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When I get back from vacation. Frankly, I usually find the Academy Of Television Arts & Science nods to be bone-headed. Is this year the rule, or the exception? What with NBC's 30 Rock receiving 22 nominations, HBO's Grey Gardens getting 17 , AMC's Mad Men 16, and HBO's Into The Storm 14?
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By Nikki Finke | Category: Awards | Thursday July 16, 2009 @ 9:05am PST
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Will the exception of the Friday Night Lights omission, I think it’s a pretty solid list — especially in the comedy categories.
seems as though this year it is very clear that network tv is in BIG trouble….a majority of nods going to cable shows…..maybe now they will get their heads out of their asses and start producing real tv again….or….maybe not…..would be a shame though…
The fact that Michael Chikliss did not get nominated and neither did Shawn Ryan for the finale of “The Shield” is insane… come on!!! WTF? Four Mad Men’s…I mean really….The show is good but….really 4 nods in writing. Come on, people, we have lost our minds.
We need a better system. As a whole, the nominations are an embarrassment – a true popularity contest. Who can take this ‘honor’ seriously?
Both true blood and battlestar galatica were not nominated. Why do they have such a problem with Science Fiction and fantasy as genres?
This year was, sadly, no exception. The final season of The Shield was one of its best (which hardly ever happens, most long-running shows limp to the finish line in their final season), and should have received, at the least, nominations for Best Drama, Best Actor (Chikilis) and Best Supporting Actor (Walton Goggins). But what did it get? Zilch, nada. While 30 Rock received 22 nominations. I like 30 Rock, but this season was its weakest, IMO, too reliant on stunt casting rather than being funny.
I hope Lost wins the writing category against the 4 Mad Men episodes just to stick it to them.
TRUE BLOOD wasn’t nominated because it is terrible.
MAD MEN deserves every kudo it got.
I’m disappointed that Californication and David Duchovny didn’t get nods. I don’t understand how it can be nominated for the other awards and completely shut out here. Aren’t they all supposedly watching the same material? I wont even go into how overlooked Evan Handler and Pamela Adlon are.
How is it possible that Tina Fey’s crapfest “30 Rock” garners all the nominations and the truly hilarious, moving, brilliantly written, cast, directed and acted “Big Bang Theory” gets just one nom for the amazing Jim Parsons and NONE in writing? The black leader that starts off every episode of Big Bang is one hundered times funnier than any entire episode of 30 Rock.
Mad Men deserves 4 writing nods. It’s the BEST out there. Period. And the acting is superb. It’s a work of art.
But you guys are right, The Shield should have gotten a nod of some kind. Especially since these shows are too often just about giving certain people their due rather than what’s truly great.
I’ve seen an overly grateful non-conventionally beautiful Tina Fey on stage before, I don’t need to see it again. And last season was the worst season of The Office. Terrible.
STILL no love for USA’s “Psych”??? Lame.
hey nicki,
i can’t read the headline of this article because the pop-up advertisements are blocking it.
but I’m glad you didn’t sell-out.
HA!
They need to do something about the noms in categories like writing – 4 noms for 1 show?! How about just nominating for the entire season – the writer’s room is a collaborative process anyway, with perhaps many scribes having touches on each script, so awarding a show for a whole season and a body of work, makes more sense anyway. Surely, there are more than TWO (?!) shows on tv worth recognizing for their stories. Same goes for the comedy category – only 2 shows worth it?! lame
Did someone just post a glowing review of Big Bang Theory? Are you insane? Is this the rapture?
Glad to see Grey Gardens recognized. It’s a shame it didn’t hit theaters first, I think both Lange and Barrymore would be frontrunners for Best Actress.
But..Family Guy…outstanding comedy series? Seriously?!?!
