Five great actors, five great performances. How are Golden Globe voters to choose a winner in the Best Actor in a TV Drama Series category?

Whoever picks up the trophy on Sunday, his victory will probably be based on something less tangible than just merit. That would be buzz. The Globes like what’s hot, especially if they can recognize it before the Emmys get to do so.

On the other hand, no matter how good an actor is in his role, once the show has passed its freshness date, the Globe social butterflies will move on to the next budding bloom.

What does that mean for this year’s nominees — Steve Buscemi (HBO’s Boardwalk Empire), Bryan Cranston (AMC’s Breaking Bad), Jeff Daniels (HBO’s The Newsroom), Jon Hamm (AMC’s Mad Men) and Damian Lewis (Showtime’s Homeland)? Click on the gallery at the top of this article to see how Celebuzz has handicapped this race.

The 70th Annual Golden Globe Awards airs Sunday at 8PM ET/5PM PT on NBC.

How accurate do you think our predictions are? Let us know in the comments below. And check back every day this week for more oddsmaking in the Golden Globes TV races.

Ratings for Tuesday’s election coverage are in, and among the broadcast networks, NBC won a plurality of viewers’ votes. Brian Williams and his ice-rink map drew 12.6 million total viewers, beating ABC (11.1 million), CBS (8.4 million), and FOX (5 million). Overall, there were 37.1 million viewers tuning into the big four networks to see Barack Obama win his second term as President of the United States. That’s a shade behind the audience for Obama’s first win in 2008, when 38 million people watched. [TVLine]

The sequel to Lifetime’s Five will include Jennifer Hudson and Modern Family‘s Sarah Hyland. As in the first anthology of five short films, which all focused on breast cancer, Jennifer Aniston and Friends co-creator Marta Kauffman will be among the executive producers. The sequel, tentatively titled Five 2, has also brought on Bonnie Hunt to direct one of the shorts. This anthology will target mental illness. [THR]

Author Neil Gaiman is writing another episode of BBC’s Dr. Who. The celebrated fantasy author of The Sandman and Coraline will see his episode air next spring. His installment will feature Cybermen, the monstrous cyborgs that the Doctor has been dealing with since 1966. Warwick Davis, Tamzin Outhwaite and Jason Watkins are all set to co-star in the hour-long episode. [EW]

The Sundance Channel has five new original scripted series in the works for the 2013/2014 development season including projects from Robert Redford, Steve Buscemi and Stanley Tucci, and Dan Futterman, Anya Epstein and Ira Glass. The channel will also premiere three new originals this winter: Restless starting Downton Abbey‘s Michelle Dockery on Dec. 7 at 9 PM, and Rectify and Top of the Lake in 2013. [Sundance]

It’s tough being a man. No, really.

Judging by the Emmy nominees in this year’s Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama race, a man has to be ruthless and violent to get ahead, or even just to stay in place while providing for his family. To exercise power, or to hold onto it, costs a man a piece of his soul. And after all that, you still can’t get a spot on an advertising-supported broadcast network.

That’s the lesson of this year’s dramatic lead actor nominees, who play a bunch of crimelords, killers and dog-eat-dog businessmen. (Oh, and one earl.) They struggle with their masculinity in the darker, grittier corners of cable TV. (Oh, and on PBS.) Expect the competition among them for the trophy to be as cutthroat as the action on their respective shows.

Here’s how we figure that competition will play out on Emmy night.

Bryan Cranston: As Breaking Bad’s science teacher-turned-meth kingpin Walter White,  Cranston has won this award all three years he’s been eligible. The episode he submitted, “Crawl Space,” showed Walt driven to emotional extremes as he alternately faced death and exposure. Often, the Emmys try to get ahead of the curve and recognize new talent, and no actor has won a fourth Emmy for the same role since NYPD Blue’s Dennis Franz’s streak in the ’90s. Still, so far, it looks like Cranston still owns this category. Emmy chances: Excellent.

Damian Lewis: Here’s some of that new blood that represents the best possible challenge to Cranston. Lewis earned his first-ever nomination for his performance on the Season 1 finale of Homeland, in which his conflicting loyalties as a patriot, father, and terrorist come to a head. Much of the critical praise for this show has gone to costar Claire Danes, and she may steal his thunder on Emmy night, too. Nonetheless, if voters are looking for someone to knock Cranston off his perch, Lewis is the man. Emmy chances: Good.

Hugh Bonneville: British import Bonneville certainly classes up the category. His Christmas episode of Downton Abbey finds his noble patriarch engaged in his usual struggle to do the right thing while keeping his family together and preserving what’s left of the old social order in war-torn England. Not that Bonneville doesn’t deserve a nomination, but there’s a certain Anglophilia at work here (if it’s on PBS and features people with English accents and period costumes, it must be more highbrow than any American show on another network) that is probably the only advantage the poor earl really has in this race. Emmy chances: Slim.

Jon Hamm: Like fellow AMC star Cranston, Hamm’s been nominated for playing Don Draper every year he’s been eligible (five times so far), but he’s been shut out. (He’s also been nominated three times for guest work on 30 Rock but hasn’t yet won that prize either.) If he’d been choosy with the Mad Men episode he submitted to voters, he might have broken his losing streak this year. Curiously, he picked “The Other Woman,” where Don is at his oily best during a pitch meeting, but the episode is much more a showcase for Christina Hendricks (whose Joan finds herself in an appalling situation and makes a controversial, life-changing decision). This time out, Hamm is fated once again to be the other man. Emmy chances: Weak.

