Emmy Losers and Winners

Coulda, woulda, shoulda!

Comedy Series
Arrested Development FOX.....Shoulda
Desperate Housewives ABC
Everybody Loves Raymond CBS.....Winner
Scrubs NBC
Will & Grace NBC

Drama Series
Deadwood HBO
Lost ABC .....Winner..&..Shoulda
Six Feet Under HBO.....Coulda
24 FOX
The West Wing NBC

Lead Actor, Drama Series
Hank Azaria - Huff Showtime
James Spader - Boston Legal ABC ....Winner
Hugh Laurie - House FOX......Coulda
Kiefer Sutherland - 24 FOX....Shoulda
Ian McShane - Deadwood HBO

Lead Actress, Drama Series
Jennifer Garner - Alias ABC
Patricia Arquette - Medium NBC .....Winner
Mariska Hargitay - Law and Order Special Victim's Unit NBC
Glenn Close - The Shield FX
Frances Conroy - Six Feet Under HBO.....Shoulda

Lead Actor, Comedy Series
Jason Bateman - Arrested Development FOX.....Shoulda
Zach Braff - Scrubs NBC.....Coulda
Eric McCormack - Will & Grace ABC
Ray Romano - Everybody Loves RaymondCBS
Tony Shalhoub - Monk USA ......Winner

Lead Actress, Comedy Series
Marcia Cross - Desperate Housewives ABC
Teri Hatcher - Desperate Housewives ABC
Patricia Heaton - Everybody Loves Raymond CBS
Felicity Huffman - Desperate Housewives ABC....Winner
Jane Kaczmarek - Malcolm In The Middle FOX......Coulda, woulda, shoulda!

Good for William Shatner and Jon Stewart. Also House is one of the best shows on TV, even though it's predictable.

I watch this show with the sound off and only pay attention during the In Memoriam and the point when they announce the winner. The rest is still crap.

TV Guide: Sep. 18-24

On the cover Returning Favorites and an accompanying 52-page article of all the returning crap, nothing that interesting although the pictures are nice.

Good Things To Read Inside:

• Who will win, who should win; Insider opinions.


• Roush hopes season 2 of Lost doesn’t suck.


• Soap stars who are now real actors, Jensen Ackles, Molly Stanton, Shemar Moore and Jennifer Finnigan.

Threshold: Pilot

Threshold: Trees Made of Glass
A crystallized ball from space takes over a ship with Ethan, Lost, on board and starts transforming them into triple-helixed beings.
It’s an all star cast with Charles Dutton, Carla Gugino and Brent Spiner.
The obligatory Klingon joke was made, no Scully and Mulder references.
The show tries to be scary but comes off as typical Sci-Fi format. The aliens come and are trying to convert earthlings into aliens.

Sci-Fi Friday

Stargate SG-1: Prototype
They find Anubis’ test tube son. He’s bad and trying to evolve. They stop him and learn a little about the ancients.

Stargate SG-1: The Fourth Horseman
The lackluster season finale has the Ori moving in on the Jaffa. Louis Gosset Jr. as Gerak gets converted by the Ori.
Sam old ascended stalker comes back as a child to help. Meanwhile the U.S. is getting infected with an Ori plague.
The season ends without ever showing Ben Browders full potential.

Battlestar Galatica: Flight of the Phoenix
Best of the rest. Everyone is on edge and the must pull together during a computer-infection. The Cylons are coming and the only hope is Sharon II.
She helps and cripples the Cylon fleet making them easy targets.
Meanwhile the crew bonds over a new ship being made by hand.

Firefly: Out of Gas
Finally I hear the story of the crew. We find out that the year is 2517 A.D. and Earth is all “used up” and the humans go out and terraform every planet they find. The Alliance controlled all the best planets and decided to take over the galaxy.
This episode also had the crew reliving their first experiences on the ship.
Kaylee literally comes aboard with a bang even though I swear in previous episodes she said she’s an innocent pure girl with no experiences with men.

Head Cases: Pilot

Head Cases:
Chris O’Donnell as Jason is a lawyer who is having a nervous breakdown and losing everything that matters to him. Adam Goldberg as Shultz is just crazy and a lawyer. They both spend two months in a “special clinic” and are forced to work together. They compliment each other well and win their first case.
It’s not as bad as I first thought if they can reel in Goldberg the show could be a funny drama.

Tuesday Quick Reviews

Bones: Pilot
The half Chinese half Irish girl on the show is brash and outgoing, she flashes in the first scene of the show. There is history between the David Boreanaz as Booth and Emily Deschanel as Brennan, she is pop-culture clueless and he has a heart of gold.
There was an obligatory Scully & Mulder reference, also Brennan was orphaned at 15 with no clue of what happened to her parents.
Good chemistry but the show is missing something….Buffy, although Brennan is tough.

Supernatural: Pilot
Two brothers and a father lose their mother to a mysterious force. They hunt for a living but we don’t see any of the training and monster categories they explored through out the years.
Skip to present day and dad is missing, big brother is back and little bro is in college and in love. They go to find daddy and find a ghost instead, which they bust. When little bro comes back home his love is stuck on the ceiling dying like his mother did.
Obviously it’s the little bro that this thing is after because when he was a baby the thing was at his crib. The show ran 4-7 minutes long and taught us about good pentagrams and white women.
There was an obligatory Scully & Mulder reference.