How did Denis Leary not get nominated for Rescue Me? HE IS BRINGING IT SO HARD THIS YEAR!!! And not for just the comedy his dramatic skills are amazing. He has made me cry for those firefighters in New York. INSANE
“The Shield” and “ER” both had outstanding final seasons and excellent finales. These groundbreaking dramas had stellar casts and solid writing. These omissions are shocking. Unbelievable.
I’ve been saying that Jim Parsons from The Big Bang Theory deserves an Emmy. I’m glad to see he was nominated…… and he totally deserves to win. I’m also happy about HIMYM as that show is very clever and different than most laugh track comedies.
We should have 10 slots like the Oscars that way we can have a popularity contest and then we can also have people included who deserve it.
Rescue me not nominated…STUPID
It’s the same every year – the Emmy’s are a jerkfest – and can’t be taken seriously when one of the greatest shows of all time – The Wire – never even got a sniff at the Best Drama category
FG nominated for Best Comedy is a joke. I would’ve liked to see South Park nominated for Best Comedy as the episodes are actually funny unlike FG. Sadly SP will probably lose to Robot Chicken.
Most of the nominees here are the usual people who shouldnt be nominated like that christine show and two and a half men. I’m actually fine with Sarah silverman nominated since I actually like that show, although its mostly hit or miss. I dont get how SNL’s castmembers are lumped into the comedy category. Esp amy Poehler who was only in a few episodes.
30 rock is fine. But 4/5 in best writing is too much. But its better than two and a half men being nominated.
I don’t know about that. True Blood’s writing has improved dramatically since last year especially with the introduction of Maryann, the trip to Dallas and the Fellowship of the Sun. In fact, a lot of the tv critics said that True Blood was snubbed and it had more to do with the Emmys bias against vampires and science fiction. I mean Battlestar Galactica wasn’t nominated either. Neither was Buffy (which deserved it the 1st 5 years especially for the ep The Body). I hope Damages beats Mad Men!
I can’t respect an award show that would nominate Entourage for anything.
I hope Michael Emerson wins it this time, he’s the main reason that S5 wasn’t a total snore.
David Duchovny is not the same after his sex addict condition… this thing is really going down his carrer.
What’s with people bashing Family Guy?! That show is HILARIOUS.
Agree with all of the above posters about what a travesty it is that THE SHIELD got left out. I’m still haunted – yes, haunted – by the scene in which Shane kills himself, followed by the reveal of his wife and child lying still and peaceful on the bed.
BIG BANG THEORY – if you haven’t watched it, you should. Very funny. Not necessarily Emmy-worthy though.
FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS – can a brother get a nomination pleas??? Such an excellent show.
MAD MEN – I don’t know…the first season was pure genius. But the second season really kind of dragged. You can argue that the character development was the story, but I just felt like very little actually happened. Feel like it might’ve hit its peak already.
tvwatcher, “The Big Bang Theory” is, IMHO the sharpest comedy writing since “Buffy The Vampire Slayer,” a show which will go down in history nas a classic.
On the other hand, except for Alec Baldwin, nothing on “30 Rock” is funny in any way, certainly far from memorable – name one thing that has entered the zeitgeist from the show – and Tracy Morgan is an embarrassing non-talent hack.
And Krakowski is utterly wasting the prime years of her career on that crapalalooza.
Once again, Hill Street Blues is overlooked – WTF – will somebody let this kid Bochco catch break!
If you need me, I’ll be at the track, I got MASH to place and All in the Family to show.
With no Friday Night Lights, no Shield, and only one for Rescue Me – I am embarrassed by my Academy. And while Sally Fields is a nice woman – can we all please recognize that there are many other women do far superior work than hers on B&S. Same for Sandra Oh on GA. And to get Matthew Weiner 4 noms in writing is an incredible oversight of a lot of fine writing on Breaking Bad, Rescue Me, and so many others. Matthew should be embarrassed but he won’t be.
The epic snubs of January Jones and Christina Hendricks on Mad Men were glaring…especially Jones who is getting a mountain of publicity and praise from critics for over a year now.
