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 [...]

Monday Newsapalooza

Stephen Colbert’s presidential bid nipped in the bud by South Carolina Democrats. (NY Times)
Masterpiece Theatre to air adaptations of all six Jane Austen novels in January. (Hollywood Reporter)
Aaron Sorkin returns to Broadway with “The Farnsworth Invention.” (NY Times)
Weeds renewed for a fourth season. (Hollywood Reporter)

Thursday Newsapalooza

Sci Fi Channel has ordered a two-hour pilot of Warehouse 13, a comedy-drama described as part X-Files, part Raiders of the Lost Ark and part Moonlighting, written by Farscape creator Rockne O’Bannon, Battlestar Galactica co-executive producer Jane Espenson and D. Brent Mote. (Yahoo!)
The CW’s Reaper and ABC’s Dirty Sexy Money have both received three-script extensions. [...]