OK, so the fabulous folks who put out “Pushing Daisies” aren’t math whizzes. (The show actually debuted one year and five days ago.)

But why get technical? Everything else the show’s creative forces touch is pure perfection.

Take last night’s episode, which sent Ned, Emerson and Chuck to a circus. Yes, a real, live circus. As if life in Coeur d’Coeurs wasn’t freaky enough.

The mystery of the week for our investigative trio? Find a missing teen-age girl, who, quite literally, has run away to join the circus. Of course, murder victims, who Ned must resurrect briefly to help solve the case, pile up along the way.

What follows is hilariously clever jokes about circus staples like mimes (Emerson: “The mimes just pulled up, and they ain’t talkin’.”), clowns (dead ones keep coming out of a car that plunged into a river) and the human cannonball (who is used as an almost-deadly weapon).

In other hands, this material could have been painful to watch. But the quality of the show’s writing—along with the nimble acting by Lee Pace, Anna Friel and Chi McBride—made it seem fresh.

Not to mention that the “Daisies” crew just seems to be having so much gosh-darn fun! Who didn’t giggle along with the main characters when they made fun of a witness’ name, Bryce von Deenis? (Insert your own lewd limerick here.)

So who ended up being the clown killer? Why, the French acrobat, who was upset that the clowns wanted to unionize. Their Norma Rae move would have put the circus out of business!

Oh, and our fun threesome found the missing girl, too. Plus, they got to show off some secret skills: Chuck speaks fluent French! Ned can throw a mean baseball!

A roundabout plot? Sure. A flimsy motive for murder? Absolutely.

And as for the whole story about Lily really being Chuck’s mother? Forget that one, I’m still a little fuzzy on how Lily and Vivian are Chuck’s “aunts” if neither are related to her. (Vivian was Chuck’s father’s fiancee; her sister, Lily, had an affair with Charles Charles behind her back.) Perhaps it’s just one of those terms of endearment, but what does it matter?

Because once again, “Pushing Daisies” possesses the uncanny ability to make the viewer forget about all those silly little details.

You’re just happy to be along for the ride.

(Photos courtesy of ABC)

But what was missing?

Jericho.

Now, I know that not everyone considers Jericho to be science fiction. But most sci-fi fans do consider it to be, at least. Sci-fi websites cover Jericho and it’s a post-apocalyptic drama; seems to fit the category, at least loosely. How is it less so than, say, Pushing Daisies? Or Shrek the Halls??

As much as I appreciate most of the noms listed below (but Battlestar Galactica totally should have gotten more nominations, as much as I love Lost!), Jericho should have gotten some Saturn love.

And the (television) nominees are (for a full list, go here):

Best Network Television Series
Heroes (NBC)
Lost (ABC)
Pushing Daisies (ABC)
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (Fox)
Journeyman (NBC)
Supernatural (The CW)

Best Syndicated / Cable Television Series
Dexter (Showtime)
Battlestar Galactica (Sci Fi Channel)
Stargate SG-1 (Sci Fi Channel / MGM)
The Closer (TNT)
Kyle XY (ABC Family)
Saving Grace (TNT)

Best Presentation on Television
Battlestar Galactica: Razor (Sci Fi Channel)
The Company (TNT)
Fallen (ABC Family)
The Family Guy: “Blue Harvest” (Fox)
Masters of Science Fiction (ABC)
Shrek the Halls (ABC)
Tin Man (Sci Fi Channel)

Best International Series
Doctor Who (Sci Fi Channel)
Torchwood (BBC America)
Meadowlands (aka Cape Wrath) (Showtime)
Jekyll (BBC America)
Life On Mars (BBC America)
Robin Hood (BBC America)

Best Actor on Television
Matt Dallas (Kyle XY) (ABC Family)
Matthew Fox (Lost) (ABC)
Michael C. Hall (Dexter) (Showtime)
Kevin McKidd (Journeyman) (NBC)
Edward James Olmos (Battlestar Galactica) (Sci Fi Channel)
Lee Pace (Pushing Daisies) (ABC)

Best Actress on Television
Anna Friel (Pushing Daisies) (ABC)
Lena Headey (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles) (Fox)
Jennifer Love Hewitt (Ghost Whisperer) (CBS)
Holly Hunter (Saving Grace) (TNT)
Evangeline Lily (Lost) (ABC)
Kyra Sedgwick (The Closer) (TNT)

Best Supporting Actor on Television
Michael Emerson (Lost) (ABC)
Greg Grunberg (Heroes) (NBC)
Josh Holloway (Lost) (ABC)
Erik King (Dexter) (Showtime)
Terry O’Quinn (Lost) (ABC)
Masi Oka (Heroes) (NBC)

