Primetime Emmy nominees

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The Drama and Reality nominations

My initial reaction was: WTF? Katherine Heigl isn't up for Supporting Actress, Drama, for her brilliant work on Grey's Anatomy? Yeah, she made a fool of herself last year with that announcement that she hadn't been given good enough material to warrant a nomination, but that was last year! And irrelevant, despite how stupid it is to publicly diss your show's writers. Bad writing is the sort of thing you bitch about at home, to friends, in your journal no one else will ever read. It shouldn't be a press statement.

Nevertheless, she had a great story this year and was more than up to the material. She deserved a nomination (and probably the win). I see that Chandra Wilson and Sandra Oh, also from Grey's, are in the running. They're terrific too, but IMO neither one outdid Heigl during this past season.

I don't have much to say about the comedy categories, since I don't watch half-hour shows, except that Desperate Housewives got snubbed as well. Their only acting nomination was for Beau Bridges in that awful, awful Marty Stu episode where his handyman character was revealed to be the one responsible for righting the courses of the female characters' lives. That episode seems to have met with almost universal approval, but I thought it was by far the worst one DH did all year.

Back to dramas and reality shows. On the really bizarre side, Simon Baker from The Mentalist made the running as Best Actor. All right, who the hell voted for him? I don't care how many viewers the show has; his acting isn't that good, and he can't even do a decent American accent. It slips all over the place in every episode.

What did I especially like? Sally Field, up for Best Actress. She's one of my favorites on Brothers & Sisters. William Shatner could get yet another Emmy for his work on Boston Legal. Actually, that entire Supporting Actor category is very strong. And despite Heigl's exclusion, I love seeing Oh and Wilson up for Supporting Actress. The Amazing Race and American Idol are in there for Reality Competition Program, Race's Phil Keoghan got recognized as Reality Host, and the Best Actor category (with the exception of Baker) looks about right.

If they'd included Heigl and more Desperate Housewives, I'd have been very happy with this year's slate.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I agree with you completely - Katherine Heigl deserved a nom. Expressing her opinions about writing shouldn't disqualify her - she was right and her storyline last year was poor. Grey's was significantly better this year. All the anti-Heigl stuff was completely out of proportion and it is that negativity that cost her the nomination in my opinion. Poor on the Emmys.

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Yeah, I really think her comments from last year influenced the voting and cost her this time. I still think she shouldn't have been so vocal, but that has nothing to do with whether she deserved this nomination. She had so many great scenes, especially in the last few episodes of the season.