via TCA press release: (tech savvy fans of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles were not able to manipulate this list, but if it makes you feel any better, Dollhouse didn’t get any nominations and neither did Chuck):
Television Critics Association Announces 2009 Award Nominees
Chelsea Handler To Open The 25th Anniversary Of The Awards
NBC Leads with 11 Nominations
June 3, 2009 Los Angeles, CA – The Television Critics Association today unveiled its 2009 TCA Award nominations.
NBC leads the list with 11 nominations including comedies “30 Rock,” “The Office” and “Saturday Night Live,” which garnered 7 nominations total. “Friday Night Lights,” which initially aired on DirecTV, got a nomination along with long-time series “ER.” NBC also received a nomination for its coverage of the 2008 Summer Olympics.
FX’s “The Shield” received the most TCA Award nominations for its final season in four categories: Program of the Year, Outstanding Drama, TCA Heritage Award and Individual Achievement, for which actor Walton Goggins was nominated. Glenn Close received a nomination for her work in the FX drama “Damages.”
HBO programs received six nominations, including three of five nominations in the Outstanding Achievement in Movies, Mini-Series and Specials categories for “Generation Kill,” “Grey Gardens” and “Taking Chance.” Freshman series “No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency” and “True Blood” and the documentary series “The Alzheimer’s Project” all got a nod.
The 25th annual TCA Awards honor the finest work of the 2008-09 season as selected by the association’s 200-plus member critics and journalists. The winners will be announced August 1st at The Langham Huntington Hotel and Spa in Pasadena, California. Chelsea Handler, host of E!’s “Chelsea Lately,” will open the ceremony.
Past winners up for honors this year include Steve Carell (”The Office”), Alec Baldwin (”30 Rock”), Tina Fey (”30 Rock”), Hugh Laurie (”House”), “The Office,” “30 Rock’” Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,” ABC’s “Lost,” “Friday Night Lights,” AMC’s “Mad Men,” PBS’s “Frontline” and Nickelodeon’s “Nick News.”
NBC has three series, “ER,” “Saturday Night Live” and “Star Trek” nominated for a TCA Heritage Award, which recognizes a long-standing program that made a lasting cultural or social impact. Also nominated in this category are “M*A*S*H” (CBS) and “The Shield” (FX).
Below is a complete list of this year’s TCA Award nominations. Please note career achievement nominees are not listed. A winner in that category will be chosen by TCA members.
PROGRAM OF THE YEAR
“Battlestar Galactica” (SciFi Channel)
“Lost” (ABC)
“Mad Men” (AMC)
“Saturday Night Live” (NBC)
“The Shield” (FX)OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN COMEDY
“30 Rock” (NBC)
“The Big Bang Theory” (CBS)
“The Daily Show” (Comedy Central)
“How I Met Your Mother” (CBS)
“The Office” (NBC)OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN DRAMA
“Breaking Bad” (AMC)
“Friday Night Lights” (NBC/DirecTV)
“Lost” (ABC)
“Mad Men” (AMC)
“The Shield” (FX)OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT MOVIES, MINI-SERIES AND SPECIALS
2008 Summer Olympic Coverage (NBC)
“24: Redemption” (Fox)
“Generation Kill” (HBO)
“Grey Gardens” (HBO)
“Taking Chance” (HBO)OUTSTANDING NEW PROGRAM OF THE YEAR
“Fringe” (Fox)
“The Mentalist” (CBS)
“No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency” (HBO)
“True Blood” (HBO)
“United States of Tara” (Showtime)INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT IN COMEDY
Alec Baldwin (”30 Rock”)
Steve Carell (”The Office”)
Tina Fey (”30 Rock”)
Neil Patrick Harris (”How I Met Your Mother”)
Jim Parsons (”The Big Bang Theory”)INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT IN DRAMA
Glenn Close (”Damages”)
Bryan Cranston (”Breaking Bad”)
Walton Goggins (”The Shield”)
Jon Hamm (”Mad Men”)
Hugh Laurie (”House”)OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN CHILDREN’S PROGRAMMING
“Camp Rock” (The Disney Channel)
“The Electric Company” (PBS)
“Nick News” (Nickelodeon)
“Sid the Science Kid” (PBS)
“Yo Gabba Gabba” (Nickelodeon)OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN NEWS & INFORMATION
“60 Minutes” (CBS)
“The Alzheimer’s Project” (HBO)
“Frontline” (PBS)
“The Rachel Maddow Show” (MSNBC)
“We Shall Remain” (PBS)HERITAGE AWARD
“ER” (NBC)
“M*A*S*H” (CBS)
“Saturday Night Live” (NBC)
“The Shield” (FX)
“Star Trek” (NBC)
Where the hell is the Outstanding Animated Program-category!?
