Et tu, Screen Actors Guild? Even you can’t be bothered to recognize the incredible performances of your fellow actors, especially Katey Sagal? So. Lame.

If you care about who did get SAG nominations in the TV categories, here ya go:

Best Comedy Actor:
Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock
Steve Carell, The Office
Larry David, Curb Your Enthusiasm
Tony Shalhoub, Monk
Charlie Sheen, Two and a Half Men

Best Comedy Actress:
Christina Applegate, Samantha Who?
Toni Collette, United States of Tara
Edie Falco, Nurse Jackie
Tina Fey, 30 Rock
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, The New Adventures of Old Christine

Best Comedy Ensemble:
30 Rock
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Glee
Modern Family
The Office

Best Drama Actor:
Simon Baker, The Mentalist
Bryan Cranston, Breaking Bad
Michael C. Hall, Dexter
Jon Hamm, Mad Men
Hugh Laurie, House

Best Drama Actress:
Patricia Arquette, Medium
Glenn Close, Damages
Mariska Hargitay, Law & Order: SVU
Holly Hunter, Saving Grace
Julianna Margulies, The Good Wife
Kyra Sedgwick, The Closer

Best Drama Ensemble:
The Closer
Dexter
The Good Wife
Mad Men
True Blood

Best TV Movie/Miniseries Actor:
Kevin Bacon, Taking Chance
Cuba Gooding Jr., Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
Jeremy Irons, Georgia O’Keeffe
Kevin Kline, Cyrano de Bergerac
Tom Wilkinson, A Number

Best TV Movie/Miniseries Actress:
Joan Allen, Georgia O’Keeffe
Drew Barrymore, Grey Gardens
Ruby Dee, America
Jessica Lange, Grey Gardens
Sigourney Weaver, Prayers for Bobby

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How cool and well deserved: Freshman musical dramedy Glee leads the pack of TV nominees for the Jan. 17 Golden Globe awards. HBO leads all networks with 17 nominations, while Fox’s Glee leads all shows with four nominations: Best Actor, TV Comedy or Musical for Matthew Morrison, Best Actress, TV Comedy or Musical for Michele Lea, Best Supporting Actress, TV Comedy or Musical for Jane Lynch and Best TV Series, Comedy or Musical for the series.

In other awards news, 30 Rock, Mad Men, Modern Family and The Office lead the Writers Guild of America awards nominees with three each, while Glee and Starz’ Party Down (both of which star the wonderful Jane Lynch) are among the American Film Institute’s top 10 shows of 2009.

One huge quibble with all the awards: No Sons of Anarchy nominations?! Seriously? Not even a Golden Globe nod for Katey Sagal as Best Actress, while the incredibly wooden January Jones does get one? That is one of the biggest oversights in years.

Sons of Anarchy creator Kurt Sutter (who was also inexplicably overlooked for his SoA writing) actually penned a great post on his Sutter Ink blog last fall about why shows like his are overlooked during awards season. It’s a good read, especially in light of this week’s Sons snubs. But the lack of Sagal nomination, most of all, still breaks my TV-lovin’ heart.

Complete lists of nominees and AFI’s top 10 shows of 2009 list are below:

GOLDEN GLOBE TV NOMINATIONS
BEST TV SERIES, DRAMA
Big Love (HBO)
Dexter (Showtime)
House (FOX)
Mad Men (AMC)
True Blood (HBO)

BEST TV SERIES, COMEDY OR MUSICAL
30 Rock (NBC)
Entourage (HBO)
Glee (FOX)
Modern Family (ABC)
The Office (NBC)

BEST ACTRESS, TV DRAMA
Glenn Close, Damages
January Jones, Mad Men
Julianna Margulies, The Good Wife
Anna Paquin, True Blood
Kyra Sedgwick, The Closer

BEST ACTOR, TV DRAMA
Simon Baker, The Mentalist
Michael C. Hall, Dexter
Jon Hamm, Mad Men
Hugh Laurie, House
Bill Paxton, Big Love

BEST ACTRESS, TV COMEDY OR MUSICAL
Toni Collette, United States of Tara
Courteney Cox, Cougar Town
Edie Falco, Nurse Jackie
Tina Fey, 30 Rock
Lea Michele, Glee

