Television Academy Reveals Emmy Finalists

This year for the first time the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences decided to release the top ten finalists for nominations for the Primetime Emmy Awards in the comedy and drama series categories. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the short list was released “to avoid the kind of rumors and confusion that circulated in [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA Impresses the Visual Effects Society

At their ceremony in Hollywood last night, the Visual Effects Society announced that Battlestar Galactica won the award for epic badassery. Or, more accurately, for effects in a broadcast miniseries, movie, or special for the recent “Razor” special. Awards were also presented for effects, supporting effects, and created environments in other television programming.
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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 [...]

PUSHING DAISIES, MAD MEN Take DGA Honors

Mad Men director Alan Taylor beat out double nominees from The Sopranos and Lost, winning the DGA award for outstanding directorial achievement in a dramatic series. The guild prizes were handed out at non-televised ceremony Saturday night.
Variety reports that the guild’s swift contract resolution with the AMPTP was a running theme throughout the evening, which [...]

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 ADG Production Design Nominees

The Art Directors Guild today announced the nominees for its 12th annual Excellence in Production Design Awards for both television and feature films. These are the folks who make the sets of our favorite shows look so fantastic and we congratulate them all! Winners will be announced Feb. 16 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in [...]

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 [...]