Winners of 2006 Emmy Awards

NBC aired the 2006 Emmy Awards tonight. No real suprises and except for the opening clip and some amusment from Stephen Colbert and John Stewart, there wasn't much amusement. Really just a by the book award show.

A complaint I have is seeing the one off shows like Oscar Telecast and Barry Manilow being in the same category as the talk shows and late night programs. One is a one time a year event, planned months ahead and the other is cranked out on a daily basis and don't allow for quite the fine tuning. For them to produce gems on a daily bais deserves at least a seperate category but realistically these one-off programs shouldn't be nominated.

Final complaint, quit kissing movie star asses. I get tired of being able to predict a winner not because their television performance was that great but because their movie background gives them a one up. They neither deserve it and doing it cheapens the television medium.

The winners (with my predictions from July):
DRAMA SERIES
"24", FOX (should win)
COMEDY SERIES
"The Office", NBC (was wrong)
MINISERIES
"Elizabeth I", HBO (was wrong)
MADE FOR TELEVISION MOVIE
"The Girl In The Café", HBO (was wrong)
REALITY COMPETITION PROGRAM
"The Amazing Race", CBS (should win)
ACTOR IN A COMEDY
Tony Shalhoub, "Monk" (was wrong)
ACTOR IN A DRAMA
Kiefer Sutherland, "24" (will win)
ACTOR IN A MINISERIES OR MOVIE
Andre Braugher, "Thief" (didn't call)
ACTRESS IN A COMEDY
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, "The New Adventures Of Old Christine" (should win)
ACTRESS IN A DRAMA
Mariska Hargitay, "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" (should win)
ACTRESS IN A MINISERIES OR MOVIE
Helen Mirren, "Elizabeth I" (didn't call)
SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A COMEDY
Jeremy Piven, "Entourage" (was wrong)
SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMA
Alan Alda, "The West Wing" (was wrong)
SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A MINISERIES OR MOVIE
Jeremy Irons, "Elizabeth I"
SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY
Megan Mullally, "Will & Grace"
SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA
Blythe Danner, "Huff"
SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A MINISERIES OR MOVIE
Kelly Macdonald, "The Girl In The Café"
GUEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY
Leslie Jordan, "Will & Grace"
GUEST ACTOR IN A DRAMA
Christian Clemenson, "Boston Legal"
GUEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY
Cloris Leachman, "Malcolm In The Middle"
GUEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMA
Patricia Clarkson, "Six Feet Under"
INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE IN A VARIETY OR MUSIC PROGRAM Barry Manilow, "Barry Manilow: Music And Passion"
VARIETY, MUSIC OR COMEDY SERIES
"The Daily Show With Jon Stewart"

One thing learned, I can't predict a thing. I was called the Keifer win and not much else, good thing didn't place bets on this.