BEST ACTOR, TV COMEDY OR MUSICAL
Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock
Steve Carell, The Office
David Duchovny, Californication
Thomas Jane, Hung
Matthew Morrison, Glee

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Jane Adams, Hung
Rose Byrne, Damages
Jane Lynch, Glee
Janet McTeer, Into The Storm
Chloe Sevigny, Big Love

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Michael Emerson, Lost
Neil Patrick Harris, How I Met Your Mother
William Hurt, Damages
John Lithgow, Dexter
Jeremy Piven, Entourage

BEST MINI-SERIES OR TV MOVIE
Georgia O’Keeffe (Lifetime)
Grey Gardens (HBO)
Into the Storm (HBO)
Little Dorrit (PBS)
Taking Chance (HBO)

WRITERS GUILD OF AMERICA AWARDS NOMINATIONS
DRAMA SERIES
Breaking Bad
Dexter
Friday Night Lights
Lost
Mad Men

COMEDY SERIES
30 Rock
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Glee
Modern Family
The Office

NEW SERIES
Glee
The Good Wife
Hung
Modern Family
Nurse Jackie

AFI’s TV TOP 10 OF 2009
The Big Bang Theory
Big Love
Friday Night Lights
Glee
Mad Men
Modern Family
The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency
Nurse Jackie
Party Down
True Blood

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HOORAY! We have our winner:

Ethan! Congrats, Ethan, and thanks for entering. Your awesome Sons of Anarchy box set will be on its way to your mailbox shortly. Enjoy, and thanks again for checking us out at TV Screener.com!

And everyone, keep checking our TVScreener.com Christmas giveaway section … we’ve got lots more TV goodies coming your way!

It’s quite simply the best new show in several seasons, and if you’re not already watching FX’s incredible drama Sons of Anarchy, here’s your chance: TVScreener.com is giving away one season one Blu-ray Sons of Anarchy DVD box set!

The series actually wraps its second season on December 1 – a second season that saw series creator Kurt Sutter and an outstanding, Emmy-worthy cast that includes Katey Sagal (the real-life Mrs. Sutter), Charlie Hunnam and Ron Perlman not only equal, but surpass the quality premiere season – but it’s not too late to jump in and catch up with the show that has been described as “The Sopranos on motorcycles.” The season one box set includes a making-of season one feature, plus a gag reel, deleted scenes and featurettes on the characters’ tattoos and, of course, the bikes.

And to enter for a chance to win the Sons of Anarchy season 1 Blu-ray DVD box set, remember:
- Leave a comment on this post, with your name, your favorite Sons of Anarchy character and an e-mail address where we can reach you
- Deadline to enter to win the Sons of Anarchy season 1 Blu-ray DVD box set is December 1 at 8PM ET (according to recorded comment time)
- The winner will be chosen by random, using Random.org’s Random Number Generator
- The winner will be announced on the evening of December 1, as an update to this post

Good luck, SAMCRO supporters, and stay tuned for the rest of our It’s a Very TVScreener.com Christmas 25-Day Giveaway!

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All the tube news that’s fit to surf …

- Edward Norton is reportedly such a fan of the new ABC comedy Modern Family that he’s agreed to make a guest appearance on the show, which premieres Sept. 23. It is far and away one of the best new series of the fall season, thanks in no small part to my fellow Ohio University alum, Married … with Children dad Ed O’Neill.

- The number of total viewers for Tuesday night’s Sons of Anarchy season two premiere was up a whopping 94 percent over the average for season one, so if you’re not watching this fantastic show yet, what are you waiting for?

- Susan Boyle will travel to the U.S. to perform on the live America’s Got Talent season finale on Sept. 16.

- VH1 has given the green light to another season of The T.O. Show with Terrell Owens, while CBS has okayed Big Brother’s 12th season for summer 2010.

- British actor Max Ryan (Death Race) will play the love interest for randy Samantha Jones (Kim Cattrall) in the Sex and the City movie sequel.

- More TV-to-movie remake news: The A-Team movie may have its Howlin’ Mad Murdock.

