Ruling class

After having had its reputation battered by last year's wildly controversial Primetime Emmy Awards nominations, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences looks to the beginning of a new Emmy season determined to fix the problems that emerged in 2006 after a major rules overhaul. The idea was to close some of the much-publicized loopholes that allowed, for instance, Ellen Burstyn to be tabbed as a movie/miniseries supporting actress nominee for the HBO biopic "Mrs. Harris" despite having uttered all of 38 words in a performance spanning all of 11 seconds.