Shots in Emmys
Search for missing crewmen resumes
If Atlanta doesn’t take the main prize, like it did at the Golden Globes, Glover will certainly win — just like he did at the Golden Globes.
Donald Glover He’s great in this show, but let’s also think of it as revenge for the Emmys snubbing Community.
Jeffrey Tambor He’s won for his groundbreaking role in Transparent for two years running, and could easily conquer a third time.
Deserves to win: Dark horse: Outstanding lead actress in a comedy series
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Veep (HBO) Tracee Ellis Ross, Black-ish (ABC) Lily Tomlin, Grace and Frankie (Netflix) Jane Fonda, (Netflix) Ellie Kemper, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (Netflix) Allison Janney, Mom (CBS) Pamela Adlon, Better Things (FX)
Julia Louis- Grace and
Will probably win:
Frankie Dreyfus Selina Meyer will likely land her sixth (!) Emmy in a row on Sunday.
Ellie Kemper Seriously, has a part ever fitted an actress better than Kemper with Kimmy Schmidt?
Pamela Adlon She was the surprise nominee here, so she just might eke out a surprise victory, too.
Deserves to win: Dark horse: Outstanding supporting actor in a comedy series
Louie Anderson, Baskets (FX) Ty Burrell, Modern Family (ABC) Alec Baldwin, Saturday Night Live (NBC) Tituss Burgess, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (Netflix) Tony Hale, Veep (HBO) Matt Walsh, Veep (HBO)
Alec Baldwin Well, clearly. Don’t you want to see his speech?
Will probably win: Deserves to win:
Alec Baldwin He dominated the zeitgeist last fall with his Trump impression. Louie Anderson Because he won last year, and the
Dark horse:
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Outstanding supporting actress in a comedy series
Saturday Night Live Vanessa Bayer, (NBC) Leslie Jones, (NBC) Kate McKinnon, (NBC) Kathryn Hahn, Transparent (Amazon) Judith Light, “Transparent (Amazon) Anna Chlumsky, Veep (HBO)
Kate McKinnon She earned the trophy last year, and her Hillary Clinton impersonation only catapulted her to further fame this year. Saturday Night Live Saturday Night Live
Will probably win: Deserves to win:
Kate McKinnon McKinnon was all over the place as Clinton, from the debate skits to that Hallelujah performance.
Anna Chlumsky You can’t overlook Veep.
Dark horse: Outstanding limited series
The Night Of (HBO) Big Little Lies Fargo (FX) Feud: Bette and Joan (FX) Genius (National Geographic)
Big Little Lies Something tells us Emmy voters can’t resist the Witherspoon-Kidman star power of Big Little Lies.
Big Little Lies The Night Of and Feud were also irresistible, yet all of the elements of BLL came together unusually flawlessly.
Will probably win: Deserves to win: Dark horse:
(HBO)
The Night Of The HBO series had tons of critical acclaim — it just aired so long ago.
Outstanding TV movie
Black Mirror (Netflix) Dolly Parton’s Christmas Of Many Colors: Circle Of Love (NBC) Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (HBO) Sherlock: The Lying Detective (PBS) The Wizard of Lies (HBO)
The Wizard of
Will probably win:
Lies Robert de Niro as Bernie Madoff has the right elements for an Emmy victory: recognisable name, famous story and on HBO.
Black Mirror Yes, it’s technically an episode of a TV show — just trust us, San Junipero is that good.
Deserves to win: Dark horse:
tective Never drama. bet Sherlock: The Lying De- against a solid PBS
Outstanding variety sketch series
Billy on the Street (truTV) Documentary Now! (IFC) Drunk History (Comedy Central) Portlandia (IFC) Saturday Night Live (NBC) Tracey Ullman’s Show (HBO)
Saturday Night
Will probably win:
Live With the political news cycle, there’s no way it can be anything else.
Saturday Night Live They deserve it for the sheer volume of events to parody this year.
Billy on the Street Finally, Billy Eichner is getting his due for more than viral videos that result from his show.
Deserves to win: Dark horse: Outstanding variety talk series
Late Show With Stephen Colbert (CBS) Last Week Tonight With John Oliver (HBO) Jimmy Kimmel Live (ABC) Full Frontal With Samantha Bee (TBS) Late Late Show With James Corden (CBS) Real Time With Bill Maher (HBO)
Late Show With
Will probably win:
Stephen Colbert This is an unusually tough category (don’t disregard John Oliver). But no one had a better second year — after a solidly mediocre first year — than Colbert.
Deserves to win:
Jimmy Kimmel Live Kimmel has proved himself as a host who can interview political figures with toughness and pull off an emotional monologue, which is no easy task — and he doesn’t always get the credit he deserves.
Full Frontal
Dark horse:
With Samantha Bee Though she’s a newer host, Bee has lots of fans in the industry.
Outstanding reality-competition programme
The Voice (NBC) The Amazing Race Top Chef (Bravo) Project Runway (Lifetime) RuPaul’s Drag Race (Logo) American Ninja Warrior (NBC)
The Voice Once Emmy voters get hooked on something, it’s hard to stop the cycle. (See: all of the Amazing Race victories.) (CBS)
Will probably win: Deserves to win:
RuPaul’s Drag Race There’s a reason RuPaul has won the reality competition host award two years in a row.
American Ninja Warrior If you don’t watch it, you wouldn’t understand.
Dark horse:
The search resumed yesterday afternoon for two men missing after a commercial West Coast fishing boat sank on Thursday after it became entangled in a rope.
“An improvement in weather conditions has allowed a helicopter to start an aerial search and ground search teams are carrying out a shoreline search,” police said.
The Greymouth-based Wendy J sank after striking the rocky south Westland coast near Jackson Bay on Thursday night.
The alarm was raised on Saturday morning after a light aircraft spotted wreckage and a liferaft on the shore.
A survivor, Mark Thomas, was found near Teer Creek, about 10km southwest around the coast from Smoothwater Bay, where the boat sank. The bay is a small cove whose entrance is marked by rocky outcrops.
He’s pretty upset. He said they might have picked up a rope around the screw and it stalled the engine — a floating rope off a cray-pot or something like that. John Brown, Westfleet Seafoods
Thomas was fishing on contract for Greymouth company Westfleet Seafoods.
General manager John Brown told the Herald yesterday he had spoken to Thomas, who is aged in his early 20s.
“He’s pretty upset. He said they might have picked up a rope around the screw and it stalled the engine — a floating rope off a cray-pot or something like that.”
Brown said the Wendy J had gone to Smoothwater Bay to seek shelter.
Asked how Thomas managed to survive, he said he was tough and had a very strong will.
Thomas was taken to Grey Base Hospital in Greymouth and has now been discharged.
The police said wreckage from the boat was spread over a large area.
The search for the missing men was suspended on Saturday night to wait for daylight but high seas and bad weather delayed its resumption until 3pm yesterday.
Earlier yesterday, the police said: “Searching has most recently been in the Smoothwater Bay area. Police are in contact with the men’s families to keep them updated.”
The emergency operation was launched about 11.30am on Saturday after a light plane flying near Jackson Bay, southwest of Haast, spotted some debris and a liferaft on the shoreline.
A helicopter was sent and about three hours later spotted Thomas on a rock near Teer Creek.
One of the missing men, Jay Cairney, was described by family as an experienced fisherman, and his relatives were praying for his safe return.