Emmy Nominations…

Well I was so excited for this day….but alas I am now sad.  We got a whole big SNUB for my favorite Friday Night Lights.  The one show who really needed the Emmy Nods.  Sigh — this will most likely be the end of FNL so enjoy it this season while it last.  Otherwise YEAH for Kristin Chenoweth, Matt Dillion, and everyone in John Adams.  BIG YEAH for American Idol & Ryan Seacrest (although secretly I think Jeff Probst should TOTALLY win for Survivior — he is the BEST host in the biz…)   I am also totally surprised Pushing Daises did not make the cut, I thought it would WIN jeeeze….

EDIT: Just watched Neil Patrick Harris and Kristin Chenoweth read the nominations, they are so cute they should do a show together!!  Also I totally almost cried when they were both told they were nominated ahahah

Here are the nominations:

Outstanding Drama Series

• Boston Legal
• Damages
• Dexter
• House
• Lost (YEAHH — this is the ONLY show I watch on this list, that is sad!)
  
• Mad Men

Outstanding Comedy Series

• Curb Your Enthusiasm
• Entourage (woo)
  
• The Office (double woo!)
  
• 30 Rock
• Two And A Half Men (again..really?)
  

Outstanding Lead Actor In A Drama Series

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

Outstanding Lead Actress In A Drama Series

• Sally Field, Brothers & Sisters (yeah!)
  
• Kyra Sedgwick, The Closer
• Glenn Close, Damages
• Mariska Hargitay, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (yeah!)
  
• Holly Hunter, Saving Grace

Outstanding Lead Actor In A Comedy Series

• Tony Shalhoub, Monk
• Steve Carell, The Office  (woooo)
  
• Lee Pace, Pushing Daisies
• Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock
• Charlie Sheen, Two And A Half Men

Outstanding Lead Actress In A Comedy Series

• Julia Louis-Dreyfus, The New Adventures Of Old Christine
• Christina Applegate, Samantha Who?
• Tina Fey, 30 Rock
• America Ferrera, Ugly Betty
• Mary-Louise Parker, Weeds

Outstanding Lead Actor In A Miniseries Or A Movie

• Ralph Fiennes, Bernard And Doris
• Ricky Gervais, Extras: The Extra Special Series Finale
• Paul Giamatti, John Adams
• Kevin Spacey, Recount
• Tom Wilkinson, Recount

Outstanding Lead Actress In A Miniseries Or A Movie

• Catherine Keener, An American Crime
• Susan Sarandon, Bernard And Doris
• Judi Dench, Cranford (Masterpiece Theatre)
• Laura Linney, John Adams (HAS to win)
  
• Phylicia Rashad, A Raisin In The Sun

Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Drama Series

• William Shatner, Boston Legal
• Ted Danson, Damages
• Zeljko Ivanek, Damages
• Michael Emerson, Lost (WIN WIN WIN)
  
• John Slattery, Mad Men

Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Drama Series

• Candice Bergen, Boston Legal
• Rachel Griffiths, Brothers & Sisters  (yeah!)
  
• Chandra Wilson, Grey’s Anatomy
• Sandra Oh, Grey’s Anatomy
• Dianne Wiest, In Treatment

Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Comedy Series

• Jeremy Piven, Entourage (yeah!)
  
• Kevin Dillon, Entourage (DOUBLE yeah!)
  
• Neil Patrick Harris, How I Met Your Mother
• Rainn Wilson, The Office (yeaahh)
  
• Jon Cryer, Two And A Half Men

Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Comedy Series

• Kristin Chenoweth, Pushing Daisies  (SING LADY SING!)
  
