With the deadlines for this year’s Emmy nominations just around the corner (June 21st to be exact), we at theTVaddict.com thought the time was right to give a shout out to a few of primetime’s unsung heroes. Yes, yes, we’re sure everyone who has ever so much as distributed scripts to the cast of MAD MEN, 30 ROCK or GLEE deserve nominations, but so do a lot of people we fear will be overlooked by the Academy. So without further ado, the nominees should be…
For Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series: UGLY BETTY’s Tracy Poust and Jon Kinnally: Like the beloved heroine herself, this show has always been underestimated and overlooked. And while being shuffled off to Friday night like ABC’s redheaded stepchild could have caused the writing staff to collectively throw up their hands and say, “Take the money and run… it ain’t like anybody’s watching.” But those of us who were — and there were many — appreciate that instead, they crafted a final season that was funny, compelling, emotional and gave us the kind of closure few shows manage to do. But we’d be criminally negligent if we didn’t single out Poust and Kinnally’s penultimate episode that gave us one of the most beautifully executed coming out stories ever to hit the small screen. If having a profoundly positive impact on millions of young people isn’t worthy of a little gold statue, what is?