You didn't ask for it, but you got it...

Okay, it's kind of a contractual obligation that every blogger everywhere have an entry where we list nominees and who we want to win and who we think will win... Really, it's a rule, it's right up there with posting pictures of our cats. SO without further ado... Oh, also, Movie people slumming on cable and getting to cuss and do drugs and  get to have less fake looking fake sex,  will not get extra credit from the judges.

DRAMA SERIES:
"Boston Legal," ABC
"Damages," FX
"Dexter," Showtime
"House," Fox
"Lost," ABC
"Mad Men," AMC

Okay, lets get the deadwood out of the way first, shall we? Boston Legal? Really? Again? I watch it, I enjoy it but come on!  It's David E. Kelly's rebuttal to the accusations h only writes for skinny people that he can write for older, fat people too. I used to lust after James Spader when he was slimy in all those John Hughes movies, sadly today he isn't slimy as much as he is covered with chicken grease.  Nope.

Lost? Gonna lose.

 Moving on.. House? I love House! the writing is excellent and I think this season has been particularly strong with great performances all the way around. I applaud the shake up of the Ducklings and the lottery for the new positions. I love House because it makes the average Law and Order look like a pick-your-own-adventure book by comparison. I find procedural oddly comforting and there's nothing more comforting then saving the life of the victim of the week by 10:50 pm. Every Week.  But it's in what it's fourth season and its still without a win?  Nope. Moving on.

Dexter I didn't start watching this show until CBS began running a sanitized version on Sunday nights after Cold Case. Dexter is really good TV and I doubt sincerely that it would be getting the attention it's getting now if it had not been plucked from  Showtime obscurity to run on commercial TV, but it's in its third season and has been almost invisible on Showtime. Glorifying and somewhat justifying mass murder? Not gonna win. Moving on

Damages It has Glenn Close! It's about  high end corporate law and bad business practices that sometimes result in really tough quarterly reviews. Nah. Moving on.

Mad Men , It's about the old fashioned attitudes and old fashioned wacky clothes and old fashioned hair styles and Eames era furniture from the early in 60s and the old fashioned cigarettes they smoked in old fashioned days and the old fashioned drinks they drank at their old fashioned three martini lunches. It's when the men were men and the women were girls. The critics love it, it's fairly new it's on basic cable. Gonna win.

Should Win - House
Will Win - Mad Men


COMEDY SERIES:
"Curb Your Enthusiasm," HBO
"Entourage," HBO
"The Office," NBC
"30 Rock," NBC
"Two and a Half Men," CBS

I never "got" CYE and I don't get HBO. It got a lot of attention that I also did not "get". Blah. Moving on.

Entourage. I like this show, I've Netflixed all the available episodes, but come on! It's not worthy of HBO, on network TV it would have been over in its second season. Seinfeld claimed it was a "show about nothing",  obviously, none of them ever watched Entourage because truly it is a show about NOTHING. No! No Emmy for them.

The Office. I work in a real office, I don't find  uncomfortable silences and pettiness and  mid level managerial dictators to be funny. Steve Carrol isn't the flavor of the week that he was. Not gonna happen.

30 Rock. Love. It. I want to take it behind the junior high and get it pregnant. I love it that much, this last season was not the wonder that was season one but it was still head and shoulders above anything else, with the exception of My Name is Earl which even in a season where it lost it's way, was still great, not as good as 30 Rock but great.

Two and a Half Men. Ew.

Should Win - 30 Rock
Will Win - 30 Rock


ACTOR, DRAMA SERIES:
Gabriel Byrne, "In Treatment"
Bryan Cranston, "Breaking Bad"
Michael C. Hall, "Dexter"
Jon Hamm, "Mad Men"
Hugh Laurie, "House"
James Spader, "Boston Legal"

If we remove from consideration shows I have never watched, this is a much tighter race. Spader who was oily is now greasy, Michael C. Hall makes murder sexy,  High Laurie is awesome . I vote for Laurie because by this time we should be tired of him winning every year, it would be nice if he could win this year.

