Emmy Noms

Emmy Nominations are out. From TVGuide.com:



Jul 10, 2014 09:17 AM ET
by Joyce Eng
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Game of Thrones topped Thursday's Primetime Emmy nominations with 19, followed by Fargo with 18 and American Horror Story: Coven with 17.

Thrones will duke it out for drama series against reigning champ Breaking Bad,Downton Abbey, House of Cards, four-time champ Mad Men and True Detective.

True Detective, which opted to enter the drama race instead of miniseries, became the first show in 12 years to nab double nods in the lead actor category. Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson will go up against three-time champ Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad), reigning champ Jeff Daniels (The Newsroom), Jon Hamm (Mad Men) and Kevin Spacey (House of Cards). Hamm, who's currently tied with Martin Sheen, Hugh Laurie and Michael C. Hall, would become the category's biggest loser (0-7) if he loses.

In comedy, Modern Family will try to duplicate Frasier's five-peat in the series race. It's up against The Big Bang Theory, Louie, Orange Is the New Black, Silicon Valley and Veep.

The 65th Primetime Emmy Awards, hosted by Seth Meyers, will air Monday, Aug. 25 at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT on NBC.

Check out the nominees below.

Drama Series
Breaking Bad
Downton Abbey
Game of Thrones
House of Cards
Mad Men
True Detective

Comedy Series
The Big Bang Theory
Louie
Modern Family
Orange Is the New Black
Silicon Valley
Veep

Lead Actor in a Drama Series
Bryan Cranston, Breaking Bad
Jeff Daniels, The Newsroom
Jon Hamm, Mad Men
Woody Harrelson, True Detective
Matthew McConaughey, True Detective
Kevin Spacey, House of Cards

Lead Actress in a Drama Series
Lizzy Caplan, Masters of Sex
Claire Danes, Homeland
Michelle Dockery, Downton Abbey
Julianna Margulies, The Good Wife
Kerry Washington, Scandal
Robin Wright, House of Cards

Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
Jim Carter, Downton Abbey
Josh Charles, The Good Wife
Peter Dinklage, Game of Thrones
Mandy Patinkin, Homeland
Aaron Paul, Breaking Bad
Jon Voight, Ray Donovan

Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
Christine Baranski, The Good Wife
Lena Headey, Game of Thrones
Joanne Froggatt, Downton Abbey
Anna Gunn, Breaking Bad
Christina Hendricks, Mad Men
Maggie Smith, Downton Abbey

Lead Actor in a Comedy Series
Louis C.K., Louie
Don Cheadle, House of Lies
Ricky Gervais, Derek
Matt LeBlanc, Episodes
William H. Macy, Shameless
Jim Parsons, The Big Bang Theory

Lead Actress in a Comedy Series
Lena Dunham, Girls
Edie Falco, Nurse Jackie
Melissa McCarthy, Mike & Molly
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Veep
Amy Poehler, Parks and Recreation
Taylor Schilling, Orange Is the New Black

Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series
Fred Armisen, Portlandia
Andre Braugher, Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Ty Burrell, Modern Family
Adam Driver, Girls
Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Modern Family
Tony Hale, Veep

Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series
Mayim Bialik, The Big Bang Theory
Julie Bowen, Modern Family
Anna Chlumsky, Veep
Allison Janney, Mom
Kate McKinnon, Saturday Night Live
Kate Mulgrew, Orange Is the New Black

Miniseries
American Horror Story: Coven
Bonnie & Clyde
Fargo
Luther
Treme
The White Queen

TV Movie
Killing Kennedy
The Normal Heart
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
Sherlock: His Last Vow
The Trip to Bountiful

Actor in a TV Movie/Miniseries
Benedict Cumberbatch, Sherlock: His Last Vow
Chiwetel Ejiofor, Dancing on the Edge
Idris Elba, Luther
Martin Freeman, Fargo
Mark Ruffalo, The Normal Heart
Billy Bob Thornton, Fargo

Actress in a TV Movie/Miniseries
Helena Bonham Carter, Burton and Taylor
Minnie Driver, Return to Zero
Jessica Lange, American Horror Story: Coven
Sarah Paulson, American Horror Story: Coven
Cicely Tyson, The Trip to Bountiful
Kristen Wiig, The Spoils of Babylon

