Add Web television to awards season.

The International Academy of Web Television has announced nominees for the inaugural IAWTV awards, with Felicia Day's "The Guild" and drama series "RCVR" topping the list.

"RCVR" racked up a dozen nominations. The show focuses on covert government agents that try to suppress the truth about extraterrestrial encounters and hunt humans selected by an alien species to act as channels for advanced technologies. "The Guild," a long-running Web series that is arguably the field's most popular, picked up nine nominations.

The awards will be presented in Las Vegas on Jan. 12, alongside the Consumer Electronics Show.

A full list of the nominees can be found after the break.

The launch window has been a rocky one for Activision's Call of Duty Elite, but even with a few bugs remaining, the publisher is ready to start ramping things up.

This Friday, members of the subscription service will get the chance to see the first installment of Friday Night Fights, an original entertainment series that's produced by Ridley Scott and Tony Scott's RSA Films.

The show will let rivals settle their differences in multiplayer battles of "Modern Warfare 3," with the first episode pitting teams from the U.S. Army vs. U.S. Navy.

"From the beginning, our goal with Call of Duty Elite has been to bring the Call of Duty community together in new ways," says Eric Hirshberg, CEO, Activision Publishing.

"Fans of Call of Duty spend as much time playing the game, as sports fans spend following their favorite teams—if not more. So we figured, if sports fans get all kinds of shows outside of the games to feed their passion, why not do the same thing for Call of Duty fans?"

The show will premiere at noon and be available for replay via streaming.

Made-for-Web production has become a very difficult business in the past year. So it's perhaps no  surprise that after making a big splash in the space with "Jackass 2.5" in late 2007, Paramount Digital Entertainment has been quiet on the Web front.

But today comes news it's making a second try, working with French production company Gaumont on "Section 8." This one won't be streamed or sold online as a full movie, like "Jackass." Instead, Paramount plans to stream six-to-nine minute episodes on the Web and then collect the whole thing into a DVD and even a theatrical feature.

The primary factor holding back original online video hasn't been a glut of product, as many might have expected a year or two ago, but monetization problems. Digital download numbers remain paltry compared to DVD sales and advertising money isn't yet close to what can be made from the same content on TV.

Paramount's solution is apparently to go back to that oldest of funding methods: product integration and advance overseas sales. The studio is working with Endemol to handle both, which is why the project was unveiled now, going into the MIP TV conference in Cannes.

What exactly is "Section Eight?" Paramount isn't telling. It won't even say yet who's writing and producing. All we know is that it's an "interactive short-form serial thriller" that will debut this fall, with an exclusive window on MySpace before hitting other platforms like Hulu and iTunes. And viewers will actually get to vote on the end of the series (Another old school throwback -- I remember doing with a 900 number for an "A-Team" episode as a kid in the '80s).