The Screen Actors Guild announced their annual award nominations this morning and the ABC sitcom "Modern Family" leads the TV category with five nods. Raleigh native Michael C. Hall (left) was nominated for his starring role in "Dexter." Hall won the SAG Award for playing serial killer Dexter Morgan in January 2010. "Dexter" was also nominated today for Best Drama Series Ensemble.

One glaring omission from the SAG list is Showtime's excellent new drama, "Homeland," which is filmed in Charlotte. Claire Danes are Damien Lewis are both terrific in that show. There's always next year.

The SAG Awards Show will be broadcast on January 29, on TBS and TNT.

See more SAG television nominations below:

Season 6 of Showtime's "Dexter" returns tonight with a fresh and freaky theme and a compelling new list of guest stars.

I don't think I'll ever get tired of this show. Even when I think I've grown ambivalent, it only takes one episode to pull me back into serial killer Dexter Morgan's (Michael C. Hall) tense and exhausting life of baby-raising, blood spatter analysis, and bad guy-killing.

The new season adds Colin Hanks and Edward James Olmos as religious zealots who are trying to ... actually, I watched three episodes and I'm still not sure what they are trying to do, but they are most definitely up to no good.

Also in the cast this season is Mos Def, who is credited on the show simply as Mos (when did that happen?). Mos plays Brother Sam, an ex-con who has supposedly found religion, but Dexter is skeptical. Is Brother Sam "tending his flock" to keep them out of trouble or running some kind of scam? (The part brings to mind Walton Goggins as Boyd in FX's "Justified.")

The 63rd annual Emmy Awards, hosted by "Glee" star Jane Lynch, gets going tonight at 8 p.m. on FOX. Check back here after 8 for live updates from the show.

If you want to get started early, there's a live backstage webcast from the Emmy website starting at 5 p.m. A Red Carpet show starts at 5 p.m. on the E! channel.

Here's a full list of nominees, which include former Raleighites Michael C. Hall and Evan Rachel Wood. Hall is nominated for his starring role in Showtime's "Dexter," and Wood, who has a recurring role as the campy Vampire Queen of Louisiana in HBO's "True Blood," is nominated for her supporting role in the HBO miniseries "Mildred Pierce." Wood has an excellent shot at winning. We're pulling for both of them!

Recap below.

First, check out this photo gallery from the show and this one from the Red Carpet.

There's a nice interview with "Dexter's" Michael C. Hall in the current Los Angeles Times Magazine, and right off the bat, the interviewer asks the North Carolina native about growing up in Raleigh and attending Ravenscroft. It's a brief exchange, but kind of funny.

Check it out.

Photo from Los Angeles Times Magazine

"Dexter" returns for its fifth season tonight, picking up right where things left off in season four. After being reminded once again of Dexter's gruesome bathroom discovery, we see him on his knees in his front yard, clutching his baby boy in his bloody hands while blue lights flash all around. Our vigilante serial killer is shaken to his core and so stunned by Rita's murder that he mutters, "It was me" to the police who first arrive on the scene.

But as guilty as Dexter looks -- and boy is he ever a perfect suspect for something like this -- we all know it wasn't him but Trinity who did the deed. But like Dexter, we also know it was because of Dexter's dangerous relationship with Trinity that Rita was targeted, and that is what has our usually composed protagonist unraveling in the premiere.

Michael C. Hall is truly great as the dazed, zombie-like Dexter, who stumbles around in the aftermath of Rita's murder processing his guilt and flashing back to memories of when they first met (giving Julie Benz a chance to reprise her role). Dexter has always known he would eventually cause his loved ones pain, but imagined it would be the pain of hurt and public humiliation when he was finally caught, not that anyone would actually have to die. More acutely than ever before, Dexter must reckon with the inevitability that his darkness will destroy the innocent people who love him.

Showtime released their chilling trailer for season 5 of "Dexter" at Comic-Con this past weekend.

Spoilers ahead.

Jonny Lee Miller, who played a singing corporate lawyer in ABC's short-lived legal dramedy "Eli Stone," has been cast for the upcoming season of "Dexter."

Showtime says Miller will play a mysterious stranger who gets involved with a character played by Julia Stiles, who will appear in 10 of the season's 13 episodes. There was no additional information about Miller's role, but Stiles apparently will play a woman who forms a relationship with "Dexter" in the wake of ... you know (I know people who are trying to catch up on Season 4 right now, so I'm not going to spoil anything).

"Dexter," which stars Raleigh native Michael C. Hall, begins filming its fifth season this month.

Great news! Jennifer Carpenter, the wife of actor Michael C. Hall, tells the Associated Press that Hall is "fully recovered" from cancer.

Hall, a native of Raleigh, was diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma last year and has been undergoing treatment. 

He won both a SAG award and a Golden Globe in January for his portrayal of the serial killer (with a heart of gold) on this past season's "Dexter." Carpenter also stars in "Dexter" and plays the step sister of Hall's character.

"Dexter" airs on Showtime and begins shooting its fifth season soon.

It was another big night for TV stars at last night's SAG Awards, and a lot of Warm TV favorites took home bronzed naked men (those would be SAG trophies), including Raleigh's Michael C. Hall.

For the most part, the SAGs mimicked the Golden Globe awards given out last Sunday night. Alec Baldwin once again won for Outstanding Male Actor in a Comedy for his role on NBC's "30 Rock," and his costar Tina Fey took home the trophy for Outstanding Female Actor in a Comedy. (Baldwin the won Golden Globe last week, but Fey lost out to Toni Collette.)

The fact that the "Golden Globes" aired on NBC didn't dissuade a little friendly network-bashing over the whole "Tonight Show" fiasco. But all things considered, it wasn't nearly as bad as I expected. Tina Fey was perhaps funniest on the Red Carpet minutes before the official show began, proclaiming that it wasn't actually raining in Hollywood, it was God crying for NBC.

Best moment of the night: Raleigh native Michael C. Hall (left) winning the Best Actor award for his role on Showtime's "Dexter." Votes were cast before Hall announced last week that he has Hodgkin's Lymphoma.

I was lukewarm on Ricky Gervais as host. I love him and think he's hilarious in everything he does. So, I had unreasonably high expectations, and he wasn't as funny as Golden Globes host as I thought he'd be.