1st Critics Choice TV Awards Announced

June 6th, 2011 | Posted by Nezi
Critics Choice Merge - Walking Dead - Fringe - Justified

Check out the Critics Choice Nominees!

We’ve heard of the Critics Choice Movie Awards before, but now there’s another awards show to cover for you. An offshoot of the Broadcast Television Journalists Association‘s awards show for movies each year, the Critics Choice Television Awards will debut this summer. Programs that aired between June 1, 2010 and May 31, 2011 were eligible for consideration, and the organization has just released their list of nominees.

Best Drama Series -
- Boardwalk Empire (HBO)
- Dexter (Showtime)
- Friday Night Lights (Direct TV)
- Fringe (FOX)
- Game of Thrones (HBO)
- The Good Wife (CBS)
- Justified (FX)
- The Killing (AMC)
- Mad Men (AMC)
- The Walking Dead (AMC)

Best Actor (Drama) -
- Steve Buscemi in Boardwalk Empire
- Kyle Chandler in Friday Night Lights
- Michael C. Hall in Dexter
- Jon Hamm in Mad Men
- William H. Macy in Shameless (Showtime)
- Timothy Olyphant in Justified

Best Actress (Drama) -
- Anna Torv in Fringe
- Connie Britton in Friday Night Lights
- Mireille Enos in The Killing
- Julianna Margulies in The Good Wife
- Elizabeth Moss in Mad Men
- Katey Sagal in Sons of Anarchy (FX)

Best Supporting Actor (Drama) -
- Alan Cumming in The Good Wife
- Walton Goggins in Justified
- Shawn Hatosy in Southland (TNT)
- John Noble in Fringe
- Michael Pitt in Boardwalk Empire
- John Slattery in Mad Men

Best Supporting Actress (Drama) -
- Michelle Forbes in The Killing
- Christina Hendricks in Mad Men
- Margo Martindale in Justified
- Kelly Mcdonald in Boardwalk Empire
- Archie Panjabi in The Good Wife
- Chloe Sevigny in Big Love (HBO)

Best Comedy Series -
- Modern Family (ABC)
- Archer (FX)
- The Big Bang Theory (CBS)
- Community (NBC)
- Glee (FOX)
- Louie (FX)
- The Middle (ABC)
- The Office (NBC)
- Parks and Recreation (NBC)
- 30 Rock (NBC)

Best Actor (Comedy) -
- Alec Baldwin in 30 Rock
- Steve Carell in The Office
- Louis C.K. in Louis
- Charlie Day in It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (FX)
- Joel McHale in Community
- Jim Parsons in The Big Bang Theory

Best Actress (Comedy) -
- Courtney Cox in Cougar Town (ABC)
- Edie Falco in Nurse Jackie (Showtime)
- Tina Fey in 30 Rock
- Patricia Heaton in The Middle
- Martha Plimpton in Raising Hope (FOX)
- Amy Poehler in Parks and Recreation

Best Supporting Actor (Comedy) -
- Ty Burrell in Modern Family
- Ed O’Neill in Modern Family
- Eric Stonestreet in Modern Family
- Neil Patrick Harris in How I Met Your Mother (CBS)
- Nick Offerman in Parks and Recreation
- Danny Pudi in Community

Best Supporting Actress (Comedy) -
- Julie Bowen in Modern Family
- Sofia Vergara in Modern Family
- Jane Krakowski in 30 Rock
- Jane Lynch in Glee
- Busy Phillips in Cougar Town
- Eden Sher in The Middle

Best Talk Show -
- Chelsea Lately (E!)
- The Daily Show (Comedy Central)
- The Ellen DeGeneres Show (Warner Bros.)
- Jimmy Kimmel Live! (ABC)
- The Oprah Winfrey Show (Harpo)

Best Reality Series -
- Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (ABC)
- Hoarders (A&E)
- The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills (Bravo)
- Sister Wives (TLC)
- Undercover Boss (CBS)

Best Reality Series (Competition) -
- The Amazing Race (ABC)
- American Idol (FOX)
- Dancing With the Stars (ABC)
- Project Runway (Lifetime)
- RuPaul’s Drag Race (Logo)
- Top Chef (Bravo)

Best Reality Show Host -
- Tom Bergeron for Dancing With the Stars
- Cat Deeley for So You Think You Can Dance (FOX)
- Ty Pennington for Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
- Ryan Seacrest for American Idol
- Mike Rowe for Dirty Jobs (Discovery)

While there are some nominees that usually get overlooked, like Anna Torv, John Noble, and their show Fringe, that I’m happy to see here, there are still some deserving shows that missed out. My favorites that are missing in action – Supernatural, The Mentalist actors Simon Baker and Tim Kang, Castle and its leading lady, Stana Katic. Very happy to see The Walking Dead, Justified and Fringe get nominations, but it would be hard to decide between those three! My pick for “Best Actor (Drama)” would be Timothy Olyphant, but for “Supporting Actor (Drama)” it would be hard to choose between John Noble and Walton Goggins. Both put in fantastic performances every week.

What do you think of their nominees? Any actors or shows you would have picked instead?

The Critics Choice Television Awards will be streamed LIVE exclusively on VH1.com on June 20 at 3:00pm CT/4:00pm ET from the Beverly Hills Hotel. And, on June 22, ReelzChannel will broadcast the show at 7:00pm CT/8:00p ET, and then rebroadcast it throughout that week.

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Critics Choice Television Awards © Broadcast Television Journalists Association
The Walking Dead Artwork © AMC
Fringe Artwork © Smallz and Raskind/FOX
Justified Artwork © FX Network

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Comments

  1. Lisa says:
    June 7, 2011 at 9:48 pm

    I haven’t seen most of these TV series, lol! But out of the ones I have seen, I am only rooting for Big Bang Theory and The Daily Show!!

  2. Nezi says:
    June 8, 2011 at 10:41 am

    Justified is a damn good show. So is Fringe. Well, until the last sentence of this last season. Now it’s a little WTF. lol But I definitely would choose Timothy Olyphant from Justified as best actor from these.

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