Comedy Series
Winner: “Arrested Development”
Runner-up: “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart”
Other nominees: “30 Rock,” “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” “Everybody Loves Raymond,” “The Office” (U.S.)

Comedy actor
Winner: Ricky Gervais, “The Office” (U.K.)
Runner-up: Steve Carell, “The Office” (U.S.)
Other nominees: Alec Baldwin (“30 Rock”), Jason Bateman (“Arrested Development”), Larry David (“Curb Your Enthusiasm”), Kelsey Grammer (“Frasier”)

Comedy Actress
Winner: Tina Fey, “30 Rock”
Runners-up: Lauren Graham, “Gilmore Girls” and Sarah Jessica Parker, “Sex and the City”
Other nominees: Patricia Heaton (“Everybody Loves Raymond”), Jane Kaczmarek (“Malcolm in the Middle”), Julia Louis-Dreyfus (“The New Adventures of Old Christine”), Mary-Louise Parker (“Weeds”)

Drama Series
Winner: “The Sopranos”
Runner-up: “The Wire”
Other nominees: “Friday Night Lights,” “Lost,” “Mad Men,” “The West Wing”

Drama Actor
Winner: James Gandolfini, “The Sopranos”
Runner-up: Michael Chiklis, “The Shield”
Other nominees: Bryan Cranston (“Breaking Bad”), Michael C. Hall (“Dexter”), Jon Hamm (“Mad Men”), Hugh Laurie (“House”)

Drama Actress
Winner: Edie Falco, “The Sopranos”
Runner-up: Connie Britton, “Friday Night Lights”
Other nominees: Glenn Close (“Damages”), Allison Janney (“The West Wing”), Mary McDonnell (“Battlestar Galactica”), Kyra Sedgwick (“The Closer”)

Just like this year, drama dominated by cable, comedy by broadcast. Sopranos winning all 3 is impressive; the only show nommed for all 3 comedy categories is 30 Rock. Also impressive: Glenn Close & Bryan Cranston in the top 6 after just 20something episodes.
In Drama Actor, 4 are nommed this year; alas, the top 2′s shows are over.

having spent time with ubergeeks, Big Bang gets these guys right. Sheldon is Spock and Felix Unger’s unpassionate love child

I was delighted that BSG won. And I loved the finale. I recently rewatched the whole thing from beginning to end (just finished watching the new 4.5 yesterday) and I love it more than ever.

I loved the emotional core of the story, in that episode, but the whole rationale for them staying on that one planet, was completely and totally illogical.

Fact 1. They knew there were other cylons out there (at the very least two full base ships mentioned and visually seen).

Fact 2. They know that the cylons have religiously tracked them across the stars, even after months of no contact.

Fact 3. They already had planned on abandoning Galactica and using the base star has the primary tactical vessel, so the fact that Galactica was destroyed had no meaningful impact on the choice.

So what do they do, all of a sudden change their plans and decide to not only settle down, but to lose all technology?

It isn’t rational. And all of the humans and skin jobs just happen to agree to this?

Sorry but it amounts to the largest communal account of gross stupidity I have ever seen a serious drama pass off as a rational choice.

I’m fine with open ended conclusions. In fact, I love it when they leave the final interpretation up to the audience–whether it’s the diner scene of the Sopranas, or the ‘Is it suicide or time travel?’ bit at the end of the UK Life on Mars, or the telekenesis in Tarkovsky’s Stalker.

It’s about breaking your contract with the audience in terms of the story you’re telling. In BSG terms, the narrative, and the attendant themes were extentions of the characters–not the other way around, and that is what made the deus ex machina so cheap.

It was a decent ending, Sarah is in the past now, she has done her job, her best, she kept John alive and prepared him, protected him, now he is in the future, at the start of his journey to become ‘leader of the human race’ with his dad and uncle who will now take over from Sarah and guide him, teach him.
Also, i like that Cameron is there in the future with John Henry, who are working to helping John Connor, who cant win the war without them?? Also, happy Cathrine Weaver is still alive in the future.

