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Daily Herald-Tribune Friday December 1 6 2005 39 EnriteirttaDiniinnieinitt New categories Writers Guild award nominees announced House Fox A Good Day The West Wing NBC Grave Danger CSI: Crime Scene Investigation CBS Normal is the Watchword Veronica Mars UPN Rhea Reynold NipIUck FX Singing for Our Lives Six Feet Under HBO Episodic comedy: Diversity Day The Office NBQ Exile on Main Street pilot Kitchen Confidential Fox Motivational Speaker Malcolm in the Middle Fox Next Desperate Housewives ABQ My Name is Earl pilot My Name is Earl NBQ You Can't Miss the Bear pilot Weeds Showtime Long form original: Dirt Showtime The Librarian: Quest for the Spear TNT The Reading Room Hallmark Warm Springs HBO THRILLING! EPIC! READY TO PLAY Celoa wait reedy for young mueidana to pick them up as Christmas band and orchestra concert lata last week IV Maddbi idiool hoated ki Phokx Rondy Vondarvaon Canadians spent more than $2 1 million on Xbox 360 in November LOS ANGELES (AP) The writing teams for the new ABC medical show Grey Anatomy and the NBC comedies My Name Is Earl and The Office scored double nominations TUesday from the Writers Guild of America The guilds awards for 2005 for the first time include categories recognizing overall excellence in the writing of episodic series The awards for dramas comedies and new series will be presented to all writers of the winning series The awards will be presented Feb 4 at ceremonies in Los Angela and New York The 12-person writing team of Anatomy which centres on surgical intern Meredith Grey was nominated in the dramatic and new series categories The 11 -person writing team of NBC The Office which is based on the BBC hit lampooning the 9-to-5 world was nominated in the comedy and new series categories The 13-person writing team of My Name is Earl which chronicles the title character attempts to redeem himself also was nominated in the comedy and new series categories The show also received a nomination for a single writer for its pilot In the comedy series category Curb Your Enthusiasm earned a nomination for its single writer Larry David who also stars in the comedy Nominations also were announced for single episodes in the drama comedy animation and long-form categories long-running animation show The Simpsons swept its category with six nominations Nominations among 21 television and radio categories included: Dramatic series: Deadwood HBO Grey Anatomy ABC Lost ABC Six Feet Under HBO The West Wing NBC Comedy series: Arrested Development Fox Curb Your Enthusiasm HBO Entourage HBO My Name Is Earl NBC The Office NBC -4r New series: Everybody Hates' Chris UPN Grey Anatomy ABC My Name Is Earl NBQ The Office NBQ Rome HBO Episodic drama: Autopsy NOW FmnTm Of Tk Iiw Or Tm Mf PLAYING! gunk Check Theatre Directory or wswuniversalplcturesca for Showtimes PG lease in the spring on PlayStation 2 and PSP Canadian Arturo (Thunder) Gatti and (Irish)' Mickey Ward will be on the cover erf Electronic Night Round 3 slated for release in February for the PS2 Xbox and Xbox 360 and PSP NOTES The game version of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe shipped more than two million copies EA has set up a studio in Singapore to develop and its titles for the lucrative Asian market The fourth chapter in Ubisoft hit Splinter Cell franchise will be titled Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Double Agent It is slated for release in the spring on all platforms Ubisoft studios in Montreal China and Ftance are developing the title YOU'VE NEVER1 SEEN tCHICKEN PREPARED ytWTP SEEIT NOW! 151) LOVE IT I LOVE IT: Roger Ebert NEIL DAVIDSON The Canadhn Pres Canadians rang up sales between $21 million and $22 million of the Xbox 360 and its accompanying software and accessories last month -J almost all of that coming in week or so after the Nov 22 launch according to NPD Group Canada 4 The launch supply was quickly snapped up with 32100 consoles sold in Canada in November and another 325900 south of the border NPD reports The Canadian 360 sales mirror the launch numbers of other recent hardware releases according to NPD The Nintendo DS launch month November 2004 -ended with sales of just over 28000 units in Canada while the PSP launch month sales last March were 31500 I The 360 the first of the I next-generation video game consoles is available in two versions retailing in Canada at $39999 and $49999 (top TEN On the software front no (Xbox 360 titles cracked the top 10 in Canada in Novem-- ber Star Wars Battlefront II topped the video game sales chart The PlayStation 2 version of the Lucasarts Battle-front sequel was No 1 followed by its Xbox cousin according to NPD figures WWE Smackdown vs Raw 2006 (PS2) was third followed by Electronic made-in-Vancouver 1 NHL 2006 (PS2) and Ninten- (' Mario Party 7 for the GameCube The top 360 title was Ac-i Call of Duty 2 at I No 11 with Microsoft Is ject Gotham Racing 3 at No 14 and Perfect Dark Zero at No 20 The limited presence of 360 titles on the November chart is no doubt due to the Nov 22 release of the console and the limited availability of the new hardware Nintendo Mario Kart for the portable DS system ranked sixth on the November sales chart followed by EA Need for Speed: Most Wanted (PS2) Sony Ratchet: Deadlocked (PS2) Rock-star Games' Grand Theft Auto Liberty City Stories (PSP) and BA's NHL 2006 (Xbox) Reflecting the influx of new titles during the holiday season 16 of the top 20 November games were not ranked in October 360 GLITCH The head of Ubisoft says the made-in-Montreal Xbox 360 version of King Kong may be too dark on traditional TVs Yves Guillemot says the 360 version of the game suffers because it was built for high-definition TVs have a problem on the 360" Guillemot told the BBC website screen is dark on some TVs and it totally changes the experience When it dark you see where you have to go" Ubisoft is looking to avoid the problem in future titles he said Some 360 games ask what kind of TV is being used to play the game The King Kong game was created at Ubisoft Montepellier studio by noted developer Michel Ancel with Ubisoft Montreal working with Ancel on the 360 version COVER BOYS: David Ortiz designated hitter for the Boston Red Sox has been chosen cover athlete of MLB The Show scheduled for re VNE FILM THAT HAS OSCAR" WRITTEN ALL OVER IT: ROSSLYN INN SUITES HWr1tnm ashp walk the line LAN0MMK CINEMAS IAN CINEMi CHECK THEATRE DIRECTORY OR WWWTRBUTECA FOR SHOWTIMES 3 (I (19 wwwTross I yninnandsuitesTca ReservationsT7804766 241 People's Automotive in partnershipjiith HI Yorth Society Presents finPNDNSIIliiiff TOiai I SEE IT NOW! 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