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60th Primetime Emmy Awards Nominations

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Memles

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I'll add some more categories in a second, but here's the main acting/series categories that were just announced ten minutes ago. Let the outrage begin!

FULL LIST OF NOMINEES [Emmys.tv]

Outstanding Drama Series

* Boston Legal (ABC)
* Damages (FX)
* Dexter (Showtime)
* House (FOX)
* Lost (ABC)
* Mad Men (AMC)

Lead Actor in a Drama Series

* James Spader (Boston Legal)
* Jon Hamm (Mad Men)
* Michael C. Hall (Dexter)
* Hugh Laurie (House)
* Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad)
* Gabriel Byrne (In Treatment)

Lead Actress in a Drama Series

* Sally Field (Brothers & Sisters)
* Kyra Sedgwick (The Closer)
* Holly Hunter (Saving Grace)
* Glenn Close (Damages)
* Mariska Hargitay (Law and Order: SVU)

Supporting Actor in a Drama Series

* Michael Emerson (Lost)
* Ted Danson (Damages)
* William Shatner (Boston Legal)
* Zeljko Ivanek (Damages)
* John Slattery (Mad Men)

Supporting Actress in a Drama Series

* Dianne Wiest (In Treatment)
* Candice Bergen (Boston Legal)
* Rachel Griffiths (Brothers & Sisters)
* Chandra Wilson (Grey’s Anatomy)
* Sandra Oh (Grey’s Anatomy)

Outstanding Comedy Series

* 30 Rock (NBC)
* The Office (NBC)
* Entourage (HBO)
* Two and a Half Men (CBS)
* Curb Your Enthusiasm (HBO)

Lead Actor in a Comedy Series

* Alec Baldwin (30 Rock)
* Steve Carell (The Office)
* Charlie Sheen (Two and a Half Men)
* Lee Pace (Pushing Daisies)
* Tony Shahloub (Monk)

Leading Actress in a Comedy Series

* Christina Applegate (Samantha Who?)
* America Ferrera (Ugly Betty)
* Tina Fey (30 Rock)
* Julia Louis-Dreyfus (New Adventures…Old Christine)
* Mary-Louise Parker (Weeds)

Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series

* Rainn Wilson (The Office)
* Kevin Dillon (Entourage)
* Jon Cryer (Two and a Half Men)
* Neil Patrick Harris (How I Met Your Mother)
* Jeremy Piven (Entourage)

Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series

* Kristin Chenoweth (Pushing Daisies)
* Amy Poehler (Saturday Night Live)
* Jean Smart (Samantha Who?)
* Holland Taylor (Two and a Half Men)
* Vanessa Williams (Ugly Betty)

Outstanding Reality Competition Program

* The Amazing Race (CBS)
* American Idol (FOX)
* Dancing with the Stars (ABC)
* Project Runway (Bravo)
* Top Chef (Bravo)

Outstanding Reality Host

* Jeff Probst (Survivor)
* Howie Mandel (Deal or No Deal)
* Heidi Klum (Project Runway)
* Tom Bergeron (Dancing with the Stars)
* Ryan Seacrest (American Idol)

Outstanding Writing For A Comedy Series

Flight Of The Conchords • Yoko • HBO
James Bobin, Written By
Jemaine Clement, Written By
Bret McKenzie, Written By

The Office • Dinner Party • NBC
Lee Eisenberg, Written By
Gene Stupnitsky, Written By

Pushing Daisies • Pie-Lette • ABC
Bryan Fuller, Written By

30 Rock • Rosemary’s Baby • NBC
Jack Burditt, Written By

30 Rock • Cooter • NBC
Tina Fey, Written By

Outstanding Writing For A Drama Series

Battlestar Galactica • Six Of One • Sci Fi Channel
Michael Angeli, Written By

Damages • Pilot • FX Networks
Todd A. Kessler, Written By
Glenn Kessler, Written By
Daniel Zelman, Written By

Mad Men • Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (Pilot) • AMC
Matthew Weiner, Written By

