SAG Nominees for TV '06

For Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series
James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano (Sopranos)
Michael C. Hall as Dexter Morgan (Dexter)
Hugh Laurie as Dr. Gregory House (House)
James Spader as Alan Shore (Boston Legal)
Kiefer Sutherland as Jack Bauer (24)

House!

For Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series
Patricia Arquette as Allison Dubois (Medium)
Edie Falco as Carmela Soprano (Sopranos)
Mariska Hargitay as Detective Olivia Benson (Law & Order SUV)
Kyra Sedgwick as Dep. Chief Brenda Johnson (The Closer)
Chandra Wilson as Dr. Miranda Bailey (Grey's Anatomy)

Whooohoo, the Nazi!!! But no Sally Field for Brothers and Sisters?

For Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series
Alec Baldwin as Jack Donaghy (30 Rock)
Steve Carell as Michael Scott (The Office)
Jason Lee as Earl Hickey (My Name is Earl)
Jeremy Piven as Ari Gold (Entourage)
Tony Shalhoub as Adrian Monk (Monk)

Personal choice - Jeremy Piven
Everyone's choice - Steve Carell
Choice I can applaud to - Alec Baldwin
But everyone in this group's all good anyway. Eh.

For Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series
America Ferrera as Betty Suarez (Ugly Betty)
Felicity Huffman as Lynette (Desperate Housewives)
Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Christine Campbell (New Adventures of Old Christine)
Megan Mullally as Karen Walker (Will & Grace)
Mary-Louise Parker as Nancy Botwin (Weeds)
Jaime Pressly as Joy (My Name is Earl)

America! She deserves it!

For Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
24
Boston Legal
Deadwood
The Sopranos
Grey's Anatomy

Dang, hard to say!

For Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series
Desperate Housewives
Ugly Betty
Entourage
The Office
Weeds

The Office

Airs January 28th.

Full Moon

A dear friend told me earlier, there's a full moon tonight. No wonder I don't like how today is turning out, it's like my emotion's on a roller-coaster ride. I woke up feeling haggard and harassed...and I have not even started doing anything yet. I flinch at the very little things (things my husband does), snap at people who ask too many questions (my son, for one) and I am intolerant of what is going on around me (everything else).

But there are instances when I sneak at my son's room and give him surprise bear hugs or I pinch my husband's thigh area...because I just feel like it. My son said I was acting very weird --- one minute I was all snarly, the next minute I was goofy. Maybe tonight I will cry, for no reason at all. I'm not menopausal yet (!!!). So, it must be the full moon....

It must also be the full moon that's messing up our internet connection. It is slooooooooooooow, it took me 30 minutes to login to Blogger.

My D/L-ings pretty slow too, I could just cry! (---> there's my reason for crying tonight!) Tomorrow is officially when all the good shows are coming back on air and this is my situation.

It just blows, man.

I'm forced to do something else...something more substantial and productive. Yikes. LOL!

Robin Hood BBC

BBC Channel's 2006 version of Robin Hood looked promising at first...



And then eventually, everything felt half-baked...
- Save for their lovely accents, half the cast in this series act unconvincingly or worse, over the top.
- For all its wit and humour (<--- British spelling hehe!), the story-telling felt laboured and contrived. It felt like the writers had a very simple story on hand, but they told it in a really complicated manner or something.
- The swordplay and the action sequences only looked really good in the first episode (see above video). The succeeding ones didn't quite deliver. I was expecting Legolas-like arrow shooting from Robin, I didn't get any.

There are about 12 episodes to this series, my husband (who didn't like the music they used for this show) and I are halfway done. We're both fans of stories that take place in, to borrow Rachel's line from Friends, "the days of yore". Maybe this show will get better in the next half.

One other thing, the guy who plays Robin Hood? Yum! That's all that matters, not the story! LOL! Jonas Armstrong, really cute and charming. In that boy-band/young Brad Pitt sort of way. *sigh* And I'm not even into boy bands nor Brad Pitt.

More on Robin Hood TV Series here.
Official site with recaps, summaries, videos and others here.