Aside from Lincoln and Rhys, he will also face competition for the best actor in a drama series award from Kevin Spacey for House of Cards, Breaking Bad's Bryan Cranston and Timothy Olyphant for Justified.
By humanizing them, as Lone Star's writers strive to do, these characters can be both, and viewers are allowed to care about them in spite of--or perhaps because of--their flaws, much as they do the stars of Emmy-winning cable shows like AMC's Breaking Bad and Mad Men and FX's Damages.
That's hopeful news for Mad Men and the night's other ratings-challenged winners, including Glenn Close of FX's Damages, Bryan Cranston of AMC's Breaking Bad and Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin of General Electric -owned NBC's 30 Rock.
It's much the same when it comes to viewer turnout for many of the night's other winners, whether they air on cable (FX's Damages, Showtime's United States of Tara, Breaking Bad) or broadcast (ABC's since-canceled Pushing Daisies).
The Showtime thriller's British star Damian Lewis lost out to Bryan Cranston, who was named best actor in a drama series for AMC's crime drama Breaking Bad.
We'll see if the critics and subscribers put it on a par with shows like Game of Thrones, Mad Men, Dexter or Breaking Bad, and how viewers react to Netflix's strategy of making all the episodes available at once.
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And that's just network television: Several of the friends whom I introduced to "Breaking Bad" chose not to watch the first half of the final season, preferring to get it later in one high-intensity dose.
X-Ray for TV is available starting today on the most popular TV shows from Amazon Instant Video, many of which are also available as part of Prime Instant Video: Justified, Downton Abbey, The West Wing, Sons of Anarchy, Falling Skies, American Horror Story, Grey's Anatomy, Doctor Who, The Walking Dead, Lost, Glee, Breaking Bad and Game of Thrones.
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Though fans appear to enjoy Burke as protagonist Miles Matheson and Esposito ("Breaking Bad") as Major Tom Neville of the Monroe Militia, Tracy Spiridakos in the driver's seat as Charlie Matheson hasn't been as well received.
Modestly claiming to be "not a bad 400m runner for a heptathlete", Sotherton is now focused on breaking her way into Team GB's relay squad for next year's World Championships in South Korea and the London Olympics a year after.
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