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NBC, Fox rack up Producers Guild nominations

by Anna Johns, posted Dec 5th 2006 9:06PM

arrested developmentWondering what the Producers Guild of America Awards are? I guess the title gives it away, but let me just say that producers nominate top television programming and then vote on their favorites. Kinda like the Academy Awards and what not. This year, in order to give special attention to television, the PGA announced its small screen nominees separate from their film nominations. The nominees were eligible from last fall to May 31, 2006 (new fall programming is not on the list).

While Fox and NBC received the most nominations, the listings are pretty mainstream with stuff like House, Lost, The Office, and Arrested Development all being nominated for awards. What about Rescue Me, Battlestar Galactica, Veronica Mars and The Closer? Grrrr. Interestingly, in the 'Variety' category, Jay Leno and The Daily Show are left out in favor of the opening ceremonies of the Olympic games. And, oddly, 60 Minutes is lumped in a category with a bunch of reality shows. Awards will be given out January 20.

And the nominees are...

Best Comedy

Arrested Development
Curb Your Enthusiasm
My Name is Earl
The Office
Weeds

Best Drama

Grey's Anatomy
House
Lost
The Sopranos
24

Best Variety Show

Ellen Degeneres
Conan
Letterman
Real Time with Bill Maher
Olympic Games Opening Ceremonies

Non-fiction

The Amazing Race 9
American Idol
Dancing with the Stars
Project Runway
60 Minutes

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Laura

Curb is by far the best show I have ever seen! I just purchased seasons 1-5 on DVD so I will always have it!
Larry David..You are a genius!

January 17 2007 at 12:32 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
George

I am not clear what your problem is with the nominee's list? Which part? All parts?

I'm not too into drama shows, but the shows nominated for BEST COMEDY seem very appropriate. I'm not sure that I could come up with a better list of nominees. Perhaps Earl could be switched out, but overall that is a very sound list of nominees, as those were the best shows on television this year.

December 12 2006 at 11:38 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
TomB

With the exception of Arrested Development (which is the PC thing to vote for these days), it seems this is just another popularity contest. The highest rated shows aren't necessarily the best produced. Yawn.

December 06 2006 at 1:15 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
jeff smith

Just another stupid awards ceremony that doesn't have any clue of what is good on T.V.

December 06 2006 at 12:37 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jeff

Would you really consider Arrested Development "mainstream"?

December 06 2006 at 10:42 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
edd

top marks for including Arrested Development. It deserves every accolade going

December 06 2006 at 3:35 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Sylvia Cortez

I'm so glad Arrested Development was nominated! Gone, but not forgotten...

December 05 2006 at 11:58 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply

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