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It's time for the final award - Outstanding Comedy Series! Past Awards in This Category:  2025     2024     2023     2022     2021     2020 This year's nominees are... ABBOTT ELEMENTARY (ABC) ENGLISH TEACHER (FX) THE FOUR SEASONS (Netflix) HACKS (Max) MARGO'S GOT MONEY TROUBLES (Apple TV) ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING (Hulu) SHRINKING (Apple TV+) And the Winner Is... SHRINKING Apple TV This was an interesting year for comedies and it took awhile for me to determine a winner but I ultimately went with a repeat of Shrinking . I don't know if I liked the third season of Shrinking quite as much as the second season but it was real close. This ensemble is second to none on TV (yes, that even includes The Pitt ). Every single cast member on Shrinking is capable of carrying a meaty major storyline or just making wisecracks throughout the episode. They seem like a group of friends who have been in each other's lives for a very long time...

Today's award is Outstanding Drama Series! Past Awards in This Category:  2025     2024     2023     2022     2021     2020 This year's nominees are... THE BEAR (FX/Hulu) THE DIPLOMAT (Netflix) ELSBETH (CBS) THE LOWDOWN (FX) THE PITT (HBO Max) PLURIBUS (Apple TV) TASK (HBO) And the Winner Is... THE PITT HBO Max It was a tall task to follow up a breakout freshman season that is pretty much universally loved. I don't know if The Pitt 's second season was quite as good as its first season but it was really wonderful and worthy of a second straight Outstanding Drama Series crown. The show showed that its format works even without a mass casualty event. The show zeroed in on some of its best characters with leveling up for Katherine LaNasa and Shawn Hatosy. And it still had the weekly cases and patients that make it such compelling TV. Yes, there were sometimes frustrating moments with Dr. Robby but I like that the show chose to not make...

We are at the big three awards! Today's award is for Outstanding Limited/Anthology Series! Past Awards in This Category:  2025     2024     2023     2022     2021     2020 This year's nominees are... BEEF (Netflix) DEATH BY LIGHTNING (Netflix) DEVIL IN DISGUISE: JOHN WAYNE GACY (Peacock) HALF MAN (HBO) JURY DUTY PRESENTS: COMPANY RETREAT (Prime Video) LOVE STORY (FX) And the Winner Is... DEATH BY LIGHTNING Netflix This show was a true limited series - only four episodes! I consider myself a US History buff but I admit this is an era and a presidency that I know very little about. So I was really entertained by Death by Lightning , which put together beautiful technical details with compelling performances. Perhaps most impressively, the series never felt stodgy or like a museum piece. The show had a breakneck pace of storytelling while letting the performances breathe and the show felt very modern in its sensibility without ever lea...

Today's award is Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series! Past Awards in This Category: 2025     2024     2023     2022     2021     2020 This year's nominees are...  KRISTEN BELL as Joanne Williams in Nobody Wants This (Netflix) QUINTA BRUNSON as Janine Teagues in Abbott Elementary (ABC) HANNAH EINBINDER as Ava Daniels in Hacks (HBO Max) ELLE FANNING as Margo Millet in Margo's Got Money Troubles (Apple TV) WENDI MCLENDON-COVEY as Joyce Henderson in St. Denis Medical (NBC) TAYLOR ORTEGA as Morgan in Big Mistakes (Netflix) JEAN SMART as Deborah Vance in Hacks (HBO Max) And the Winner Is... ELLE FANNING Margo's Got Money Troubles (Apple TV) It was hard to not give this award to one of the two Hacks ladies but this year's best Lead Actress performance came from the always reliable Elle Fanning in perhaps her best role yet. As Margo Millet, Elle Fanning had a lot of life to navigate. She was a new mother of a baby without a fat...

Today's award is Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series! Past Awards in This Category:  2025     2024     2023     2022     2021     2020 This year's nominees are... KATHY BATES as Madeline Matlock in Matlock (CBS) AYO EDEBIRI as Sydney Adamu in The Bear (FX/Hulu) MICHELLE PFEIFFER as Stacy Clyburn in The Madison (Paramount+) CARRIE PRESTON as Elsbeth Tascioni in Elsbeth (CBS) KERI RUSSELL as Ambassador Kate Wyler in The Diplomat (Netflix) RHEA SEEHORN as Carol Sturka in Pluribus (Apple TV) ZENDAYA as Rue Bennett in Euphoria (HBO) And the Winner Is... RHEA SEEHORN Pluribus (Apple TV) I still haven't watched Better Call Saul but I know that everyone who has sings the praises of Rhea Seehorn. I definitely got it watching Pluribus . If The Lowdown relies on Ethan Hawke's performance, Pluribus REALLY relies on Rhea Seehorn's performance. There are entire episodes where she's basically the only one on screen. On top of that, she...

Today's award is Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited/Anthology Series! Past Awards in This Category:  2025     2024     2023     2022     2021     2020 This year's nominees are... OLIVIA COOKE as Cherry Laine in The Girlfriend (Prime Video) CAREY MULLIGAN as Lindsay Crane-Martin in Beef (Netflix) SARAH PIDGEON as Carolyn Bessette in Love Story (FX) SARAH SNOOK as Marissa Irvine in All Her Fault  (Peacock) KERRY WASHINGTON as Eleanor in Imperfect Women (Apple TV) ROBIN WRIGHT as Laura Sanderson in The Girlfriend (Prime Video) And the Winner Is... SARAH PIDGEON Love Story (FX) I get some of the concerns with Love Story , especially the portrayal of certain figures like Daryl Hannah. But Sarah Pidgeon was an absolute star on this show. I enjoyed her in The Wilds and especially in Stereophonic on Broadway so she's been on my radar for awhile but she's the reason this show worked as well as it did. It would have been another ...