| LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The e-mail to ABC executive Jeffrey Bader from an old college friend leveled a complaint that had nothing to do with the network.
"I sure won't be watching the Emmys, because the nominations are so ridiculously stupid," wrote the irritated viewer, an archivist in Boston.
She's in the ranks of those riled up about TV academy rules changes that seemed to lead to nonsensical omissions. Where was ABC's "Lost," where was Hugh Laurie for Fox's "House," where were powerhouse mob couple James Gandolfini and Edie Falco for HBO's "The Sopranos"?
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Under the revised approach, blue-ribbon panels played an instrumental role in determining nominees in the categories of drama and comedy series -- previously decided by a general membership vote -- and lead actors and actresses in series.
The panelists screened episodes that were submitted by prospective nominees themselves as the best example of their work.
"Lost," last year's best drama winner, lost out, while Fox's "24" with 12 bids and ABC's "Grey's Anatomy" with 11 made out like bandits. Another beneficiary was Christopher Meloni, getting his first acting nod for NBC's "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" after seven seasons. The TNT miniseries "Into the West" with 16 nominations and HBO's "Elizabeth I" with 13 are the leading contenders.
"All the nominees are in there because the arguments they made (in their episode selections) won the day," said John Leverence, longtime awards director for the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
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In the case of "Lost," the convoluted series about stranded plane-crash survivors, the season-premiere episode submitted for it was "a head-scratcher with dangling plot lines and unexplained turns," he said. It didn't stand a chance with judges.
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I can't believe that Lost didn't get nominated! It's second season was as good as it's first, and it won last year! The episode submitted was fantastic, everyone here liked it immensely, but for some reason the judges thought that plot turns and unanswered bits were all wrong for the beginning of a new season. Please, that's what Lost is known for--plot turns and unanswered bits are what it does! Argh, this makes me angry that it wasn't nominated | |
