
Steve Carell, Julianna Margulies
Break out your ballots and put on your thinking caps: It's time to make Emmy predictions.
TV's highest honor will be given out Sunday at the 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards (8/7c on Fox), where a ton of questions will be answered. Will Mad Men four-peat? Will bridesmaids Steve Carell, Jon Hamm, Hugh Laurie or Michael C. Hall finally become the bride? Will Emmy host Jane Lynch walk away an Emmy winner?
Check out the list of nominees, make your picks and see if they match up with ours.
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Steve Buscemi
A sign of things to come? Boardwalk Empire won a leading seven awards at the Creative Arts Emmys.
HBO's freshman drama took home statuettes Saturday night for casting, makeup, art direction, editing, visual effects, sound editing and cinematography. Game of Thrones and Mildred Pierce were also among the HBO programs recognized, bringing the cable channel's total tally to 15 wins.
See photos, nominees and more in our Emmys section
Boardwalk, which has already earned Golden Globes for the show and leading man Steve Buscemi, could do even more damage at next weekend's prime-time Emmy Awards, where the show looks to keep Mad Men from being named Outstanding Drama Series for a fourth consecutive year.
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James Cromwell, Gregory Itzin, Sarah Clarke
Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) is one heck of a CTU agent. Unfortunately, this superagent has encountered trouble in every shape and form over the last eight seasons of 24, from former CTU agent-turned-mole Nina Meyers to President Charles Logan to Jack's own father. TVGuide.com takes a look back at the best baddies in Jack's wake.
24 boss: There will be no "happily ever after" for Jack Bauer
Victor Drazen, Day 1
Drazen (Dennis Hopper), a Balkan warlord who...
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Elisha Cuthbert
24's Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) and less-than-plausible story lines have always had an uneasy alliance. Every really bad day of Bauer's packs so many plot devices into 24 hours it's hard to always keep things fresh. Here are a few of the most ridiculous plotlines the writers of the Fox series conjured up over eight seasons:
24 Boss: There will be no "happily ever after" for Jack Bauer
Teri Bauer Gets Amnesia (Day 1)
After being kidnapped and...
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Miami Medical
While directing Friday's episode of Miami Medical, former ER star Paul McCrane made sure of one thing.
"There are helicopters in Miami Medical," McCrane says with a laugh, "but fortunately I stayed far away."
Check out photos of the Miami Medical cast
McCrane, of course, played ER's Dr. Robert Romano, who lost his arm when he backed into the tail rotor blade of a chopper. One season later, McCrane's character was killed off when another helicopter crashed in the ambulance bay, crushing him.
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Theres a new chief in townagain And apparently shes just as horny as the last one I love that Lucien happened to be the beneficiary of Wexlers love the one youre with approach to relationships though I dont think that will end up satisfying him emotionally in the long run Despite some light moments in this episode directed by the former Dr Watch out for that helicopter Romano Paul McCrane there was some heavy stuff going on tonight Wexlers first night in her new job brought a tragic case of a misunderstanding gone terribly wrong The bigoted sons misguided attempt at revenge over his fathers life-altering injury went awry and resulted in the murder of the Hispanic womans son Meanwhile Pratt found himself at a career crossroads as he began to doubt his future at County and Tony juggled the demands of his own parenting adventures while handling the case of an injured boy and his emotionally-detached
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Nothing brings a family together like a bunch of purloined suitcase nukes. Or so we gather from 24 this season, which apparently has split the fan base over whether it was a good idea to reveal the Big Bad from this and last season to be Jack Bauers own brother: the sniveling Graemplayed by one of TVs most reliable go-to villains, former ER irritant Paul McCrane. (Think maybe Jack can arrange for a helicopter to fall on this creep as well?)As usual, Im willing to go along for the ride, trusting it wont take us into Kim Bauer-meets-the-cougar territory. This storyline is just the latest of many risks taken by this show, which has ruthlessly killed off favorite characters (starting with the death of Jacks wife Teri at the end of the first season) and brought Jack back from the dead, both literally and figuratively, prompting allegations of shark-jumping almost from the start. To which I say, and always have said: Phooey!I loved the way they revealed...
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Ladies and gentlemen readers of all ages my mind has officially been blown Mystery Bluetooth Man is Jacks brother Of all the possible answers to Whos this weasel pulling President Logans strings that we contemplated last season Im pretty sure I never would have come up with that one I still have no idea who the former Rocket Romanos working with or for but I cant wait to find out We know hes got issues with Jack both professionally to surveillance guy We should have killed Jack when we had the chance and personally to his wife the ubiquitous Rena Sofer You werent over Jack when we got married and youre still not But beyond that nothing but question marks Meanwhile I guess Jacks little crisis of faith has passed for the time being mere minutes after stepping down from his post as Worlds Most Bad-Ass Hero he was back in action scaling apartment buildings and hoisting helicopter-crash victims to safety Cue awesome explosion And this may say
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Infamous show-killer Rena Sofer (Blind Justice, Coupling) is joining 24 for a mult-episode arc, a well-placed source confirms. The General Hospital Emmy winner will play the wealthy, Bel Air wife of returning evildoer Graham, played by Paul McCrane. (And I was only half-joking about the show-killer thing. Me like Sofer.) Also, ex-Surface star Lake Bell will reprise her Boston Legal role of Sally Heep for two episodes this November. Now in totally unrelated news, our friends up North weren't the only ones who had the privilege of watching the second episode of Grey's Anatomy a whole week ahead of time. (Hint: I'm talking about me!) And as much as I loved last night's premiere, Episode 2 is so much better. You guys are gonna flip!
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Question: I love that 24's Jack Bauer is smarter than I am and knows a million things that I couldn't even hope to imagine. (who knew you could steer a plane from some cables in the cargo hold?) So why, after retrieving a recording that led to the murder of several friends and the near-fatal shooting of his lover, and that necessitated the hijacking and crash-landing of a freakin' plane, did he not tell CTU to make a copy of the darn thing? It seemed like such the obvious move to make and yet it never occurred to him — or anyone else — to do it? This is the first time I can remember that I felt like I was seeing the plot instead of the story — as if the only reason they didn't copy the tape was so Miles could betray Karen, keep the president from taking the cowardly way out and give Paul McCrane some more creepy scenes to play. It just didn't feel — and I can't believe that I'm about to use this word in the context of 24 — real. I usually love to sit back (well, on the edge of my seat) ...
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