I won’t waste much space writing about this morning’s Emmy nominations because, following the trend of the past 35 years, most of my favorite shows were ignored. Mad Men did very well, and I have Season One in my NetFlix queue, so maybe I’ll be happy about that retroactively.

The absurdity begins and ends with Connie Britton’s lack of a Best Actress nod for Friday Night Lights. Never mind that the show itself was all but shut out, and Kyle Chandler ignored as usual…. Britton is the best freakin’ thing on TV and she couldn’t crack a lineup of the same old actresses (most of them movie stars turned TV stars) who’ve populated it for years? Give me a break. And why no Mary McDonnell, who was superb this year on Battlestar Galactica even if the series itself had a weak season?

Happy to see Lost and The Office there, and I hope they both win. Lost had maybe its best season yet and is fully deserving. But no doubt the Academy will bestow its award on Boston Legal or some such nonsense.

Oh well, enough of my yakkin’. At least the Oscars got it right.

And I thought the movie nominees were bad…

The less said about this batch the better.

No Office. No Lost. No Battlestar Galactica. No Friday Night Lights. I don’t watch The Wire, but if I did, I would surely be typing “No Wire.”

Series, drama:
Big Love, HBO
Damages, FX Networks
Grey’s Anatomy, ABC
House, Fox
Mad Men, AMC
The Tudors , Showtime

Actress, drama:
Patricia Arquette, Medium
Glenn Close, Damages
Minnie Driver, The Riches
Edie Falco, The Sopranos
Sally Field, Brothers & Sisters
Holly Hunter, Saving Grace
Kyra Sedgwick, The Closer

Actor, drama:
Michael C. Hall, Dexter
Jon Hamm, Mad Men
Hugh Laurie, House
Jonathan Rhys Meyers, The Tudors
Bill Paxton, Big Love

Series, musical or comedy:
30 Rock, NBC
Californication , Showtime
Entourage, HBO
Extras, HBO
Pushing Daisies , ABC

Actress, musical or comedy:
Christina Applegate, Samantha Who?
America Ferrera, Ugly Betty
Tina Fey, 30 Rock
Anna Friel, Pushing Daisies
Mary-Louise Parker, Weeds

Actor, musical or comedy:
Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock
Steve Carell, The Office
David Duchovny, Californication
Ricky Gervais, Extras
Lee Pace, Pushing Daisies

Supporting actress, series, miniseries or movie:
Rose Byrne, Damages
Rachel Griffiths, Brothers & Sisters
Katherine Heigl, Grey’s Anatomy
Samantha Morton, Longford
Anna Paquin, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Jaime Pressly, My Name Is Earl

Supporting actor, series, miniseries or movie:
Ted Danson, Damages
Kevin Dillon, Entourage
Jeremy Piven, Entourage
Andy Serkis, Longford
William Shatner, Boston Legal
Donald Sutherland, Dirty Sexy Money

Recently Alex and I were deciding what movie we might see next and it struck us that pretty much everything out there would probably pale in comparison to the stuff we’ve been watching lately on TV.

It seems we’re in a golden era of television entertainment where the finest character development, the most thoughtful treatment of major issues, the biggest laughs and the best-earned tears can all be found on the small screen.

Currently, I’m hooked on five shows each of which has a strong claim on the designation of the best frakkin’ show on TV.

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