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I'm astonished that the worst season of Family Guy did what the best seasons of The Simpsons or South Park couldn't do (and IMO, should have happened in their prime seasons). Is it because FG aren't subtle, at all, with their "messages"?

Well, the Sarah Silverman nod makes me happy.
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Mildly bummed that It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia got the shaft. Not a perfect show, but one that makes me laugh far more consistently than anything else on TV. At the very least, their season finale should've provided a couple of possibilities for the original song category.

Nomination that made me the most happy (in part because I imagine it pissed off a bunch of Emmy voters): Sarah Silverman's lead comedy actress nod.
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Here are the totals:

22 Nominations
30 Rock

17 Nominations
Grey Gardens

16 Nominations
Mad Men

14 Nominations
Into The Storm

13 Nominations
Saturday Night Live

11 Nominations
Generation Kill
Little Dorrit

10 Nominations
81st Annual Academy Awards
Dancing With The Stars
Taking Chance

9 Nominations
The Office

8 Nominations
American Idol

7 Nominations
The Amazing Race
Damages

6 Nominations
Flight Of The Conchords
24
Weeds

5 Nominations
Battlestar Galactica
Breaking Bad
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
Grey's Anatomy
Late Show With David Letterman
Lost
Pushing Daisies
Roman Polanski: Wanted And Desired
The Simpsons
So You Think You Can Dance
Top Chef
The Tudors
24: Redemption

Also of note:

HBO failed, by 1, to crack the 100-nomination mark

Saturday Night Live cracks the top 3 in historical nominations bringing in its 114th this year

30 Rock now holds the record for most nominations for a Comedy Series in a single year with 22

Grey Gardens ties Eleanor and Franklin & Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years for the most Emmy nominations for a Made for TV Movie ever with 17

SNL picked up 13 nominations this year making it the most nominated Variety program in a single year

Dancing with the Stars achieved the same with 10 nominations in Nonfiction programming
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Sabin wrote:Hope Davis is nominated in the Best Supporting Actress - Drama category that I posted.
I missed that entirely. Yay!
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Hope Davis is nominated in the Best Supporting Actress - Drama category that I posted.

For the first time in years, I actually really liked what I saw of The Simpsons last season (especially the episodes "Waverly Hills 9-0-2-1-D'oh" and "Eany, Meany, Maya, Moe" which got Azaria a deserved Emmy nod) but it's painfully past its prime. I don't care that in the long run, it's a better show. This is the first time it's been any kind of good in almost a decade.

I think that aside from Neil Patrick Harris, all of these winners are going to be basically the same old regardless of how decent these nominations are. Mad Men and 30 Rock are going to continue as the new Emmy staples.
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Of note: All the pushing did NOT result in a nomination for BSG in Drama Series.

Family Guy becomes the first animated series in history to earn an Emmy nomination for Comedy Series.

And for being the first year of the new voting guidelines and an expansion of the top categories to 6, both the Series categories had more than 6 with both at 7 nominations
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Where the hell is True Blood? That is some of the best stuff on television. I'm sick of that same line-up of Best Actress (Drama) although yay for Elisabeth Moss who absolutely killed this season.

I would like to have see Hope Davis nominated for "In Treatment" (although, maybe that's one of the categories you didn't post, Sabin). I thought her Mia this past season was a fantastic, well-rounded and utterly believable creation.

Happy for all the Grey Gardens mentions. Well-deserved.




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- I think it's BULLSHIT that Family Guy made it in when The Simpsons, the superior show wasn't able to do the same. Fuck them!

- Yay for Cherry Jones, How I Met Your Mother, Kristin Chenoweth and Jack MacBrayer for making it in!

- No "Family Meeting" in Writing?!?! Bullshit.
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I'll post the big ones. I'm fairly surprised by some of these. Clearly 30 Rock and Mad Men are going to continue to dominate. As someone who basically watches three or four shows on television, I'm mostly fine with this. I think 30 Rock had some great episodes last year but overall, its arc wasn't as gripping as The Office's, which despite its myriad flaws I found totally compelling. The Flight of the Conchords had a weaker season but I kinda hope that Jemaine Clemente wins.

BEST COMEDY SERIES
"Entourage" (2004)
"Family Guy" (1999)
"The Flight of the Conchords" (2007)
"How I Met Your Mother" (2005)
"The Office" (2005)
"30 Rock" (2006)
"Weeds" (2005)

BEST DRAMA SERIES
"Big Love" (2006)
"Breaking Bad" (2008)
"Damages" (2007)
"Dexter" (2006)
"House M.D." (2004)
"Lost" (2004)
"Mad Men" (2007)

OUTSTANDING MADE FOR TV MOVIE
Coco Chanel (2008) (TV)
Grey Gardens (2009) (TV)
Into the Storm (2009) (TV)
Prayers for Bobby (2009) (TV)
Taking Chance (2009)

OUTSTANDING MINISERIES
"Generation Kill" (2008)
"Little Dorrit" (2008)


BEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES
Alec Baldwin for "30 Rock" (2006)
Steve Carell for "The Office" (2005)
Jemaine Clement for "The Flight of the Conchords" (2007)
Jim Parsons for "The Big Bang Theory" (2007)
Tony Shalhoub for "Monk" (2002)
Charlie Sheen for "Two and a Half Men" (2003)

BEST ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES
Simon Baker for "The Mentalist" (2008)
Gabriel Byrne for "In Treatment" (2008)
Bryan Cranston for "Breaking Bad" (2008)
Michael C. Hall for "Dexter" (2006)
Jon Hamm for "Mad Men" (2007)
Hugh Laurie for "House M.D." (2004)


