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Five picks up more US dramas for digital debut
UK terrestrial Five has added NBC Universal's Conviction and Turner's Stephen King series Nightmares and Dreamscapes to the line-up of its digital channel Five US, launching on October 16.
The RTL Group-owned broadcaster has also acquired Foxtel/Austar relationship drama Love My Way and Warner Bros-produced The Ellen DeGeneres Show for its second new diginet, Five Life, launching the day before.
Five US will air daily from 16.00 to 01.00, building on its progenitor's ratings banker CSI, with the latest acquisitions coming on top of earlier drama pick-ups including 20th Century Fox Television's Shark and Vanished, and Warner-produced The Nine.
Five Life, meanwhile, will air between 06.00 and 23.00 each day. The channel will draw on its terrestrial sister's children's strand, Milkshake, in the morning, with Love My Way and The Ellen DeGeneres Show forming part of the daytime line-up. Supermodel Extra, a spin-off of Tiger Aspect's Make Me a Supermodel, will also feature.
The news comes a day after Five announced the appointment of ITV's former editor of daytime, Nick Thorogood, as controller of Five Life and Five US. He will report to Five's director of programmes Dan Chambers.
2006 Writers Guild Awards Television & Radio Nominees Announced
LOS ANGELES, NEW YORK: The Writers Guild of America, West (WGAW) and the Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) have announced nominations for outstanding achievement in television and radio writing during the 2006 season.
EPISODIC DRAMA — any length — one airing:
- Election Day, Part II (The West Wing), Written by Eli Attie & John Wells; NBC
- Occupation/Precipice (Battlestar Galactica), Written by Ronald D. Moore; Sci-Fi Channel
- Two for the Road (Lost), Written by Elizabeth Sarnoff & Christina M. Kim; ABC
- The End of the Whole Mess (Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King), Teleplay by Lawrence D. Cohen, Based on the short story by Stephen King; TNT
- Pilot (Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip), Written by Aaron Sorkin; NBC
- Pilot (Big Love), Written by Mark V. Olsen & Will Scheffer; HBO
Also, the nominations for Best Picture Made for Television by the 2006 12th annual Broadcast Film Critics Awards are:The series as a whole was underwhelming with Battleground and Umney as the only real stand out episodes. The Fifth Quarter was pretty good as well. The rest... less so.
The Writers Guild of America has nominated "The End of the Whole Mess" from NIGHTMARES & DREAMSCAPES for Best Episodic Drama (any length):
NOMINATED SHOWS:
- ELECTION DAY, PART II (The West Wing), Written by Eli Attie & John Wells; NBC
- OCCUPATION/PRECIPICE (Battlestar Galactica), Written by Ronald D. Moore; Sci-Fi Channel
- TWO FOR THE ROAD (Lost), Written by Elizabeth Sarnoff & Christina M. Kim; ABC
- THE END OF THE WHOLE MESS(Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King), Teleplay by Lawrence D. Cohen, Based on the short story by Stephen King; TNT
- PILOT (Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip), Written by Aaron Sorkin; NBC
- PILOT (Big Love), Witten by Mark V. Olsen & Will Scheffer; HBO
The awards will be presented on Feb 11 at the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles and at the Hudson Theater in New York.The Broadcast Film Critics has nominated NIGHTMARES AND DREAMSCAPES as Best Television Movie 2006
NOMINEES, Best Picture Made for Television
- Elizabeth I
- The Librarian
- Nightmares and Dreamscapes
- The Ron Clark Story
- When the Levees Broke
The awards will be given out in Santa Monica on January 12 and televised on the E Channel.The Screen Actors Guild nominated William H. Macy for "Umney's Last Case" as Best Actor in a Telefilm or Miniseries.
NOMINEES:
The awards will be presented Jan 28 at the Shrine Auditorium
In true King style, Nightmares & Dreamscapes explores alternative visions of what human existence could be like – at its worst. Toy soldiers avenge the death of their creator by attacking a hit man; an author of hard-boiled detective stories swaps places with one of his characters; two young newly-weds on their honeymoon get lost in a mysterious London neighbourhood; a man witnesses his own autopsy; and a couple end up in a place inhabited by dead rock ‘n’ roll legends – that’s the stuff Nightmares & Dreamscapes is made of.
DVD feature include:
Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special (Original Dramatic Score): "Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King Battleground," TNT.
Special Visual Effects for a Miniseries, Movie or Special: "Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King: Battleground," TNT.