If anyone still cares: thoughts about Emmy nominations!

( Blah blah, bitch complain, rinse repeat... )

I'm looking for reasons to keep watching these dreadful Emmys, and Jenna Fischer not winning is NOT HELPING. My girl was ROBBED! ROBBED I TELL YOU! Dammit!

(But because I am a glutton for punishment, I'm sort of Twittering about them, though, if anyone cares to read any further ire.)

Is it just me, or is the recently-revealed fact that Fox went with that loathsome dolt Ryan Seacrest when they could have had the brilliant Hugh Laurie as this year's Emmy host the very embodiment of everything you hate about American pop culture wrapped up into one neat little example too? Sigh.

( Okay, can we talk about these Emmy nominations, please? )

The Emmys air Sunday, September 16th at 8PM on Fox, so they'll be pulled off the air after the first hour performs disappointingly in the ratings.

Just announced: Ellen DeGeneres will be hosting the 2007 Oscar telecast.

I thought she was a good Emmy host in a tough year (2001), but the 2005 material was kind of lousy. But I rather like her in general, so all in all, I think this is good news. (Because you knew they weren't going to ask Jon Stewart back, right? And Conan just did the Emmys. And it's a couple of years too soon for Colbert, methinks.)

This is what the new rules hath wrought? It's a big ol' pile of mild WTF? and ho-hum, if you ask me.

( Oh, drama. )


( Comedy central. )

The telecast, hosted by Conan O'Brien (who was great fun four years ago, no?), airs Sunday, August 27th at 8PM Eastern on NBC.

Also, it's a bad sign when the funniest parts of your telecast are the clip packages the writing staffs of the nominated variety/music/comedy programs put together to play behind the reading of their names. I'm just saying.

Remind me why I watch the Emmys again? Oh, yes, because I'm shamelessly and masochistically addicted to awards shows. Pity me.

( And hear me bitch. )

Okay. Let's talk Emmy nominations.

Although I don't watch either show, I'm happy for Arrested Development and Joan of Arcadia fans. It's good to see some fresh blood up there. Because I am hateful (and an Aaron Sorkin devotee) I was hoping that another show would knock The West Wing out of the running this year. But as I didn't wake up shivering from hell having frozen over this morning, I knew that neither of the shows that I would have loved to see recognized -- Angel and Gilmore Girls, naturally -- were ignored as usual.

I'll be mad if that idiot Trump wins out over The Amazing Race, although I suppose that I should be grateful that they won last year so that we actually got to have this season, and will have at least one more.

Is the John Ritter nomination deserved, or kind of insulting? I can't decide. I'm not exactly an 8 Simple Rules-watching kind of girl. Although you know I wish that David E. Kelley would burn in the fiery pits of hack hell, I'm happy to see that delightful nutball James Spader recognized. He actually made me able to watch The Practice for more than five minutes without feeling the need to throw things at the television.

Let's face it. Something the Lord Made was pretty sucky. But if my man Alan Rickman shows up at the ceremony, I will forget that fact.

Mariska Hargitay? Really? Obligatory rumbling about the unappreciated genius of Lauren Graham goes here!

You know that the competition is insane in a category (in this case Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie) when Judy Davis looks like the weakest choice. And now I really have to move Prime Suspect up in my Netflix queue. Helen Mirren rules.

Who do I root for when I have to choose between Steve Buscemi and SpyDaddy? Argh! The horror!

I'm so happy to see Kristin Davis finally get nominated. Her performance was consistantly underrated across the life of the show. Kim Cattrall might have been doing all of the whooping and boob-flashing, but Davis could always break my heart. Do you think Cattrall will actually show up? Will the other three claw her to death if she does, screaming "movie!," "movie!"?

I didn't love the series finale of Sex and the City, but I'm glad to see that it was the high profile one to be nominated in the comedy category. Take that, dumbass Friends writers! Nice to see an episode of Scrubs there, too. I've only seen a few episodes, but they were pretty darn good.

Look, I love The Sopranos, but this past season was not up to the strength of the others, so it really shouldn't be stacking the drama writing category like that. It's good to see what I thought was the standout episode, a real stunner -- "Irregular Around the Margins" -- on that list. But there were episodes of my two pet screwed-because-they're-on-the-Frog programs that I thought were the best stuff that I saw last year. Someday, Amy Sherman-Palladino and Drew Goddard and Joss Whedon had better be up at that podium.

Expect more rambling on September 19th, when the awards are handed out.