• Jean Smart, Samantha Who?
• Amy Poehler, Saturday Night Live
• Holland Taylor, Two And A Half Men
• Vanessa Williams, Ugly Betty

Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Miniseries Or A Movie

• David Morse, John Adams
• Stephen Dillane, John Adams
• Tom Wilkinson, John Adams
• Denis Leary, Recount
• Bob Balaban, Recount

Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Miniseries Or A Movie

• Eileen Atkins, Cranford (Masterpiece Theatre)
• Ashley Jensen, Extras: The Extra Special Series Finale
• Alfre Woodard, Pictures Of Hollis Woods (Hallmark Hall Of Fame Presentation)
• Audra McDonald, A Raisin In The Sun  (love her! lets have Kristin & Audra win!)
  
• Laura Dern, Recount

Outstanding Guest Actor In A Drama Series

• Stanely Tucci, ER
• Glynn Turman, In Treatment
• Robin Williams, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
• Robert Morse, Mad Men
• Oliver Platt, Nip/Tuck
• Charles Durning, Rescue Me

Outstanding Guest Actor In A Comedy Series

• Shelley Berman, Curb Your Enthusiasm
• Rip Torn, 30 Rock
• Will Arnett, 30 Rock
• Steve Buscemi, 30 Rock
• Tim Conway, 30 Rock

Outstanding Guest Actress In A Comedy Series

• Polly Bergen, Desperate Housewives
• Kathryn Joosten, Desperate Housewives
• Sarah Silverman, Monk
• Carrie Fisher, 30 Rock
• Edie Falco, 30 Rock
• Elaine Stritch, 30 Rock (haha AND Elaine, we can have a musical theatre takeover of TV!)
  

Outstanding Guest Actress In A Drama Series

• Ellen Burstyn, Big Love
• Dihann Carroll, Grey’s Anatomy
• Cynthia Nixon, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
• Anjelica Huston, Medium
• Sharon Gless, Nip/Tuck

Outstanding Individual Performance In A Variety Or Music Program

• Jon Stewart, host; 80th Annual Academy Awards
• Stephen Colbert, host; The Colbert Report
• David Letterman, host; Late Show With David Letterman
• Don Rickles, performer; Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
• Tina Fey, host; Saturday Night Live

Outstanding Reality Program

• Antiques Roadshow
• Dirty Jobs
• Extreme Makeover Home Edition
• Intervention
• Kathy Griffin: My Life On The D-List

Outstanding Reality-Competition Program

• The Amazing Race (yeah!)
  
• American Idol (YEAH!!!)
  
• Dancing With The Stars
• Project Runway (yeah!)
  
• Top Chef

Outstanding Host For A Reality Or Reality-Competition Program

• Ryan Seacrest, American Idol  (WOO)
  
• Tom Bergeron, Dancing With The Stars
• Howie Mandel, Deal Or No Deal
• Heidi Klum, Project Runway (yeah!)
  
• Jeff Probst, Survivor (WIN IT!!!)
  

Outstanding Miniseries

• The Andromeda Strain
• Cranford (Masterpiece Theatre)
• John Adams
• Tin Man

Outstanding Made For Television Movie

• Bernard And Doris
• Extras: The Extra Special Series Finale
• The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
• A Raisin In The Sun
• Recount

Outstanding Variety, Music Or Comedy Series

• The Colbert Report
• The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
• Late Show With David Letterman
• Real Time With Bill Maher
• Saturday Night Live

Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming Less Than One Hour)

• Creature Comforts America
• King Of The Hill
• Robot Chicken
• The Simpsons
• SpongeBob SquarePants

More Emmy Shortlists!

Here are more of the shortlists for the Emmys. Get Excited!! No one from the Tudors….shame shame…

Thanks Gold Derby

Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy
Jon Cryer, “Two and a Half Men”
Kevin Dillon, “Entourage” (PUHLEASEEEEE let Drama be nominated again!!)
Justin Kirk, “Weeds”
Neil Patrick Harris, “How I Met Your Mother”
John Krasinski, “The Office” (sigh…love him)
Jack McBrayer, “30 Rock”
Tracy Morgan, “30 Rock”
Jeremy Piven, “Entourage” (Clearly)
Fred Willard, “Back to You”
Rainn Wilson, “The Office” (YEAH)

