Years ago, when TV was just getting off the ground, some people believed that none of its programs would ever be worthy of awards. In fact, some feature films—like Poltergeist—were based entirely around the idea that having a TV in your bedroom could kill you. We’re in The New Golden Age Of TV now, though (or we were a few years ago, at least), so now TV is good enough to deserve multiple organizations giving it awards—even if the awards themselves sound confusingly similar. At the end of May, the Broadcast Television Journalists Association gave out its Critics’ Choice Television Awards (saluting The Americans and Amy Schumer specifically) and the Television Critics Association is ready to announce the nominees for its annual awards—which are not the same thing as the Critics’ Choice Television Awards. Got that? Good.
HBO, of course, has the most nominees of any network (seven, two of which are for Game Of Thrones), with ABC, CBS, AMC, and FX in a four-way tie with five nominations. Fox and Amazon both got four nominations, all of which went to Empire and Transparent, which both received more nominations than any other show. Both are in for Program Of The Year, with Transparent up for the requisite comedy categories and Empire up for their drama equivalents.
The TCA awards will be given out on August 8, and the entire list of nominees is below:
Individual Achievement In Comedy
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Veep, HBO
Gina Rodriguez, Jane The Virgin, The CW
Amy Schumer, Inside Amy Schumer, Comedy Central
Jeffrey Tambor, Transparent, Amazon
Constance Wu, Fresh Off the Boat, ABC
Individual Achievement In Drama
Viola Davis, How to Get Away with Murder, ABC
Jon Hamm, Mad Men, AMC
Taraji P. Henson, Empire, Fox
Matthew Rhys, The Americans, FX
Bob Odenkirk, Better Call Saul, AMC
Outstanding Achievement In News And Information
CBS Sunday Morning, CBS
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Comedy Central
Frontline, PBS
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, HBO
60 Minutes, CBS
Outstanding Achievement In Reality Programming
The Amazing Race, CBS
The Chair, Starz
Dancing with the Stars, ABC
RuPaul’s Drag Race, Logo
Shark Tank, ABC
Outstanding Achievement In Youth Programming
Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood, PBS
The Fosters, ABC Family
The Legend of Korra, Nickelodeon
Sesame Street, PBS
Switched at Birth, ABC Family
Outstanding New Program
Better Call Saul, AMC
Empire, Fox
The Flash, The CW
Jane the Virgin, The CW
Transparent, Amazon
Outstanding Achievement In Movies, Miniseries, And Specials
Bessie, HBO
The Honorable Woman, SundanceTV
The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst, HBO
Olive Kitteridge, HBO
Wolf Hall, PBS
Outstanding Achievement In Comedy
The Big Bang Theory, CBS
Inside Amy Schumer, Comedy Central
Jane the Virgin, The CW
Transparent, Amazon
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Netflix
Outstanding Achievement In Drama
The Americans, FX
Empire, Fox
Game of Thrones, HBO
Justified, FX
Mad Men, AMC
Heritage Award
Friends, NBC
Late Show/Late Night with David Letterman, CBS/NBC
The Shield, FX
Star Trek, NBC
Twin Peaks, ABC
Program Of The Year
The Americans, FX
Empire, Fox
Game of Thrones, HBO
Mad Men, AMC
Transparent, Amazon