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Here is a list of the winners for the 2008 Emmy Awards. I just have a few comments:

DRAMA
Best Series: Mad Men
Best Actor: Bryan Cranston – Breaking Bad
Best Actress: Glenn Close – Damages
Best Supporting Actor: Zeljko Ivanek – Damages
Best Supporting Actress: Dianne Wiest – In Treatment
Best Directing: Greg Yaitanes – House
Best Writing: Matthew Weiner – Mad Men

COMEDY
Best Series: 30 Rock
Best Actor: Alec Baldwin – 30 Rock
Best Actress: Tina Fey – 30 Rock
Best Supporting Actor: Jeremy Piven – Entourage
I am very upset about this decision because Jeremy Piven won last year and I don’t believe he is that good to win two years in a row, whereas  Neil Patrick Harris is a comedic genius in How I Met Your Mother, nevermind everything else he does, and he deserved this award especially after already facing one loss to Jeremy Piven last year. 
Supporting Actress: Jean Smart – Samantha Who
Best Directing: Barry Sonnenfeld – Pushing Daisies
Best Writing: Tina Fey – 30 Rock

I believe in this category 30 Rock deserved to take home four awards because it is the best comedy series on television at the moment.

MINISERIES
Best Miniseries: John Adams
Best Lead Actress: Laura Linney – John Adams
Best Lead Actor: Paul Giamatti – John Adams
Best Supporting Actress: Elieen Atkins – Cranford (Masterpiece Theatre)
Best Supporting Actor: Tom Wilkinson
Best Directing: Jay Roach – Recount
Best Writing: Kirk Ellis – John Adams
Best Made for TV Movie: Recount

VARIETY, MUSIC, OR COMEDY
Best Series: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
Best Directing: Louis J. Horvitz – 80^th Annual Academy Awards
Best Individual Performance: Don Rickles – Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
Best Writing: The Colbert Report

REALITY
Best Program: The Amazing Race
Last year and this year there were the same five shows nominated, The Amazing Race, American Idol, Dancing With The Stars, Project Runway, Top Chef, and this year The Amazing Race won just as it did last year.  But I really don’t understand why this show won.  I really don’t think it’s that popular, I didn’t even realize that it was still on the air.  Whereas the other four nominees I hear hype about all the time and I’ve watched all of them (and I’m not even a big reality fan) and think they are much more entertaining and interesting shows than The Amazing Race, (including American Idol which I don’t even like but I can’t ignore its obvious popularity).
Best Host: Jeff Probst – Survivor
Another decision that I am very upset about because I believe Tom Bergeron of Dancing With The Stars was much more deserving of this award than Jeff Probst.  Bergeron is just all around a great host and he has more history to prove it by his past hosting duties with America’s Funniest Videos and Hollywood Squares.

Overall for the Reality Show category, maybe since it is a newer category, I think they were way off the mark and need a better way of judging what makes good reality television.

P.S. Just a reminded there are two great shows premiering tonight, the two shows that I think were underestimated at the Emmy Awards and you should check out:

Dancing With The Stars (with the amazing Tom Bergeron as host) on ABC at 8pm
How I Met Your Mother (with the hilarious NPH as Barney) on CBS at 8:30pm

-Shavon Keller

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