Screen Actor's Guild Awards

January 29, 2007

Last night’s Screen Actor’s Guild Awards returned very few surprises.

Let's be fair though, if you'd told us the outcome several months ago, we would have laughed in your face. Before the fall season premiered, early buzz on both “Ugly Betty” and “30 Rock” centered around their unlikely chance of survival. And now, both of these shows garnered high awards at the event.

The winners included America Ferrera of ''Ugly Betty'' and Alec Baldwin of ''30 Rock'' as performers in comedy series, and Chandra Wilson of ''Grey's Anatomy'' and Hugh Laurie of ''House'' as performers in dramatic shows.
TV ensemble prizes went to ''Grey's Anatomy'' for drama and ''The Office'' for comedy.

The highlight of the evening, for us, was seeing Ed Asner, Mary Tyler Moore, and Chloris Leachman, three of the original cast of “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” present the award to best ensemble comedy winners “The Office.”

''This is quite the honor having these people present this to us,'' said “Office” star Steve Carell. We have our own opinions about the myriad of televised award shows, which you can read here.