TV Awards 2016-2017 [** Winners! **]

Mr E

Hi everyone, bigly year for TV, we're in a new golden age and there is lots of great stuff on the box.

Time to vote for your favourites. The first 11 categories are now accepting nominations. I'll leave these open until Tuesday I think. There are two more groups of categories to go after that.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=485

May the best shows win!

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Hot Female, but no Hot Male?

Mr E

3 batches of categories, Bot42. Group 2 next week.

Don't worry, you'll get to nominate your hot males soon.

Also Starring LeVar Burton

I take nominating for this far too seriously... I've spent the best part of 3 hours shortlisting and finalising my nominations for this first batch of noms and even then I feel like I've done certain shows and characters a disservice because they didn't make my final 5... I had to make a couple of tough calls, and I can only see the next 2 batches of categories getting harder.

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Like last year, I'm going to abstain from nominating in the Most Overrated Show category - my view is if people are really into something or like something fair play to them, no reason for me to s*** all over the shows they like just because I don't get the appeal.

Mr E

The nominees are very thin so far - I'm going to leave the first batch open for another few days...

Mr E

Bump - 2nd group of nominations will be tomorrow (Wednesday) night.

Mr E

Group 2 going up later this afternoon.

Mr E

Group 2 up now - until Sunday night at least.

Best Actor (Female)
Hottest Male in a TV Show
Best Documentary
Best Overall Character
Biggest Shark Jumper
Best Single Episode of a TV Show
Best Season Finale
Best Twist
Best Storyline / Story Arc
Best Soap Opera

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Also Starring LeVar Burton

Also Starring LeVar Burton wrote: »

I take nominating for this far too seriously... I've spent the best part of 3 hours shortlisting and finalising my nominations for this first batch of noms and even then I feel like I've done certain shows and characters a disservice because they didn't make my final 5... I had to make a couple of tough calls, and I can only see the next 2 batches of categories getting harder.

Spent equally as long with these nominations. I don't know if this reflects the rising quality of television or if my OCD just kicks in to overdrive when I'm required to make these types of nominations...

Also Starring LeVar Burton wrote: »

Like last year, I'm going to abstain from nominating in the Most Overrated Show category - my view is if people are really into something or like something fair play to them, no reason for me to s*** all over the shows they like just because I don't get the appeal.

Unless a show actually has an episode where someone jumps over a Shark (preferably on a motorcycle à la Happy Days), I think Biggest Shark Jumper is another category I'm going to abstain from nominating in.

Mr E

Last group up now. Voting will start at the weekend, hopefully.

Best Full Season of a TV Show
Most Promising Show for 2017/2018 Season
Most Memorable Scene
Standout Performance in a Single Episode
Worst Actor/Actress in a Mainstream Show
Show That Should Have Been Cancelled
Show That Shouldn't Have Been Cancelled
Character You Love To Hate The Most
Best Overall Show

DMcL1971

What I like best about these awards is that they expose me to shows that I was not aware of. I see a lot of people nominating the show 'Line Of Duty'. I had never even heard of it before last week but now I have downloaded all 4 seasons and have started watching them (great so far).

Every year I end up downloading at least two shows I previously had no interest in. The people of this forum have excellent taste.

Mr E

OK, everything is counted up.

Some categories were very thin on nominations, so I've reopened 4 categories to try and collect some more.

If you visit the forum, it's the 4 unlocked threads at the top.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=485

The survey will go up tomorrow morning.

DMcL1971

If we have already nominated in a category can we add another 5 nominations? Or are you looking for people who have not previously nominated in that category.

Mr E

New people only please. Sorry!

Mr E

OK the survey is ready to accept votes.
Survey closes next Friday at midnight. Good luck - May the best shows win!

http://spo.io/2stQ9tg

ixoy

Might I suggest pinning this near to the top and a similar post on the TV Awards forum itself? This risks getting lost otherwise!

Mr E

No worries, I'll do it later from my laptop.

brian_t

Brooklyn Nine-Nine is in twice in the Best Comedy category.

Agent Coulson

brian_t wrote: »

Brooklyn Nine-Nine is in twice in the Best Comedy category.

Terry say that's ok.

Mr E

Just over two and a half days to go.... survey closes on Friday at midnight.

