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Welcome to the second night of the Peanut Awards. Tonight’s categories may seem more appropriate for movies than television (we stole most of them from the Oscars). However, the television industry is changing, and we’re committed to keeping up with it. Maybe the DVD industry has something to do with it, but the folks behind many of the shows that have come out over the past few years seem committed to establishing the medium as an art form. Lucky for us TV fans.

The Nominees for Best Art Direction are

• Friday Night Lights
• Heroes
• Lost
• Ugly Betty

And the winner is…Lost.

Filming in Hawaii makes for easy beach and jungle scenes, but this enigmatic show ventures into underground hatches, it flies to Australia and Asia, maintaining the same expansive cinematography and careful camera angles established in the initial stunning crash scene.

The Nominees for Best Visual Effects are

• Grey’s Anatomy
• Heroes
• Jericho
• Lost

And the winner is…Heroes.

Nathan flies, Hiro bends time, Claire jumps off buildings and heals at warp speed, DL walks through walls, and so much more. This series is an homage to special effects, and it stands up next to comic book inspired movies like Spider-Man and The X-Men, earning a geek cult following unlike any since…well, since “Lost”.

The Nominees for the Best Score are

• 30 Rock
• Friday Night Lights
• Lost
• Ugly Betty

And the winner is…Friday Night Lights.

Prolific composer WG Snuffy Walden’s (”The West Wing”, “Freaks and Geeks”) has created a bare bones but magnificent score. His guitars with stadium reverb over a marching band drumline are not only appropriate to the show’s content but manage to fully manipulate your emotions, leaving you nostalgic for a life you had no idea you missed.

The Nominees for Best Fake Pop Song are

• “Let’s Go to the Mall” - performed by Robin Sparkles (How I Met Your Mother)
• “Muffin Top” - performed by Jenna Maroney (30 Rock)
• “You All Everybody” - performed by Drive Shaft (Lost)

And the winner is…Let’s Go to the Mall.

While “Lost” fans have been humming the refrain to “You All Everybody” for three years now, it can’t stand up to the MySpace phenomenon that is Robin Sparkles. The Tiffany-inspired song and video caused “How I Met Your Mother” to spike in ratings the following week. Fortunately there was no such spike in the sale of suspenders and rubber bracelets.