
  • The supposed "Lauren Graham Rule" didn't nab Lauren Graham a nomination. That's just ironic.
  • Now I think Kevin James (The King of Queens) is a funny guy. But is he one of the five funniest actors in television?
  • No acting nominations for Scrubs. C'mon, at least Donald Faison (Turk) deserved some Emmy love.
  • I really wanted T.R. Knight (Dr. George O'Malley) from Grey's Anatomy to be nominated
  • Aside from Steve Carell, no other actors were nominated from The Office.
  • How does House get nominated but the actor the show pretty much revolves around and depends on, Hugh Laurie, doesn't?
  • Michael Hall (David Fisher) deserved a nomination more than Peter Krause (Nate Fisher) for Six Feet Under
  • Still no love for Mary Lynn Rajskub (Chloe) from 24.
  • Double ditto for Veronica Mars or Kristin Bell.
  • Triple Ditto for Battlestar Galactica and Mary McDonnell and Edward James Olmos. You'd think Lost would have opened up the possibility of a sci-fi show getting some love. Speaking of Lost...
The WTFs:
  • No major nominations for Lost?!?! This must be a joke. Please let this be a joke.
  • How does Edie Falco NOT get nominated for Best Actress in a Drama? Episodes 2 and 3 should have not only made her a lock to get nominated, I thought her name was already engraved on the statue. I wasn't the only one.
  • The Shield? NOTHING?!? At LEAST Forest Whitaker should have been a shoo-in.
  • I love that the only major acting nomination for Desperate Housewives was for Alfre Woodard who was forgotten about on a number of occasions this season and then chased off at the end of this crap season. She gets the last laugh.
  • Still waiting for this Lost joke to be over.
1 The Ben Stiller Show took home the 1993 Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in a Variety Series after it was cancelled.

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