Mad Men • The Wheel • AMC •
Matthew Weiner, Written By
Robin Veith, Written By

The Wire • 30 • HBO
David Simon, Teleplay By/Story By
Ed Burns, Story By
 
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Nazgul_Hunter

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I'm sad there's no Pushing Daisies in best comedy series. Also, 30 Rock dominated the guest actor / actress categories with 7 out of 10 nominees! (One of which was Will Arnett)
 
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Memles

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Nazgul_Hunter said:
I'm sad there's no Pushing Daisies in best comedy series. Also, 30 Rock dominated the guest actor / actress categories with 7 out of 10 nominees! (One of which was Will Arnett)
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Yep, but where the frak was Dean Winters, Mathew Broderick and David Schwimmer? They were better than Rip Torn, Tim Conway and Steve Buscemi, but got completely snubbed.

30 Rock led with a ridiculous 17 nominations, followed by Mad Men at 16 and Pushing Daisies at 12 (Without a comedy series nomination, which is definitely also my biggest disappointment of the awards. Entourage? Screw you, Academy.)
 
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Nazgul_Hunter

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Memles said:
Yep, but where the frak was Dean Winters, Mathew Broderick and David Schwimmer? They were better than Rip Torn, Tim Conway and Steve Buscemi
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Doesn't matter, Will Arnett will win it! (Edie Falco probably will win it too)
 
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Thomper

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The real big news: a whopping four nominations for The Colbert Report! WILL HE FINALLY BE ABLE TO GET ONE, AFTER BEING HUMILIATED BY BARRY MANILOW AND TONY BENNETT? EPIC! Well, kudos to him at least.
 
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Memles

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Thomper said:
The real big news: a whopping four nominations for The Colbert Report! WILL HE FINALLY BE ABLE TO GET ONE, AFTER BEING HUMILIATED BY BARRY MANILOW AND TONY BENNETT? EPIC! Well, kudos to him at least.
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There's no old singers on the list, so this is his best shot yet - however, Don Rickles IS old, that will be a tough sell.
 
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Thomper

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Memles said:
There's no old singers on the list, so this is his best shot yet - however, Don Rickles IS old, that will be a tough sell.
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Slightly sad, though - Colbert's duets with Manilow/Bennett after the Emmy's were always nice. Unless he has a duet with Letterman or Fey, which would also be nice. I'll even take a Stewart/Colbert duet.
 
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vatstep

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Nice to see Breaking Bad and Bryan Cranston get some nominations, but it should have received a nod for Outstanding Drama over the second season of Dexter (huge disappointment) or Boston Legal (yet again).

Can't believe 30 Rock got so many nominations (I guess because it's the only decent comedy on TV). I didn't like the second season nearly as much as the first.
 
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Memles

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Yeah, Fey has FOUR nominations, so I expect she'll get her Emmy in a different category (Mainly Lead Actress Comedy).

And for those interested, I've put together a giant 2000 word analysis of the various shows and nominations at my blog. It covers a lot of the snubs and things, and as a special bonus for NeoGAF includes heaps of my much-loved Entourage hate!
 
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bill0527

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No Battlestar Galactica noms... even though they were pushing hard for it.

The Best Drama on TV gets snubbed again in its final season.
 
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Memles

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bill0527 said:
No Battlestar Galactica noms... even though they were pushing hard for it.

The Best Drama on TV gets snubbed again in its final season.
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Well, the first half of it - everyone will be eligible again next year since they're delaying the rest of the fourth season. That'll actually be Bear McCreary's best chance, as his work in "Revelations" was after the end of the elgibility period and that huge orchestral masterpiece will be in contention next year.

And agreed about his snub this year, but I was glad to at least see Giacchino there.
 
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Insertia

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So I guess The Wire wasn't a primetime show...because there's no reason Boston Legal should be there over The Wire as Best Drama.
 
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The Storyteller

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bill0527 said:
No Battlestar Galactica noms... even though they were pushing hard for it.

