It's Upfronts Week, which means that the five major broadcast TV networks will be holding press conferences to announce their Fall 2007 schedules. NBC and ABC went first, with CBS, The CW and FOX scheduled to present tomorrow and Wednesday. For the latest upfronts news, here's a list of resources to keep an eye on. If you see something you like, make it sure to share it with the rest of the Netscape community by submitting it to our Television channel.

***Our friends at TV Squad have a whole section devoted to the upfronts, with bloggers like Joel Keller and Bob Sassone posting detailed analysis of each network's strategy.

***Virginia Heffernan, NY Times TV critic and author of the excellent web video blog Screens, is live blogging the upfronts here. Her (ironic?) excitement about NBC's new straight-to-online soap Coastal Dreams is infectious.

***The LA Times' television critics are blogging the upfronts, too. Wondering how the Grey's Anatomy spinoff made it onto ABC's fall schedule, despite the fact that virtually all fans and critics thought it was awful? Scroll down to the second-to-last paragraph of this entry.

***TVWeek's James Hibbard's live blog gives Defamer one last chance to kick Aaron Sorkin while he's down. Also: George Lopez loses his timeslot to the Geico cavemen.

***New York Magazine's Daily Intel blog says Lindsay Lohan (who is not, as far as we know, involved in any network's fall line-up) swooped in on upfront swag.

One of our top stories on Netscape today is a Newshound takedown of Fox News stalwart Bill O'Reilly, who has blamed MSNBC's "far left" slant for the poor ratings of last week's Republican debate. Since the Newshound site exists for the sole purpose of slamming Fox News, its take on the story doesn't exactly come as a shock. "You need to face some facts," Newshound tells O'Reilly. "You've peaked and Keith Olbermann is coming up behind you and MSNBC considers him a great asset."

But do they? According to an AP story circulated by Jossip and The Huffington Post, MSNBC did have to contend with flack from conservatives regarding Olbermann's debate night commentary, particularly concerning Rudy Giuliani, whose team actually called MSNBC to complain. AP's David Bauder suggested that "having Olbermann anchor [a political news event] is the MSNBC equivalent of Fox News Channel assigning the same duties to O'Reilly." In other words, news guys should take care of reporting news, and commentary guys who get paid to ruffle feathers should only be brought in after the fact.

Remember last month, when Netscape handed out our own awards for the Golden Globes telecast? The plan was to do the same for the Academy Awards. But last night's production was a strange one, too odd in many ways to be reduced to bullet points, and one largely unworthy of praise. According to Matt Drudge, the general public wasn't even watching--if overnight estimates prove accurate, it will be the third least-watched Oscars in history. Nikki Finke warned us last week that telecast producer Laura Ziskin had a four-hour monster on her hands, but no one wants to believe that kind of bad news in advance. And based on the reports that have so far hit the Web, even those who get paid to watch these things could barely sit through this year's installment. The few bright spots have so far been glossed over by critics who seem appalled in equal measure by the show's lack of spectacle and host Ellen DeGeneres' velvet pantsuit.

These early reports (particularly Brian Lowry's review in Variety and Alessandra Stanley's analysis in the New York Times) sound simultaneously naive and hackneyed. At the Oscar viewing party I attended, at the IFC Center in downtown Manhattan, nobody in the local, primarily film industry-tangential crowd seemed particularly surprised that the show itself was overlong and, for long stretches, dreadfully dull. Certainly no one suggested that what the evening really needed was more production numbers and fewer flamboyant outfits. The New York crowd simply slogged through, clapping some but mocking more, waiting for the good stuff. For our perseverance, we were rewarded with four big wins (Film Editing, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Director, Best Picture) for the hometown favorite, Martin Scorsese's The Departed. The genuine sense of joy in the room when the final award of the night was announced made sitting through the show's interminable middle three hours seem almost worthwhile.

As Eugene Hernandez so astutely puts it over at indieWIRE, the Golden Globes are the "awards show that means nothing and everything at the same time." The Globes are selected by members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, a loosely-defined, corruption-ridden organization that seems to grant membership to any interested party boasting a non-U.S. passport and an affiliation with the entertainment media. Think of it this way: these are the greatest achievements in film and television as decided by the people who produce the Argentinean version of Entertainment Tonight.

It can be argued that Globe winners have a distinct advantage going into the Oscar race. The Oscars are selected by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences--that is, by working film professionals and former Oscar winners, most of whom are too busy to see a ton of films in which they weren't paid to participate. As such, they're enormously susceptible to buzz. And thanks to the splashy media profile of the Globes (which belies the feeble prestige of the HFPA), buzz is exactly what the winners get.

We can all agree that the Globes themselves have a limited impact on pop-cultural history. But it's hard to resist a media event that brings together the biggest stars in the world, locks them in a room for four hours, points cameras at them, and encourages them to drink. So let me celebrate this dubious award ceremony with my own list of dubious awards. Ladies and gentlemen, I bring you my picks for the most memorable moments of the evening:

Most Unfortunate Instance of Irony, Production Elements Edition: NBC's music editors

For the opening montage of celebrities on the red carpet, the NBC telecast piped in "One Night Only" from Dreamgirls. As it happens, this song includes the memorable chorus: "One night only/Let's not pretend to care." Has even NBC given up on pretending like the Globes matter? Making matters worse, there are two versions of the song in Dreamgirls: a slower, soulful version, sung by Jennifer Hudson's character, and a shallow, disco-fied bastardization which is supposed to represent the evils of commodified culture. Guess which version NBC chose for their montage?