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Well it has got to be indigestion, as I have only managed to get 2 picks right. Ah well. I can understand why they have given Sopranos the Emmy for the best drama series, but I do think Heroes were robbed.

Also James Spader? I have nothing against the guy, however I was 100% sure James Gandolfini would take it home because well a) he is a good actor b) Sopranos is over. I do wonder how do you accept an award when you have Tony bleeding Soprano sitting there, come on he has smashed heads for less.

I’m glad Locke, sorry Terry Quinn had won even though 3^rd season of Lost was not my favorite by any measure. He has stared in numerous TV series, but Lost really gave him an opportunity to shine. There is a thin line between lunacy and brilliance and he has managed to embody it almost flawlessly in the character of Locke.

Ricki Gervais was the only winning Brit of the night (good on him, he is brilliant). I do hope this does get Hugh Laurie even more depressed. You are excellent Hugh dear, you don’t need a bunch of stuffy old foggies to tell you are talented.

Now Katherine Heigl has won for best supporting actress. I did find her a bit irritating in the last season of Greys but I guess that can be down to her dramatic acting or something. However I could never quite understand what exactly happens when you have people from the same series competing in the same category. I mean surely there must have been some scuffles breaking out. Just imagine a catfight between Katherine Heigl and Sandra Oh, hm I wonder who would win? Or a fistfight between Terry O’ Quinn and Michael Emerson? I do think Locke would win that one.

List of winners

Outstanding Drama Series: The Sopranos

Outstanding Comedy Series: 30 Rock

Outstanding Lead Actor in A Drama Series: James Spader, Boston Legal

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series: America Ferrera, Ugly Betty

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series:Sally Field, Brothers & Sisters

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series: Ricky Gervais, Extras

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama: Terry O’Quinn, Lost

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series: Katherine Heigl, Grey’s Anatomy

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“Life Was His Sentence, Life is What He Got Back!” with this sentence authors described NBC’s new crime drama Life. The show follows police detective Charlie Crews, played by British actor Damian Lewis, who was wrongfully convicted to life sentence for triple homicide, spent twelve years in jail before he was exonerated. During his stay in prison he turns to Zen teachings to keep his sanity (?). This Zen practice took so good that he doesn’t even mind when his friend/business manager/ex-convict runs his new Bentley over with a tractor; and as a special bonus Zen practice allows him to talk to dogs and probably other farm animals. Not really sure about the farm animals, but we’ll see, I hope he does. OK, enough sarcasm, even with all the Zen aspects, this is actually a quite good show; as far as I can tell from watching only one episode. The performances are really good, Damian Lewis is excellent portraying convict/policemen, and his partner Dani Reese played by Sarah Shahi, to me an unknown actress, is believable as detective/drug addict. The cast is strengthened by Adam Arkin who portrays Ted Early, Crews’ business manager/white-collar ex-convict. Before I write another slash and turn poor people who read this blog off this show, I’ll finish this post. Just watch it; it has potential as long as they don’t take the Zen aspect of the show too far.

NOTE TO SELF: Remember the time of the simple storylines like:

Here’s the story of a lovely lady
Who was bringing up three very lovely girls.
All of them had hair of gold, like their mother,
The youngest one in curls.

Here’s the store, of a man named Brady,
Who was busy with three boys of his own,
They were four men, living all together,
Yet they were all alone.

Till the one day when the lady met this fellow
And they knew it was much more than a hunch,
That this group would somehow form a family.
That’s the way we all became the Brady Bunch.
The Brady Bunch,

That’s the way we all became the Brady Bunch.
The Brady Bunch.

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