Emmy Records That Can Be Broken in 2015

Another significant victor of the night was Joan Cusack, who, while not present at the ceremony, won her first Emmy for playing Sheila Jackson in Showtime’s “Shameless”.

Should win: In its final season, Parks and Recreation was just as good as it’s ever been.

It’s more or less on script, I think we’ll try and play the room as it comes.

Julie is going for her third Emmy win this year for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.

For comedy series, streaming-centric favorites have strong early looks, with Amazon’s “Transparent” and Netflix’s “The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” up against the reliable Emmy fixture “Modern Family” and the sadly departed “Parks and Recreation“.

The Emmys have showered AMC’s advertising drama with writing, directing and best drama statues since the 2008 awards, but no actor has won an Emmy for “Mad Men”.

What Forte saw were numerous texts congratulating him for being nominated as one of the top lead actors in a comedy for his work in “The Last Man on Earth” – a show he co-created.

Jon Hamm is tipped to win best actor at the Emmys. Given the track record of this franchise with people in positions of authority, Josh Modell is pegging the time it takes the National Guard to become a worse threat than the zombies at an episode and a half.

“I think it’s going to be a “Game of Thrones” year”, he told AFP. A possibility is that Emilia Clarke will win for Game of Thrones, as a nod toward the series that soaks up so much attention when it airs. It’s unfortunate that she probably won’t win.

The Television Academy may finally name the first African-American actress in the best drama category where Viola Davis (ABC’s How to get Away with Murder) and Taraji P Henson (Fox’s Empire) are favourites. Both women do incredibly impressive work on their respective shows and are each deserving of the recognition that they’ve received. Will win: Jeffrey Tambor. So maybe I’m just swept up in the moment of the series finale of Bryan Fulluer’s nightmarish vision.

BBC mini-series Wolf Hall, starring Mark Rylance and Damian Lewis also got a nomination for outstanding limited series, and British drama The Missing, which starred James Nesbitt and Frances O’Connor, has two nominations. “They will be. I think when you hold a competition on the scale that we do, it’s incumbent upon our organization to look at the rules often”, says Bruce Rosenblum, Television Academy chairman and CEO. I thought his monologue was incredible.

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With his eighth nomination, Hamm runs the risk of being labeled the Susan Lucci of highbrow period dramas.

50 Cent has been blasting award shows lately for snubbing his hit Starz series Power on nominations.

Should win: Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s Andre Braugher is my favorite in this category. Will they go with more character actors who have worked with everybody? The network, widely viewed as offering some of the highest quality content on TV, racked up 126 Emmy nominations, 24 for its flagship series “Game of Thrones” alone. Ad executive Don Draper reached a new level of psychological introspection this season, and Hamm seems poised to get the sympathy and lifetime achievement vote. It’s so overwhelming. You know, each night there are so many things you have to do and I just started thinking about how the day was going to do – today. HBO won the award once for Sex and the City while FOX won it twice for Ally McBeal and Arrested Development.