Producers Guild Awards

Usually just covering the Emmys is enough to make me want to take a week long nap. But now TV shows are getting more nominations and awards than most Nobel Peace Prize Winners.

It's not just the Emmys. We've got the Golden Globes, the People's Choice Awards, the Screen Actors Guild Awards, the Peabody Awards, the ALMA Awards, the E Pluribus Unum Awards. It's good to know that at least America's cabinet makers will never suffer a major economic recession.

Now the Producers Guild has announced the list of nominations for their awards and they are almost identical to the Emmys. Mad Men, 30 Rock, Breaking Bad, Dexter; they're all there. Why not just show a rerun of the last Emmy Awards and everyone can turn in early?

Does anybody care about all these trinket tossers?

Nominations for the 2006 Producers Guild Awards were announced recently. Here are the nominees for the television category:

 

Long-form:

• Empire Falls
• Into the West
• Lackawanna Blues
• The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
• Warm Springs

Comedy:

• Arrested Development
• Curb Your Enthusiasm
• Desperate Housewives
• Entourage
• Two and a Half Men

Drama:

• 24
• Boston Legal
• Grey's Anatomy
• Lost
• Six Feet Under

Non-fiction series or special:

• 30 Days
• 60 Minutes
• Amazing Race 6
• Amazing Race 7
• Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

Variety series or special:

• 77th Annual Academy Awards
• The Ellen Degeneres Show
• Late Night with Conan O'Brien
• Late Show with David Letterman
• Real Time with Bill Maher

I'm not exactly sure how a show like Two and a Half Men winds up on the same list as Arrested Development, but there you go. Winners will be announced on January 22.