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SAG TV Awards: The Usual Suspects

Nominees for SAG awards in the TV categories are pretty much a distillation of the laundry lists we’ve seen from the Emmys/Globes, which is to say, a pretty safe, unremarkable bunch of names from hit series and media darlings. Funny how these sundry nominee lists betray so little imagination and invenention from an industry allegedly defined by same. SAG does, however, seem to have more regard for “Boston Legal� than the general viewing public does. Entered in the comedy categories (if you say so – how are “Boston Legal� and “Desperate Housewives� comedies and “Grey’s Anatomy� a drama?), it received four nominations, more than any other series (HBO’s miniseries “Empire Falls� also received four, including two for the husband-wife team of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward). Again, nominees are from the usual suspects – the networks and HBO, with a bone thrown here and there to TNT or Showtime – and again, deserving shows from, for one example, FX were ignored. Drama Series Ensemble nominees seem particularly uninspired. Peculiar how all these different trophy-distributing bodies fall into robotic lockstep with one another. Which makes you wonder -- what makes all these different groups necessary if they're all giving awards to the same basic people?

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