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People’s Choice Awards 2012: winners

America's great unwashed choose their favourites, and to hell with the critics.

You do have to worry about any Awards show that has a category called “Favourite CelebReality Star” -doubly so when they award it to Kim Kardashian over Kathy Griffin.

But the People’s Choice Awards are the picks of America’s great unwashed, and pulled more than 200 million votes. Yowza. Some of the choices below go against the trends of critics. Shock, horror….

Sci-fi has fared particularly well.

Here are the TV nods with winners in bold:

FAVORITE NETWORK TV DRAMA
The Good Wife
Grey’s Anatomy
House
Supernatural
The Vampire Diaries

FAVORITE TV DRAMA ACTOR
David Boreanz
Hugh Laurie
Ian Somerhalder
Nathan Fillion
Patrick Dempsey

FAVORITE TV DRAMA ACTRESS
Blake Lively
Ellen Pompeo
Emily Deschanel
Eva Longoria
Nina Dobrev

FAVORITE CABLE TV DRAMA
Dexter
Game of Thrones
Pretty Little Liars
True Blood
White Collar

FAVORITE NETWORK TV COMEDY
The Big Bang Theory
Glee
How I Met Your Mother
Modern Family
Two and a Half Men

FAVORITE TV COMEDY ACTOR
Alec Baldwin
Chris Colfer
Cory Monteith
Jim Parsons
Neil Patrick Harris

FAVORITE TV COMEDY ACTRESS
Courteney Cox
Jane Lynch
Kaley Cuoco
Lea Michele
Tina Fey

FAVORITE CABLE TV COMEDY
Hot In Cleveland
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Nurse Jackie
Royal Pains
Weeds

FAVORITE TV COMPETITION SHOW
American Idol
America’s Got Talent
Dancing With The Stars
So You Think You Can Dance
The Voice

FAVORITE TV CRIME DRAMA
Bones
Castle
Criminal Minds
CSI
NCIS

FAVORITE SCI-FI/FANTASY SHOW
Fringe
Supernatural
True Blood
The Vampire Diaries
The Walking Dead

FAVORITE DAYTIME TV HOST
Al Roker, Ann Curry, Matt Lauer, Natalie Morales, Savannah Guthrie
The Today Show
Anderson Cooper
Anderson
Ellen DeGeneres
The Ellen DeGeneres Show

Kelly Ripa, Regis Philbin
Live with Regis & Kelly
Rachael Ray
Rachael Ray Show

FAVORITE LATE NIGHT TV HOST
Conan O’Brien
Conan
David Letterman
Late Show with David Letterman
Jay Leno
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Jimmy Fallon
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon

Jimmy Kimmel
Jimmy Kimmel Live

FAVORITE TV GUEST STAR
Gwyneth Paltrow
Glee
Jim Carrey
The Office
Katy Perry
How I Met Your Mother

Kristin Chenoweth
Glee
Michael J. Fox
The Good Wife

FAVORITE TV CELEBREALITY STAR
Gene Simmons
Giuliana Rancic
Kathy Griffin
Kim Kardashian
Tia & Tamera Mowry

FAVORITE NEW TV DRAMA
Once Upon A Time
Person of Interest
Revenge
The Secret Circle
Terra Nova

FAVORITE NEW TV COMEDY
2 Broke Girls
Last Man Standing
New Girl
Suburgatory
Up All Night

14 Responses

  1. I don’t slam the awards, just the people who vote for them! Personally, I never liked popularity contests, and the same people vote for these kinds of things; i dont believe anything like this is anywhere close to a true representation of what people enjoy in general…

    Seriously, Supernatural winning for Favourite TV Drama… I watch the show and enjoy it, but it ain’t a drama!

    Perhaps I should just lighten up 🙂

  2. I find it odd that people would slam these awards. Sure, they’re not awarding the most amazing TV shows of all time, but since when is voting for favourites so wrong?

    If you compare it to the million dollar (yes, million!) marketing campaigns launched by studios to win Academy Awards, then the People’s Choice is actually a far more friendly and fair Award Show.

    Also, any award show that gives Nathan Fillion and Neil Patrick Harris screen time, in my book is a good thing.

  3. I wonder why foxtel didnt show it this year not sure what channel it was on last year but they played it.

    Does anyone know if it will ever air in Australia.?

  4. I have always enjoyed Castle for what it is- light , fluffy dramady to relax on a sunday night to, so well done.
    And Nathan Fillion really is ruggedly handsome, lol

  5. From the little I saw Kaley hosting the show was great, but some are knocking her performance and trying to compare her to Neil Patrick Harris, how unfair. They did have a funny opening together.

    Why wasn’t this on TV here?

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