Thursday, June 12, 2008

A BALLOT WE CAN COVER: Among the topics discussed in the boardroom of ALOTT5MA Plaza last night was this year's Official Emmy Ballot for performers, which is well worth your time. A few interesting and oddball categorizations:
  • Sci-Fi appears to have submitted Eureka as a comedy and Battlestar Galactica as a drama, but has not made any submission for Doctor Who in acting categories (nor does BBC America appear to have made any submissions for Torchwood). Despite comic elements, Burn Notice, Boston Legal, Dirty Sexy Money, Big Shots, and Men in Trees are all deemed dramas.
  • Also competing in the "Comedy"category, despite being hour-longs with dramatic elements? Chuck, Pushing Daisies, and Reaper (though the only performer submitted from Reaper appears to be "Ray Wise as Satan").
  • Gossip Girl submits all actors except for Penn Badgley in the supporting category (not that any are serious competitors).
  • The female ADA on Law and Order is deemed to fall into "lead," as does Elisabeth Moss for Mad Men.
  • The only acting submissions from HSM2 are Efron and Hudgens (lead) and Bleu (supporting). No Tisdale.
  • While performers from SNL have previously been eligible in the variety/music/comedy performer category (where they compete with late night hosts and aging musicians who steal awards from Stephen Colbert), they are being considered as supporting comedy actors this year.
  • Apparently, the line between guest star and supporting actor is somewhat elastic this year. Even though Nathan Fillion was billed as a guest star on Desperate Housewives, he's being considered a "supporting actor," while Mrs. Landingham, who appeared in at least as many episodes, is a "guest actress." (As is Anne Dudek.)
  • Save for Steve Carell, the entire cast of The Office is supporting, and save for Josh Radnor, so is the entire cast of HIMYM.
  • The guest star role descriptions are uniformly amusing, particularly the ones from Curb Your Enthusiasm.

I'm sure there are other things worthy of discussion, but I really ought to get some work done.

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