Globes heap TV noms on newbies

Fox's frosh series 'New Girl' picked up two Golden Globe nominations, including Best Actress in a Comedy Series for Zooey Deschanel.It was out with the old and in with the new on the TV side of the Golden Globes. The kudocast saw an aggressive reshuffling of the decks across categories, which injected plenty of fresh blood including many rookie series.While HBO's "Boardwalk Empire," the reigning drama series champ, is back again but it is the lone returning entrant. The other four are all frosh: HBO's "Game of Thrones," Showtime's "Homeland," FX's "American Horror Story" and Starz's "Boss." With CBS's"The Good Wife" failing to nab a repeat nomination, the dramas will be entirely represented by cable series.Broadcast fared a bit better on the comedy side, where Fox will see this year's winner, "Glee," return and add another in rookie series "New Girl." ABC's "Modern Family" is back as well but alongside some dark-horse contenders -- HBO's "Enlightened" and Showtime's "Episodes" -- that managed to knock out some broadcast favorites: NBC's "30 Rock" and CBS' "The Big Bang Theory."HBO had its typically strong showing overall, nabbing 18 nominations -- half of which came in movies/miniseries categories led by four for "Mildred Pierce." Only PBS' "Downton Abbey" had as many noms. "Mildred Pierce" made Globes fave Kate Winslet a double nominee, along with her mention for film comedy actress for "Carnage."Among series alone, there was no one dominant player, with "Boardwalk," "Modern Family" and "Homeland" each grabbing three. Showtime got all eight of its noms in series categories, second in total only to HBO."Mildred Pierce" made Kate Winslet a double nominee this time around, as she's also up on the feature comedy/musical side for "Carnage."In the comedy thesping heat, "Big Bang" was knocked for a loop in the lead actor category where this year's winner, Jim Parsons, didn't get a nomination, but his co-star, Johnny Galecki, did. He's joined by "30 Rock's" Alec Baldwin and "Hung's" Thomas Jane, as well as two entrants from Showtime: David Duchovny for "Californication" and Matt LeBlanc for "Episodes."For lead comedy actress, the reigning winner Laura Linney returns again for Showtime's "The Big C." Laura Dern of "Enlightened," Amy Poehler of "Parks and Recreation" and Zooey Deschanel of "New Girl" round out the category. Notably absent from the category is Edie Falco, a kudos darling for Showtime's "Nurse Jackie."Perhaps the biggest surprise in the thesping categories was the shutout for "Glee," which earned the most nominations of any series last year. But all four actors who were nominated didn't get invited back to compete, including Matthew Morrison, Lea Michele, Jane Lynch and Chris Colfer.The drama actress category kept with the Globes' upheaval theme by only returning "The Good Wife's" Julianna Margulies and bringing in two contenders who were on few shortlists to get a nomination: Madeleine Stowe of the new ABC sudser "Revenge," and Callie Thorne of USA's "Necessary Roughness." They're joined by two more expected rookies, AMC's Mireille Enos of "The Killing" and Showtime's Claire Danes of "Homeland," a Globes fave who won this year in the miniseries category for her turn in HBO's "Temple Grandin."Kelsey Grammer earned his first Globe nom since 2002, and his first lead drama actor bid, for his turn as the tyrannical politician in Starz's "Boss." "Homeland's" Damian Lewis is another new face in the category, rounded out by Steve Buscemi of "Boardwalk," Bryan Cranston of "Breaking Bad" and Jeremy Irons for Showtime's "The Borgias."Competing against "Downton Abbey" and "Mildred Pierce" in the longform heat are HBO's "Too Big to Fail" and "Cinema Verite" and BBC America mini "The Hour." PBS and BBC America also fielded other players, with Idris Elba of BBC America's "Luther" returning to the longform actor category, which also welcomed Bill Nighy of PBS' "Page Eight." The rest were William Hurt ("Fail"), Hugh Bonneville ("Abbey") and Dominic West ("Hour")."Hour," which recreated the 1950s British news biz, also recognized Romola Garai in the miniseries/movie actress category. Also in the race are Winslet, Diane Lane ("Verite"), Elizabeth McGovern ("Abbey") and Emily Watson of Sundance Channel's "Appropriate Adult."In the supporting acting categories, where series talent intermingles with longform thesps, "Modern Family" showed its strength by returning Sofia Vergara and Eric Stonestreet. Stonestreet will face off against "Game of Thrones' " Peter Dinklage and three longform players: Paul Giamatti of "Too Big to Fail"; Guy Pearce of "Mildred Pierce"; and Tim Robbins of "Cinema Verite." Vying against Vergara are Jessica Lange of "American Horror Story," Kelly Macdonald of "Boardwalk Empire," Maggie Smith of "Downton Abbey" and Evan Rachel Wood of "Mildred Pierce.""American Horror Story" joins a list of rookie shows that should get a nice jolt of fresh attention from the public after scoring dual nods that put them in contention for both series and acting honors, including Fox's "New Girl," Starz's "Boss," HBO's "Enlightened" and Showtime's "Episodes."While AMC was expected to lighten its statuette load given "Mad Men" was eligible for the Globes race this year, it may have hoped for a better showing given "The Killing" and "Breaking Bad" only drew one nomination apiece while "The Walking Dead" was shut out entirely.Ditto for FX, which saw no love for "Justified," "Louie" and "Sons of Anarchy." Other notable omissions were "Friday Night Lights," "The Office," and "Dexter." Contact Andrew Wallenstein at andrew.wallenstein@variety.com