Michael C. Hall: Hall has been nominated for his starring role on Dexter in five out of six eligible seasons, but he’s never won an Emmy. (He was also nominated in this category a decade ago for Six Feet Under.) Given the show’s extreme violence, it’s easy to see why it may not be many voters’ cup of tea. Hall might have changed that this year, but the episode he chose, “Nebraska,” is an odd one that many viewers didn’t like because it sees Dexter out of his element (away from Florida on a road trip to the Midwest) and acting uncharacteristically sloppy and lackadaisical instead of meticulous and methodical. So it may not be the best showcase for a campaign to end Hall’s losing streak. Emmy chances: Minimal.

Steve Buscemi: Buscemi has five Emmy nods to his credit, two for playing Nucky Thompson, but no wins yet. His character on Boardwalk Empire grew and changed a lot this season, and Buscemi smartly picked a pivotal episode, “Two Boats and a Lifeguard,” that showed his full range. (Nucky sheds ambivalent tears over the death of his hated father, and he makes a grand show of giving up his power while remaining as dangerous, manipulative and in control as ever.) If he didn’t have Cranston and Lewis to contend with, this could be his year. Since Boardwalk is only in its third season, voters may assume they’ll have a chance to reward Buscemi down the road. Emmy chances: Middling.

Who’s your top choice for the statue in this category? Let us know in the comments section below.

All caught up on last week’s fall television premieres? Ready or not, prepare to set your DVRs again!

Fall’s TV premiere month continues this week with all new episodes of some fan favorites returning. Do Desperate Housewives stars Eva Longoria and Teri Hatcher have major plans for the final season of the show? What kind of drama do our favorite Gossip Girls have in store for the year? So much television, so little time.

Click through the gallery to find out which other shows will come back this week!

And for your weekends, Celebuzz also put together a 2011 Fall Movie Guide for you.

Which show are you most excited to see back on your television screens? Sound off in the comments!

The 2011 Screen Actors Guild Awards will be kicking off in Los Angeles shortly, and Celebuzz will have all the coverage that you need on this year’s ceremony.

Check back for up-to-the-minute red-carpet photos, highlights from the ceremony, and of course, instant coverage of this year’s winners, as they’re announced!

Outstanding Male Actor in a Drama Series: Steve Buscemi, Boardwalk Empire

Outstanding Female Actor in a Drama Series: Julianna Margulies, The Good Wife

Outstanding Ensemble in a Drama Series: Boardwalk Empire

Outstanding Actress in a Supporting Role: Melissa Leo, The Fighter

Outstanding Male Actor in a Comedy Series: Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock

Outstanding Female Actor in a Comedy Series: Betty White, Hot in Cleveland

Outstanding Ensemble in a Comedy Series: Modern Family

Life Achievement Award: Ernest Borgnine

Outstanding Male Actor in a TV Movie or Miniseries: Al Pacino, You Don’t Know Jack

Outstanding Female Actor in a TV Movie or Miniseries: Claire Danes, Temple Grandin

Outstanding Male Actor in a Supporting Role: Christian Bale, The Fighter

Outstanding Male Actor in a Leading Role: Colin Firth, The King’s Speech

Outstanding Female Actor in a Leading Role: Natalie Portman, Black Swan

Cast in a Motion Picture: The King’s Speech

Who’s this beautiful lady?

Why, it’s Jude Law, 36, looking sultry in drag for his new role in director Sally Potter‘s new film Rage!

Law plays transvestite supermodel Minx in the film, which is a murder mystery set in New York City’s fashion industry, according to Potter’s blog.

Law co-stars with Dame Judi Dench, Steve Buscemi, Eddie Izzard and model Lily Cole, who plays a character named Lettuce Leaf. Obviously, this is not a sequel to The Devil Wears Prada.

Jude and co-star Cole, 20, were seen going out on dates, including a Radiohead concert, this past summer. Perhaps he was preemptively asserting to Lily that he’s all man when the wig’s not on?

Director Potter blogged on her Web site about how Law employed his natural male beauty for the role.

“Jude Law, whose beauty has sometimes been held against him as an actor, made the courageous decision to accept the role of Minx—a ‘celebrity super-model’—and took on a kind of hyper-beauty for this persona…a ‘female’ beauty which gradually unravels as the story unfolds,” Potter wrote.

Law is currently playing the part of the mustachioed Dr. Watson in Guy Ritchie‘s Sherlock Holmes, opposite Robert Downey Jr.‘s master detective.

It must have been a relief to be able to grow facial hair again.

While many celebrities are idolized by the world for their stunning beauty and charming manner, that’s not always the case across the board.

Some stars have just got something about them that majorly weirds everyone out!  

Take a look at this list of the top ten creepiest celebs, ordered from least to most freaky! 

Don’t agree with the picks? Leave your own in the comments! 

Sure, these men are talented in their given fields, but their overachieving just might be overcompensating for being dealt a heavy beating with the ugly stick.

These guys are loveable, but for things other than their smoking bods and chisled features.

See for yourself. Click through our countdown of guys who had to work a little bit harder than most of their Hollywood friends. Ordered from average looking to “what in the hell?,” they’re on a level all their own!