Best Supporting Actress on Television
Jaime Alexander (Kyle XY) (ABC Family)
Jennifer Carpenter (Dexter) (Showtime)
Summer Glau (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles) (Fox)
Elizabeth Mitchell (Lost) (ABC)
Jaime Murray (Dexter) (Showtime)
Hayden Panettiere (Heroes) (NBC)

Best Television Series on DVD
Eureka (Season 1) (Universal)
Heroes (Season 1) (Universal)
Hustle (Complete Seasons 2 and 3) (BBC Warner)
Lost (The Complete Third Season) (Buena Vista)
MI:5 (Volumes 4 & 5) (BBC Warner)
Planet Earth: The Complete BBC Series (BBC Warner)

Best Retro Television Series on DVD
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones (Volume 1: The Early Years) (Paramount)
Count Dracula (BBC Mini-series 1977) (BBC Warner)
Land of the Giants (The Full Series) (Fox)
Mission Impossible (The Second and Third Seasons) (Paramount)
Twin Peaks (The Definitive Gold Box Edition) (Paramount)
The Wild Wild West (The Second and Third Seasons) (Paramount)

So I snagged the Remote Accessories’ Golden Globes picks from a previous post and reworked it to make it easy for you to see our picks and our predictions for each of the television categories. Come back later to see how right (or wrong) we were.

Will 30 Rock and Damages walk away with armfuls of trophies? Stay tuned.

Here we go:

Best TV drama:

Best TV comedy or musical:

Best actress in a TV drama:

Best actor in a TV drama:

Best actor in a TV comedy:

Best actress in a TV comedy:

Best supporting actress/TV:

Best supporting actor/TV:

Well, my fellow Remote Accessories and I have had a chance to mull these over and here’s some of our picks (and predictions) for winners, after the break

Brian:
Best TV drama: Big Love (should win), Mad Men (will win)
Best TV comedy or musical: 30 Rock (should/will)
Best actress in a TV drama: Edie Falco, The Sopranos (should win), Sally Field, Brothers & Sisters (will win)
Best actor in a TV drama: Hugh Laurie, House (will win), Bill Paxton, Big Love (should pick)
Best actor in a TV comedy: Steve Carell, The Office (should win), Ricky Gervais, Extras (will win)
Best actress in a TV comedy: Tina Fey, 30 Rock (should/will win)
Best supporting actress/TV: Abstains out of disgust at Jenna Fischer’s snubbing
Best supporting actor/TV: Ted Danson, Damages (will win), Jeremy Piven, Entourage (should win)

Chris:
Best TV drama: House (will win), Mad Men (should win)
Best TV comedy or musical: 30 Rock (should win), Extras (will win)
Best actress in a TV drama: Glenn Close, Damages (should/will win)
Best actor in a TV drama: Michael C. Hall, Dexter (should win), Hugh Laurie, House (will win)
Best actor in a TV comedy: Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock (will win), Steve Carell, The Office (should win)
Best actress in a TV comedy: America Ferrera, Ugly Betty (will win), Tina Fey, 30 Rock (should win)
Best supporting actress/TV: Rachel Griffiths, Brothers & Sisters (will win), Anna Paquin, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (should win)
Best supporting actor/TV: William Shatner, Boston Legal (will win), Adam Baldwin, Chuck (NOT NOMINATED BUT MY PICK ANYWAY!) [Amy note: I concur!]
Best actress in a TV miniseries or movie: Bryce Dallas Howard, As You Like It (should win; gotta support LoHudders!), Debra Messing, The Starter Wife (will win)

Heather:
Best TV drama: Damages (should win), House (will win)
Best TV comedy or musical: Pushing Daisies (should/will win)
Best actress in a TV drama: Glenn Close, Damages (should/will win)
Best actor in a TV drama: Hugh Laurie, House (should/will win)
Best actor in a TV comedy: Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock (should/will win)
Best actress in a TV comedy: Christina Applegate, Samantha Who? (will win), America Ferrera, Ugly Betty (should win)
Best supporting actress/TV: Katherine Heigl, Grey’s Anatomy (will win), Jamie Pressly, My Name Is Earl (should win)
Best supporting actor/TV: Ted Danson, Damages (should/will win)

Amy:
Best TV drama: Big Love (should win), Mad Men (will win)
Best TV comedy or musical: 30 Rock (should win), Pushing Daisies (will win)
Best actress in a TV drama: Glenn Close, Damages (should/will win)
Best actor in a TV drama: Michael C. Hall, Dexter (will win), Bill Paxton, Big Love (should win)
Best actor in a TV comedy: Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock (should win), Steve Carell, The Office (will win)
Best actress in a TV comedy: Tina Fey, 30 Rock (should win), Anna Friel, Pushing Daisies (will win)
Best supporting actress/TV: Rose Byrne, Damages (should/will win)
Best supporting actor/TV: Kevin Dillon, Entourage (should win), Donald Sutherland, Dirty Sexy Money (will win)

So how about you? Who do you think should win and will win? See this post for a list of all the nominees.

Here’s a look at the (television only) nominees, with my picks noted (as well as what I think will actually win):

Best TV drama:
Big Love (my pick — this season was outstanding!)
Damages
Grey’s Anatomy
House
Mad Men (what I think will win)
The Tudors

Best TV comedy or musical:
30 Rock (my pick)
Californication
Entourage
Extras
Pushing Daisies (will win)

Best actress in a TV drama:
Patricia Arquette, Medium
Glenn Close, Damages (my pick/will win)
Minnie Driver, The Riches
Edie Falco, The Sopranos
Sally Field, Brothers & Sisters
Holly Hunter, Saving Grace
Kyra Sedgwick, The Closer

Best actor in a TV drama:
Michael C. Hall, Dexter (will win)
Hugh Laurie, House
Bill Paxton, Big Love (my pick)
Jon Hamm, Mad Men
Jonathan Rhys Meyers, The Tudors

Best actor in a TV comedy:
Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock (my pick)
Steve Carell, The Office (will win)
David Duchovny, Californication
Ricky Gervais, Extras
Lee Pace, Pushing Daisies

Best actress in a TV comedy:
Christina Applegate, Samantha Who?
America Ferrera, Ugly Betty
Tina Fey, 30 Rock (my pick)
Anna Friel, Pushing Daisies (will win)
Mary-Louise Parker, Weeds

Best supporting actress/TV:
Rose Byrne, Damages (my pick/will win)
Rachel Griffith, Brothers & Sisters
Katherine Heigl, Grey’s Anatomy
Samantha Morton, Longford
Anna Paquin, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Jamie Pressly, My Name Is Earl

Best supporting actor/TV:
Ted Danson, Damages
Kevin Dillon, Entourage (my pick)
Jeremy Piven, Entourage
Andy Serkis, Longford
William Shatner, Boston Legal
Donald Sutherland, Dirty Sexy Money (will win)

Best TV miniseries or movie:
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
The Company
5 Days
The State Within
Longford
(no selection, as I saw none of these)

Best actress in a TV miniseries or movie:
Bryce Dallas Howard, As You Like It
Queen Latifah, Life Support
Debra Messing, The Starter Wife
Sissy Spacek, Pictures of Hollis Woods
Ruth Wilson, Jane Eyre
(no selection, as I only saw The Starter Wife and, as enjoyable as it was, I find it hard to believe it was the best performance out of these)

Best actor in a TV miniseries or movie:
Adam Beach, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Jim Broadbent, Longford
Ernest Borgnine, A Grandpa for Christmas
Jason Isaacs, The State Within
James Nesbitt, Jekyll
(no selection, as I saw none of these)

Meanwhile, what if they held an awards show and no one came?

The Golden Globes awards show is scheduled for Jan. 13 on NBC. Variety reported this week that the show requested a waiver from the Writer’s Guild of America for the telecast, but that was unlikely to be granted. And during the strike in 1980, Powers Boothe was the only winner who showed up to the Emmy Awards (he got one for his role in Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones.)

Stay tuned.

And coming later this morning: The Writer’s Guild of America’s own television nominees.

Here’s a link to the official list of all the nominees and past nominees and winners, too). Variety also reported that Mad Men won a special achievement award for best ensemble cast, but I couldn’t find that on the official list.

Miniseries:
Jane Eyre, BBC/WGBH
The Starter Wife, USA Network
The Company, TNT
Five Days, HBO
The Amazing Mrs. Pritchard, BBC/Kudos Productions

Motion picture made for television (otherwise known as the made-for-TV movie, or, now, MPMFT):
The Wind And The Willows, Masterpiece Theater, PBS/BBC
Mitch Albom’s For One More Day, ABC
Longford, HBO/Channel 4
Life Support, HBO
The Trial Of Tony Blair, Channel 4
Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee, HBO

Actress in a miniseries or MPMFT:
Ruth Wilson, Jane Eyre
Ellen Burstyn, Mitch Albom’s For One More Day
Samantha Morton, Longford
Queen Latifah, Life Support
Debra Messing, The Starter Wife
Sharon Small, Inspector Lynley Mysteries, PBS/BBC

Actor in a miniseries or MPMFT:
Toby Stephens, Jane Eyre
Jim Broadbent, Longford
Robert Lindsay, The Trial Of Tony Blair
Aidan Quinn, Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee
David Oyelowo, Five Days, HBO
Tom Selleck, Jesse Stone: Sea Change, CBS

Supporting actress in a series, miniseries or MPMFT:
Vanessa Williams, Ugly Betty, ABC
Judy Davis, The Starter Wife
Chandra Wilson, Grey’s Anatomy, ABC
Jamie Pressly, My Name Is Earl, NBC
Polly Bergen, Desperate Housewives, ABC
Rachel Griffiths, Brothers & Sisters, ABC

Supporting actor in a series, miniseries or MPMFT:
Andy Serkis, Longford
Michael Emerson, Lost, ABC
Masi Oka, Heroes, NBC
Justin Kirk, Weeds, Showtime
T.R. Knight, Grey’s Anatomy
Harry Dean Stanton, Big Love, HBO
G. David Zayas, Dexter, Showtime

Television series, drama:
The Riches, FX
Dexter, Showtime
Mad Men, AMC
Friday Night Lights, NBC
Grey’s Anatomy
Brothers & Sisters

Actress in a series, drama:
Minnie Driver, The Riches, FX
Kyra Sedgwick, The Closer, TNT
Ellen Pompeo, Grey’s Anatomy
Sally Field, Brothers & Sisters
Jeanne Tripplehorn, Big Love
Glenn Close, Damages, FX

Actor in a series, drama:
Eddie Izzard, The Riches
Michael C. Hall, Dexter
James Woods, Shark, NBC
Hugh Laurie, House, Fox
Bill Paxton, Big Love
Denis Leary, Rescue Me, FX

Television series, comedy or musical:
Ugly Betty
The Flight of the Conchords, HBO
Extras, HBO
Chuck, NBC
Weeds
Pushing Daisies, ABC

Actress in a series, comedy or musical:
America Ferrera, Ugly Betty
Tina Fey, 30 Rock, NBC
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, The New Adventures Of Old Christine, CBS
Felicity Huffman, Desperate Housewives, ABC
Anna Friel, Pushing Daisies
Patricia Heaton, Back to You, Fox

Actor in a series, comedy or musical:
Lee Pace, Pushing Daisies
Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock
Steve Carell, The Office, NBC
Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report, Comedy Central
Ricky Gervais, Extras, HBO
Zachary Levi, Chuck

DVD release of a TV show:
The Office, Season 3 (Universal)
Twin Peaks, Season 2 (Paramount Home Video)
Rome, Season 2 (HBO Home Video)
Ugly Betty, Season 1 (Buena Vista Home Entertainment)
Nip/Tuck, Season 4 (Warner Home Video)
Daniel Deronda (BBC/Warner)
Muppet Show, Season 2 (Walt Disney)
Lost: The Complete Third Season (Buena Vista Home Entertainment)
House Of Elliot, Complete Collection (Acorn Media)
Dexter, Season 1 (Showtime Entertainment/Paramount)

Well, turns out that this brainchild of creator Bryan Fuller’s was almost a mere subplot on Showtime’s “Dead Like Me.”

Fuller was working on that death-happy show when he got the notion of a character who was thwarting the Grim Reaper by bringing people back to life with a single touch.

Luckily for “Daisies” fans, Fuller left “Dead” to work on FOX’s “Wonderfalls”—he does like them quirky shows—so that storyline was never used.

Read more about how the show came to life in this TV Guide story. (My personal favorite tidbit of info is that director Barry Sonnenfeld asked that the color blue not be used when developing the show’s vivid color scheme.)

And as for what’s up with the murder-solving “Daisies” crew, tonight’s episode brings back Chuck’s kooky aunts Lily and Vivian.

Apparently collecting that reward money for capturing Chuck’s killer didn’t make the aunties happy for long.

Chuck follows through on her threat of hiding anti-depressants in their food, when she convinces Olive to bring them some drug-laced pies.

Go here to E! Online to check out a scene from tonight’s episode, which features E!’s TV reporter Kristin Dos Santos in a cameo as a corpse.

Hey, it wasn’t all fun and games, the girl was working—she scored some great interviews with Lee Pace (Ned), Anna Friel (Chuck) and the wee Kristin Chenoweth (Olive).

Enjoy your “Daisies” tonight!