Emmy Nominees: Best Guest Actor in a Drama Series

My predictions: 3/5, picking Patrick Fischler and last year’s winner Glynn Turman over Ed Asner and Jimmy Smits

I applied historical logic in my predictions here: no incarnation of “CSI” had ever before delivered a guest acting Emmy nomination, and last year, Keith Carradine’s season-long arc on “Dexter” failed to make the cut, just like Matthew Modine, Demian Bichir, and Albert Wooks on “Weeds.” This year, Ed Asner makes history as the first “CSI” guest actor to get nominated, and Jimmy Smits comes through, even though his Emmy-less role on “The West Wing” was far better than this. It’s puzzling to me. The omission of the terrific, hard-working Patrick Fischler is especially unfortunate, because like January Jones, he’s on an extremely successful show that Emmy voters throw nominations at, but he doesn’t get one of them. I guess Glynn Turman’s role on “In Treatment” was far more substantial this year, and therefore the other nominees are the elderly Ernest Borgnine for “ER,” Ted Danson shifting his category down on “Damages,” and Michael J. Fox, a former nominee in this category for “Boston Legal,” for FX’s “Rescue Me.” I’ll have my own list for this category soon, and it includes many other deserving candidates who should have been here.

Who should win? Fox?
Who will win? Hard to say, but I feel like it will be Ed Asner.