Will - Jon Hamm, Mad Men
Should  - Hugh Laurie House

ACTRESS, DRAMA SERIES:
Glenn Close, "Damages"
Sally Field, "Brothers and Sisters"
Mariska Hargitay, "Law and Order: Special Victims Unit"
Holly Hunter, "Saving Grace"
Kyra Sedgwick, "The Closer"

Working again from the If I Never Saw It, It doesn't Exists para-grim. I would have to say.... Wow.  I don't like Mariska Hargitay, but I do like Holly Hunter from her film work. Have you ever watched Always?

Should - Holly Hunter
Will - Glenn Close

ACTRESS, COMEDY SERIES:
Christina Applegate, "Samantha Who?"
America Ferrera, "Ugly Betty"
Tina Fey, "30 Rock"
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, "New Adventures of Old Christine"
Mary-Louise Parker, "Weeds"

With the exception of Parker, lets hear it for actual TV actresses on  real, live network TV shall we?

Should - Tina Fey 30 Rock
Will - Mary Louise Parker Weeds


ACTOR, COMEDY SERIES:

Alec Baldwin, "30 Rock"
Steve Carell, "The Office"
Lee Pace, "Pushing Daisies"
Tony Shalhoub, "Monk"
Charlie Sheen, "Two and a Half Men"

This race hurts my feelings. I love Alec Baldwin on 30 Rock but at the same time I lurve Lee Pace on the criminally overlooked Pushing Daisies... Let's face it, 30 Rock is doing okay, it can survive Baldwin walking home empty handed, I'm sure his mouth will be wide open. Has there ever been an actor who needs to be kept as busy? Every time he gets time off he catches a nasty case of foot-in-mouth disease. I also really like Tony Shalhoub and Monk but he has like forty of them.

Should - Lee Pace, Pushing Daisies
Will - Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock

SUPPORTING ACTOR, COMEDY SERIES:
Jon Cryer, "Two and a Half Men"
Kevin Dillon, "Entourage"
Neil Patrick Harris, "How I Met Your Mother"
Jeremy Piven, "Entourage"
Rainn Wilson, "The Office"

I'm sorry, I fell asleep.

SUPPORTING ACTOR, DRAMA SERIES:
Ted Danson, "Damages"
Michael Emerson, "Lost"
Zeljko Ivanek, "Damages"
William Shatner, "Boston Legal"
John Slattery, "Mad Men"

I either don't watch the shows or I don't care for the nominee.

Should - Micheal Emerson, Lost
Will - William Shatner, Boston Legal

SUPPORTING ACTRESS, DRAMA SERIES:
Candice Bergen, "Boston Legal"
Rachel Griffiths, "Brothers and Sisters"
Sandra Oh, "Grey's Anatomy"
Dianne Wiest, "In Treatment"
Chandra Wilson, "Grey's Anatomy"

Ibid.

Should - Diane Wiest, In Treatment
Will - Rachell Griffiths, Brothers and Sisters

SUPPORTING ACTRESS, 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"

Another feeling hurting race.

Will - Jean Smart, Samantha Who?
Should - Kristin Chenoweth, Pushing Daisies AND
              Amy Poehler, Saturday Night Live

WRITING FOR A VARIETY, MUSIC OR COMEDY PROGRAM:
"The Colbert Report"
"The Daily Show With Jon Stewart"
"Late Night With Conan O'Brien"
"Late Show With David Letterman"
"Saturday Night Live"

Everyone all ready knows that The Colbert Report and The Daily Show are phenomenal, but ...

Will - TCR or TDS
Should - SNL

INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE IN A VARIETY OR MUSIC PROGRAM:
Tina Fey, Host/Performer, "Saturday Night Live"

VARIETY, MUSIC OR COMEDY SERIES:
"Saturday Night Live," NBC