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Producers v. Actors: Laughing, crying at the same thing

While the SAG Awards finds "Boston Legal" a comedy, the Producers Guild deems it a drama. More PGA head-scratchers: two cycles of CBS's "Amazing Race" both got nominated in the Non-Fiction Television category, which seems a gyp -- what's to prevent any other series from getting similarly greedy and arbitrarily divvying up a season of programming into two mini-seasons with separate story arcs? (More curiously, it -- or they -- are competing against newsmagazine "60 Minutes;" how does one compare actual news with manufactured reality?) And how did the endlessly inventive "Howl's Moving Castle" get snubbed in the animated film category while glossy but decidedly minor fare like "Chicken Little," "Madagascar" and "Robots" get nominated? Other PGA TV nominees pretty much toe the lines other award-spreading organizations have already drawn, so there's not much point in re-praising or kvetching anew over the aesthetic acuity or lack of same the nominees list demonstrates here.

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