The Triangle

Issue date: 7/23/10 Section: Arts & Entertainment

Media Credit: AMC TV Bryan Cranston and Gus Fring have a tense meeting in the last episode of "Breaking Bad," "Full Measure," aired June 13. "Breaking Bad" was nominated for Outstanding Drama Series along with AMC co-series "Mad Men," as well as Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series with Bryan Cranston.

The 2010 Daytime Emmy nominations were released July 8 to several shocks, but most of them welcome. With long time television favorites like "Lost" and "Damages" ending, as well as big new hits like "Glee" and "Modern Family" capturing audiences' attention, this year's awards should actually pack some real surprises for the first time in some years.

A notable absence from this year's Emmy nomination was Seth MacFarlane. Last year, his show "Family Guy" became the first animated show to be nominated for Outstanding Comedy Series since "The Flinstones" in 1961. This year, the Emmys seem to have cooled on the series, as not only did "Family Guy" fail to land another Outstanding Comedy Series nomination, but also failed to show up in Outstanding Voice-Over Performance or Outstanding Animated Program. Taking "Family Guy's" in those two categories were H. Jon Benjamin for "Archer" and HBO's newest animated series, "The Ricky Gervais Show."

Another surprise came in the form of a now cancelled series grabbing four nominations. What cancelled series? "The Tonight Show With Conan O'Brien," which beat out Leno's show in all those categories.

In an abnormally small field, only two shows, HBO's "The Pacific" and PBS' "Return To Cranford," were nominated for Outstanding Miniseries. The lack of competition may have helped it, but "The Pacific" managed to land 23 nominations, including three of five nominations in the Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Miniseries or Movie category.

Many departing shows' stars receiving parting Emmy nominations. Matthew Fox received his first Emmy nomination, along with returning winners Terry O'Quinn and Michael Emerson for "Lost," where Elizabeth Mitchell also became the first female nominated for that show. Tony Shalhoub picked up an eighth and final nomination for his role as the detective with OCD, Adrian Monk, in "Monk." Julia Louis-Dreyfus also received another nomination for her last season with the now gone show "The New Adventures of Old Christine." "Damages" received nomination for its stars Glenn Close, Martin Short and Rose Byrne, despite not being nominated for Outstanding Drama Series.

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