Emmy nominations: Who got skunked!
Ah, the Emmy nominations that might have been! Below is a list of the programs and stars that got snubbed by the 14,000 voters in the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Here is a full list of nominees.
* = Top 10 Semi-Finalist in 2008
** = Nominee in 2008
NOT-SO-BEST DRAMA SERIES
"Battlestar Galactica"
"Boston Legal" **
"ER"
"Friday Night Lights" *
"Grey's Anatomy" *
"In Treatment"
"The Mentalist"
"The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency"
"Rescue Me"
"The Shield"
"True Blood"
"The Tudors" *
"24"
NOT-SO-BEST COMEDY SERIES
"The Big Bang Theory"
"Californication"
"Desperate Housewives"
"Scrubs"
"Two and a Half Men" **
"Ugly Betty" *
"United States of Tara"
NOT-SO-BEST MINISERIES
"House of Saddam" (HBO)
"Maneater" (Lifetime)
NOT-SO-BEST TV MOVIE
"Accidental Friendship"
"America"
"Front of the Class"
"Gifted Hands"
"God on Trial"
"Jesse Stone: Thin Ice"
"Living Proof"
"My Zinc Bed"
"Natalee Holloway"
"Sybil"
NOT-SO-BEST REALITY PROGRAM
"Celebrity Rehab"
"Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" **
"Man vs. Wild"
"Penn & Teller ... !"
NOT-SO-BEST REALITY-COMPETITION PROGRAM
"America's Next Top Model"
"Celebrity Apprentice"
"So You Think You Can Dance"
"Survivor"
NOT-SO-BEST HOST OF A REALITY PROGRAM
"America's Next Top Model" (Tyra Banks)
"So You Think You Can Dance" (Cat Deeley)
"Deal or No Deal" (Howie Mandel) **
"Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" (Ty Pennington)
"Celebrity Rehab" (Dr. Drew Pinksy)
NOT-SO-BEST ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES
Kyle Chandler, "Friday Night Lights" *
Michael Chiklis, "The Shield"
Denis Leary, "Rescue Me" *
Ian McShane, "Kings"
Edward James Olmos, "Battlestar Galactica"
James Spader, "Boston Legal" **
Kiefer Sutherland, "24"
NOT-SO-BEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES
Patricia Arquette, "Medium" *
Angela Bassett, "ER"
Calista Flockhart, "Brothers & Sisters"
January Jones, "Mad Men"
Evangeline Lilly, "Lost"
Mary McDonnell, "Battlestar Galactica" *
Anna Paquin, "True Blood"
Jill Scott, "No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency"
Jeanne Tripplehorn, "Big Love" *
NOT-SO-BEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES
David Duchovny, "Californication" *
Lee Pace, "Pushing Daisies" **
NOT-SO-BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES
Marcia Cross, "Desperate Housewives" *
America Ferrera, "Ugly Betty" **
Teri Hatcher, "Desperate Housewives"
Felicity Huffman, "Desperate Housewives" *
Eva Longoria-Parker, "Desperate Housewives" *
Amy Poehler, "Parks and Recreation"
Illustration: Ty Wilson
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I know it’s not a big deal, but I’m growing to hate the animation voters and they’re lame picks every year. Where is Venture Brothers? or Metalocalypse? Don’t get me wrong the simpsons is always going to get a nod, it’s just a part of life no matter how bad they get. South Park,again, predictable but still great. Robot Chicken(cool! okay choice). American Dad!?!?! Ahh you kidding? Really!?!?!
Animation wise I just wish for once the best shows were actually honored and not the ones with the most money or on the best networks.
Posted by: bobby | July 24, 2009 at 01:25 PM
Overall this is a great year for nominations (especially the 3 supporting 30 rock actors)...but I think the biggest snubs were the supporting and guest stars of Lost which boasts some of the best actors working in tv (including Elizabeth Mitchell--who shouyld have won at least 1 emmy by now).
Posted by: Andrew | July 16, 2009 at 04:59 PM
Desperate Housewives' 1st season no win Emmy. It's sucks. This tv show is down every season but the 5th season have very good comedy moments. Teri Hatcher deserves a nomination. Neil McDonough (Dave) too.
The joke comedy (a lot stupid) is nominated in comedy Emmy (Family Guy, How I meet your mother, ...) but it´s not good quality. The comedy actors nominated are not good actors, they are just jokers.
Posted by: joseph | July 16, 2009 at 11:14 AM
It' not like they did not nominate the same shows and actors...do they even take a look at the other shows? I am not going to watch the Emmys again this year...nothing new to see...
Posted by: AnAwardForEmily | July 16, 2009 at 09:10 AM
Skunked? Borderline obscene that BSG took it up the you-know-what. We need to have somebody out there with big bucks (I'm looking at you, Mark Cuban) to start up an opposition group to the Emmys, to start a show that recognizes the true best in network TV, without out-of-touch voters who vote rote, who are too much taken in with the HBO aura, who are a bit more representative of a balance between mainstream American tv viewers and what critics like. It may turn out to be a good thing that this show is going to be annihilated in the ratings by NBC's Football Night in America, with the first NFL game at the Dallas Cowboys' new mega-stadium. The best drama and the best comedy of the season (Party Down for the latter) were given the brushoff. Well done, Emmy. Well done you.
Posted by: Paul | July 16, 2009 at 06:33 AM