Both true blood and battlestar galatica were not nominated. Why do they have such a problem with Science Fiction and fantasy as genres?
Comment by akaison — July 16, 2009 @ 10:14 am
The Academy HATES Sci Fi.
They always have– remember, on the whole, these are NOT imaginative people.
Lost is the only SF series to ever win Best Drama.
Gillian Anderson is only 1 of 2 actresses to win for a SF series, The X-Files, 1997.
Before that, Lindsay Wagner, The Bionic Woman, 1977.
In the 40 years of Emmy, no actors.
Sci Fi does tend to win for best visual effects. Because usually that’s all that’s in the category. Except when Rome won in 2007 & Yo Yo Ma Inspired By Bach won in 1998.
Best buy tickets for the Saturn Awards if you want to see Sci Fi win anything.
Anna Paquin missing from the list is a crime too. She’s such a fabulous actress. The Golden Globes got it right when they chose her over Sally Field for her role in True Blood. True Blood has become a great tv show.
No Rescue Me, Breaking Bad or Damages in writing? What are they nuts?
The Shield is also remarkable. The Emmys are crazy! LOve Mad Men but these other shows are doing outstanding work too. So twisted.
Geez guys, why are you taking the Emmys sooooooo seriously???
It’s just like a high-school popularity contest…has NOTHING to do with quality, don’t ‘cha know? Chill…
I’m disappointed The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency got nothing significant. Both Jill Scott and Anika Noni Rose were pitch-perfect, the writing was subtle yet moving, and it looked beautiful. True Blood is just fantastic pulp television. And I just hope the three lead actresses on Big Love canceled each other out, because all of them are solid.
Family Guy’s best years look to be behind it. It’s now the Seth McFarlane’s Strident Liberal Issues Cartoon: this week we promote atheism, next week we promote pot legalization, etc. It’s becoming the cruder socialist South Park, which would be forgivable if the jokes weren’t starting to fall flat.
I’m disappointed The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency got nothing significant. Both Jill Scott and Anika Noni Rose were pitch-perfect, the writing was subtle yet moving, and it looked beautiful.
Comment by Name — July 16, 2009 @ 8:07 pm
I couldn’t agree more. But the Academy would never honor a series that didn’t depict Africans (let alone African Americans) as anything but buffoons (That’s right, Tyler Perry, I f***ing said it!) or criminals (The Wire) or victims (The Corner) or both (The Wire & The Corner– there’s really not much else). Particularly in lead roles. They prefer their blacks in subordinate positions. You know, “the good kind”.
Maybe next year the non threatening, boring & bland “Hawthorne” will get a bone.
IF it doesn’t get canceled, thus further proving blacks can’t carry a series.
Damages should win Best Drama.
The Emmy Awards leaves out an entire genre of very high quality and very popular programming. That genre? Non-fiction/reality/documentaries in the crime, crime scene investigation, and criminal investigation genre. Has anyone ever seen Psychic Detectives, Body of Evidence, Haunting Evidence, The First 48 Hours, Lockup Raw, Forensic Files, or Cold Case Files nominated for any Emmy Award? No, and I’m not sure why that is.
All those programs are, or were, among the finest shows ever put on television. That a number of these very good programs were replaced with shows like Rehab at the Hard Rock, Operation Repo, Speeders, The Principal’s Office, and other totally mindless, inane and often “scripted” shows aimed at an audience of pimply-faced, hormonally driven teenagers who are much too busy texting each other to sit through television programs aimed at them… and adults with the attention span of a two-year-old and the IQ of a kumquat.
Maybe the answer to why the Emmy Awards doesn’t recognize quality programming is that many of them are pimply-faced and hormonally driven teenagers themselves, either that or their adults with the attention span of a two-year-old with the IQ of a very dumb kumquat.
True Blood wasn’t nominated despite the hotness that is Anna Paquin because watching guys making out with guys makes straights barf.
