Emmy Nominations

So the Emmy nominations came out on Thursday and of course they sucked big motherfucking balls. This year's list is actually worse than I can ever remember and its all due to the new voting process. The Emmys have the problem where they always nominate the same shows year in and year out, always honour the same actors and are always late to catch on to either the hot new shows or that formally hot shows have now fallen past there prime. So this year a new system was developed where everyone would vote and then the top 15 vote getters would each submit one episode of their work to a panel of judges, who view all the tapes and then decide on the top 5. The system was invented to help out the smaller networks like UPN and The WB, who do have some good (even great) shows that are never recognized, but this is the Emmys so it of course worked the wrong way and instead helped out the smaller shows on the 3 Big networks...

The Good

• 24 being the most nominated show- especially great noms for Gregory fucking Itzin and Jean Smart
  
• Arrested Development, The Office (US version) and Curb Your Enthusiasm all made the comedy lineup
• Lots of love for Stephen Colbert
• Six Feet Under manages to get some great noms for it's stunning last season (Alan Ball for directing and writing the finale, Krause in actor, Conroy in actress and the divine Patricia Clarkson for guest actress)
• Denis Leary for Rescue Me
• Lisa Kudrow's nomination for the now defunct The Comeback, Julia Louis-Dreyfus back at it with Old Christine, Jeremy Piven's awesome work on Entourage
• Elizabeth Fucking Perkins for Weeds, Jaime Pressley in My Name is Earl and FINALLY a nom for Will Arnett's tremendous work on Arrested Development

The Bad

• Not one single Housewife was nominated- after getting 3 of the 5 slots for Best Actress in a Comedy and Huffman winning, they snubbed all of them. I haven't been a fan of the wildly uneven and boring second season and the total snub of the show in EVERY major category is actually something I'm pretty happy about but no nominations for the Actresses, especially over wtf noms like Stockard Channing in Out of Practice and Debra Messing for Will and Grace is ridiculous
  
• Too much love for Grey's Anatomy- I like the show but I do not get why people are so crazy about it
• Two and Half Men for Comedy Series and the general overwhelming number of laugh-track sitcoms that got noms
• House gets in for Drama Series but you don't nominate Hugh Laurie??? He is the show, how is it possible not to give him a nom.
• Law & Order: SVU manages noms in acting for their blatant Emmy bait
• Great new shows like Rome, Big Love and Everybody Hates Chris have to deal with just a few noms here and there
• No Jason Lee for My Name is Earl in the Best Actor lineup is just wiered and where in FUCK is Jason Bateman??

And the Motherfucking Ugly

• No Lost for Drama Series!! The only drama this year that was consitstently brilliant, so far and beyond better than anything (at some points even better than the Sopranos) on television and last year's winner gets snubbed. Not only is there no Series nom, they only got one single acting nomination and that was a Guest Actor nod for the guy who plays Desmond.
• The Sopranos gets is in for Drama Series but they don't fucking nominate James Gandolfini and Edie Falco- the two people other than David Chase that make the show so great. Falco's snub, especially, considering her stunning work in Carmela's dealing with Tony's illness, is shocking.
  
• No Mary-Louise Parker or Lauren Graham for Best Actress-Comedy!! The system was invented for Graham's brilliant work on Gilmore Girls to finally get some recognition after 5 years of snubs and she still didn't get in. Considering all the love for Weeds, you'd have thought MLP's Globe winning work would get a mention, but no- they just had to nominate Jane Kaczmerak's dull work on Malcolm in the Middle.
• Charlie Sheen? really?
• The one person to get an acting nom for Desperate Housewives is Alfre Woodard! I love Alfre Woodard's work elsewhere but she was ridiculously underused on the show, missing for episodes at a time and when she was on, her work was insipid and dull. The nomination is utterly pointless.

You can see the whole list here

Ok, rant over.

As a sign off, here's my picks for this past 05-06 season

Drama Series
24
Lost
Six Feet Under
The Sopranos
Veronica Mars

Comedy Series
Arrested Development
Entourage
Gilmore Girls
The Office
Weeds

Best Actor-Drama
Matthew Fox, Lost
James Gandolfini, The Sopranos
Michael C. Hall, Six Feet Under
Peter Krause, Six Feet Under
Hugh Laurie, House
Denis Leary, Rescue Me

Best Actor-Comedy
Jason Bateman, Arrested Development
Zach Braff, Scrubs
Steve Carrell, The Office
Ricky Gervais, Extras
Jason Lee, My Name is Earl

Best Actress- Drama
Kristen Bell, Veronica Mars
Frances Conroy, Six Feet Under
Edie Falco, The Sopranos
Rachel Griffiths, Six Feet Under
Polly Walker, Rome

Best Actress-Comedy
Tichina Arnold, Everybody Hates Chris
Lauren Graham, Gilmore Girls
Felicity Huffman, Desperate Housewives
Eva Longoria, Desperate Housewives
Mary-Louise Parker, Weeds

Best Supporting Actor-Drama
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agabje, Lost
Naveen Andrews, Lost
James Cromwell, Six Feet Under
Gregory Itzin, 24
Terry O' Quinn, Lost

Best Supporting Actor-Comedy
Will Arnett, Arrested Development
Michael Cera, Arrested Development
John Krasinksi, The Office
John C. McGinley, Scrubs
Jeremy Piven, Entourage

Best Supporting Actress-Drama
Lauren Ambrose, Six Feet Under
Lindsay Duncan, Rome
Sandra Oh, Grey's Anatomy
Jean Smart, 24
Emily VanCamp, Everwood

Best Supporting Actress-Comedy
Kelly Bishop, Gilmore Girls
Portia De Rossi, Arrested Development
Elizabeth Perkins, Weeds
Jaime Pressley, My Name is Earl
Jessica Walter, Arrested Development

oh and while we're on the subject of TV, anyone know where I can get season 1 and 2 of Battlestar Galactica?