[W]ith the number of gavel skeins in double digits, the National Academy of TV Arts & Sciences has finally come to the realization that Judges Judy, Mathis, Alex, Hatchett and their ilk aren't going anywhere. [...]

"For a long time, people didn't really know what to do with courtshows," says Michael Rourke, who exec produces "Judge David Young" and "Judge Maria Lopez" for Sony Pictures TV.

"It wasn't really a talkshow or a reality show or a soap opera," he says. "It had elements of all of those things. The genre was an orphan. It's great they're acknowledging it as its own category."

The instant frontrunner is the deeply tanned, trapjawed grandma widely credited with the current genre glut, Judge Judy, who can turn a deadbeat, welfare-collecting ex-boyfriend who refuses to return a borrowed lawnmower into a pile a smoking ash with one lasery stare and the utterance of copyrighted dictum, "Don't rape my chicken and tell me you're taking it for a walk!" (We're already looking forward to her moving acceptance speech—"Bup bup bup! I'm TALKING here. Pipe down, Maestro!") Still, don't rule out darkhorse candidate Judge David "Justice with a Snap" Young, who'll appeal to the Academy's slightly younger, Sweeney Todd-quoting demographic.

• Daytime Emmys add court category [Variety]

One day before Friday's announcement that he was a co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, a British High Court judge ruled that Gore's global warming film, "An Inconvenient Truth," while "broadly accurate," contained nine significant errors.

The claim was originally filed by truck driver Stewart Dimmock, whose two children have not yet seen the film. [...]

The British claim was not the first time that the film's use in schools has been criticized...Frosty E. Hardison [of Federal Way, Wash.], a computer consultant and evangelical Christian, was outraged when he learned that the film would be shown in his daughter's seventh-grade science class. He sent an e-mail to the school board, declaring, "No, you will not teach or show that propagandist Al Gore video to my child, blaming our nation — the greatest nation ever to exist on this planet — for global warming."

For some, no number of awards—not even Oscars and a Nobel, the Cadillacs of the trophy circuit!—will sway them from their dangerous views that they have been hand-picked by God Himself to plunder the planet to their whims, free to fill their bellies on polar bear snouts and panda ribs if they so chose. But while we fear the British, with their diesel-coughing double-decker buses and chips-oil saturated atmosphere may be beyond salvation, it's never too late to save ourselves: Perhaps the message would be more easily digestible by American audiences if Gore's efforts were fêted in a televised awards ceremony presented in the round and hosted by the immensely likable Ryan Seacrest, with the occasional cutaway to an LCD disco-ball every time the environmental crusader got a little too apocalyptic for Fox censors' tastes.

• An Inconvenient Verdict for Al Gore [abcnews.go.com]