Thursday, December 17, 2009

SAG Nominees: Best Ensemble in a Comedy Series

My predictions: 5/5
Who’s missing: “Desperate Housewives,” “Entourage,” “Weeds

I’m thrilled that I got a perfect score in at least one category, especially such a fun one as this. For the first time in the show’s history, “Desperate Housewives” isn’t nominated, and, unlike the Globes, the SAG Awards are over “Entourage” and they’ve also completely forgotten about “Weeds.” They’re ambitious enough to welcome in two new comedies, Glee and Modern Family, both of which received no other mentions. Back for the first time since its sole nomination in 2006 is Curb Your Enthusiasm, likely because the cast of “Seinfeld” is counted in its ensemble. The popular 30 Rock and The Office are back again for their second and third times, respectively. “30 Rock” won last year, while “The Office” took it the two years before that.

Who could win? Either “Glee” or “Modern Family.” I’d go with Glee.

2 comments:

thedemonhog said...

The cast of Seinfeld is actually surprisingly not counted in Curb Your Enthusiasm's ensemble (http://www.sagawards.org/PR_091217).

Movies with Abe said...

Huh. Good to know. Thanks for the link. I had heard that they would be counted, and when I first checked the SAG nominees site it didn't have a list of nominated cast members. Always interesting to see who they snub. It looks like the only major omission is Connie from "Mad Men" this year, though I haven't looked closely to investigate.