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I’m returned to Los Angeles following a week of fun and dicey Texas hotel Internet connections, and just discovered that those rascally screenwriters revealed their WGA Awards nominations. Turns out the scribes have decent taste! Some key TV categories:

NEW SHOWS:
Damages
Flight of the Conchords
Mad Men
Pushing Daisies
The Sarah Silverman Program

COMEDIES:
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Entourage
Flight of the Conchords
The Office
30 Rock

DRAMAS:
Dexter
Friday Night Lights
Mad Men
The Sopranos
The Wire

VARIETY/TALK SHOWS:
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
The Colbert Report
Late Night With Conan O’Brien
Penn & Teller: Bullshit!
Real Time With Bill Maher
Saturday Night Live

ORIGINAL MINISERIES:
The Lost Room (SciFi)
Pandemic (Hallmark)

The winners are announced Feb. 9.

Read all of The Hollywood Reporter’s story on the matter here.

The WGA is not alone in its praise for the Silverman show.

Time Magazine says:

… I love it … it's got your poo humor. It's got your pushing-PC-boundaries humor. If you don't like that, you're not going to like this show (which is essentially an expansion of the staged bits from Jesus Is Magic). You may not have liked South Park or Borat either …

Entertainment Weekly gives it an “A-minus” and says:

… where her movie overstayed its welcome, the quick-shot format of TV works beautifully. The result is haphazard, amoral, ridiculous, wildly offensive...and, you know, totally hilarious. …

The New Yorker says:

… the meanest sitcom in years — and one of the funniest … The brilliance of the show — the force of its argument that sitcoms turn us into loserish loners — is also its abiding flaw. We admire the purity of Silverman’s scornfulness, but we don’t want to hang out with her the way we did with Mary and Rhoda. Not that she’d let us get that close anyway. …

The San Franciso Chronicle says:

… It's not very often that a TV show bursting with imagination, audacity, rude charm and a relentlessly funny worldview gets on the air, much less appears fully formed. But Sarah Silverman … has delivered an offbeat gem … a brilliantly realized reinvigoration of the sitcom as only Silverman could dream it. …

The Hollywood Reporter says:

… Silverman's insensitive slacker character and her supporting cast milk big laughs out of mundane situations. … All series need time to discover their strengths and weaknesses, and this is no exception. But the show starts with a foundation of solid character comedy, which bodes well for the future.

Variety says:

… may be the brightest addition to Comedy Central's primetime roster since "South Park." … if the program itself isn't complete magic, then, excluding Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, it's certainly as close as Comedy Central has come to it in a good long time. …

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