BEST ACTOR IN A MADE-FOR-TV MOVIE/MINISERIES
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Movie
Kevin Bacon for Taking Chance (2009)
Kenneth Branagh for "Wallander" (2008)
Brendan Gleeson for Into the Storm (2009) (TV)
Kevin Kline for "Great Performances: Cyrano de Bergerac (#37.8)" (2008)
Ian McKellen for King Lear (2008) (TV)
Kiefer Sutherland for 24: Redemption (2008) (TV)

BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES
Christina Applegate for "Samantha Who?" (2007)
Toni Collette for "United States of Tara" (2009)
Tina Fey for "30 Rock" (2006)
Julia Louis-Dreyfus for "The New Adventures of Old Christine" (2006)
Mary-Louise Parker for "Weeds" (2005)
Sarah Silverman for "The Sarah Silverman Program." (2007)

BEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES
Glenn Close for "Damages" (2007)
Sally Field for "Brothers & Sisters" (2006)
Mariska Hargitay for "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" (1999)
Holly Hunter for "Saving Grace" (2007)
Elisabeth Moss for "Mad Men" (2007)
Kyra Sedgwick for "The Closer" (2005)

BEST ACTRESS IN A MINISERIES OR MADE-FOR-TV MOVIE
Drew Barrymore for Grey Gardens (2009) (TV)
Jessica Lange for Grey Gardens (2009) (TV)
Shirley MacLaine for Coco Chanel (2008) (TV)
Sigourney Weaver for Prayers for Bobby (2009) (TV)
Chandra Wilson for Accidental Friendship (2008) (TV)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES
Jon Cryer for "Two and a Half Men" (2003)
Kevin Dillon for "Entourage" (2004)
Neil Patrick Harris for "How I Met Your Mother" (2005)
Jack McBrayer for "30 Rock" (2006)
Tracy Morgan for "30 Rock" (2006)
Rainn Wilson for "The Office" (2005)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES
Christian Clemenson for "Boston Legal" (2004)
Michael Emerson for "Lost" (2004)
William Hurt for "Damages" (2007)
Aaron Paul for "Breaking Bad" (2008)
William Shatner for "Boston Legal" (2004)
John Slattery for "Mad Men" (2007)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A MINISERIES OR MADE-FOR-TV MOVIE
Len Cariou for Into the Storm (2009) (TV)
Tom Courtenay for "Little Dorrit" (2008)
Ken Howard for Grey Gardens (2009) (TV)
Bob Newhart for The Librarian: The Curse of the Judas Chalice (2008) (TV)
Andy Serkis for "Little Dorrit" (2008)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY
Kristin Chenoweth for "Pushing Daisies" (2007)
Jane Krakowski for "30 Rock" (2006)
Elizabeth Perkins for "Weeds" (2005)
Amy Poehler for "Saturday Night Live" (1975)
Kristen Wiig for "Saturday Night Live" (1975)
Vanessa Williams for "Ugly Betty" (2006)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES
Rose Byrne for "Damages" (2007)
Hope Davis for "In Treatment" (2008)
Cherry Jones for "24" (2001)
Sandra Oh for "Grey's Anatomy" (2005)
Dianne Wiest for "In Treatment" (2008)
Chandra Wilson for "Grey's Anatomy" (2005)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A MINISERIES OR MADE-FOR-TV MOVIE
Shohreh Aghdashloo for "House of Saddam" (2008)
Marcia Gay Harden for The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler (2009) (TV)
Janet McTeer for Into the Storm (2009) (TV)
Jeanne Tripplehorn for Grey Gardens (2009) (TV)
Cicely Tyson for Relative Stranger (2009) (TV)

BEST VARIETY/MUSICAL/COMEDY PROGRAM
"The Colbert Report" (2005)
"The Daily Show" (1996)
"Late Show with David Letterman" (1993)
"Real Time with Bill Maher" (2003)
"Saturday Night Live" (1975)

BEST REALITY COMPETITION SHOW
"The Amazing Race" (2001)
"American Idol: The Search for a Superstar" (2002)
"Dancing with the Stars" (2005/I)
"Project Runway" (2005)
"Top Chef" (2006)

WORST CATEGORY EVER
Tom Bergeron for "Dancing with the Stars" (2005/I)
Phil Keoghan for "The Amazing Race" (2001)
Heidi Klum for "Project Runway" (2005)
Padma Lakshmi, Tom Colicchio for "Top Chef" (2006)
Jeff Probst for "Survivor" (2000)
Ryan Seacrest for "American Idol: The Search for a Superstar" (2002)

BEST SHOW WITHOUT ANYONE WHO WINS (IN KATHY GRIFFIN'S CASE: LITERALLY)
"Antiques Roadshow" (1997)
"Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan" (2004)
"Dirty Jobs" (2005)
"Intervention" (2005)
"Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List" (2005)
"MythBusters" (2003)

BEST VARIETY/MUSICAL/COMEDY SPECIAL
Chris Rock: Kill the Messenger - London, New York, Johannesburg (2008) (TV)
Kathy Griffin: She'll Cut a Bitch (2009) (TV)
Ricky Gervais: Out of England - The Stand-Up Special (2008) (TV)
The 31st Annual Kennedy Center Honors (2008) (TV)
Will Ferrell: You're Welcome America - A Final Night with George W Bush (2009) (TV)
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