Brian Lowry has the rundown in Variety. Complete nominees list here.

• HBO’s John Adams gets the most, with 23, joining a roster of previous tedious miniseries whose Emmy campaigns turn out to be more effective than their dramaturgy.
• Mad Men, with The Shield probably the best basic cable series I’ve ever seen, leads drama nominations. Its off-the-charts technical quality aside, the series, after a bravura pilot, grew in confidence and daring with every episode; funny how a show that seemed to be about Madison Avenue turned out to be about the collapse in the confidence of the American Male, and the pyschological emancipation of the American Female. While creator Matthew Weiner came from The Sopranos, the show actually also owes a debt to The Wire, which made sociology sexy.
• Says Lowry:
  

  Key oversights include NBC’s “Friday Night Lights” and the final season of HBO’s critically acclaimed “The Wire.”

• While the Emmys are nowhere near as bad as the Grammys, the gold standard for cockeyed and puzzling awards-giving, there are always oddities. Consider the nominees for best comedy series: Curb Your Enthusiasm, 30 Rock Entourage, The Office and … Two and a Half Men? Curb stopped being funny several years ago, but it still has a lingering critical rep; Emmy’s infatuation with the unwatchable Two and a Half Men is a mystery.
• The continuing fallout from HBO’s inability to create a new Sopranos: The network, while as usual the most nominated overall, got only 85 total, down just about a third from its height a few years back. The collapse this year of The Wire, which long ago people were saying was the best show on TV, in this context hurts doubly.

• I Can’t Believe I’m Typing These Words Dept.: There’s a new category for best reality host. I bet Les Moonves is hoppin’ mad Julie Chen didn’t get nominated.