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And it's that time of the year again when we sit down on the couch, check apprehensively the nomination list and watch the shiny golden statues get distributed to deserving/undeserving people and cheer/boo to our heart's content.

This year, the Emmy Awards is hosted by Ryan Seacrest! who took the spot from Hugh Laurie, damn him, but oh well, since Hugh's probably gonna bag an award that's all okay; besides he is kinda hot =D  Yes, that adorable short really cute presenter whom you can watch in American Idol, E! Entertainment and you can listen to him on his own hot radio station!

The Emmys, just in case you don't know, is this uber prestigious awards given to TV Shows--Series or Commercial or Movies or One Shots--and the people who work hard on it--directors, actors, make up team, special effect team, sounds, lighting, and more.

I'm gonna be honest XD Usually, I don't really care about the Emmys. Heck, I hardly care about watching TV shows at all. I can probably list you TV shows I've shown interest in in one breath: According to Jim, My Wife and Kids, American Idol, Faith and Hope, House, Bones, Tru calling, Psych. House is probably still my favorite one to date. I mean, great concept--another medical show, yet not as soapy as Grey's Anatomy and more relaxed than ER, and yet with all the tension and mystery of CSI and Bones with perfect cast, great characters and awesome plots. But God, it took the Emmy people three bloody years to actually recognise this.

Of course, now that the show's bagged a "#1 Show on TV" title (based on its last episode for season 3), so many awards to list and not to mention two Golden Globes Hugh Laurie got two years in a row, it is only reasonable that it's actually considered for an Emmy award (actually, 4 of them), along with veterans like Sopranos, Grey's Anatomy and newcomer Heroes which I still don't really understand the hype around it.

Here's the nomination list from here. The following is just the more interesting ones for me to discuss. =D

Outstanding comedy series

Entourage

The Office

30 Rock

Two and a Half Men

Ugly Betty

Outstanding drama series

Boston Legal

Grey's Anatomy

Heroes

House

The Sopranos

Actor in a drama

James Gandolfini (The Sopranos)

Hugh Laurie (House)

Denis Leary (Rescue Me)

James Spader (Boston Legal)

Kiefer Sutherland (24)

Outstanding Children's Program

Hannah Montana 

Nick News With Linda Ellerbee: Private Worlds: Kids And Autism ·

That's So Raven

The Suite Life Of Zack & Cody 

When Parents Are Deployed 

Outstanding Guest Actor In A Drama Series

Boston Legal · Christian Clemenson as Jerry Hands Espenson

ER ·Forest Whitaker as Curtis Ames

House · David Morse as Michael Tritter

Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip · Eli Wallach as Eli Weintraub

Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip · John Goodman as Judge Robert Bebe

The Sopranos ·  Tim Daly as J.T. Dolan

Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup For A Series, Miniseries, Movie Or A Special

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation · Living Legend

Grey's Anatomy · My Favorite Mistake

House · Que Sera Sera ·

MADtv · 1203 ·

Nip/Tuck · Conor McNamara 2026 ·

So anyway, my take on the winner of outstanding comedy series will be ... hmm, this is hard leh. John Kerensky is frikkin'  hilarious in The Office, and 30 Rock can rock my socks off. Entourage and Ugly Betty will be the much more hyped up one, I guess, since Entourage is poster boy for HBO series and Ugly Betty's the in kinda show to watch. Based on what I like, then I'd say 30 Rock. But in a big picture kinda way, I think Ugly Betty will score, with America Ferrera bagging a lot of Best Actress-es lately.

Outstanding children's programme? WOAH 3 Disney Channel shows with two of my favorite ones: That's So Raven and Zack and Cody. Hannah Montana might win with its supposedly funniness, pretty casts and cool slick songs and dance moves, but if I gotta choose, then hah I'll go with Zack and Cody all the way since they've earned my love ever since their pilot episode!

4 Emmy nominations for House! Compared to what Heroes/Grey's Anatomy/ CSI/ Sopranos have, it's kinda too little, but I guess it's a start--maybe next year, with the supposedly (and I really hope) awesome Season 4 coming, the show might get nominated and bag a few more awards!