It is nothing new that the critics give the most nominations to the network with the lowest ratings. It always amazes me that this is so common.
Only one woman nominated in each of the individual performance categories? That’s disappointing.
I find it interesting that SNL was nominated for Program of the Year, but not Outstanding Achievement in Comedy.
I don’t understand why SNL is up for Program of the Year. Every single show up for Outstanding Achievement in Comedy is far better.
Yoooooooo Gabba Gabba! My little cousin is addicted to this show. He loves it as much as I love 30 Rock.
Yeah, strange that SNL and BSG were nominated for program of the year, but not in the subcategories of comedy and drama. Not much to quarrel with on this list of nom’s though. I’d probably replace 30 Rock and HIMYM with Weeds and Pushing Daisies in the comedy category, replace The Shield with Damages in drama, put Breaking Bad in the POTY category, switch out Doogie for Mary Louise Parker and Goggins for Connie Britton (FNL) in ind. comedy and drama, but not of the noms seem outrageous to me.
If someone asked you 5 years ago to guess what one network would have two TCA best drama nominations in 2009 how many guesses would you have made before you got to AMC?
Hmm, interesting that Pushing Daisies and Chuck were both snubbed. Both TWOP and EW are pushing for the pair, but if even critics who generally adore the shows won’t nominate them, I’m guessing Emmys will be a long shot.
Though just like their predictions for Emmys, the nominees are pretty much: Comedy = broadcast, Drama = cable. It’s pretty interesting how dichotomous it is.
My choices would be:
PROGRAM OF THE YEAR
“Lost” (ABC)
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN COMEDY
“The Daily Show” (Comedy Central)
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN DRAMA
“Lost” (ABC)
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT MOVIES, MINI-SERIES AND SPECIALS
“Generation Kill” (HBO)
OUTSTANDING NEW PROGRAM OF THE YEAR
“True Blood” (HBO)
INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT IN COMEDY
Alec Baldwin (”30 Rock”)
INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT IN DRAMA
Bryan Cranston (”Breaking Bad”)
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN CHILDREN’S PROGRAMMING
“Yo Gabba Gabba” (Nickelodeon)
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN NEWS & INFORMATION
“60 Minutes” (CBS)
HERITAGE AWARD
“The Shield” (FX)
Nice to see Friday Night Lights get a tiny bit of recognition, but Connie Britton, Kyle Chandler, and Zach Gilford each deserve some kind of “honorable mention” in the individual achievement category
And bravo, Jim Parsons! He absolutely makes BBT worth watching.
I find it amusing to laughter that Star Trek is nominated in the Heritage Award. It’s not that it doesn’t deserve it — it does, because it has a significant history of entertainment (ST:TOS, Animated, Next Gen, DS9, Enterprise, movies, reboot movie) as well as a societal and cultural niche. My laughter comes from the fact that NBC has tended not to acknowledge anniversaries (20th, 25th, etc) while other networks (on news broadcasts, no less!) celebrated the show and its fan following on those same anniversaries. Maybe NBC still gets a bit annoyed by the tweaks of having canceled this show? Not sure, but if it wins the award, I wonder if they will acknowledge it this time lol
Hey, NBC actually came in first in something!
PROGRAM OF THE YEAR
“Lost” (ABC)
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN COMEDY
“The Office” (NBC)
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN DRAMA
“Friday Night Lights” (NBC/DirecTV)
“Lost” (ABC)
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT MOVIES, MINI-SERIES AND SPECIALS
“24: Redemption” (Fox)
OUTSTANDING NEW PROGRAM OF THE YEAR
“Fringe” (Fox)
INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT IN COMEDY
Steve Carell (”The Office”)
INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT IN DRAMA
none
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN CHILDREN’S PROGRAMMING
none
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN NEWS & INFORMATION
“60 Minutes” (CBS)
HERITAGE AWARD
“ER” (NBC)
“Star Trek” (NBC)
It’s a bummer Chuck didn’t get recognized. I feel like it’s always the same shows that get recognized. Chuck is a quality show with brilliant acting!
Goggins was perfect in the shield. I love FNL but u can’t replace he was prob even better then anyone on any show including breaking bad
Go Star Trek! You have been “dead” 40 years but you still can win!