Thursday Night’s Alright (For Laughing)

All is right with the world once more. That’s right, after five long months of deprivation, we’ve finally got our Thursday nights back again. I’m referring, of course, to NBC’s comedy lineup–My Name Is Earl, 30 Rock, The Office and Scrubs–which is back tonight with all new episodes for the first time since the writers [...]

Peabody Awards Honor Truthiness

The Peabody Awards–given each year for excellence in electronic media–have a great track record for honoring quality TV that sometimes isn’t the most visible. Previous honorees include fare as diverse as The Office, Battlestar Galactica, Good Eats, and Viva Blackpool (leading, sadly, to the debacle that was Viva Laughlin). This year’s winners include 30 Rock, [...]

Picking Up the Pieces: What’s Left of the TV Season?

Assuming the outcome of today’s WGA vote is positive, we’re only hours away from an end to the strike. So, in the immortal words of President Josiah Bartlet, “What’s next?”
A number of showrunners have already gone back work, making plans for the remainder of the season and scrambling to figure out how many episodes they [...]

MAD MEN Happier After Taking WGA Award

As were drug dealers, mafiosos, and officials at Dunder-Mifflin and the Sheinhardt Wig Company.
Hard on the heels of the announcement that a settlement on the strike may have been reached, the Writers’ Guild of America handed out their annual awards. They said goodbye to The Sopranos with a prize for best episodic drama and hello [...]

SOPRANOS, 30 ROCK Get SAG Love

“Welcome to the most glamorous and exciting evening in the history of the world,” said presenter Steve Carell, summarizing the prevailing, if slightly hyperbolic, sentiment at the Screen Actors Guild Awards tonight. Celebs of all stripes were out in full force, taking advantage of the red carpet opportunity provided by the WGA-approved ceremony, which was [...]

2007 PGA Television Nominees

The Producers Guild of America unveiled its television production award nominations on Tuesday. The winners will be announced on Saturday, Feb. 2, at–you guessed it–the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
A complete list of television nominees is behind the cut…

2007 Golden Globes Television Winners

It just doesn’t get lamer than NBC’s Golden Globes “Winners Special” tonight, folks. Instead of the festival of drunken celebrities we’ve all come to know and love, we got Nancy O’Dell and a constipated-looking Billy Bush standing awkwardly behind a podium. The real highlight, though, was after each category was announced when Nancy would try [...]

2007 ACE Eddies Nominations

The American Cinema Editors have announced the nominees for their annual Eddie Awards, including, for the first time, a category for reality television programs. Winners will be announced at a nontelevised ceremony Feb. 16 at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles.
The Eddies are interesting because they separate the one-hour television nominees into separate categories for [...]

2007 DGA Television Nominees

The Directors Guild of America today announced its nominees for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Television for the year 2007. The winners will be named at the DGA Awards Dinner on Saturday, Jan. 26, at the Hyatt Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles. The list of nominees can be found under the cut…

CASHMERE MAFIA: No.

You know what I would like to see on my television? Smart, powerful women who own their own damn selves. Smart, powerful women who own their own damn selves and aren’t made the butt of jokes for doing it (Ugly Betty, I’m looking at you). Unlike the caricatures on the offensive, painful mess that is [...]