WGA: In the shadow of the Globes

Someone at the Writers Guild of America should really get their act together. They announced their 2007 TV and radio nominees late yesterday, ensuring that any publicity they might receive would get buried in the avalanche of Golden Globes coverage.

Nonetheless, we hereby duly report that nominees for Best Dramatic Series (not to be confused with the Episodic Drama category, though certainly it's an understandable mistake) are some evergreens: "24," "Lost," "Deadwood," "The Sopranos" and "Grey's Anatomy." Episodic Drama nominees are a little more varied, including episodes of "Lost," "The West Wing," "Battlestar Galactica," Big Love," "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip" and an installment of TNT's miniseries "Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King."

Best Comedy Series features one dead horse - "Arrested Development" - and a dead-horse-in-waiting - "30 Rock" - as well as mainstays "Curb Your Enthusiasm," "Entourage" and "The Office." "The Office" has two horses running in the Episodic Comedy category, as does "Desperate Housewives;" single episodes of "My Name is Earl" and "Malcolm in the Middle" round out that pack. "The Simpsons" accounts for four of the six nominees in the Animation category, alongside solo entries from "King of the Hill" and Cartoon Network's "The Life and Times of Juniper Lee."

Most entertaining match-up comes in the New Series category, where "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip" will wrassle with "30 Rock" for dominance in the "SNL"-ripoff sweepstakes. Both will likely lose New Series though, probably to "Heroes" or "Ugly Betty," with "Friday Night Lights" failing to reach the end zone.