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HollywoodNews.com: Screen Actors Guild presented its coveted Actor® statuette for the outstanding motion picture and prmetime television performances of 2010 at the “17th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards®” in ceremonies attended by film and television’s leading actors, held Sunday, Jan. 30, at the Los Angeles Shrine Exposition Center. The “17th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards®” was simulcast live coast-to-coast by TNT and TBS at 8 p.m. (Et), 7 p.m. (Ct), 6 p.m. (Mt) and 5 p.m. (Pt). An encore presentation was telecast on TNT at 10 p.m. (Et), 9 p.m. (Ct), 8 p.m. (Mt) and 7 p.m. (Pt).

Voting procedures to choose the recipients were sent to the nearly 100,000 active members of Screen Actors Guild nationwide. Morgan Freeman presented Ernest Borgnine with Screen Actors Guild’s highest honor, the 47th Annual Life Achievement Award, following a filmed tribute introduced by Tim Conway.

Honored with individual awards were Christian Bale, Colin Firth,...

Los Angeles (Jan. 30, 2011) – Screen Actors Guild presented its coveted Actor® statuette for the outstanding motion picture and primetime television performances of 2010 at the .17th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards®. in ceremonies attended by film and television.s leading actors, held Sunday, Jan. 30, at the Los Angeles Shrine Exposition Center. The .17th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards®. was simulcast live coast-to-coast by TNT and TBS at 8 p.m. (Et), 7 p.m. (Ct), 6 p.m. (Mt) and 5 p.m. (Pt). An encore presentation was telecast on TNT at 10 p.m. (Et), 9 p.m. (Ct), 8 p.m. (Mt) and 7 p.m. (Pt).

Voting procedures to choose the recipients were sent to the nearly 100,000 active members of Screen Actors Guild nationwide. Morgan Freeman presented Ernest Borgnine with Screen Actors Guild.s highest honor, the 47th Annual Life Achievement Award, following a filmed tribute introduced by Tim Conway.

Honored with individual awards were Christian Bale,...

The key creative team, headed by exec producer and director Jeff Margolis, will return for the 15th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, to be held Jan. 25 at the Los Angeles Shrine Exposition Center.

Margolis will be joined by producer Kathy Connell, writer Stephen Pouliot, production designers John Shaffner and Joe Stewart, composer and conductor Lenny Stack, lighting designer Jeffrey Engel and exec in charge of talent Maggie Barrett Caulfield.

SAG Awards Committee founding members Yale Summers (committee chair), Daryl Anderson (committee vice-chair) and Paul Napier, as well as returning committee members Shelley Fabares and JoBeth Williams, will produce for SAG.

Gloria Fujita O'Brien and Mick McCullough of Jeff Margolis Prods. return as supervising producers for the 11th consecutive year.

Also returning is the SAG Awards' executive in charge of production since 1999, Benn Fleishman. He was a 2008 Emmy nominee for the HBO special "Bill Maher: The Decider." In the interim, between...

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ABC

Trying to boil down 50 years to three hours (including commercials) is no easy task. Just ask anyone who has ever tossed a 50th wedding anniversary bash. But exec producer Don Mischer and his cohorts do a reasonably spiffy job here in catching most of the highlights, lowlights and midlights of ABC's purported half-century of existence. We say "purported" because ABC actually boasted a primetime schedule as early as 1948, which would in fact make it 55 years old. In Hollywood, clearly, even networks aren't immune to the obsession with trying to trim years from their lives. But "ABC's 55th Anniversary Celebration" obviously carries somewhat less cache for a sweep extravaganza.

Of course, this is also a precipitous time for the network to be using fuzzy math given the ongoing sorry state of its primetime fortunes. But again, this here is about celebration, not wallowing, and indeed ABC has had plenty to be proud of in its glorious history. The celebration touches all of the key areas with panache, giving it a sparkling (if sometimes token-driven) sheen.

Staged at the Pantages Theatre and shot on film to give it a classier and more consequential look, the all-star retrospective trots out nearly every living soul who has ever meant anything to the network -- with the ghost of ABC's late news/sports impresario Roone Arledge hanging tantalizingly over the proceedings. We get reunions of the casts of "Welcome Back, Kotter" (complete with John Travolta), "The Brady Bunch", "The Mod Squad", "Happy Days", "Family Matters", "The Love Boat" and even the still-going "NYPD Blue". This serves mostly as a gauge for how poorly, or well, these people have aged. And "Dynasty"'s Joan Collins looks significantly better and younger now than she ever did on the show, which points to the miracle of ... well, something.

Tellingly, David Caruso isn't present with the "NYPD" cast, nor is Ellen DeGeneres there for the brief tribute to "Ellen".

There are kicky moments scattered throughout, such as clips featuring the appearances of Harrison Ford on "Love, American Style", Tom Hanks on "Love Boat" (be very afraid), stars Ryan O'Neal on "Peyton Place" and Michael Douglas on "The Streets of San Francisco", Jodie Foster on "The Courtship of Eddie's Father" and Burt Reynolds on "The Dating Game". There's Sonny & Cher and the Jackson Five on "American Bandstand". And exes O'Neal and Farrah Fawcett (herself an ABC icon, of course, from "Charlie's Angels") arrive onstage together.

We also get clip packages galore, of course, paying self-homage to ABC's groundbreaking work in sports broadcasting (via the Olympics, "Wide World of Sports" and "Monday Night Football"), in longform movies and miniseries, in comedy and at the Oscars -- which is somehow missing the most electric Academy Awards moment of them all, which featured Charlie Chaplin in 1972.

Some things do indeed receive unnervingly short shrift, like the ABC News legacy (dispensed with in roughly five minutes of reflection from Peter Jennings and Ted Koppel) and most anything that predates the mid-1960s. There is, however, a little something for everybody in the star-studded special. And let it be said that while ABC may admit to being 50, it doesn't look a day over ... well, OK, 50.

ABC'S 50TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION

ABC

Don Mischer Prods.

Credits:

Executive producer: Don Mischer

Producer: Charlie Haykel

Director: Glenn Weiss

Ling producer: Bill Urban

Co-producer: Julianne Hare

Associate producer: Mark R. Leed

Writers: Dave Boone, Brian Brown, Sara Lukinson, Jon Macks, Stephen Pouliot, Jeff Stilson

Music director: Harold Wheeler

Production designer: Robert Keene

Art directors: Brian Stonestreet, Alex Fuller

Set decorator: Dwight Jackson

Costume designer: Paula Elins

Editors: Mike Polito, Mark Stepp, Bill Weinman Appearances by: Muhammad Ali, Tim Allen, Jim Belushi, LeVar Burton, Drew Carey, Richard Chamberlain, Dick Clark, Michael Cole, Joan Collins, Hugh Downs, Peter Falk, Farrah Fawcett, Michael J. Fox, Dennis Franz, Jennifer Garner, Dorothy Hamel, Florence Henderson, Bonnie Hunt, Peter Jennings, Jimmy Kimmel, Sugar Ray Leonard, Carl Lewis, Peggy Lipton, George Lopez, Susan Lucci, Joan Lunden, Jim McKay, Gavin MacLeod, John Madden, Camryn Manheim, Penny Marshall, Al Michaels, Joe Namath, Ryan O'Neal, John Ritter, Roseanne, John Travolta, Barbara Walters, Damon Wayans, Jaleel White, Cindy Williams, Clarence Williams III, Oprah Winfrey, Henry Winkler...