Friday, August 29, 2008

AFT Awards: Best Lead Actress in a Comedy Series


This is the fourth category of the 2nd Annual AFT Television Awards to be announced, my personal choices for the best in television this past season. Nominees are pictured in the order I’ve ranked them.

Best Lead Actress in a Comedy Series


Runners-up: Yvonne Strahovski is charming as a secret agent assigned to work with the naïve Chuck on the show of the same name. America Ferrera is endearing as the loyal protagonist on “Ugly Betty”. Both Marcia Cross and Eva Longoria continue to turn in fine performances despite poor storylines for their characters. I’m not completely convinced I like Anna Friel on “Pushing Daisies”, but I’ll rank her tenth here.

The nominees:

Mary-Louise Parker is simply incredible as frantic mother slash pot dealer Nancy on “Weeds”. Tina Fey manages to out-act Alec Baldwin, Tracy Morgan, and Jane Krakowski on “30 Rock” all at once – not an easy feat. Natasha McElhone had the perfect off-balance chemistry with David Duchovny on “Californication”. Dana Delany was the best thing to happen to “Desperate Housewives” in a long time. Christina Applegate was at the same time loveable and detestable as the old and the new “Samantha Who”.

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