Tensions are rising, fingers are crossing, fans are beginning to get nervous - ah, it's Emmy season once again! This Thursday, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences will announce its 2006 Emmy nominations at 8:39 a.m. (EST) with the help of Brad Garrett and Julia Louis-Dreyfus. But before we get to the real nominations, PTR will be presenting its Ultimate Emmy Ballot, consisting of all the actors and shows that we feel should get a nom this year. Today, we'll take a look at the Best Actor categories for both comedy and drama.PTR's Ultimate Emmy Ballot: Best Actor in a Comedy
Zach Braff Scrubs
Jason Lee My Name is Earl
Steve Carell The Office
Donald Faison Scrubs
Tyler James Williams Everybody Hates Chris
It has been a banner year for the single-camera sitcoms (no live studio audience). The unconventional format allowed its stars to shine brightly in both their hysterical antics and more drama-filled moments. Newcomers My name is Earl and Everybody Hates Chris burst onto the scene in a big way, and their respective stars deserve some recognition this season. Long-time fave Scrubs always turns out stellar performances, and both Braff and Faison stepped it up even further this season from JD's half-acre to Turk's airband. It will be a shame if either of their names are omitted come Thursday. Best supporting noms should go to fellow Scrubs cast member John C. McGinley, who has been sorely overlooked for way too long, The Office's John Krasinski and Earl's Ethan Suplee, who brings such a child-like innocence to Randy while still making him hysterical.
PTR's Ultimate Emmy Ballot: Best Actor in a Drama
Treat Williams Everwood
Jason Dohring Veronica Mars
Gregory Smith Everwood
Christopher Meloni Law & Order: SVU
Matthew Fox Lost
The drama categories are always more difficult because the genre is flourishing right now with well written scripts and highly developed characters. It's a good problem to have, though, except for the legion of talent that will ultimately get overlooked. Williams has been overlooked since day 1 along with Smith. Now that Everwood has been ripped off the air, there's no time like the present. Meloni also has been ignored, despite costar Mariska Hargitay's nominations, but this could be his year considering his character's struggles this season. We all know that there's only going to be one or two noms from procedurals, but Meloni delivered the strongest overall performance of the season from all of them and deserves to be in the category. The supporting noms should go to the painfully overlooked Tom Amandes (Everwood), the always at-the-top-of-his-game Enrico Colantoni (Veronica Mars), Medium's best supportive player Jake Weber (Joe Dubois) and anyone from Lost (especially Terry O'Quinn, Naveen Andrews, Jorge Garcia, Daniel Dae Kim and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje).
So, there are my picks for the Best Actor categories. Do you agree? Disagree? Who would you include on your list? Drop me a comment with your ultimate ballot. And don't forget to come back tomorrow for a look at the leading ladies!
Last night's episode of The 4400 certainly left us with plenty of lives in the balance. I really didn't know how Tom and Diana were going to get Maia and the other children back, especially after we learned that the future had already placed them in other times. Tom's decision to try to kill himself in order to arrange a meeting with the future was risky at best and crazy at worst, but it worked. I was so afraid that the trade for Maia's return was going to cost him Alana or Kyle that I was relieved when I saw the syringe with the instructions to kill Isabelle. Speaking of Isabelle, she's beginning to freak me out. She seems so innocent, but she is starting to use her tremendous powers for not-so-good things like forcing Shawn not to break up with her and overpowering her father after an argument. Plus, we learned from the future that she is somehow entangled with the catastrophe that they are trying to avoid. The question is, will Tom inject her with the syringe (the same syringe that Matthew Ross told her would kill her)? And what will happen to Shawn now that Richard failed to meet with the NOVA group? Things weren't looking so good for him at the end, especially with next week's preview promising that "someone will die on The 4400." But then again, it also said that it's not who we expect. Maybe Isabelle and Shawn are safe for now, but who isn't? This show just keeps heating up!QUICK CUTS
*TNT will open another season on The Closer. The cable network renewed the show for a third season last week. The police drama opened to a record-breaking 2nd season last month with more than 8 million viewers. Kyra Sedgwick plays Deputy Chief Brenda Johnson, who moved from Atlanta to Los Angeles to head the Priority Homicide Division. The 15-episode 3rd season will kick off next summer, and you can catch the all-new 2nd season Monday nights on TNT.*The results are in, and you guys really like Veronica Mars, Everwood and Alias, but you're still not happy about the 7th Heaven debacle. This is according to the results of the annual Amy Awards over at Zap2it where you picked the categories, the nominations and the winners. Mars took the Most Underrated Cast/Actor Award, Everwood is the show that ended too soon and Heaven is the one that can't end soon enough. Click on over to TV Gal's Amy Awards to read about all of the winners including your Most Shocking Moment, Best Death and Worst Storyline (hint: it has something to do with Heaven).
*And finally, it's TV on DVD Monday! Look for the 1st season of Dr. Who to hit store shelves tomorrow along with Charlie's Angels (season 3). To see a complete list of releases, visit tvshowsondvd.com.
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That's all for today. Be sure to tune in tomorrow for PTR's Ultimate Emmy Ballot featuring the leading ladies of primetime that I believe should get nominations for their work in both comedy and drama. Plus, all the latest television news!
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4 comments:
Maybe the oversite is because he could be more of a supporting actor, but I'd throw in Doogie Hoswer, err, Barney on How I Met Your Mother for best actor in a comedy.
Ok, I admit it--I snickered when you said Heaven was the show that couldn't end soon enough. Hehe. I'm still snickering.
Awright: Best Actor in Drama
TREAT WILLIAMS hands down. I love the guy. His facial expressions were good and his struggles to be a good dad in spite of not having ANY born talent for it were awesome. This is a guy even I would have fallen for in real life. He'll be missed.
CHRISTOPHER MELONI. It's so hard to develop characters within a procedural, if you say he's good--he's good. I personally haven't seen SVU that many times so I can't tell. Also I'm biased FOR him, for other reasons.
~DF
I'm not so sure about Matthew Fox.
One actor I would nom for drama is Isaiah Washington for Grey's Anatomy.He is awesome in that role! Of course I would also nom James Spader. You know how I feel about Boston Legal. Although I have never seen House, from everything I have ever read, Hugh Laurie would have to be a nominee.
Yeah for the Closer!!
I'm sure Hugh Laurie will definitely get one on Thursday. The thing about James Spader is, he has to be nominated in the comedy category since that show enters itself as best comedy. That makes his nomination tricky, but I'm sure he'll get one as well. I don't watch GA, but I've heard good things about Washington. I wouldn't be surprised if he got a supporting nod on Thurs.
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