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The 61^st Emmy Prime­time awards cer­e­mony was held last night. Host for the night was Neil Patrick Har­ris and he did an excel­lent job mak­ing this one of the most suc­cess­ful Emmy award cer­e­monies to date. There were few sur­prise awards win­ners, but over­all noth­ing new. And some, espe­cially the main awards were given to, in my opin­ion unde­serv­ing series or actors, once again mak­ing such events rather pointless.

The big win­ners in the terms of best com­edy and drama series are 30 Rock and Mad Man. I really liked the first sea­son of 30 Rock, but every­thing after that was not even close in terms of qual­ity, and I can’t under­stand how such (at best) aver­age com­edy can get so many awards. As for Mad Men, I watched the first sea­son and I find the series rather bor­ing, and Jon Hamm act­ing unmem­o­rable, even that he got many awards for it.

As for the actors here is the list of winners:

• Out­stand­ing Lead Actor in a Drama Series:
  Bryan Cranston, Break­ing Bad (AMC)
• Out­stand­ing Lead Actress in a Drama Series:
  Glenn Close, Dam­ages (FX)
• Out­stand­ing Sup­port­ing Actress in a Drama Series:
  Cherry Jones, 24 (Fox)
• Out­stand­ing Sup­port­ing Actor in a Drama Series:
  Michael Emer­son, Lost (Fox)
• Out­stand­ing Lead Actor in a Com­edy Series:
  Alec Bald­win, 30 Rock (NBC)
• Out­stand­ing Lead Actress in a Com­edy Series:
  Toni Col­lette, United States Of Tara (Showtime)
• Out­stand­ing Sup­port­ing Actor in a Com­edy Series:
  Jon Cryer, Two And A Half Men (CBS)
• Out­stand­ing Sup­port­ing Actress in a Com­edy Series:
  Kristin Chenoweth, Push­ing Daisies (ABC)

Both com­edy sup­port awards were def­i­nitely a sur­prise and the same goes for lead and sup­port­ing actors in drama series. I was glad to see Michael Emer­son get­ting award for his amaz­ing role of Ben Linus on Lost. Also, I am a big fan of Push­ing Daisies, series that is unfor­tu­nately can­celled and is great that the series is awarded one last big award.

Jon Cryer is rather sur­pris­ing win­ner, but in my opin­ion he totally deserves the award after three pre­vi­ous nom­i­na­tions and his con­stantly excel­lent per­for­mance on Two and a half men. As for the series Dam­ages and United States of Tara, I tried to watch both, but again I didn’t like both, so I am not sure about awards going to actresses in both shows, even if the win­ner is Glenn Close.

Pity that Hugh Lau­rie after four nom­i­na­tions has still to win Emmy, and that also proves how point­less awards are that fail to rec­og­nize his truly amaz­ing role on House M.D. Shame on Emmys.

For the full ist of win­ners, check the offi­cial Emmy website.

Source: http://tv.blog.imdb.net/
Emmy: http://www.emmys.com/nominations