Awards Watch: Ugly Emmy

While I don't necessarily cover a lot of television here, I did want to give a shout out to some of my personal favorites that made the cut for this year's Emmy Awards, announced this morning. If anything, it gives you an idea of the TV shows I like. And the nominees are:

• Brothers & Sisters: The crappy Boston Legal was nominated instead of this? At least Sally Field and Rachel Griffiths were.
• Dancing With the Stars and Top Chef (come on, admit it, you watch them) are both up for the "reality competion" award.
• Desperate Housewives: Three of them made the grade - Felicity Huffman, Dixie Carter and Laurie Metcalf.
• Dirty Jobs: Mike Rowe is a stud. That's all I'm going to say.
• Grey's Anatomy: A Best Drama nominee even with their rough third year, and boy, they sure racked 'em up in the acting races: T.R. Knight, Katherine Heigl, Chandra Wilson, Sandra Oh, Kate Burton and Elizabeth Reaser.
• Heroes: A surprise nominee for Best Drama Series, Masi Oka was the sole hero singled out.
• Lost: Michael Emerson and Terry O'Quinn were mentioned ... but no Elizabeth Mitchell!
• Smallville: I love my Superman wherever I can get him.
• The Sopranos: The controversial final season netted 16 nods, more then any other series, including ones for Best Drama, James Gandolfini, Edie Falco, Michael Imperioli, Aida Turturro, Lorraine Bracco and Tim Daly.
• Ugly Betty: The most nominated comedy series with 11 nominations, including nods for Best Comedy and actors America Ferrera (yeah!), Vanessa Williams (woo-hoo!), Judith Light and Salma Hayek.

In addition to Knight, out-and-proud actors Neil Patrick Harris (How I Met Your Mother) and Ian McKellen (for his guest stint on Extras) were also nominated.

And there was some movie-related specials in the mix: AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Cheers: America's Most Inspiring Movies, Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters, Star Wars: The Legacy Revealed, TCM's Brando, and of course The 79th Annual Academy Awards, hosted by our gal Ellen DeGeneres, who received a nomination herself. The Golden Globes and Tony Awards were also singled out.

And by far the oddest nominee? How about Justin Timberlake and his five (!) co-composers for the song "Dick in a Box" from Saturday Night Live. Too bad they don't perform the nominated songs on the show like at the Oscars. (And no, the song title was not censored on the official nominees list, available here.)

Links via DSC.Discovery.com and Emmys.com.