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, [...]

Guild Awards are Popping Up All Over

The Oscars are just around the corner and that can only mean one thing… guild awards. Lots and lots of guild awards.
First up this weekend were the ACE EDDIE Awards, handed out for excellence in motion picture and television editing…
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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 [...]

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 [...]

Strike Relief for MAD MEN, WEEDS

Lionsgate has joined the list of studios to successfully negotiate an interim agreement with the WGA that allows the company to resume development of its film and television productions. This is good news for fans of Weeds and Mad Men, both of which are part of the Lionsgate stable. So while the writers strike may [...]

PaleyFest08 to Feature BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER

The upcoming William S. Paley Television Festival in Los Angeles has announced several new panels, including one focusing on cult fave Buffy the Vampire Slayer. No definite word yet on exactly who will be appearing on the panel, but odds are good that creator Joss Whedon will be there, along with at least a few [...]

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 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…

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 [...]