Yeah so anyway, Outstanding Drama? Woah, really, really tough competition going on there, and really as much as I love the show, I don't think Brian Shores' gonna have a trophy for this one sitting on his living room this year. For one thing, Sopranos had a great season and Heroes, well, Heroes is the other in thing to watch this year. I watched a few episodes of Boston Legal and I think it's kinda good too. And face it, House's Season 3 is not that good (especially compared with the first two seasons) and may not impress the juries that much.

But Best Actor, on the other hand? Well, let me just put it this way. Hugh Laurie has made House, that misanthropic, stubborn, pain in the ass, addicted-to-narcotics, snarky yet genius cripple a sex symbol. Oh and let's not forget that sexy American accent. Gregory House is one person that Hugh Laurie will never ever be, and guess what? He made House as belieavable (and likeable) as Conan Doyle made Sherlock Holmes realistic and loveable. Are the so-many-awards he'd gotten from playing the miserable diagonatician not a good enough proof? (And to digress, Hugh Laurie is a very down-to-earth, humble--he's even humble about being humble--and very very talented man. Has a degree in archaelogy. Wrote a bestseller and its sequel, coming soon. Played practically any instrument you can throw at him, most notably the piano, guitar, sax, drum and harmonica. An awesome, natural comedian. He's plain perfect.) I'm guessing that Gandolfini from Sopranos will be the tougher contender for the award against Hugh. But regardless if Hugh won the award or not (he sent Half-Wit for his nomination tape--i thought he'd sent something better--at least in my opinion--like The Jerk or ohmyfavorite Airborne?), we all know he's a wicked actor anyway. =D

Best guest actor? Okay, the whole Tritter thing to me, like many other people, actually got on my nerves. See, Tritter is this old detective who had herpes and went to the free clinic in the hospital House worked in to get checked up. He pissed House off and House retaliated by inserting a thermometer up his, uh, ass. That was fun. But what was not fun was when Tritter got obsessed with House's addiction to Vicodin, a pain med, which had more or less to do with the perpetual pain on his right leg, where he'd had an infarction. The whole thing escalated to an ugly mess and in the end, after almost losing his best friend and license to practise, House got back to popping Vicodin pills anyway. But although Tritter was such a 2D character and constantly grated on my nerves, David Morse deserved credit to actually play him well enough that Tritter's not that annoying to actually deter that many people from watching the show. It's not his fault that his character sucks--blame that on the storywriters. Sadly enough, competition's tough, and seeing that the Tritter character is not that impressive anyway, I don't think he'll get the award.

I realised that 3 out of the 5 nominations for best prothestic makeup are medical series. XD Well medical dramas have always had the most wicked make ups ever. They have to make it realistic enough when they're doing biopsies, surgeries, blah... and those have always impressed me. Que Sera Sera is a good example. I actually thought that the patient was really fat (Over 600 pounds, but the hospital couldn't measure more since the weight limit of the scale was 600 pounds) in the first place and it took me a while to figure out it was a fat suit. Of course, it could be me being slow, but still! Blah, I think CSI will win though, cause face it: they make up dead people & corpses and can make it spooky enough to haunt your dreams. XD

Anyway, I think there are some series that oughta be mentioned at least--nominated once or something 'cause they do deserve it. Psych for outstanding comedy series--I've yet to meet one person who doesn't laugh madly while watching it and Bones, at least for Prothestic Makeup or Props since those dead, decaying people are damn realistic!

House should at least get an Outstanding Cast nomination, cause hey, anyone who watches it will know they deserve it. Talking about a perfect cast, Robert Sean Leonard should actually get a nomination for best supporting actor. I know that Omar Epps sent in a tape (and so did Jen Morrison, Jesse Spencer and the rest?--but weren't confirmed) and he didn't get a nomination, although for that episode, he was spectacular as Dr Eric Foreman. RSL should send in a tape--heck, the Fox people should make him send a tape if he doesn't wanna XD (yes, I know he may rather do his crossword puzzle then actually get an Emmy). He is just awesome as Wilson and he defines the character and makes it so likeable it's worth an award. Hey, the man actually won a Tony award before; that just goes to show his acting prowess!

Oh well, we'll see how it turns out on Sunday. And next year's Emmy =D.

And on a random sidenote, I can't wait for House Season 4.