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Golden Globe Winners (Yawn)

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So, yeah. The Golden Globes were on Sunday night. Then, before I could post the winners, I got sick with the puke-your-guts-out-and-stomp-them-into-the-ground flu. But after thinking about it a bit, I don’t really feel like me & thee missed out on all that much. I mean, Hollywood always makes a big to-do over the Golden Globes, like they carry this really huge caché. But seriously…

There are like ninety members of the Hollywood Foreign Press who vote on the Golden Globes. That’s all. Big whoop. Doesn’t that make the Golden Globes kind of pointless? I know, it’s a bigger deal for movies, where Globes winners are believed to be a semi-accurate predictor of Oscar winners, but I think that’s been kind of refuted in recent years, hasn’t it?

Anyway, that’s just my $.02. I’m sure if you care at all about the Globes, you already know that Glee was the big winner in the television categories, snagging Best Musical or Comedy Series, Best Supporting Actress (Jane Lynch), and Best Supporting Actor (Chris Colfer). Yeah, you already know that, right? So let’s just move on.

I think the biggest news of the night was that host Ricky Gervais was so acerbic with his hosting duties — skewering every sacred cow from Hugh Hefner to Scientology — that his performance generated quite a bit of controversy. For his part, Gervais has already declared that he won’t be back for a third go ’round at hosting. For our part, we can only lament that no one will be on hand anymore to keep the ultimate meaninglessness of the Globes in check.

Cable Leads the Golden Globe Nominations

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Once again reinforcing the fact that cable television is where the quality is at, the 68th Annual Golden Globe Nominations were announced just minutes ago, and pay-cable networks HBO and Showtime were the over-achievers, although Fox’s Glee got the most love of any single show.

HBO leads the nominees with 12 nods, while Showtime follows at 8. CBS and Fox scored 6 each, while AMC earned 5 nominations. In cumulative series nods, Glee got 5, followed by 3 nominations each for 30 Rock, Boardwalk Empire, Dexter, The Good Wife, Mad Men, Modern Family, Pillars of the Earth, and Temple Grandin.

Some noteworthy bits: AMC’s buzz-heavy The Walking Dead scored a Best Drama nomination, but sadly nothing else; Steve Buscemi scored a Best Actor (Drama) nod for his leading role in Boardwalk Empire; Lea Michele (Best Actress), Matthew Morrison (Best Actor), Jane Lynch (Supporting Actress), and Chris Colfer (Supporting Actor) scored nominations in every acting category for Glee; and Julia Stiles nabbed a nomination for her guest turn on Dexter.

The complete television nominations are listed below.

Best Television Series – Drama
Boardwalk Empire – HBO
Dexter – Showtime
The Good Wife – CBS
Mad Men – AMC
The Walking Dead – AMC

Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Drama
Julianna Margulies – The Good Wife
Elisabeth Moss – Mad Men
Piper Perabo – Covert Affairs
Katey Sagal – Sons of Anarchy
Kyra Sedgwick – The Closer

Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Drama
Steve Buscemi – Boardwalk Empire
Bryan Cranston – Breaking Bad
Michael C. Hall – Dexter
Jon Hamm – Mad Men
Hugh Laurie – House

Best Television Series – Comedy or Musical
30 Rock – NBC
The Big Bang Theory – CBS
The Big C – Showtime
Glee – Fox
Modern Family – ABC
Nurse Jackie – Showtime

Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Comedy or Musical
Toni Collette – United States of Tara
Edie Falco – Nurse Jackie
Tina Fey – 30 Rock
Laura Linney – The Big C
Lea Michele – Glee

Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Comedy or Musical
Alec Baldwin – 30 Rock
Steve Carell – The Office
Thomas Jane – Hung
Matthew Morrison – Glee
Jim Parsons – The Big Bang Theory

Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Carlos – Sundance Channel
The Pacific – HBO
Pillars of the Earth – Starz
Temple Grandin – HBO
You Don’t Know Jack – HBO

Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Hayley Atwell – Pillars of the Earth
Claire Danes – Temple Grandin
Judi Dench – Return to Cranford
Romolo Garai – Emma
Jennifer Love Hewitt – The Client List

Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Idris Elba – Luther
Ian McShane – Pillars of the Earth
Al Pacino – You Don’t Know Jack
Dennis Quaid – The Special Relationship
Edgar Ramirez – Carlos

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Hope Davis – The Special Relationship
Jane Lynch – Glee
Kelly MacDonald – Boardwalk Empire
Julia Stiles – Dexter
Sofia Vergara – Modern Family

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Scott Caan – Hawaii Five-O
Chris Colfer – Glee
Chris Noth – The Good Wife
Eric Stonestreet – Modern Family
David Strathairn – Temple Grandin

Selling the Superbowl

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With the disaster that was People’s Choice and the Globes, people are looking forward to some really good TV — and we’re not talking about those reruns that the writer’s strike has doomed us to watch.

It’s time for the Superbowl.

It’s alwys the year’s biggest TV event, but now they’re planning to make it even better. Advertisers are going to bring in live shows, and have spent months planning the special campaigns they’ve made just for the Superbowl. TargetCast’s Farella said, “When you buy the Super Bowl or the Golden Globes or the Oscars you tend to prepare marketing programs around them. Nobody would ever buy them to put in a regular advertisement. You buy them to create a marketing event.”

After all, advertisers spend a stunning $3 million for every 30 seconds of airtime. Better make that 30 seconds worth it.

But advertisers feel the fee is worth it — last year, 93.15 million people watched the show. As of today, one 30 second spot hasn’t been booked.

So, are we canceling the Golden Globes?

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The Writers Guild isn’t giving in to any requests to allow workers to join preparations for the Golden Globe Awards. So who’s going to write the jokes — Letterman?!

Even worse, they aren’t allowing flim clips from the nominated films to be shown. After all, one of the key issues in the strike is that HOllywood doesn’t compensate them when their work is reformatted in a new medium — e.g, websites, DVD’s, international academy awards.

Maybe the Golden Globes hosts will just have to reenact the scenes with sock puppets?