Awards round-up: “Glee” and “Modern Family” get WGA & PGA nods; Kathy Griffin nominated by PGA

It’s terrific that whenever award nominations for television shows come out these days, Modern Family and Glee are always well represented.

That certainly was the case today when the Producers Guild of America and the Writers Guild of America unveiled their choices.

The PGA nominated both Glee and Modern Family for The Danny Thomas Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television, Comedy. The rest of its competition is 30 Rock, The Office and Curb Your Enthusiasm.

HBO’s True Blood is among the nominees for the The Norman Felton Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television. It competes with Breaking Bad, Dexter, Lost and Mad Men.

Kathy Griffin, who has two Emmys on her mantle (they also seem to travel with her an awful lot!), is a nominee for Outstanding Producer of Non-Fiction Television for her Bravo show My Life on the D-List. Her competition is the producers of Intervention, Deadliest Catch, Undercover Boss and Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations.

Vying for the Award for Outstanding Producer of Live Entertainment and Competition Television are the producers of The Amazing Race, The Colbert Report, Project Runway, Top Chef and Real Time With Bill Maher.

As for the writing awards, both Glee and Modern Family were nominated by the WGA in the comedy series category as were 30 Rock, Nurse Betty and The Office.

Modern Family also got two nods for specific episodes: The Earthquake and Starry Night.

In the daytime drama category, both As the World Turns and One Life to Live were nominated along with General Hospital. Both ATWT and OLTL had gay storylines although OLTL wrote all of their gay characters out in February.