Critics Have Spoken: 'Earl' and 'Office' Are In, 'Housewives' Are Out

All but "The Office" are also up for best drama series, because the TCA believes that any show worth nominating once is worth nominating twice. And the only reason "The Office" isn't joining them is because even the TV critics couldn't bring themselves to call that show a drama.

So "The Office" is also nominated for year's best comedy series, along with "The Daily Show," "Everybody Hates Chris," "Earl" and NBC's "Scrubs."

PBS bagged seven nominations, after mopping up in the news and information category with nominations for "American Masters: Newhart," "Broadway: The Golden Age," "Frontline" and a separate nomination for "Frontline: Country Boys."

No, I cannot explain it.

Also in that race is "60 Minutes."

"High School Musical," that Disney Channel phenomenon you're tired of hearing about, is up for best children's program, as are Nickelodeon's "Dora the Explorer" and "Nick News," Cartoon Network's "Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends" and PBS's "Sesame Street."

And, finally, TCA's Heritage Award will be given to "Hallmark Hall of Fame," "The West Wing" or "Will & Grace."

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Kimberly Dozier, the CBS correspondent critically wounded by a car bombing in Iraq on Monday, started communicating with her family and doctors yesterday and asked what had happened to her two crew members.

CBS's British cameraman Paul Douglas and soundman James Brolan were killed in the attack, as were a soldier and a translator.

"She is sharp as a tack, really . . . she knows where she is, she knows the questions to ask. One of the very first questions she asked was how her teammates were," her father, Benjamin Dozier, said in an interview with CBS correspondent Sheila MacVicar on the "CBS Evening News" last night.

Dozier's family and doctors had decided that if she asked about the two men she should be told what happened, CBS News rep Kelli Edwards told The TV Column.