Nine sure signs this year's Emmys are doomed

In all honesty, we could probably extend this list to 20 or 30 if we were really picky. We're not, so we'll keep it to a thoroughly uneven nine.

1.) The Wire being shut out in the Best Drama category
- As we've noted, along with many media outlets, this is the finest TV show ever created. From the byzantine plots and multi-layered characters to the juggling of cops, crooks, teachers and politicians, there's never a false note. The Wire's upcoming fifth season will also be its last. Here's hoping Emmy is waiting for a Lord of the Rings-type coronation.

2.) Friday Night Lights receiving no acting nominations
- Kyle Chandler and Connie Britton are reinventing the husband and wife wheel of American television, but they take a backseat to Emmy mainstays like James Spader and Felicity Huffman. Why, we have no idea.

3.) Lost continues its fall from grace with Emmy voters
- After taking home the award for Best Drama in 2005 (after its first season), the ABC drama has fallen on hard times in awards circles. Maybe its the lack of ratings or the rise of other serial mysteries (Heroes), but the last ten episodes of Lost this season were better than anything else on network television.

4.) Two and a Half Men resumes its reign of terror
- So this is where the Best Comedy nomination reserved for HBO's brilliant Extras went, eh? Well done.

5.) Charlie Sheen
- No words.

6.) Big Love doesn't exist
- Not only is this controversial polygamy drama operating on a higher plane than that of any network drama save Lost, it's not a stretch to say that, while not as tantalizing, it was more consistent than The Sopranos. Still, nothing.

7.) John Krasinski, where are you?
- Sure, Steve Carell is the engine that drives The Office and lone "name" in the show's cast, but Krasinski's subtlety and understatment holds everything together and rivals Martin Freeman's finest work on the British version.

8.) Does anyone watch Boston Legal?
- We don't want to disparage the show too viciously, because we've never seen a full episode, but that's an awful lot of nominations for a program that generates little-to-no buzz? It doesn't even have its own TV Watch!

9.) Grey's Anatomy
- Even the show's fans say this wasn't the show's best work, but it still gets a truckload of nominations. Unbelievable.