Supporting Actor in a TV Movie/Miniseries
Matt Bomer, The Normal Heart
Martin Freeman, Sherlock: His Last Vow
Colin Hanks, Fargo
Joe Mantello, The Normal Heart
Alfred Molina, The Normal Heart
Jim Parsons, The Normal Heart

Supporting Actress in a TV Movie/Miniseries
Angela Bassett, American Horror Story: Coven
Kathy Bates, American Horror Story: Coven
Ellen Burstyn, Flowers in the Attic
Frances Conroy, American Horror Story: Coven
Julia Roberts, The Normal Heart
Allison Tolman, Fargo

Dogs are People Too

Don't tell me that my baby isn't smart. She is smart.  (But she thinks her name is 'baby' because I call her that so often...).










I discovered last night that she knows the word 'belly.' Misinterprets its meaning, but apparently I've praised her little white belly while scratching it enough times that she now thinks "belly!" is the equivalent of 'roll over.' She flops down and exposes her tummy when I say it.

Anyway, an article on dog intelligence from i09. The one question I have is... have they met many 16 year olds? Because I think a case could be made for dogs being smarter than some 16 year olds. [/snark]

(In actuality, I thought the cognition of dogs was estimated to be that of a toddler, so I'm thinking 1-3)

Er... I digressed. The I09 article:

We love to brag about the intelligence of our canine companions. But a recent survey suggests that many of us are grossly overestimating the cognitive capacities of our dogs — and that our emotional attachment to them has a lot to do with it.

Realizing that few studies have examined people's perceptions of specific cognitive abilities in dogs, researcher Tiffani J. Howell and her team developed an online questionnaire and analyzed the results from over 560 dog owners. The ensuing study appeared last year in the Journal of Veterinary Behavior.

Results showed that most dog owners generally believe their dogs are socially intelligent and possess the capacity to learn social and general cognitive skills. About 25% of dog owners agreed or strongly agreed that dogs were smarter than most people. Nearly half (45.7%) believed that their dog's mental ability is equal to "3-5 year old human children."

Astoundingly, one in every 20 dog owners believe that dogs have the mental ability of humans who are 16 years of age or older.

Not surprisingly, and in the words of the researchers: "Perceived emotional owner-dog closeness correlated with all cognition ratings." In other words, the closer you are to your dog, the more intelligent you think he or she is.

So how do these assessments of dog owners compare to the actual scientific data on the mental abilities of dogs? Writing in Psychology Today, dog expert Stanley Coren explains:

So how do these judgments of dog owners compare to the actual scientific data on the mental abilities of dogs? Well, dog owners feel that their pets can judge human emotions and there is a lot of data which shows that they are right about this (click here or here for examples). Dog owners feel that their dogs can learn to solve problems, often by just observing the behavior of humans or other dogs who know the solution and again they are right about this (click here for an example). However, when it comes to comparing the equivalent mental abilities of dogs to that of humans of various ages, it appears that the dog owners tend to overestimate the cognitive ability of dogs relative to what the scientific data seems to be showing us. The research findings are that dogs' mental abilities are most similar to that of human children between the age of two and three (click here for an example). In the current study the dog owners most commonly placed the intelligence of dogs in the 3 to 5-year-old human range and nearly 25 percent of them rated it a lot higher than that.

So dogs may be smart, says Coren, but perhaps not as smart as we seem to perceive them to be.

i09: Hair as Exposition

In an article about "Hair in flashbacks" there are some hilarious examples of exposition flashback hair.

... and what would such an article be if it didn't feature William the Bloody and Angelus?  Nothing that's what!  Hah!  And LOL!  (Follow the link for pictures!  Spike took flashback hair for Team Vampire... though it had spectacular competition from Team Highlander.)


Final paragraph:

In conclusion, the "winners" of this are definitely Lost (it was a show premised on flashbacks, how are the wigs SO BAD?), Highlander (METHOS' DEATH HAIR), and Buffy/Angel taking it for Team Vampire. Once Upon a Time is disqualified for the performance enhancing effect of being fairy tales trapped in our world, and therefore getting the alternate universe hair bump. Cheaters.