Squee! It’s…

Squee! It’s Zeljko Ivanek on Numb3rs tonight. You can have your Andre Drazens from 24; you can take your Governor Devlins from Oz; you can even keep your Steve Atwoods from The West Wing and your John Dickinsons from, well, the American Revolution. I’ll always love Zeljko Ivanek for ADA Ed Danvers on Homicide: Life [...]

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 [...]

The 10 Best Television Moments of 2007

Oh, television. How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
The year 2007 is drawing to a close, which can mean only one thing: lists! In consequence of which I present you with my list of the 10 best moments on television this year.
This is only my list, of course, made up of shows [...]

2007 SAG Television Nominees

Ugly Betty, The Sopranos and 30 Rock lead the Screen Actors Guild Awards in the television categories with three nominations each. The winners will be announced on Jan. 27 at the Shrine Exposition Center in Los Angeles at a ceremony broadcast by TNT and TBS
Unlike the Academy Awards and the Golden Globes, SAG has already [...]

2007 Golden Globes Television Nominees

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced its nominations for the 65th annual Golden Globes this morning and the biggest surprise among the television nominees was the head-scratching exclusion of The Office from the comedy series category.
The awards will be presented Jan. 13 and televised on NBC, although the ongoing writers strike could impact the telecast. [...]

2007 WGA Television Nominees

The best writing on television seems to be happening on cable, at least according to the Writers Guild of America, which on Wednesday announced nominations for outstanding achievement in television, radio, news, and promotional writing during the 2007 season.
HBO led the networks this year, earning multiple nominations for The Sopranos, The Wire, Curb Your Enthusiasm, [...]

Tuesday Newsapalooza

Strike be damned, FX orders two more season of Damages. Sounds like Patty Hewes got to them. (SFGate)
BBC plans Bewitched remake. Perhaps as payback for Viva Laughlin and Coupling? (Digital Spy)
TV Land special to countdown the 50 greatest TV icons. (Yahoo!)
House’s Jennifer Morrison joins J.J. Abrams’ Trek movie. (SFGate)
The Sopranos’ iconic Pork Store bulldozed to [...]

DAMAGES: Now with 70% Less Animal Cruelty!

If you were one of the people put off by the pilot of Damages, with a ludicrous resolution that left you wondering if dispatching pets was meant to signal campy nods to past Glenn Close roles or just evil afoot, you weren’t wrong. The show looped so abruptly between deadly serious moral quandaries and arch [...]