Gilmore Girls: New and Improved Lorelai
Lorelai is getting married to Luke and still not talking to her daughter. Rory has to do 300 hours of community service after her arrest last season.
This show has the best pop-culture reference, no Scully & Mulder but one great Christopher Atkins and one funny Benson.
By the way I usually don’t judge people by looks but Alexis Bledel has the best ass on current TV since Jenna Von Oy. Lauren Graham and Liza Weil are also hot.

Yes, I know what your thinking, “try to justify watching this show by calling the chick hot”, yeah well it’s still true.

House: Acceptance
The best of all of the Tuesdays show had LL Cool J was a death row inmate who is dying. House is trying to save him and we see all the graphic details.
Dr. Cameron was being a big wuss when trying to tell her patient some real bad news, we find out that she married her husband because he was dying and she didn’t want to leave him alone.

Parallel Universe?

O.K. so I'm home early and what do I see this post election day, 4 mayors of NYC being interviewed...by Erica Kane.

A fictional character opened NASDAQ and got an exclusive with Rudy Giuliani on her fictional talk show on All My Children.

New Beginnings, the fake talk show also is also touring Grand Central Terminal.

I'll keep watching cause it's just so bizarre.

Lost E-Mail Update

Dear Frequent Flyer —

Greetings from the Writers' Room of Lost!

Well, folks, our September 21st premiere is almost upon us, and both the writers' room in Burbank and the production in O'ahu are working at a fever pitch to keep you in televisual goodness for the coming season.

Additionally, the good folk over at Entertainment Weekly magazine will be running a special advertising section on their September 16 edition (which will be available in newsstands on Monday, September 12). Inside will be an exclusive series of specially designed Lost trading cards.

Created with the help of the show's writers (that's us), the cards feature character information - both from the island and before the crash - as well as information about Flight 815, the mysterious hatch... and a few special surprises (but no, they won't tell you what's actually INSIDE the hatch — you're gonna have to tune in for that!).

There are 27 cards in total, and each issue will feature a set of nine for your trading enjoyment! Now, we know what you are thinking — "surely you aren't just sending us this email to sell us trading cards — right?" Right.

So here is a little more information about some of our upcoming episodes. Many of you frequent flyers already know the titles and writers of our first three episodes... and now, here are four and five!

Episode four will be titled "Everybody Hates Hugo," written by Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz, and directed by Alan Taylor. Episode five will be titled "...and Found," written by Executive Producers Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof — and if you've been watching, you probably know which characters will be featured in flashbacks therein — the clues are in the titles!

We hope you will join us on September 21st — until then, thanks for getting Lost with us!

I'm on the fence whether or not to buy this magazine, I get TV Guide, Giant, New York, FHM, Maxim, eWeek, Natural History, Smithsonian and half a dozen more. This may be one too many mags for me.

Prison Break: Cute Poison

Haywire doesn’t sleep and our hero has to get rid of him. Scofield racks his brain, literally, to get Haywire out and bring Spanish guy back.
The show is getting much more interesting as we see the “mysterious-cooking-woman” and the Secret Service just got Scofield transferred out of his brother’s prison.
Next weeks episode looks great.
Oh yeah the Cute Poison tattoo on his arm was a reminder on how to make a two part metal corroding acid made using Copper Sulfate and Phosphorus Acid or something like that, Cu Po.

Sunday Shows Are Short

The Simpsons: Bonfire of the Manatees
Starts with the new funny opening chalkboard and couch joke and then falls flat until the end with Burns, Smithers and the manatee.

The War at Home: Pilot
The laugh track made this show worse then it already was. They try so hard to be controversial that is stops being interesting. This show is crap as I predicted.

Family Guy: Peter’s Got Woods
James Woods starred in this funny episode. Way too many cultural references.

American Dad: Bullocks to Stan
Sick, I liked it.

The Flight That Fought Back
Very good re-enactment movie inter-spliced with actual recordings and family interviews luckily we didn’t see none of the whining from the widows from New York(Long Island).

Rome: An Owl in a Thornbush
Titus Pullo is turning out to be the star of this show he finds a woman and tons of gold in this short episode.

On September 11, 2001

AMERICA ATTACKED

Death and destruction came from the sky on what was a beautiful cloudless day as four hijacked jetliners were used as missiles. Over 3,000 people were killed when nineteen Islamic terrorists struck the Twin Towers and the Pentagon.

The World Trade Center towers were mortally wounded when two airliners struck. Horrified onlookers watched as people began leaping to their deaths as the fire and smoke raged in the towers. An hour later the tragedy worsened as both towers collapsed.

The fourth flight that was hijacked was taken down in a field in Pennsylvania after passengers revolted.

The first signs of trouble happened when some of the hijackers were flagged by a routine security check at boarding time. Some of these terrorist also carried box cutters although this was not against the airlines regulations.

The four flights were headed to California and carried fully loaded fuel tanks for the cross country journey.

As the flights were being hijacked air traffic controllers received messages from the cockpits. “We have some planes” said one terrorist over the radio. These devilishly clever hijackers also turned off the transponders, this way they would be harder to track.

Flight attendants bravely called their airlines main offices to alert them of the situation. Passengers called home desperate to speak with loved ones, some of the passengers told of bomb threats and stabbings aboard the airliners.

“Don’t worry dad, it will be quick” said a son to his father as the Pennsylvania flight went down.

President George W. Bush was in Florida at the time and did not initially return to the White House.

Fighter jets scrambled as orders to shoot down the airlines came from President Bush.

Mace was used during the terrorist takeover causing people to choke and vomit. During these agonizing moments President Bush remained seated in a Florida classroom.

Federal Aviation Administration officials were unprepared for this type of unprecedented attack. “This is a new type of war” said a commander at North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD).