So the Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations were released the other day, and the comedy match-ups are pretty familiar.

It’s not surprising the same names keep coming up in these contests, since there are so few comedies on TV these days.

As usual, Alec Baldwin and the cast of 30 Rock go up against Steve Carell and the cast of The Office in the Outstanding Actor and Outstanding Ensemble in a Comedy Series categories, respectively.

There’s every possibility, however unfair, that Jeremy Piven and the cast of Entourage could send both home winless.My money’s on Baldwin and The Office. My heart is on Carell and 30 Rock.

Weeds is up in the comedy series category, too, as is star Mary Louise Parker for Outstanding Actress, though my heart and money are on Tina Fey, but only by a little.

The 15th Annual SAG Awards airs Jan. 25 on TNT and TBS.

Speaking of SAG, by the way, OfficeTally has sifted through and pulled out all the Office folks from the list of some 130 actors opposing a strike by the union. Really? After what a hoot last year’s WGA strike was?

One curious omission struck me: Jenna Fischer. Read more of this entry »

What a week for an Office blogger to be too busy to blog! My head nearly exploded as news of Emmy noms/snubs and spin-offs bombarded my in-box.

Here’s the recap for any Dunderheads who’ve been under a rock the last couple of days. I’m just going to throw my two cents in as I go along.

NEWS: SNL‘er and Tina Fey’s best bud Amy Poehler, aka Mrs. Will Arnett, is the new Michael Scott. She’ll be heading up the spin-off that is set to launch following next year’s Super Bowl. It won’t be a true spin-off but more like a “from the makers of” kind of deal. They’re even poaching writers from The Daily Show. (Sources: THR | AP | Nikki Finke | Ausiello | Some blogger)

REACTION: Best. News. Ever. Seriously, she’s one of the funniest people on television. She’s married to and best friends with two people who share that claim. She’ll be leading a rebranding of my favorite show ever. She joins Human Giant’s Aziz Ansari as the only cast members announced so far, but that’s 2 for 2 in my book.

The idea that Baby Mama made Poehler a bankable star is a little laughable, but whatever it took to convince the suits that she rocks is cool with me.

I love that they’re taking the formula that worked with The Office of building the show around a big but not gigantic name with a hard-core comedy resume (a la Steve Carell). And I love that it’s a woman because women are funny too. I know that’s not a newsflash, but women don’t seem to get all the show-biz breaks men do, which means less funny in the world for me to enjoy.  Yes, it’s all about me.

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Emmy nominations were announced this morning, and the good news: Comedies like “30 Rock” and “The Office” are in the mix for best series, as well they should.

The bad: I swear the only reason “The Wire” isn’t among the best drama nominees is because lazy Emmy voters—i.e. most of them—never saw the show. Despite a phenomenal fifth and final season, it’s only up for one writing award. Its only other nomination, also for writing, was back in 2005.

Geez. Where’s the acting love for Lance Riddick (Daniels), Clarke Johnson (Gus), Michael K. Williams (Omar) or Sonja Sohn (Kima)? The only rationale for no acting nominations I can think of is that so many talented “Wire” actors have split the vote over the last five seasons.

“John Adams” led the Emmy nomination pack with 23, and “Mad Men” (17) and “Damages” (16) were the first basic-cable series to be up for top drama.

I’m sure you’ll hear more Emmy commentary from many of us in the weeks to come before the Sept. 21 broadcast, but here’s the crucial info you need to know.

Drama: “Boston Legal,” “Damages,” “Dexter,” “House,” “Lost” and “Mad Men.”

Comedy: “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” “Entourage,” “The Office,” “30 Rock” and “Two and a Half Men.”

Best actor—drama: Gabriel Byrne (“In Treatment”), Bryan Cranston (“Breaking Bad”), Michael C. Hall (“Dexter”), Jon Hamm (“Mad Men”), Hugh Laurie (“House”) and James Spader (“Boston Legal”).

Best actress—drama: Glenn Close (“Damages”), Sally Field (“Brothers and Sisters”), Mariska Hargitay (“Law & Order: Special Victims Unit”), Holly Hunter (“Saving Grace”) and Kyra Sedgwick (“The Closer”).

Best actor—comedy: Alec Baldwin (“30 Rock”), Steve Carell (“The Office”), Lee Pace (“Pushing Daisies”), Tony Shalhoub (“Monk”) and Charlie Sheen (“Two and a Half Men”).

Best actress—comedy: Christina Applegate (“Samantha Who?”), America Ferrera (“Ugly Betty”), Tina Fey (“30 Rock”), Julia Louis-Dreyfus (“The New Adventures of Old Christine”) and Mary-Louise Parker (“Weeds”).

And here’s the complete list of 2008 Emmy nominees.

UPDATE: More good news/bad news, this time in the category of best supporting actress in a comedy series. A long-overdue and well-deserved nod has been given to “Saturday Night Live’s” Amy Poehler, but how in the world is Jenna Fischer snubbed for her work on “The Office”? Instead, the category includes Jean Smart for “Samantha Who?” and Holland Taylor on “Two and a Half Men.” As Poehler herself on Weekend Update would say, “Really?!”

(Photo courtesy of Fox.)

For the first time ever, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences is announcing the 10 finalists for the Best Comedy and Best Drama categories.

My personal choices for the top 5 in each are in bold. The top 10s are:

Top 10 Comedy Series Finalists

Curb Your Enthusiasm
Entourage
Family Guy
Flight of the Conchords (I’d love to see this win)
The Office
Pushing Daisies
30 Rock (I expect to win, as it did last year)
Two and a Half Men
Ugly Betty
Weeds

Top 10 Drama Series Finalists

Boston Legal
Damages (Probably will win)
Dexter
Friday Night Lights
Grey’s Anatomy
House
Lost
Mad Men
The Tudors
The Wire (If this doesn’t win, there is no justice.)

In the spirit of the opening weekend of the “Sex and the City” movie, Remote Access asked readers which HBO series most deserves the next feature-film treatment.

So much for the Remote Access poll being a race between “Deadwood” and “The Sopranos.”

I suspect linkage and some campaigning were responsible for the sudden surge among devout “John from Cincinnati” fans—who evidently exist—thus propelling the one-season-and-out show from one vote on Wednesday to 167 votes this morning.

With 58 percent of all those cast, “JFC” soared ahead of “Deadwood,” which led the poll Wednesday with 47 votes (16 percent), followed by the 23 votes tallied for “The Sopranos” (8 percent).

To be fair, I didn’t hate “JFC” as much as I have conveyed in recent months; I liked the first three episodes and was a staunch defender of many of its cast members, especially Ed O’Neill, whom I described as “jaw-droppingly spectacular (and) equally adept at making the audience laugh and cry, often within the same scene.” Plus, it allowed for comebacks for Rebecca De Mornay (pictured) and Luke Perry, so that’s pretty cool.

But to give that show the movie green-light over “Deadwood” or “The Sopranos” makes me wonder if “John” fans really ever watched those other series—especially “Deadwood,” which had the benefit of not only the same creator and most cast members but also linear plots that made friggin’ sense by each season’s end.

“Carnivàle”—the third HBO show in the Top 4 that was canceled before the series had a chance to wrap things up—finished with eight votes. Two other series, “Entourage” and “Oz,” and a cruel suggestion for “None of the above” tied for fifth with seven votes.

“The Wire” grabbed six votes, followed by “Flight of the Conchords” with five.

Check out the rest of the poll results—and the latest Remote Access poll question—after the break. Read more of this entry »

Despite the fact that so many of the shows we follow on this blog involve killing people and blowing things up, many of our favorite actors and actresses are vegetarians.

PETA is holding its annual Sexiest Vegetarian Celebrity contest, and here’s the stars from Remote Access shows who are in the running (sorry if I missed anyone!) — and you can vote for one woman and one man, so you can choose your favorite two:

The women

Kristen Bell (Heroes)
Lisa Edelstein (House, M.D.)
Sheryl Lee (Dirty Sexy Money)
Hayden Panettiere (Heroes)
Elizabeth Reaser (Grey’s Anatomy)
Perry Reeves (Entourage)
Carrie Underwood (American Idol)

The men

Alec Baldwin (30 Rock)
Milo Ventimiglia (Heroes)
Ruben Studdard (American Idol)

Shortly after the end of the opening weekend for the “Sex and the City” movie, Remote Access will close its latest poll, seeking reader input on the HBO series that most deserves the next feature-film treatment.

With “SatC” scoring mixed to tepid reviews, only two of the 65 votes tallied sought a sequel. At this point, the poll is really a duel between “Deadwood” and “The Sopranos.” And there are compelling cases for each.

“Deadwood,” whose 19 votes represent 29 percent of the total, was—in this blogger’s humble opinion—one of the best shows on television and deserved a proper sendoff. Viewers initially expected four full seasons, then were crushed by news of the show’s cancellation after three. And HBO’s promise of two, two-hour “Deadwood” TV movies never came to fruition, leaving devout fans furious with the cable net, especially since the equally brilliant and equally ratings-challenged “The Wire” had a chance to say good-bye.

Adding insult to injury have been the subsequent HBO projects by “Deadwood” creator David Milch. In its only season, “John From Cincinnati” should only be celebrated for Ed O’Neill’s outstanding performance and the cameos by actors better known (and utilized) on “Deadwood.” And when Milch could have demanded to film the “Deadwood” TV movies or a fourth season before other projects while renegotiating his contract with HBO, he agreed to helm “Last of the Ninth,” a not-”Deadwood” show about a Vietnam vet working in the New York Police Department in the early ‘70s. The latter series could be great, but “Deadwood” fans would never stop grumbling if there’s no closure in the Black Hills.

“The Sopranos,” with 15 votes representing 23 percent of the total, had a controversial ending that made millions of viewers wonder if the cable cut out before the credits started rolling. It was, perhaps, the most non-ending ending in television history. To the tune of Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’,” three of the four members of the Soprano (biological) family gathered around the table of a diner while semi-suspicious characters hovered around them. And when Meadow arrived, the camera cut to Tony’s face.

And, uh, that was it.

Was Tony Soprano killed? Is he alive? WHAT THE HECK JUST HAPPENED?!

So say creator David Chase were to consider a more definitive conclusion. He’d be faced with either selling out for developing a movie adaptation or copping out because of his inaccessible TV finale. Regardless, tell me “Sopranos” fans wouldn’t see the movie follow-up in droves.

After the break (or in the right margin), check out where many other HBO series stand in this poll. And vote if you haven’t already! Read more of this entry »

If there’s an opposite to “blerg!” or an exclamation that’s the equivalent to Sandwich Day, Liz Lemon might be screaming it right now.

With 27 percent of the vote, the “30 Rock” character’s real-life counterpart, Tina Fey, was crowned TV’s hardest worker by Remote Access’ loyal readers. She’s also a writer and exec producer for the show and—with apologies to the amazing Amy Poehler—arguably the headliner of “Baby Mama,” which debuted at No. 1 at the box office. (In retrospect, Poehler’s no slacker, either. Perhaps I should have added her to the list of nominees.)

Fey defeated some stiff competition, and just edged out fellow Must-See TV star Steve Carell, who helms “The Office” and collected 26 percent of the votes. In third was “American Idol” host Ryan Seacrest (21 percent), followed by “Lost” guru JJ Abrams (17 percent), Oprah Winfrey (12 percent) and reader-nominated “Flavor of Love” star Flavor Flav (2 percent).

Now time for a new poll: With the “Sex and the City” movie debut approaching, what’s the next HBO series that should be made into a feature-length film?

Lots of intriguing options here, including shows that were allowed to come to unusual conclusions (“The Sopranos”), others that remain on-air (“Entourage”) and still others that deserved a proper sendoff (“Deadwood,” anyone?).

Feel free to add your own nominees, as long as “Arli$$” isn’t one of them. (OK, even Arli$$, if you must.)

(Photo by Heidi Gutman for NBC/Universal.)

Looks like Queen B. is ditching the East Coast girls for the West Coast boys.

Leighton Meester—the bright-tight and headband-wearing, super-bee-yotch Blair Waldorf—  is signed up to hang with Vinnie Chase and the gang on HBO’s “Entourage.”

E!’s Kristin Dos Santos confirmed that Meester will reprise her first season role as Justine Chapin, a Britney-esque pop singer with the hots for Vince, for at least one episode.

Now, I didn’t watch “Entourage” when it first kicked off, but I’m guessing that a little bit of Blair’s deviousness may rub off on Justine this time around. What fun!

And if you’re wondering when “Entourage” will be back—its original June launch date was affected by the writers’ strike—I hear that Season 5 is set to premiere on Sept. 28.

(Photos courtesy of the CW and HBO) 

If you’ve never seen Hip-hopopotomus vs. the Rhymenoscerous, go here right now to watch the video. I’ll wait.

If you do know what I’m talking about, I’ll help you pass the time by sharing my favorite passage from the song:

They call me the Hiphopopotamus
Flows that glow like phosphorous
Poppin’ off the top of this esophagus
Rockin’ this metropolis
I’m not a large water-dwelling mammal
Where did you get that preposterous hypothesis?
Did Steve tell you that, perchance?
Steve.

Actually, my REAL favorite passage is this: “They call me the Hiphopopotamus / My lyrics are bottomless” and then Jemaine is speechless, as he has no lyrics. Get it? But it doesn’t translate as well if you’re reading instead of listening.

I like this part, too:

Other rappers dis me
Say my rhymes are sissy.

Why? Why? Why?
What?
Why exactly?
What? Why?
Be more constructive with your feedback, please. Why?
Why?

OK, I really like the entire song. You can get the entire lyrics here, as well as the lyrics to another one of my favorite songs by the Conchords, “Think About It.” I’m not going to start quoting those lyrics, because before you know it, the entire song will be in here. OK, just go to this site and you can download the lyrics to the songs in each episode. Recommendation: “Part-time Model,” the third song on this lyrics sheet (episode 1, “Sally.”).

Sorry, got sidetracked from the actual NEWS, which is that HBO’s hilarious and criminally underrated Flight of the Conchords is coming back next year. Read more of this entry »

The best bet, I think, for fans of the dearly departed The Wire is David Simon and Ed Burns’ latest venture, Generation Kill.

Set to air sometime this summer (all the site says right now is “July”), the seven-episode miniseries is about “the new face of American war.” It’s based on the book by a Rolling Stone writer who spent two months embedded with the Marines 1st Reconnaissance Battalion. Simon and Burns wrote the screenplay and produced, but they’re not directing. That’s left to two Brits.

Then, Entourage will be back (yay!) in September (would have been June if not for the strike). Original plans to satirize the strike, according to E!Online’s Watch with Kristin, have been scrapped. Plus, when they return, our boy Johnny Drama’s show will have shot 54 eps and Eric will have THREE clients (including Vince, I assume) and his very own assistant, Kristin says. Show creator Doug Ellin says he has four more seasons of our boys in mind, a total of eight seasons, Kristin said.

Then, there’s a bunch of other shows that HBO has in recent weeks announced it’s picking up.

The cable network has partnered with the Weinstein Co. (the guys who started Miramax back in the day) and the BBC to produce The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency.

It’s based on a series of novels by Alexander McCall Smith. The two-hour pilot already has been filmed, in Botswana. Another 13 one-hour episodes will begin filming this summer.

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With the writer’s strike over and showrunners and writers heading back to work, giddiness abounds among TV-philes.

What better reason for giddiness, though, than word that 30 Rock’s Tina Fey will host the return episode of SNL, where she was formerly head writer, on Feb. 23? Juno star Ellen Page hosts a week later.

SNL, the only late night show not to air for the entirety of the strike, hasn’t been appointment TV for me in about a decade and a half, but my DVR is already set for this one. It is likely to be the first show to return from the strike.

At the other extreme, The New York Times reports, The Office won’t be back with new episodes until April 1o, contradicting Toby Flenderson’s earlier optimism (Remote Access, Feb. 10).

Greg Daniels, executive producer of “The Office,� said, “We’re going to do another six [episodes],� though he added, “We might be able to squeeze in seven if NBC asks for them.�

“The Office� had a script ready to shoot the week the strike began, and that will be the first one the show produces. A second script was going to be the Christmas show. “We’re going to throw that one out,� Mr. Daniels said. He added that the writing team would discuss this week how to advance the show’s story lines.

“I’m tempted to just leap ahead to where we would have been,� Mr. Daniels said.

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Here’s a bunch of things I’ve picked up over the past few days but hadn’t had time to blog on.

Enjoy:
• Variety reports that every freakin’ network is trying to set up some sort of celebrity-themed circus show. Remember Circus of the Stars from back in the ‘80s (OMG, I loooooved watching that each year!)? Well, ABC appears to have snagged that one. CBS and Fox apparently “have also expressed interest in the celeb circus format.”
• NBC has already green-lit a show called Celebrity Circus for six episodes. NBC Veep Craig Plestis ‘splained: “This show will draw our favorite celebrities out of their comfort zone and into a stunning and magical circus environment that allows them to showcase their unseen skills. It’s a fresh concept … and is unlike anything else currently in the TV landscape.” The versions in Portugal and Argentina are huge hits.
• Adrian Grenier appears to be channeling his alter ego from Entourage, dating Kim Kardashian, BuddyTV.com reports. Maybe. “According to a Hollywood source, Kardashian and Grenier have been on-again-off-again lovers for some time now. They reportedly spent some time in Mexico in early December, and ‘they’ve been in touch and seeing each other on the sly ever since.’” Though he may be in a relationship — or not —with La Lohan. Oy.

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The Golden Globes Press Conference airs tonight on NBC. Sure, it’s hardly the same drama and pageantry as it usually is with the champagne dinner, but there’s still a whole lotta hardware handed out.

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.

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Next! Here’s a list of the TV nominees from the Directors Guild of America (“for Outstanding Directorial Achievement”). For a list of all the nominees, in movies and the like, go here. They also list the entire “directorial team” and previous nominations. I skipped the directors of commercials, too, because, frankly, the way they were listed was really confusing.

Winners will be named at a swanky dinner Jan. 26 at the Hyatt Century Plaza Hotel in LA.Here they are:

Movies for Television/Miniseries

JON AVNET
The Starter Wife
(USA)

JEREMIAH CHECHIK
The Bronx Is Burning
(ESPN)

LLOYD KRAMER
Oprah Winfrey Presents Mitch Albom’s For One More Day
(ABC)

MIKAEL SALOMON
The Company
(TNT)

YVES SIMONEAU
Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee
(HBO)

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As usual, we’ll just present the TV nominees here, but if you want to see the film nominees too, go here. As usual, my picks in parentheses, but I haven’t seen the vast majority of the TV movie/miniseries nominees, so no comments from me on those.

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries
Michael Keaton / James Jesus Angleton – The Company (TNT)
Kevin Kline / Jacques – As You Like It (HBO)
Oliver Platt / George Steinbrenner – The Bronx is Burning (ESPN)
Sam Shepard / Frank Whiteley – Ruffian (ABC)
John Turturro / Billy Martin – The Bronx is Burning (ESPN)

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries
Ellen Burstyn / Posey Benetto – Mitch Albom’s For One More Day (ABC)
Debra Messing / Molly Kagan – The Starter Wife (USA)
Anna Paquin / Elaine Goodale – Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (HBO)
Queen Latifah / Ana – Life Support (HBO)
Vanessa Redgrave / Woman – The Fever (HBO)
Gena Rowlands / Melissa Eisenbloom – What If God Were the Sun? (Lifetime)

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series
James Gandolfini / Tony Soprano – The Sopranos (HBO)
Michael C. Hall / Dexter Morgan – Dexter (Showtime) (my pick)
Jon Hamm / Don Draper – Mad Men (AMC)
Hugh Laurie / Dr. Gregory House – House (FOX)
James Spader / Alan Shore – Boston Legal (ABC)

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series
Glenn Close / Patty Hewes – Damages (FX) (my pick)
Edie Falco / Carmela Soprano – The Sopranos (HBO)
Sally Field / Nora Walker – Brothers & Sisters (ABC)
Holly Hunter / Grace Hanadarko – Saving Grace (TNT)
Kyra Sedgwick / Deputy Police Chief Brenda Johnson – The Closer (TNT)

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series
Alec Baldwin / Jack Donaghy – 30 Rock (NBC) (my pick, though Carell is a close second!)
Steve Carell / Michael Scott – The Office (NBC)
Ricky Gervais / Andy Millman – Extras (HBO)
Jeremy Piven / Ari Gold – Entourage (HBO)
Tony Shalhoub / Adrian Monk – Monk (USA)

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series
Christina Applegate / Samantha Newly – Samantha Who? (ABC)
America Ferrera / Betty Suarez – Ugly Betty (ABC)
Tina Fey / Liz Lemon – 30 Rock (NBC) (my pick)
Mary-Louise Parker / Nancy Botwin – Weeds (Showtime)
Vanessa Williams / Wilhelmina Slater – Ugly Betty (ABC)

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
Boston Legal (ABC)
The Closer (TNT)
Grey’s Anatomy (ABC)
Mad Men (AMC) (my pick)
The Sopranos (HBO)

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series
30 Rock (NBC)
Desperate Housewives (ABC)
Entourage (HBO)
The Office (NBC) (my pick – close, but as an ensemble, The Office slightly edges out 30 Rock)
Ugly Betty (ABC)

Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Television Series
24 (FOX) (my pick – c’mon, what’d you think I’d choose?)
Heroes (NBC)
Lost (ABC)
Rome (HBO)
The Unit (CBS)

Screen Actors Guild Awards 44th Annual Life Achievement Award
Charles Durning (He’s done so much on TV as well as movies, so I figured I’d include him here. Most recently on the small screen, he’s been playing Tommy’s dad (that’s even how he’s credited!) on Rescue Me. By the by, did you know he was born in Highland Falls, just outside the LoHud, by West Point?)

As I previously posted, the Golden Globe television nominations (by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association) were announced this morning and lots of new shows got their due.

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

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The awards are coming. The awards are coming!

Here’s a look at who the (striking) Writer’s Guild of America nominated for its annual awards (just the TV nominees):

Dramatic series:
Dexter, written by Scott Buck, Daniel Cerone, Drew Z. Greenberg, Lauren Gussis, Kevin Maynard, Clyde Phillips, Melissa Rosenberg, Tim Schlattman; Showtime
Friday Night Lights, written by Bridget Carpenter, Kerry Ehrin, Carter Harris, Elizabeth Heldens, David Hudgins, Jason Katims, Patrick Massett, Andy Miller, Aaron Rahsaan Thomas, John Zinman; NBC
Mad Men, written by Lisa Albert, Bridget Bedard, Andre Jacquemetton, Maria Jacquemetton, Tom Palmer, Chris Provenzano, Robin Veith, Matthew Weiner; AMC
The Sopranos, written by David Chase, Diane Frolov, Andrew Schneider, Matthew Weiner, Terence Winter; HBO
The Wire, written by Ed Burns, Chris Collins, Dennis Lehane, David Mills, George Pelecanos, Richard Price, David Simon, William F. Zorzi; HBO

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Released this morning, the Golden Globe television nominations (by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association) had lots of love for critical (and ratings) darling Pushing Daisies, as well as lots of cable fare, particularly Damages.

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)

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More bad news out of the strike.

TVGuide.com today reported that no one is quite sure what might happen to Entourage in the whole mess that is the writer’s strike.

Rex Lee, who plays the long-suffering Lloyd (assistant to Ari Gold, played so fabulously by Jeremy Piven) on our favorite HBO comedy (that once meant something to say), told a reporter in Vegas (for the opening of a huge Planet Hollywood resort) over the weekend that he’d been told only “three or four” scripts had been completed before the strike began.

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