Tina Fey has been tapped to present at this years Oscars.  She did a pretty great job last time she presented so its no wonder she was invited back.

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Alec Baldwin won his 6th consecutive SAG Award for playing Jack Donaghy.  He now hold the record for number of SAG Awards by an individual and has won this category for 1/3rd of the existence of the SAGs.  Tina lost to Betty White again.  It’s hard to get annoyed with a beloved 90 year old actress but it’s getting pretty close.  Modern Family defeated 30 Rock to take home best ensemble.

We’ll have more pictures videos and interviews up soon!

30 Rock went home empty handed last night but Tina was able to steal the show:

Oh and she looked great:Pictures!

30 Rock is once again nominated for a DGA.   It’s actually one of the few major awards 30 Rock has yet to win.

COMEDY SERIES

FRED SAVAGE, Modern Family, “After the Fire”
DON SCARDINO, 30 Rock, “Double-Edged Sword”
MICHAEL SPILLER, Modern Family, “Express Christmas”
DAVID STEINBERG, Curb Your Enthusiasm, “The Divorce”
ROBERT B. WEIDE, Curb Your Enthusiasm, “Palestinian Chicken”

Congrats Don Scardino!

You know its awards season when I make back to back nominations posts.  This morning Tina and Alec were nominated for a Golden Globe!  30 Rock however was snubbed for some more trendy shows as we all know the Globes favors hipness over quality…  Here are the nominees:

COMEDY SERIES
New Girl
Enlightened
Episodes
Glee
Modern Family

COMEDY – ACTOR
Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock
David Duchovny, Californication
Johnny Galecki, The Big Bang Theory
Thomas Jane, Hung
Matt LeBlanc, Episodes

COMEDY – ACTRESS
Tina Fey, 30 Rock
Amy Poehler, Parks and Recreation
Laura Dern, Enlightened
Zooey Deschanel, New Girl
Laura Linney, The Big C

30 Rock picked up 3 Nominations for the 2012 SAG Awards.  Alec and Tina were nominated in their categories (Against some tough competition.)  In addition 30 Rock’s cast will compete in best Ensemble.  Check out the categories below.   The SAG Awards will air on Jan 29th on TBS.

BEST COMEDY ENSEMBLE
“30 Rock”
“The Big Bang Theory”
“Glee”
“Modern Family”
“The Office”

BEST COMEDY ACTOR
Alec Baldwin, “30 Rock”
Ty Burrell, “Modern Family”
Steve Carell, “The Office”
Jon Cryer, “Two and a Half Men”
Eric Stonestreet, “Modern Family”

BEST COMEDY ACTRESS
Julie Bowen, “Modern Family”
Edie Falco, “Nurse Jackie”
Tina Fey, “30 Rock”
Sofia Vergara, “Modern Family”
Betty White, “Hot in Cleveland”

30 Rock was nominated for Comedy Series and Episodic Comedy for the 2012 WGA Awards.  Congrats to all the writers!  Here is a list of all the nominees in their categories:

COMEDY SERIES

30 Rock, Written by Jack Burditt, Hannibal Buress, Kay Cannon, Robert Carlock, Tom Ceraulo, Vali Chandrasekaran, Tina Fey, Jon Haller, Matt Hubbard, Colleen McGuinness, Dylan Morgan, John Riggi, Josh Siegal, Ron Weiner, Tracey Wigfield; NBC

Curb Your Enthusiasm, Written by Alec Berg, Larry David, David Mandel, Jeff Schaffer; HBO

Louie, Written by Pamela Adlon, Louis C.K.; FX

Modern Family, Written by Paul Corrigan, Abraham Higginbotham, Ben Karlin, Elaine Ko, Carol Leifer, Steven Levitan, Christopher Lloyd, Dan O’Shannon, Jeffrey Richman, Brad Walsh, Ilana Wernick, Bill Wrubel, Danny Zuker; ABC

Parks & Recreation, Written by Greg Daniels, Katie Dippold, Daniel J. Goor, Norm Hiscock, Emily Kapnek, Dave King, Greg Levine, Aisha Muharrar, Chelsea Peretti, Amy Poehler, Brian Rowe, Michael Schur, Mike Scully, Emily Spivey, Alan Yang, Harris Wittels; NBC

EPISODIC COMEDY

“Caught in the Act” (Modern Family), Written by Steven Levitan & Jeffrey Richman; ABC