The Best Drama on TV gets snubbed again in its final season.
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Actually it has 6 noms, all technical. With a nomination for writing, which to me is more important than a majority of the categories listed in the OP. Still, it should have like 12 more nominations.
 
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StrikerObi

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My picks

Outstanding Drama Series
* Mad Men (AMC)

Lead Actor in a Drama Series
* Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad)

Lead Actress in a Drama Series
* I could care less, don't watch ANY of these shows.

Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
* Michael Emerson (Lost)

Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
* What is it with female actors on shows I don't like?

Outstanding Comedy Series
* Curb Your Enthusiasm (HBO) (I LOVE The Office and 30Rock but this season of Curb was AMAZING.)

Lead Actor in a Comedy Series
* Alec Baldwin (30 Rock)

Leading Actress in a Comedy Series
* Tina Fey (30 Rock)

Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series
* Neil Patrick Harris (How I Met Your Mother) (Sorry Dwight, Barney Stinson is legen... wait for it... dary)

Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series
* Amy Poehler (Saturday Night Live)

Outstanding Reality Competition Program
* Top Chef (Bravo)

Outstanding Reality Host
* Does anybody care about who hosts these shows!?
 
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Memles

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The Storyteller said:
Actually it has 6 noms, all technical. With a nomination for writing, which to me is more important than a majority of the categories listed in the OP. Still, it should have like 12 more nominations.
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I added writing to the OP - I only hadn't because it was fasted to take the categories I'd already edited down than the ones that required a bit more work.

And indeed - BSG has plenty of noms, although they did lose their directing spot they had last year so it's a bit of a step back.
 
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Futureman

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"Flight of the Conchords" DEFINITELY should have been nominated over "Entrouage" for best comedy series.

edit: Also "Two and a Half Men." I think the show is funny, but "Flight" is SO much better.
 
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StrikerObi

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Futureman said:
"Flight of the Conchords" DEFINITELY should have been nominated over "Entrouage" for best comedy series.
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Considering the last season of Entourage, yeah. They did get two best song nominations at least.
 
Jinfash

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Memles said:
Leading Actress in a Comedy Series

* Christina Applegate (Samantha Who?)
* America Ferrera (Ugly Betty)
* Tina Fey (30 Rock)
* Julia Louis-Dreyfus (New Adventures…Old Christine)
* Mary-Louise Parker (Weeds)
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meh same old list, boring
or is Applegate new? either way she deserves to get this, she was hilarious on Samantha Who.


Memles said:
Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series

* Rainn Wilson (The Office)
* Kevin Dillon (Entourage)
* Jon Cryer (Two and a Half Men)
* Neil Patrick Harris (How I Met Your Mother)
* Jeremy Piven (Entourage)
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FUCK how did I overlook this? nobody deserves it more than he does.
 
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DevelopmentArrested

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Outstanding Drama Series
* Dexter (Showtime)


Lead Actor in a Drama Series
* Michael C. Hall (Dexter)

Lead Actress in a Drama Series
* Glenn Close (Damages)


Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
* Zeljko Ivanek (Damages)


Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
* Rachel Griffiths (Brothers & Sisters)


Outstanding Comedy Series
* Curb Your Enthusiasm (HBO)

Lead Actor in a Comedy Series
* Alec Baldwin (30 Rock)


Leading Actress in a Comedy Series
* who cares

Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series
* Jeremy Piven (Entourage)

Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series
* who cares pt 2


Outstanding Writing For A Comedy Series

Flight Of The Conchords • Yoko • HBO
James Bobin, Written By
Jemaine Clement, Written By
Bret McKenzie, Written By


Outstanding Writing For A Drama Series

The Wire • 30 • HBO
David Simon, Teleplay By/Story By
Ed Burns, Story By
 
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dead souls

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I hope Mad Men takes the best drama award. Other than that the category is pretty weak. No Wire or Battlestar? Oh well, it's like this every year I suppose.

Dexter and Damages are good but not worthy of a Best Drama award, IMO. Never cared for House or Boston Legal and the thought that Lost is the best drama on television is pretty much what :lol was invented for.
 