Best Lead Actress in a Drama
Patricia Arquette, “Medium”
Glenn Close, “Damages”
Minnie Driver, “The Riches”
Sally Field, “Brothers and Sisters” (YEAH)
Mariska Hargitay, “Law and Order: Special Victims Unit” (YEAH!)
Holly Hunter, “Saving Grace”
Elisabeth Moss, “Mad Men”
Mary McDonnell, “Battlestar Galactica”
Kyra Sedgwick, “The Closer”
Jeanne Tripplehorn, “Big Love” (TRIPLE YEAH! haha)

Best Leading Actor in a Drama
Gabriel Byrne, “In Treatment”
Kyle Chandler, “Friday Night Lights” (IN IT TO WIN!!!)
Bryan Cranston, “Breaking Bad”
Patrick Dempsey, “Grey’s Anatomy”
Michael C. Hall, “Dexter”
Jon Hamm, “Mad Men”
Eddie Izzard, “The Riches”
Hugh Laurie, “House”
Denis Leary, “Rescue Me”
James Spader, “Boston Legal”

Update from the Upfronts

Well this week is the TV Upfronts in NYC. Very exciting. Not all of the networks have presented their final schedules, but we def. know what the lineup will be for a few of them. Here is alll the scoop (compiled from Variety, Hollywood Reporter, Watch with Kristin, Ausiello at TV Guide, and The Futon Critic — you can find the links to all of them over there to the right)

(please be patient as it will take me awhile to compile all this information!!)

CBS:

Picked up SIX new series which include:

• Project Gary - A guy in his 30’s gets divorced, re-enters the dating pool and is forced to stay in touch with his ex-wife whom he hates because they have kids.
• Worst Week - A single camera comedy series based on the British limited run
  series about a couple’s nightmarish week before their wedding dealing with family and in-law politics.
• Eleventh Hour – A U.S. version of a British Miniseries. The series follows the adventures of a professor who is an adviser to a government scientific agency that troubleshoots threats stemming from or targeting scientific endeavor. He is joined by a female government operative who acts primarily as his bodyguard, as he has made powerful enemies through his work.
• The Mentalist - A dramatic series about a guy with psychic abilities who works as an independent contractor for the police.
• The Ex-List- A dramatic series based on an Israeli series about a woman who tracks down all of her exes after a psychic tells her that she has already met the man she is going to marry.
• Harper’s Island – Horror story that unfolds during the course of a season as a group of friends meet on an island off the Seattle coast for a destination wedding.

CANCELLED on CBS:

• Moonlight
• Shark
• Cane
• Jerico
• Kid Nation

RENEWED on CBS:

• The Unit
• The New Adventures of Old Christine
• Rules of Engagement
• How I met your Mother
• Cold Case
• Criminal Minds
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
• CSI: Miami
• CSI: New York
• Ghost Whisperer
• NCIS
• Numb3rs
• Without a Trace
• Survivor

NBC

PICKED UP (*W is for Winter):

• MY OWN WORST ENEMY -“The Bourne Identity” meets “Jekyll & Hyde” and centers on a mild-mannered suburban dad (Slater) who learns that his alter ego is a spy.
• KATH & KIM – A comedy series based on the hit Australian sitcom about a divorced woman, KATH, with a married daughter out of the house who dating a great guy and looking terrific. Just as things are about to get really serious with her boyfriend, KATH’s daughter KIM leaves her perfectly nice husband and moves in with her mother, upending her life.
  
• KNIGHT RIDER
• SNL Thursday Night Live – During the Elections
  
• CRUSOE -Adaptation of the classic novel follows a shipwrecked man and his loyal manservant as they struggle to survive on an island fraught with natural and man-made perils.
  
• W* THE PHILANTHROPIST – A dramatic series about an iconoclastic billionaire who looks
  for ways to distribute his wealth and help people by using all of his
  resources, regardless of the risk.
  