I agree totally with those who commented on the omissions in the writing category: MAD MEN is good, but in no way does it deserve 4 out of 5:same w/30 ROCK–I mean, come on..in comedy, what about the writing on UNITED STATES OF TARA? or WEEDS? Or BIG BANG THEORY? on and on. I also am a fan of SONS OF ANARCHY, which was completely blanked–Katy Sagal is great in that show,and as good an actress as Cherry Jones is, Sagal should’ve been nommed in that category..And the best actress in drama–I like Mariska Hargitay, but come on already..how about some new blood, there?? Someone OTHER than Sally Field from Brothers & Sisters, maybe? Or, from Dexter, Julie Benz or Jennifer Carpenter??(not sure if they’d be considered lead or supporting, but..)
Also, United States of Tara i/m/o deserved a slot for comedy,(general) And USA–except for the ever-present (again enough already) Tony Shalhoub–nothing for BURN NOTICE, or IN PLAIN SIGHT..Surely if Simon Baker deserves a nod, doesn’t Jeffrey Donovan??!! It’s really ridiculous..
So, regardless of whether we’re taking them ‘too seriously’ or they’re just a popularity contest or not, it’s really too bad that so many deserving people in all categories were left out.
yes, and let’s not forget Jemaine Clement (yum) getting a nod for best lead actor…not that I think he’s a great actor, but he is damn funny and terribly adorable.
Really? “Psychic Detectives” deserves an Emmy? Really?
But on a more serious note… I’ve been watching reruns of West Wing on Bravo lately, and it merely serves to remind me just how far off the deep end NBC has managed to go. Will we ever see the return to quality network drama like that? Or will Dancing With Big Brother’s Biggest Bachelor Losers reign supreme for the long haul?
Every time my wife catches a minute of Biggest Loser, we find ourselves getting sucked into it’s holier-than-though message of hope and triumph of sprit. We get that tickle in our throats and heaviness of the eyes, and it reminds me of so many Hollywood blockbuster tear-jerkers that make me wanna pitch my forehead into a wall for getting suckered into their saccharin melodrama.
Mad Men is excellent writing (and a team sport, I assure you), deserving of a network voice. Too bad it’s being relegated to AMC — a network so devoid of vision and purpose, it’s truly shocking that they’ve managed to hold onto to it. There is the miniscule (talented yet powerless) group responsible for MM and BB, but That’s It.
Maybe it’s time for Jeff Zucker to suck it up and troll for talent in the Cable pool. If he’d just get his head out of his ass – and Ben out of the corner suite – there’d be hope for network TV once more.
and i see the acad found a way to get ricky gervais, chris rock and will farrell into a category the acad’s rules say no to. there aren’t supposed to be broadway shows or concert tours in the variety category. only specials/shows first created for tv. how desperate are these people! they ignoer rules after being lobbied by hbo to try and get stars on the primetime show, when they should be in a category that goes on the kiddie hour show a week before. does pia zadora get nominated by these guys, too?
The reason Family Guy is nominated and South Park isn’t is because of the Academy’s archaic rules. Animated shows aren’t allowed to compete for Best Comedy unless they forego competing for Best Animated Show. You have to choose one category. Why?
And it’s been tried a few times, but the animated shows never got nominated, so they gave up until Seth MacFarlane tried and succeeded. Don’t blame Seth. It’s the rules that need to change.
What you said about The Wire is complete bullshit and proof that you don’t know squat about it, so take your defective POV elsewhere!
What a yawner. I thought I was reading last years nominees. They are insane not to nominate RESCUE ME for writing, acting (Leary, Callie Thorne, John Scurti). Big deal they gave Michael J. a token nod.
Jim Parsons finally recognized for his talent. Yay!!
And network TV? don’t get me started……
well hurry up before none of us can read our computer screens due to seth mcfarlane’s head getting bigger by the second!
What you said about The Wire is complete bullshit and proof that you don’t know squat about it, so take your defective POV elsewhere!
