Channel
Surfing
by Laura Nachman
Bucks County Courier Times
June 12, 2007
NBC
leads with 13 nominations for the annual Television Critics Association
Awards, which will be handed out in July during the annual three week TCA tour
in Pasadena, CA.
Here
are the categories with my choices in bold.
Program of the year: "American Idol" (Fox), "Friday Night Lights (NBC), "Heroes" (NBC), "Planet Earth" (Discovery), "The Wire" (HBO), and "When the Levees Broke" (HBO).
Achievement in comedy: "30 Rock" (NBC), "The Daily Show" (Comedy Central), "Entourage" (HBO), "The Office"(NBC), and "Ugly Betty" (ABC).
Achievement in drama: "Friday Night Lights" (NBC), "Heroes" (NBC), "Lost" (ABC), "The Sopranos" (HBO), and "The Wire" (HBO).
Achievement in movies, miniseries and specials: "Broken Trail" (AMC), "Planet Earth" (Discovery), "Prime Suspect" (PBS), "The State Within" (BBC America), and "When the Levees Broke" (HBO).
New program of the year: "30 Rock" (NBC), "Dexter" (Showtime), "Friday Night Lights" (NBC), "Heroes" (NBC), and "Ugly Betty" (ABC).
Individual
achievement in comedy: Alec Baldwin ("30 Rock"), Stephen Colbert
("The Colbert Report"), America Ferrara ("Ugly Betty"), Tina
Fey ("30 Rock"), and Jon Stewart ("The Daily Show).
*Why wasn’t Steve Carell of “The Office” nominated?
Individual
achievement in drama: Connie Britton ("Friday Night Lights"), Kyle
Chandler ("Friday Night Lights"), Michael C. Hall
("Dexter"), Hugh Laurie ("House"), and
Helen Mirren "("Prime Suspect"). What about Ellen
Pompeo of “Grey’s Anatomy?”
Achievement in children's programming: "Dora the Explorer" (Nickelodeon), "Johnny and the Sprites" (Disney Channel), "Kyle XY" (ABC Family), "Lincoln Heights" (ABC Family), and "SpongeBob SquaqrePants" (Nickelodeon).
Achievement in news and information: "Baghdad ER" (HBO), "Bill Moyers Journal" (PBS), "Galapagos" (National Geographic), "Planet Earth" (Discovery), and "When the Levees Broke" (HBO).
Heritage award: "M*A*S*H" (CBS), "Roots" (ABC), "Sesame Street" (PBS), "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" (CBS), and "The Sopranos" (HBO).
Notes
Bob
Barker’s final episode of “The Price is Right” airs Friday.
The guy was flawless. I
wish CBS could talk him into doing one more year.
Expect Bob to clean up at the “Daytime Emmy Awards” that night.
CBS3’s
“Alex Scott Phone Bank” raised more than $700,000 for pediatric cancer
research Thursday.
Rachel
Etemad, a senior at Villa Joseph Marie High School in Holland, PA was named
one of the ten outstanding students to graduate from the KYW Newsradio
Newstudies Program.
Former
Fox29 weekend weather meteorologist Karen Thomas was hired as a fill-in
weather person for NBC10. The
station is still looking for a full-time person to replace Amy Freeze.
Maybe NBC10 read our column back in March suggesting Thomas for the
weather vacancy.