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White Man

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Woo hoo Mad Men and Damages.

I kinda hope Damages wins something prominent. Even if I don't quite think it deserves big wins, I really wish more people would check it out. Mad Men seems to be hooking more and more people now that the sets are out, but Damages still gets no love.
 
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Spotless Mind

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*snore*

Mary McDonnell being snubbed is ridiculous and there are NO WORDS for their ignoring Bear McCreary for a nom.

At least i can take solace in BSG getting a writing nom and Lost being snubbed in that category. :)

Go Dexter! I've only seen 2 episodes of Mad Men, but i could see myself rooting for that.
 
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whytemyke

Honorary Canadian.
i'm reading the full list.

Imaginationland got an emmy nod! :lol

how did Wilson not get nominated for House? He showed that his character was integral and acted the hell out of the back half of the season. ugh.

John Adams-- 23 nomiation. GOD DAMN RIGHT!


oh my god, how did Scrubs get nominated for the episode "My Princess"? That episode SUCKED ASS and cinematography was nothing special either.
 
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Cornballer

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Tim Goodman's take from the SF Chronicle.
Emmy stunners and snubs.

The cable revolution entered its final and most dramatic stages on Thursday when AMC's "Mad Men" and FX's "Damages" became the first basic cable programs in history to get best series Emmy nominations. Each series also landed their respective lead actors - Jon Hamm and Glenn Close - in best actor categories and "Mad Men" went on to garner an astounding 16 nominations, leading all dramas. NBC's "30 Rock" led all comedies with 17 nominations.

The cable onslaught continued with other surprising nominations as well, when the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences named four of the six lead actor nominees from the cable side - Hamm, Bryan Cranston for AMC's "Breaking Bad," Michael C. Hall for Showtime's "Dexter" and Gabriel Byrne for HBO's "In Treatment." In addition, three of the five women nominated for best dramatic actress were also from the cable side - Close for "Damages," Kyra Sedgwick for "The Closer" and Holly Hunter for "Saving Grace," both from TNT.

The 60th Primetime Emmy Awards will air Sunday, Sept. 21 at 8 p.m. on ABC.

While handicapping Emmy nominations is always dicey - but fun - a bigger and more depressing tradition is to note the snubs. Easily the biggest disappointment - continuing a five season trend - is the near criminal exclusion of the best series on television, "The Wire." The acclaimed series finally got a writing nod this year, in its final season, but to be shut out (yet again) of the best drama category and all the acting categories is just surrealy absurd.

And yet, that's the Emmys in a nutshell. The same people who see fit to continuously nominate "Boston Legal" in a multitude of categories can't bring themselves to right the injustice of four previously egregious oversights on "The Wire."

On the plus side, every year sees the Emmy voters getting in step with both critical trends and emerging series. The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences noted that "of the 51 nominations for comedy and drama programs as well as lead and supporting performers, 21 were not included among last years' nominees - a 40 percent change." That's certainly a testament to newfound freshness in the Emmys but new doesn’t always mean correct.

Staying positive, however, the "Mad Men" haul - while not completely unexpected given the massive critical acclaim - is nonetheless surprising in that Emmy voters seemed to take notice immediately, rather than two or three seasons into it, which is a refreshing trend. It's hard to overstate how important these basic cable nominations are, breaking into the hallowed ground of best drama. At best, an acclaimed basic cable series would be lucky to get one of its actors nominated in a major category. But to shunt aside far more popular broadcast network fare is a real achievement.

Though "Mad Men" will get all the attention in these nominations, two other series are the real stunners here. "Damages," while acclaimed, wasn’t anywhere near as prevalent in the TV zeitgeist as "Mad Men." It got seven nominations - as many as "Lost" - including Ted Danson and Zeljko Ivanek in the supporting actor categories (where "Lost" and "Mad Men" landed only one nominee, Michael Emerson and John Slattery respectively).

