Meet your 2005 Emmy nominations. Basically, if Lost and Desperate Housewives hadn't come on the air, the list would be virtually identical to the 2004 Emmy nominations.
Will only cancellation finally get them to stop nominating Will & Grace? No love for Veronica Mars at all? How much does it suck to be Eva Longoria (now truly the Desperate Housewife)? How is Boston Legal a drama when Desperate Housewives is a comedy? Do "Reality Program" and "Reality/Competition Program" really deserve to be separate categories? Isn't it interesting how much Law & Order and CSI is on television, none of it Emmy worthy?
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Well, I think I've seen 7 of these shows and they're pretty much clustered down the bottom of the list. I think The Lost Prince is an interesting one. Stephen Poliakoff does some really good work (Almost Strangers was wonderful) but I was a little surprised to see it on this list.
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
- Gefoorey Rush was good, but I think this isn't a strong contender imo.
Back to the cave for me....
I think there was room in the Outstanding Actress in a Drama for Kristen Bell. That's just me. It's a tough road to hoe for any WB or UPN show. Buffy never got any major nominations either, if I remember correctly.
I wouldn't be shocked if they kept nominating Will and Grace. I think Sean Hayes is hard coded onto the ballet. I will always have a grudge against that show, as I blame it partially for the cancellation of Sports Night (they went head to head). So I'm not sorry to see it go.
I happy for you that Arrested Development made a bunch of nominations. I tried watching that show, but it's too slapcastic*.
How did project runway get nominated by not america's next top model?
As for the CSI stuff, I guess the right people got nominated for SVU (the only one that we watch). I'm not really all that impressed with the lead actor guy from Oz.
I hope Shatner wins.
*Slapcastic - Meaning a cross between Slapstick and Sarcastic. It's a hybrid for those shows that have just enough slapsticy comedy to keep the masses laughing at it even though the sarcasm flies right over their head.
Clearly, ABC wanted to get as many nominations as possible, so they put Desperate Housewives, aptly described by Defamer as a "just-entertaining-and-different-enough-to-be-wildly-overrated Sunday night dramedy," in the drama category. The series is certainly not as "shocking" as was published early last season. The show is intersesting, but it just doesn't do it for me, in part because I like my desperate housewives with meat on their bones. I absolutely hate the sing-song narration by the dead braless heiress to the O. Henry candy bar fortune.
Will & Grace is several seasons past its prime, but I suppose NBC needs some pat on the back in comedy because the Must See NBC Sitcom is an endangered species. NBC is more or less forced to keep it on the air.
I hope Terry O'Quinn wins.
(The Emmy site absolutely blows.)
I guess I have more to say...
I'm happy Arrested Development received so many nominations. Girard, I think its combinations of slapstick and sarcasm is note perfect. Plus, they use running gags to reward the fans (blue paint, stair car, etc.).
All that needs to be said about Will & Grace can be found in the Outstanding Guest in a Comedy Series category. Four out of five are for Will & Grace.
Comedy might be moot as Everybody Loves Raymond, the prototype modern "dumb/fat guy with hot wife" sitcom that was actually well-written, will clean up with swan song wins. A few token categories won't go their way, but they'll get the big ones.
Rescue Me was nominated in several minor categories but nothing in the major ones. I suppose The Shield, Deadwood, and Six Feet Under filled the token "critically-praised series that run on cable" nomination slots.
The season two finale of The Apprentice was nominated for Outstading Directing For Nonfiction Programming. While I take issue with the liberal use of "reality" and "nonfiction" in this context, how can anyone be rewarded with even a nomination for having anything to do with that bloated waste of three hours?
In A Mirror, Darkly is up for Outstanding Hairstyle for a Series. BSG's "33," which should have been nominated for writing or directing, was instead nominated for visual effects.
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