Mr E

Closes tomorrow at midnight.

Mr E

Last day to vote. We're still a good bit under the number of responses last year and there are quite a few tied categories. Get voting!

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=485

Mr E

Thanks to everyone who voted. Here are the results for the awards this year.
(Note - Where there is more than one winner, it was a tie)

Best Drama
Line of Duty

Best Comedy
Catastrophe

Best Soap
Coronation Street

Best New Show
Westworld

Best Reality Show
Hunted (UK)

Best Actor (Male)
Adrian Dunbar - Line of Duty

Best Actor (Female)
Thandie Newton - Line of Duty

Best Documentary
Planet Earth 2

Best Home Produced Show
The Tommy Tiernan Show

Best New Character
V.M. Varga (Fargo)

Most Improved Show
DC's Legends of Tomorrow

Best Full Season of a TV Show
Westworld

Best Overall Character
Maeve Millay - Westworld
V.M. Varga - Fargo

Best Overall Show
Line of Duty

Hottest Female in a TV Show
Melissa Benoist - Kara - Supergirl
Hayley Atwell - Hayes Morrison - Conviction

Hottest Male in a TV Show
Jensen Ackles - Dean - Supernatural
Chris Wood - Mon-El - Supergirl

Most Overrated Show
The Walking Dead

Most Underrated Show
Hunted
Lucifer
Madam Secretary
The 100

Best Storyline/Story Arc
Westworld - Williams Story

Biggest Shark Jumper
The Flash - How Iris and HR switched places

Best Season Finale
Westworld (Season 1)

Best Twist
Black Mirror (Shut Up & Dance) - Kenny Ending Twist

Best Single Episode of a TV Show
Black Mirror - 3.4 - San Junipero
Westworld - 1.10 - The Bicameral Mind

Most Promising Show for the 2017/2018 Season
The Punisher

Show That Should Have Been Cancelled
The Big Bang Theory

Show That Shouldn't Have Been Cancelled
Sense8

Standout Performance in a Single Episode
Thandie Newton - Maeve Millay - 'Chestnut' (Westworld - 1.2)

Character You Love To Hate The Most
Chuck McGill - Better Call Saul

pickarooney

Thandie Newton as Maeve Millay just beat out Thandie Newton as Roz Huntley by my count!

ixoy

A lot of love for 'Line of Duty' and 'Westworld' here - thankfully they're good shows!
Glad to see 'Legends of Tomorrow' win in its category there and that stupid Flash switch win in its one..

Unearthly

Walking Dead is a cert for overrated show every year

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Thanks for all your hard work on the awards Mr E.

Mr E

No worries.

Great to see Line of Duty doing so well. It really was a TV highlight from the last year.

ixoy

One of the advantages of Game of Thrones being delayed meant that it couldn't dominate the awards. Other worthy shows now got a chance.

pickarooney

Why did LoD only seem to get popular this year? There was barely any task of it in previous (much better) seasons.

Mr E

I think it crossed the divide from "best show that nobody has been watching" to "best show I've just found out about (wait, there 3 other seasons??)"

The move from BBC2 to BBC1 probably helped too.

Skid X

Mr E wrote: »

I think it crossed the divide from "best show that nobody has been watching" to "best show I've just found out about (wait, there 3 other seasons??)"

The move from BBC2 to BBC1 probably helped too.

Yeah, the channel move was a success and the show got a lot more hype across UK media in general this year.

Also, the last series worked well as a standalone series for newbies. There were only limited plot references to the previous years (Probably written deliberately that way so as to accommodate the innocent BBC1 newcomers).

Anyone jumping in at Series 3 would have been doing well to keep up with the plot, it was really an extension of the earlier seasons.

JP Liz V1

pickarooney wrote: »

Why did LoD only seem to get popular this year? There was barely any task of it in previous (much better) seasons.

Thandie Newton as Roz was a great villain

Tom Mann Centuria

pickarooney wrote: »

Why did LoD only seem to get popular this year? There was barely any task of it in previous (much better) seasons.

It turning up on Netflix might have helped.

pickarooney

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Thandie Newton as Roz was a great villain

I thought she was by far the weakest myself. Utterly unlikable with none of the nuance of Keeley Hawes or Lennie James.