Emmy Gets It Mostly Right For a Change

The Emmy Awards nomination were announced at the crack this morning, and boy, were they on point this year.

Announcer Sofia Vergara, who looked smokin’ in a tight blue little number (check her out here), and one of the season’s breakouts for her work on TV’s Modern Family, scored a nod in the Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy race – sorry other announcer, Joel McHale (Community)…better luck next year.

That little bit of news, though, came at the end of the announcement, following the Amazing Event: Friday Night Lights’ Kyle Chandler and Connie Britton are, at last, Emmy nominees.

That, to me, was the morning’s touchdown – an oh-so-hard fought for four years. I think about it and I smile.

The dearly departed Lost also got some Emmy love, receiving 12 nominations, including Best Drama, Lead Actor for Matthew Fox, Supporting Actor for the dynamic duo of Terry O’Quinn and Michael Emerson, and a Guest Actress nod for Elizabeth Mitchell’s nuanced reprise of Dr. Juliet Burke.

Well earned, Team Darlton & Co.!

The outpouring of love for Modern Family was terrif, no so much Fringe’s snubs. Ditto the lack of love for Cougar Town star Courteney Cox (who’s the only Friends cast member who never was nominated for that show, either).

Still, though, Emmy did me mostly proud to be a TV watcher, especially when the powers that be recognized The Good Wife’s three actresses, Julianna Margulies, Christine Baranski, and Archie Panjabi, who’s just exquisite.

And, can we give it up for Queen D Kathy Griffin, who’ll have another chance to add a third Emmy to her collection for her Bravo show? Or for the incomparable Betty White, who was singled out for her hosting SNL? How about we just give the hardware to the latter, already?

Photo: NYTimes.com.