• W* THE OFFICE SPIN-OFF- TBD
  
• W* MERLIN – Merlin & his friend Prince Arthur grow up in Camelot where magic has been banned
  
• W* KINGS – A modern-day re-imagining of the historical story of King David, featuring a strong leader who unites two previously divisive factions.

CANCELLED on NBC:

• Las Vegas
• Bionic Women
• Journeyman

RENEWED on NBC:

• Chuck
• Heroes
• The Biggest Loser
• Law & Order:SVU
• Lipstick Jungle
• Deal or No Deal
• MY Name is Earl
• 30 Rock
• The Office
• ER
• LIFE
• W*Celebrity Apprentice
• W*Friday Night Lights (will be on DIRECT TV first)

ABC

PICKED UP:

• Life on Mars – A U.S. adaptation of the BBC series about a 21st century detective who is mysteriously transported back to the 1970′s.

CANCELLED:

• Big Shots
• Cashmere Mafia
• Men in Trees
• October Road
• Women’s Murder Club

RENEWED:

• Boston Legal
• Brothers & Sisters
• Desperate Housewives
• Dirty Sexy Money
• Eli Stone
• Grey’s Anatomy
• Lost
• Private Practice
• Pushing Daisies
• Ugly Betty

FOX:

PICKED UP:

• Dollhouse - A group of agents working for a shadowy organization are programmed with certain talents and personality traits for specific missions. Between assignments, they reside in a compound called the Dollhouse where their memories are wiped clean. When one member of the group becomes self-aware, she starts trying to find answers to who she really is and the company’s mysterious purpose.
• The Fringe - A dramatic series centering on a young female FBI agent who unites with a brilliant, and perhaps crazy institutionalized research scientist. Together, they confront powerful and unexplained phenomena.

CANCELLED:

• K-Ville
• New Amsterdam

RENEWED:

• Prison Break
• Terminator

THE CW:

PICKED UP:

• 90210 - A contemporary version of the 1990′s FOX teen-driven soap opera. The main family consists of a grandmother who was a huge star in the 1970′s, her do-gooder son and his athletic wife who are in the their late 30′s and their two teenagers. Their sixteen year old daughter is an aspiring and talented actress and their adopted son is also sixteen, highly intelligent, but with lingering behavioral issues.
• Surviving the Filthy Rich – The story follows a young smart woman who is fired from her job at a tabloid newspaper, only to be hired by a very wealthy man to be the live-in tutor and life coach for his teenage granddaughters.

CANCELLED:

• Life is Wild
• Alien’s in America

RENEWED:

• America’s Next Top Model
• One Tree Hill
• Reaper
• Gossip Girl
• Supernatural
• Smallville

The shows are back!!! (soon!)

According to Ausiello, we have return dates for some of our favorite shows!

Feb 27th
Men in Trees (11 new episodes left)

March 24th
The Hills

April 10th
The Office – 6 new episodes

April 14th
One Tree Hill (4 new episodes remain) – 6 additional episodes

APRIL 13th
Desperate Housewives – 7 new episodes

APRIL 20th
Brothers & Sisters – 4 new episodes

APRIL 21
Gossip Girl – 5 new episodes

APRIL 24th 
Grey’s Anatomy – 5 new episodes
Ugly Betty – 5 new episodes

APRIL/MAY
Lost (5 New episodes Left) – 5 additional episodes

No New Episodes until the Fall:
Dirty Sexy Money (3 new episodes remain)
Heroes
Private Practive
Pushing Daises

TBD:
Friday Night Lights
Prison Break

PS – I have been incrediably remiss in blogging Brothers&Sisters, I will get back on that ASAP!!

Kristin Chenoweth

SOO excited! Apparently Kristin Chenoweth *who some of you know from Pushing Daises, but who most of us know for her amazing work on Broadway* will be preforming a song from the movie Enchanted at the Academy Awards next week! Amy Adams is singing one of the songs, recreating her wonderfullness that she was on screen, and so Krisitn will sing the other song! How exciting!!

