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Posted Jul 23rd 2008 9:02AM by Erin Martell
Filed under: Video, Celebrities, 30 Rock, Awards, Emmys, Reality-Free

With seven separate nominations in the Guest Actor and Actress categories, it's hard to believe that any
30 Rock guest stars were left off this year's list. The men nearly swept the nominees list for Guest Actor in a Comedy Series, earning four of the five available spots. The ladies made up half of the Guest Actress category; not bad!
Still, a few brilliant and hilarious performances were left out. You can't argue with
nominations for Will Arnett and Elaine Stritch, but I'd swap one or two of the nominees with a few of my own favorites. Check out my list of overlooked
30 Rock guest stars after the jump. And yes, I left out
Jerry Seinfeld. Emmy got that one right.
Continue reading Eight 30 Rock guest stars that Emmy forgot - VIDEOS
Posted Mar 10th 2008 12:00PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: OpEd, Celebrities, Awards, Emmys

Have you noticed lately that the new faces cropping up on TV series in starring roles are often actors you've never seen before -- or if you have, it was in a supporting role of a feature or a foreign TV show? Think about it, Lee Pace as the Pie Man on
Pushing Daisies, Jonny Lee Miller on
Eli Stone, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau in
New Amsterdam, Michelle Ryan in
Bionic Woman, all of these leads are relatively new faces. That's one way to cast series. Another is for big stars to take to TV, if not for the first time, than for a return.
In an interesting article at IGN.com, blogger Travis Fickett points out that there used to be a line of demarcation between the worlds of acting:
film actors vs. television actors. But nowadays the stars are going back and forth a lot more fluidly.
Continue reading Ten actors I want to see on TV