Maybe the most stunning inclusion in all of the Emmys is Bryan Cranston's best actor nod for his role in AMC's "Breaking Bad." Cranston was fantastic as Walt White, the science teacher turned meth maker in the creatively daring series (it received a total of four nominations, which is equally surprising since it was barely on anyone's radar.) While it's easy to target the missteps made by Emmy voters, they deserve credit for more inclusion this year, particularly in the cable ranks. And though there are the nominations that seem rote - all things "Boston Legal," "Two and A Half Men" - there's a dramatic reduction in the rubber-stamping of previous nominees that had been the worst trait of lazy Emmy voters. It's almost unimaginable to consider that "Mad Men," "Damages" and "Dexter" cracked the best drama category (with a very deserving nod to "Lost," a predictable one to "House" and a ridiculous one to "Boston Legal"). The lead actor category is particularly inspiring, but so is Close, Sedgwick and Hunter - the strong female characters of a certain age on cable - joining Emmy favorite Mariska Hargitay ("Law & Order") and Sally Field ("Brothers & Sisters") in the category.

It was also nice to see the Emmy voters add Lee Pace of ABC's "Pushing Daisies" to a strong field of lead actors in a comedy, which included Tony Shalhoub for USA's "Monk," Steve Carell for NBC's "The Office," Charlie Sheen for CBS's "Two and A Half Men" and Alec Baldwin for NBC's "30 Rock."

Pace's co-star, Kristin Chenoweth, also was nominated in the supporting actress in a comedy category. Their inclusion should take away some of the concern that strike-shortened freshman series would not only be ignored but completely forgotten (a good sign since so much of this coming season's series fit that bill).

If you ignore the perennial snub of "The Wire" - which, let's be honest, wasn't entirely unexpected - this may go down as one of the more inclusive and smart years in recent Emmy history. They can't fix the damage done by ignoring the best drama that may have ever graced a TV screen, but neither did they cover themselves in total disgrace by rubber-stamping trite dramas like "Grey’s Anatomy" or a multitude of popular series that are well past their prime. "Mad Men" and "Damages" and "Breaking Bad" are niche cable series with a limited audience. To honor their creative achievement with both series and actor nominations is proof that the Emmy voters are getting it right more often these days - a continuing and welcome trend.
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MIMIC

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Hmm, before I saw season 2 of Dexter, I wanted House to win for best drama. But the 2nd season of Dexter was all kinds of greatness. Go, Dexter!
 
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reilo

learning some important life lessons from magical Negroes
Dexter better sweep this shit.

Wait, The Shield nor Rescue Me were ever nominated for Best Series? FAIL.
 
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firex

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bill0527 said:
No Battlestar Galactica noms... even though they were pushing hard for it.

The Best Drama on TV gets snubbed again in its final season.
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agreed. there were no nominations for The Wire except for writing.
 
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sublime085

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Wow, an SNL acting nod. That's rare.

I like Amy Poehler too, good for her.

And the Wire has always been largley ignored by the Emmys, which sucks.
God knows they jerk off every other HBO series.
 
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Spotless Mind

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I also have to add Connie Britton not even making the top 10 supporting actress nominees (she really should have been lead =/), let alone being in the eventual final nominees is a total sham. She was an absolute effing powerhouse this year and i am NOT hyperbolizing. Screw those Grey's Anatomy bitches!
 
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jamesinclair

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Reality show host? Thats got to be new.

And why wasnt Prison Break nominated for best category?


Also, this category:

Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less Than One Hour)

Creature Comforts America • Don't Choke To Death, Please • CBS • Aardman Animations production in association with The Gotham Group

King Of The Hill • Death Picks Cotton • FOX • 20th Century Fox Television in association with 3 Arts Entertainment, Deedle-Dee Productions & Judgemental Films

Robot Chicken • Robot Chicken: Star Wars • Cartoon Network • ShadowMachine Films

SpongeBob SquarePants • Inmates of Summer / Two Faces of Squidward • Nickelodeon • Nickelodeon with United Plankton Pictures, Inc.

The Simpsons • Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind • FOX • Gracie Films in association with 20th Century Fox

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