PTR's Ultimate Emmy Ballot: Best Actresses! Plus 'The Closer' Gets a Case with Too Many Cooks in the Kitchen

Yesterday, we took at look at PTR's Ultimate Emmy Ballot for television's main men, so today, it's the leading ladies' turn. The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences will announce its 2006 Emmy nominations at 8:39 a.m. (EST) this Thursday 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 Actress categories for both comedy and drama.

PTR's Ultimate Emmy Ballot: Best Actress in a Comedy
Sarah Chalke Scrubs
Jaime Pressly My Name is Earl
Tichina Arnold Everybody Hates Chris
Marcia Cross Desperate Housewives
Lauren Graham Gilmore Girls

This is a very talent rich category this year, so I don't want to see Housewives nominated other than Cross, who seems to get the noms without the wins. Chalke is always overlooked and very deserving as the neurotic Elliot Reid and Pressly's performance is perfection as the low-class Joy. Meanwhile, Arnold is the strongest link on Chris, which is saying a lot since she is surrounded by a talented cast and Graham is the perennially overlooked favorite. Maybe the new system this year will finally bring her some much-deserved recognition. Let's hope so! Supporting noms should go to How I Met Your Mother's Cobie Smulders, The Office's Jenna Fischer and Housewives' Nichollete Sheridan, who was the funniest housewife this season.


PTR's Ultimate Emmy Ballot: Best Actress in a Drama
Kristen Bell Veronica Mars
Kathryn Morris Cold Case
Patricia Arquette Medium
Kyra Sedgwick The Closer
Emily Van Camp Everwood

This is yet another talent rich category with more deserving actors than there are spaces, which means we're all going to be crying foul when the nominations come out in two days. Morris and Bell are my top 2, especially since neither gets the recognition they deserve for playing their respective characters to complete perfection. Arquette was last year's winner, making her a deserving shoe-in for the nom this year. Sedgwick blends the right amount of southern charm and hardass cop to make Brenda Johnson believable and fun. Van Camp is young, but handled the complicated and deep Amy Abbott like a seasoned pro. And yes, I know I left off Jennifer Garner, but she was tied with Van Camp on my list, so I'd be equally happy to see her get one for her final season on Alias. The supporting noms should go to Grey's Anatomy's Katherine Heigl and Sandra Oh (see, I do say positive things about this show ;-)), Without a Trace's long over-do Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Everwood's Merrilyn Gann and Lost's Yunjin Kim.

So, there are my picks for the Best Actress 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 PTR's picks for the best shows on television!


Last night's episode of The Closer went a little Law & Order: CI with the confession at the end. While Brenda was getting Creepy Food Critic to pour his heart out (who will always be George from Cold Case to me - and now I'm wishing Lilly hadn't knocked him off in that attic because I miss his creepy goodness!), I half expected Goren and Eames to suddenly appear from the kitchen of that restaurant just so Goren could have the pleasure of presenting the evidence. In any event, I pegged Creepy Food Critic from the beginning because the wonderful John Billingsley was playing the role, and poor John always gets the creep roles. This creep, though, had a heart. He fell for the victim, and was crushed to learn that she was only playing him for a good review in the local paper. And to pour even more salt into that wound, the victim had traded sex for other things in the past as well. It's how she got her chef husband a job at a trendy restaurant and it's how she got her own restaurant. When Creepy Food Critic told her that he loved her, she just laughed in his face. Man, that is one "Cold Hearted Snake!" One of the men she used was Dennis, who apparently has a history of sorts with Brenda. See, it's moments like these when I get the sudden urge to go to my Netflix queue and move The Closer Season 1 DVD set further up. Lastly, Brenda turned 40 and she wasn't too happy about it. The flowers were hysterical, and I almost died laughing every time she lugged them somewhere new! I mean, how funny was that shot of her in the bathroom stall with the flowers sitting outside??!! Why not just leave them in her office? I guess it's like her detectives said, she was acting stranger than usual.


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