Producers Nominated For PGA Television Award

The Producers Guild of America yesterday recognised CSI: Crime Scene Investigation for excellence in television production.

The show's production team, headed by executive producers Jerry Bruckheimer, Carol Mendelsohn, Ann Donahue and Anthony Zuiker, were nominated for the Norman Felton Producer of the Year Award for Episodic Drama, according to the Hollywood Reporter. This is the fourth year in a row that CSI has been nominated in this category, having already won the PGA Vision Award in 2001.

CSI's competition includes HBO's The Sopranos, last year's Emmy winner for Best Drama, The West Wing, Nip/Tuck, and Six Feet Under. The West Wing has won the PGA gong twice, in 2002 and 2001, while Six Feet Under took home the award last year. 2003's winner, 24, was not nominated this time around.

Jerry Bruckheimer's Emmy-winning globetrotting reality show The Amazing Race was nominated for the Nonfiction Television Award, the show's second nomination in as many years. It will compete with Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Inside the Actor's Studio, The Apprentice and Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. The winners of the PGA Awards will be announced on January 22.

The good news continues for Bruckheimer, who was among six producers nominated for the 2005 Honors Awards presented by the Caucus for Television Producers, Writers & Directors. His competition includes Survivor tribal chief Mark Burnett, comedy maestros Marcy Casey and Tom Werner, NYPD Blue veteran David Milch and longtime events/specials producer Gary Smith. The awards will be presented on January 13.

The original article can be found at the Hollywood Reporter. Thanks to Al Fornos for this!

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