The Emmy Nominations were released today and Fox’s 24 received 12 nominations, the most of any other television series:
“24″ led all series with 12 nominations, followed by “Grey’s Anatomy” with 11. Both received best drama series bids and were joined in the category by “House,” “The Sopranos” and “The West Wing.”
The complete list of nominees is available here, and the list of major nominations for 24 are:
Best Drama Series
Best Actor in a Drama Series (Keifer Sutherland — Jack Bauer)
Directing for a Drama Series (Jon Cassar)
Supporting Actor in a Drama Series (Gregory Itzin — President Charles Logan)
Supporting Actress in a Drama Series (Jean Smart — First Lady Martha Logan)
Its good to see Itzin and Smart get nominations for performances this season that were just fabulous. Hopefully, they’ll win. Keifer Sutherland has been nominated for Best Actor each year that 24 has been on the air, and the series has been nominated each year as well. Maybe this is their year.
More coverage at OTB:Gone Hollywood and Wizbang Pop!, which has this interesting list of the nominees for Outstanding Animated Program Less Than One Hour:
Outstanding Animated Program (Less Than One Hour) Nominees:
“Camp Lazlo” (2005)
“Family Guy” (1999)
“Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends” (2004)
“The Simpsons” (1989)
“South Park” (1997)
I don’t know what Camp Lazlo or Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends are, but the other three are among the best animated programs on television. It will be interesting to see who wins this one. And, better yet, Andrew Sullivan passes on a report that the South Park episode nominated is the famous/infamous Tom Cruise In the Closet episode.
There’s more at Ann Althouse’s blog, where someone laments in a comment the lack of acting nominations for Battlestar Galactica.
The total absence of anyone from BG reminds me still that genre work just won’t get noticed by the Emmys. Anyone who saw James Callis or Tricia Helfer’s work (or Sarah Michelle Geller and Alyson Hannigan on Buffy) might wonder just how much better you actually have to get before getting a nomination.
Well, I will be the first to say that the writing on Battlestar Galactica is superb, but I’m just not sure that the acting rises to the level of the nominees for Best Actor or Best Actress. And Buffy may have been a fun show, but, friends, it was hardly Shakespearean theater.
