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Desperate Housewives
Nominations for the 57th Emmy Awards were announced this morning and, as expected, ABC's
Desperate Housewives cleaned up with 15 nods, including best comedy series and bids for leading ladies
Marcia Cross,
Teri Hatcher and
Felicity Huffman.
Housewives tied NBC's terminally ill
Will & Grace for most nominated series. (No, that wasn't a typo.) ABC's other freshman smash,
Lost, scored 12 nods, including best drama series and supporting actors for both
Naveen Andrews and
Terry O'Quinn. Among the pleasant surprises: long-overdue nominations for NBC's
Scrubs and star
Zach Braff; supporting nods for
The Shield's
CCH Pounder and
Grey's Anatomy's
Sandra Oh; and best-actor nods for
Deadwood's [bleepin'] brilliant
Ian McShane and
House's crabby doc
Hugh Laurie. Of course, there were also plenty of glaring omissions, most notably WB's perpetually ignored
Gilmore Girls and its star,
Lauren Graham. (Note to Emmy voters: Wake the hell up!)
Rescue Me's
Denis Leary also was denied a nod, as was
Lost's
Matthew Fox,
Veronica Mars'
Kristen Bell, the entire supporting cast of
Scrubs,
24 scene-stealers
Shohreh Aghdashloo and
Mary Lynn Rajskub and two of
Housewives' best comic assets,
Eva Longoria and
Nicollette Sheridan. To see who else Emmy shafted, compare the
complete list of nominees with our
Dream Emmy Ballot. Suffice it to say, there's much work to be done.