“Goodbye Michael, Part 2” (The Office), Written by Greg Daniels; NBC

“Mother’s Day” (Modern Family), Written by Dan O’Shannon & Ilana Wernick; ABC

“Object Impermanence” (Weeds), Written by Stephen Falk; Showtime

“PDA” (The Office), Written by Robert Padnick; NBC

“Queen of Jordan” (30 Rock), Written by Tracey Wigfield; NBC

Grammy nominations came out yesterday, a subject which you don’t think a 30 Rock blog will ever have to cover.  But Tina was nominated for her Bossypants Audio Book!  She can now add “Grammy-nominated to her long list of awards.”  Hopefully she can pull off a win too.  Her only competition here seems to be Betty White…  EGOT! EGOT! EGOT!

Best Spoken Word Album (Includes Poetry, Audio Books & Story Telling)

This is the final installment of 30 Rock Emmy Dreams before the Emmys take place tomorrow.

Today we analyze the big prize:

Outstanding Comedy Series

Modern Family:
Tape A: “Old Wagon” & “Someone to Watch over Lily”
Tape B: “Mother’s Day” & “Caught in the Act”
Tape C: “Manny Get your Gun” & “The Kiss”

I’ve seen all these tapes and they each have one outstanding episode (…Lily, Caught in the Act, Manny Get Your Gun) but the other episodes are average and mostly forgettable.  The ensemble and writing shines in all these episodes though.  Praise for this show only dwindled slightly in its second season and the competition (with the exception of Parks) stayed about the same.  With a field that changed this little, it would be the easy vote for a voter and I expect it may win again.

30 Rock:
Tape A: “When it Rains, it Pours” & “Live Show (West Coast)”
Tape B: “Reaganing” & “Double Edged Sword”
Tape C: “Operation Righteous Cowboy Lightning” & “TGS Hates Women”

Tape wise, 30 Rock as always was on fire.  Whoever picks the tapes does a great job, though I would have put in “Mrs. Donaghy” and the satire heavy “Brooklyn Without Limits.”  The inclusion of “Live Show” is risky.  Of course there are those that didn’t like it but I think it shows 30 Rock has range as is determined to try new things.  But I fear they left out a solid episode like “Mrs. Donaghy” that shows off what’s truely great about 30 Rock: the writing (as well as a strong Liz/Jack dynamic episode).  “Brooklyn Without Limits” should have been switched for “TGS Hates Women” which may be greating.  BWL seemed like the obvious choice as we seem to focus more and more on the 2012 election.  BWL provides a lot of great satire and that’s often what 30 Rock does best.

Sure there were some misses this season, but at Emmy time its about who can put together the best tapes, and I think 30 Rock did that here.  Still it suffers from Awards fatigue and an inability to top itself as critics apparently demand.  IF voters voted purely on tapes, 30 Rock would have a decent chance of taking this, but I fear they will pay attention to other factors.

Glee:
Tape A: “Audition” & “Silly Little Love Songs”
Tape B: “Original Songs” & “The Substitute”
Tape C: “Duets” & “Never Been Kissed”

Glee is not as much of a phenomenon as it was in its first season.  Buzz for this show has died a lot and it’s clear that this show lacks the traditional elements to make a Series winner (developed characters, strong writing, strong acting ect.)  There are still many elements that Glee is strong on (Directing, musical numbers, vocal talent) but I think these will once again get overlooked or rather ignored as voters search for funny shows.   I admit my tv watching knowledge has a bit of a gap in this show, but I’m surprised they omitted one of the episodes I saw: “Grilled Cheesus” in which a character deals with his dad almost dying.  It was pure awards bait, but I guess it’s nice they stayed away from after school specials in their submissions.  On the contrary the other episode I watched after the super bowl “Sue Slyvester Super Bowl Shuffle” was right to be excluded cause it was terrible.  I’m less nervous about this winning than last year.  I think it has less of a chance then before.