- And still more: Johnny Depp as Tonto to Matthew McConaughey’s Lone Ranger in a big-screen Lone Ranger movie?!?!

- Producers Bryan Fuller (Pushing Daisies) and Bryan Singer (House) are creating a new NBC comedy – SelleVision – about the behind-the-scenes action at a home shopping network. The series is based on Augusten Burroughs‘ novel of the same name.

- Mod Squad star Peggy Lipton will guest star on the second season of Starz’ Crash, which kicks off its second season on Sept. 18.

- And tonight in primetime:

- The Vampire Diaries series premiere hits The CW at 8PM ET
- The final Head of Household competition unfolds on Big Brother 11 (8PM, CBS)
- Supernatural kicks off its fifth season on The CW (9PM)
- New ep of Police Women of Broward County on TLC (9PM)
- Naomi runs for student government on Skins (9PM, BBCA)
- VH1 brings back Behind the Music with a new installment on Lil Wayne (10PM)
- New Project Runway ep on Lifetime (10PM)
- Kim and NeNe record a song with Kandi on The Real Housewives of Atlanta (10PM, Bravo)
- And the Charm City crew makes a Doctor Who cake on Ace of Cakes (10PM, Food Network)

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So … did I exaggerate? Was last night’s Sons of Anarchy season two premiere every bit as good as season one, if not better? And was the vicious attack on Gemma at the end of episode some of the most graphic, brutal and heartbreaking moments on TV this year?

Katey Sagal, who plays SAMCRO matriarch Gemma, continues her incredible, should-be-nominated-for-an-Emmy performance, and the episode itself was an example of series creator Kurt Sutter’s best, most layered writing. The contrast between tough-as-nails Gemma kindly waiting with Chief Unser after his cancer treatment and the debauchery of SAMCRO’s welcome home party for Bobby Elvis was a good little “day in the life of Gemma” piece, and made the episode-ending attack on her that much more powerful, shocking and crushing.

And as I said in the intro to my interview with Sagal, the show, and Sagal’s performance, just keeps getting better throughout the season.

I had to leave a few things out of the post of my interview with her yesterday, so as not to spoil anything in the premiere, so here, now, are a few of her thoughts on what happened to Gemma, and how it will affect the rest of the season.

SPOILER ALERT: Sagal discusses a minor plot point from next week’s episode below, so if you want to remain totally spoiler free, skip it. But it’s something her co-star, Charlie Hunnam, discussed in greater detail at EW.com, so I’ll go ahead with it here.

And there’s still more to come from Sagal, after next week’s episode.

The attack on Gemma in the season premiere was a powerful moment, very difficult to watch, but it seems like it’s going to open up a lot to viewers about her character, her past, her motivations. What did you think when you read the script for the episode?
Well, I knew it was coming. Kurt (Sutter, Sagal’s real-life husband) had told me what was going to happen. You know, I was a little intimidated by doing it, but, it’s like everything I’ve been learning while doing this show … there are things where I think, ‘Oh, wow, I don’t know if I can do that,’ and then I do it and I’ve learned more and I get better at what I’m doing, and I feel more comfortable. So that felt really great. Ultimately, being an actor, you just want to keep trying new things.

And then, the season … what happens to Gemma really sets up the arc for the season. The fact that she is not going to tell them what has happened to her is very important in what goes down, because the season is all about loyalties. Everybody’s falling apart a little bit. It’s all about secrets. Secrets can destroy things. So we’re going to have to spill secrets at a certain point.

Were those scenes in the premiere, and all of the scenes that make up the aftermath of the attack for Gemma, more difficult to film with your real-life husband on set?
Oh no, I felt very comfortable around him. Kurt’s an actor as well … so no. I felt comfortable with everybody on our set. It’s a very safe environment, and the show goes into some dark, risky places for everyone. So it’s a pretty cozy set. If anything, I felt safer being there with them.

One of the things that’s so heartbreaking about the attack and its aftermath is that it makes Gemma so vulnerable, which is, clearly, her least favorite state to be in. Is that going to catch up with her?
Yes, you’re going to see her act out in some ways, definitely. There will be circumstances in which her behavior will be very uncharacteristic of who we think she is. And as a character, her own behavior startles her.

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