Cute Article

So the New York Post has done this great little piece with some of our favorite TV writers rewriting the season finales of our favorite shows. Def. read the ones about The Office and FNL, they are hilarious.

http://nymag.com/news/features/43592/

We are not at that stage of our friendship yet, please don’t cry in front of me

Pushing Daises:
Death by Scratch and Sniff!
So excited for this episode, featuring the amazing Christopher Sieber — ala Spamalot and Into the Woods Revival (more widely known as the dad from that Mary Kate & Ashley Olsen tv show). Wow the Rolling Pin joke was a bit umm weird? Hhaha Chuck wants to have mini pies (that are actually quite cute) but Ned doesn’t like hybrids (ahaha) so he says no! Wow the dead one this week is burnt to a crisp soo gross but the makeup is amazing — Emmy Nod eh? Loved the scene with Christopher aka Napoleon the ultimate smeller. Kristin Chenoweth putting on the Darling Mermaid Darlings flipper fins was so sweet. Olive is trying to get them back in the water, but Swoosie Kurtz says no way Hosea and she wants pie (which makes my dad say “Honey do we have any pie” to my mom awww good to be home.) Ned & Emerson again try to get some more information on Ned — and his past relationships. Bear Skin Rug what what!?! Aww Olive & Chuck are bonding! I can’t retype it but what the pop-up book seller said was funny. Ut oh — someone puts a dirty sock down Ned’s drain that says “You can’t Save Lenay” Ut oh someone is going to kill Christopher Seiber!! Now we see Paul Rubens aka PeeWee Herman as Oscar, Napoleons arch rival dum dum dum. hahahha Chlorine is like bottled sunshine *Who votes for Ellen Greene, Kristin Chenoweth and Christopher Sieber sing a little Broadway ditty now? yes!* Follow the yellow hick hose!! My dad brings up this great point — why do they have flashlights on when there are clearly lights all over the underground? True Story. Then a car blows up. This show spends a hell of a lot of money on special effects. OMG KRISTIN CHENOWETH IS A MERMAID. “We are not at that stage of our friendship yet, please don’t cry in front of me”. Why is emerson wearing a pink floral shirt with a yellow plaid jacket. Paul Rubens looks like Lyle Lovett. Turns out Christopher Seiber was setting up Paul Rubens..interesting. CS is just great he just sounds so articulate and is playing this part perfectly! Yeah Ellen Greene singing! Aww the sisters dive back into the water! And Emerson now enjoys pop up books. Aww Ned decides to let Chuck have cup-pies at the Pie Hole. Ut Oh — PeeWee Herman knows Chuck is dead!
Molly Shannon in next weeks episode! So excited!!

More to come!

In other news: Angela Kinsey is totally pregnant! Please tell me that if and when the strike is over that they will write this into the show and Angela will have Dwights babies or even better a Who’s the Daddy between Dwight & Andy.http://www.tmz.com/2007/11/21/new-kid-at-the-office/

Halloween

It’s 10:45 on Halloween night in Vegas. I’m watching TV AWESOME. Just a few more days here in Vegas thankfully and I will be back in LaLaLand. Recaps on TV Watching Tonight:

Pushing Daises:
Good Episode — I love the concept of this show, but it makes me sad that I’m not as captivated as I was with the first few episodes. I did enjoy the Kristin Chenoweth centered episode haha Cheno as a jockey, Hilarious! Next episode in two weeks looks better.

Dirty Sexy Money :
Loved this episode. THis is the best ensemble cast on TV right now. Isn’t Jeremy Darling just darling? I’m not sure quite how I feel about the whole Simon Elder subplot story thing. I’m glad Nick told Trip about why he was working with Elder… Brian and Brian JR. are really endearing.

America’s Next Top Model — recap week BOORING

Gossip Girl - Repeat of the Pilot BORING

Kid Nation – is it bad I enjoy watching this horrid show? Anyways, no DVR in Vegas so I will be watching this online tomorrow, recap to come.

Watching the commerical for Beowulf — looks awful. I remember reading that Senior Year in high school. meh.