60th Annual Primetime Emmy Predictions
OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES
Nominees: Ted Danson, Damages; Michael Emerson, Lost; Zeljko Ivanek, Damages; William Shatner, Boston Legal; John Slattery, Mad Men
Should Win and Will Win: Ted Danson
I make the above prediction with my fingers crossed and the full knowledge that Shatner could very easily be chosen over Danson--which would be flat-out lazy on the voters’ part. Danson should win here not just for his rousing, charismatic performance on one of TV’s best new-ish shows, but also for sentimental reasons: After a decade and a half of post-Cheers role-searching (sorry, but Becker didn’t quite cut it for me), he seems to have found the perfect character, and it shows. And Shatner’s acting was the entire basis of his Comedy Central Roast, for Chrissakes!