Best of all, John has Allison, who im sure he will fall in love with again and be lest boundries since, like shes not a robot lol.

Sarah can live out her life, knowing she has done what she can, go back to being waitress, normal life (doubtfull but more likely now).

Really, for me the heart of the show was Sarah, what she had to go through, sacrifice, everything she does in order to keep John safe and now that she has done that, there is almost peace about it.

O well, another show im going to RREALLYY miss

I really was PO’d Dollhouse got renewed instead but after seeing episode 12 (cant remember name) there seems to be hope that this show will evolve into meaningful plot and real emotion, and i really hope they keep with this and ditch the ‘Problem of the week’ episodes that should be kept to shows like Ghost Whisperer lol.

I dont see it as “God did it”, and neither does RDM, its up to you and i choose to see ‘God’ as an incredible advanced race of aliens who were orchestrating events in order for the Human Race, as a species, to survive, they are so beyond us that they see us as an endangered and wish to ‘preserve’ us. That Head six and Baltar were there to help this ‘orchestration’ and that is why these 2 ‘beings’ appeared to people in the form of someone they love/trust, someone who has power of them and can influence them.
I choose to believe that Kara did die and that she was brought back in the same capacity as a ‘Head’ character, who was sent back to help guide them to a new planet to grow and expand the human race, they sent back someone who could have this influence to do so on Adama etc. This also explains the ‘Brand New Viper’ which only held the co-ordinates to Earth but none of the others did. (Think of it like Shelly Godfree, who was there, everyone could see her, and helped influence the fleet which ultimately paved the way for Gaius to become president!!).
Kara dissapearing is due to her fullfilling her purpose of returning, she wasnt brought back to have a second chance, she did what she was meant to do and now its time for her to move on, maybe in the ‘higher’ existance? With Sam.

Anyway, there are many ways of interprating it, and yes it would have been nice for hard answers, but really, im just happy one of my all-time favourite shows got a huge epic emotional ending that sealed it off and werent left hanging or like a 10 minute rap up at the end of an episode.

But that deus ex machina plot resolution in the final hour really was an “abomination”. Of all of the quick resolution tricks available in the drama writer’s manuel, that’s one of the laziest, and one of the most insulting to the audience–right up there with “It was all a dream”. Even Aristotle called bullsh*t on this plot device 2500 years ago.

Admittedly, I’m an atheist, but I have nothing against ‘God’ in dramas, I even love what Bryan Fuller does. In fact, many of the notions of theism and it’s role in Myth and collective consciousness in BSG are a big part of what made the show so powerful–even mystical at times. But using ‘God’ as a quick fix plot device essentially invalidates your entire narrative. And that’s what RD Moore did to his show–his otherwise magnificent, game changing piece genre television–he basically took a piss on it.

The Series finale to BSG was the most Epic, Emotional, outstanding episode of the entire series, which is what series finales should be.
It had a full-final ending, that may have been a let-down on some answers but you cant say it was an “abomination”.

Im so thankful BSG got the amazing finale it did, when i think back at the number of shows that had sooo crap finales that were barely more than another episode or were totally rushed and answered NOTHING, Andromeda comes to mind.

Im sure if you had only watched the first hour you would say it was the best episode of the series, the fact half of the finale was for goodbyes to the characters is so rare and was what i hoped the amazing series of BSG would get.

~Lanie~

Was happy to see ER won the Heritage Award, but am confused as to why M*A*S*H and Star Trek were there. If they are going for good quality long-running tv shows, it should not be shows that have been off the air for 25 years or more. Where’s Law & Order and The West Wing in this category? Those would have been more suitable choices, IMO

And seriously now…can How I Met Your Mother upset 30 Rock?

As for Jim Parsons, his portrayal of Sheldon is sublime and he throughly deserves that award for such notable episodes as The Bath Item Gift Hypothesis (a.k.a. the one with Penny’s xmas present where Sheldon’s realisation at the end is arguably the funniest TBBT moment in both seasons so far) and The Maternal Capacitance (a.k.a. the one with Leonard’s mother).