Comment by Hey anonymous — July 17, 2009 @ 10:03 am
If you’re referring to what I said about The Wire being nothing more than another forum of racist stereotypes of criminals & victims that are perpetuated to make people like you comfortable, your empty defense merely substantiates my point.
How typical.
I’ll keep my 1st Amendment right where ever the f**k I want, thank you very much. Or do you think, along w/ my defective POV, I should take that to the back of the bus, too?
And as long as Nikki permits since it’s her blog, that tends to be right here.
True Blood S2 is just as good as Dexter S2
No kidding… just reading the comments on this post are way funnier than anything on primetime.
The nets can just suck it.
Looking forward to DHD’s Emmy noms because certainly it will be more entertaining than the schlockfest Emmys.
Rescue Me, The Shield, The Wire, True Blood…these are all shows at the end of the alphabet. If you saw the ballot, you will see the it was endless. There were 30 CSIs on the ballot for writing (those people for whatever reason think they are on a good show.) Well by the time you chose your 5 episodes when you got to the end of the ballot you may have been done. This is crazy but a show like 30 Rock is first thing on the ballot. A show like Rescue me…last thing on the ballot. I voted and I will tell you…if you were being lazy you didn’t even get to the end of the ballot and if you got to the end of the ballot you may have been done and didn’t want to go back. Dexter beginning of the ballot etc…
Lost middle of the ballot, Damages the beginning of the ballot….
People are gonna say im nuts but hey the ballot took forever and there were like more than multiple episodes per every lame show.
If you knew ANYTHING about The Wire, rather then make a typically ignorant knee-JERK reaction to it, you know how empty and hollow your POV is; no one is taking away your right to make ignorant and ill-informend opinions away from you BTW- speaking of which, I’m sure you have no problem swallowing what the likes of “Rev.” Al Sharpton spoon-feed you!
So HOW do you explain series like The Office, Weeds, and Mad Men making the cut (and NOT any of the CSIs, not to mention According to Jim *thank the Lord*!) then; I’m pretty sure Rescue Me wasn’t the LAST show listed alphabetically BTW…
there is no way mad men should have 4 nods. stupid
If you knew ANYTHING about The Wire, rather then make a typically ignorant knee-JERK reaction to it, you know how empty and hollow your POV is; no one is taking away your right to make ignorant and ill-informend opinions away from you BTW- speaking of which, I’m sure you have no problem swallowing what the likes of “Rev.” Al Sharpton spoon-feed you!
Comment by to anonymous in thought — July 18, 2009 @ 12:50 pm
As soon as you mentioned Al Sharpton it became more than obvious I hit the quintessential nerve. When Fox News loving bags of racist crap like you run out of excuses for your bigotry, you blame someone else for not thinking for themselves when you’re the 1 that’s been conditioned w/ images from Al Jolson to Amos & Andy to The Wire for generations.
Pat Buchanan loves you.
YOU were the one who brought up race first, mouth-breather! I merely pointed out how WRONG you were about a show that you’ve obviously never viewed or could comprehend is you by chance did…BTW, how do you even know which race I belong to or what views I have/believe in, genius? Swirl THAT around your damaged brain for awhile, while you mindlessly gaze at such “non-racist” programming as Two and a Half Men, Family Guy, and Friends reruns…
YOU were the one who brought up race first, mouth-breather! I merely pointed out how WRONG you were about a show that you’ve obviously never viewed or could comprehend is you by chance did…BTW, how do you even know which race I belong to or what views I have/believe in, genius? Swirl THAT around your damaged brain for awhile, while you mindlessly gaze at such “non-racist” programming as Two and a Half Men, Family Guy, and Friends reruns…
Comment by you are so defective — July 19, 2009 @ 10:53 am
Oh, I know. You’ve made your “defective POV” & its origin quite obvious.
The more shrill & non sequitur you get the more you make my point.
I won’t address your worthless ramblings again. You & your limits don’t deserve further consideration.