Parks and Recreation:
Tape A: “Flu Season” & “Ron & Tammy: Part 2″
Tape B: “Fancy Party” & “Harvest Festival”
Tape C: “The Fight & “Lil’ Sebastian”

This show was perfect last season.  They went 16/16 with great episodes.  There wasn’t a bad storyline or moment in the bunch.  I do think 30 Rock can produce funnier tapes, but as far as consistency and characters go, this show was unparallelled last season.  In my opinion this show deserves the win.  Of course I’d love to see 30 Rock win again, but they already have three, so I’m more eager to see deserving shows recognized.  The tapes were near perfect.  I’d only switch out Ron & Tammy for maybe “Jerrys Painting”, “Media Blitz” or “Road Trip.”  This show had a lot of critical praise this year and I was expecting more nominations (NICK OFFERMAN!!!).  It should be in the writing and supporting acting categories as well this year, so while I’d love to see this pull an upset, it’s lack of support thus far has kept me pessimistic.  Still I’m hoping for a 30 Rock Season 1 type win that comes out of nowhere to surprise me.

The Office:
Tape A: “Andy’s Play” & “China”
Tape B: “PDA” & “Threat Level Midnight”
Tape C: “Garage Sale” & “Goodbye, Michael”

Well one of the tapes, Tape C, is dynamite.  But I can’t see The Office coming back to win here.  I do think this past season was better than the last 2 or 3 seasons, but the buzz is gone on this show and it’s unfortunately starting to fade away.  In fact, with Carell gone, I predict this will be The Office’s last nomination in this category.  (Though I’d love to be proven wrong.)  Andy’s Play, China and PDA are still solid episodes.  Threat Level Midnight, while great for longtime fans will be awkward and unappealing to voters who only casually get watch this show.  Plus it was a decisive episode critically.

The Big Bang Theory:
Tape A: “The Herb Garden Germination” & “The 21 Second Excitation”
Tape B: “The Justice League Recombination” & “The Engagement Reaction”
Tape C: “The Love Card Displacement” & “The Agreement Dissection”

I’ve only caught a few of these episodes (Agreement Dssection, Justice League, 21 Second Excitation) and the episodes I do see I like.  I do believe it was worthy of a nomination here, but overall I can’t see this winning.  It had a typically rocky 4th season and fell a little out of favor with the critics.  It is the only 4 camera traditional sitcom in the group that will appeal to some voters, but I don’t see how it can overcome the competition.

Community:
Just kidding Community wasn’t even nominated…  WTF Voters?!

Rankings:
Modern Family – 50%
Parks and Recreation – 22%
30 Rock – 15%
Glee – 10%
Big Bang Theory – 2%
Office – 1%

Preference:
Parks and Rec, 30 Rock, Modern Family

Here’s the second to last installment of our Emmys rundown:

Lead Actress in a Comedy Series
Edie Falco – Nurse Jackie – “Rat Falls”
Tina Fey – 30 Rock – “Double Edged Sword”
Laura Linney – The Big C – “Pilot”
Melissa McCarthy – Mike & Molly – “First Date”
Martha Plimpton – Raising Hope – “Say Cheese”
Amy Poehler – Parks and Recreation – “Flu Season”

I’m either going to very excited when this category is announced, or very sad.  It’s 50/50 here.

Laura Linney – Oh brother.  I’ve watched her show just so I can complain here.  She’s 1) not funny. 2) Doing a mediocre job.  3) On a mediocre show.  There should be no reason for her to win this.  Oh wait there’s one reason she’s Laura Linney.   I’m preparing myself to not get to upset when she wins, but I probably still will.  Just cause she’s a serious actress doing a Showtime show does not mean we need to reward them.

Amy Poehler – PLEASE GIVE THIS TO AMY!!!  Poehler has done a remarkable job on a flawless show.  Seriously falwless they didn’t have one misstep of an episode all season.  A lot of that is due to Amy’s ability to do all sorts of comedy.  She deserves this award more than anyone else in the category.  Parks has a little bit of critical support, I hope it’s enough to overcome Linney and get Amy this Emmy!  If the Academy doesn’t want to give Parks the Series award, this would be a great place to recognize the show.

Fey, Plimpton, McCarthy – All these ladies are supper funny and I’m glad we’re getting back to the comedy aspect of this category.  Plimpton especially has a funny tape, you should check it out.  I just think Amy has it if it’s going to a comedienne not just an actress this time around.  If any of these girls won it would be well deserved.

Falco – Her show wasn’t as great or well relieved in it’s 3rd season.  Plus Linney is now the golden girl of Showtime so I don’t see her winning again.

Rankings
Laura Linney – 50%
Amy Poehler – 35%
Melissa McCarthy – 5%
Tina Fey – 5%
Martha Plimpton – 3%
Edie Falco – 2%

Preference: Amy, Tina, Martha