It's been a long road for the deserving It's a Paycheck Award nominees; the honor of just being nominated, balanced with the drive to win it all. The backstabbing, the name-calling, the public humiliation. And that's just what the team here at TV Squad went through to choose the winner.

I jest, but it was a tight race between the two nominees you readers thought should win. So who came out on top -- Alec Baldwin, who successfully reinvented himself as a comedic TV actor, or James Woods, the essentially big screen actor who uncharacteristically starred in his own TV series? The envelope please ...

And the winner is ... James Woods!

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What do the following people have in common?

• John McCain
• Rush Limbaugh
• Mary Matalin
• Dianne Feinstein
• Barbra Streisand

They're all huge fans of 24!

Co-creator Joel Surnow, a conservative, thinks (scroll down) that it's the one TV show that both Democrats and Republicans can agree on.