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Austin360 blogs > TV Blog > Archives > 2011 > January > 06 > Entry

‘People’s Choice Awards’ winners — really, America?

By Dale Roe | Thursday, January 6, 2011, 09:48 AM

Well the People’s Choice Award winners were announced last night on CBS and they say a lot about us, not all of it good.

Is CBS’ horrible “$#*! My Dad Says” really our favorite new comedy?

Really?

And the once-great but now unwatchable “Glee” is our choice for best comedy? Over, say, “Modern Family?”

Perhaps I woke up in an alternate universe, like the characters on Fox’s nearly perfect (but probably doomed) “Fringe.” At least we got that one right, crowning it our favorite sci-fi show.

Fortunately, these awards are in no way a precursor to the Emmys or any other real awards shows. They are more like looking at your date’s bookshelf or — I guess, these days — browsing history to get a hint of his or her’s true personality.

You want your next blind date to be better, America? Stop asking William Shatner out. Oh, the “S#*!” we Americans vote for.

Here’s an alphabetical list of the 2011 People’s Choice Awards winners in the television category:

Favorite Competition Show: “American Idol”
Favorite New TV Comedy: “$#*! My Dad Says”
Favorite New TV Drama: “Hawaii Five-0”
Favorite Sci-Fi/Fantasy Show: “Fringe”
Favorite Talk Show Host: Conan O’Brien
Favorite TV Chef: Rachael Ray
Favorite TV Comedy: “Glee”
Favorite TV Comedy Actor: Neil Patrick Harris
Favorite TV Comedy Actress: Jane Lynch
Favorite TV Crime Drama: “Lie to Me”
Favorite TV Crime Fighter: Tim Roth - “Lie to Me”
Favorite TV Doctor: Gregory House - Hugh Laurie
Favorite TV Family: The Simpsons - “The Simpsons”
Favorite TV Drama: “House M.D.”
Favorite TV Drama Actor: Hugh Laurie
Favorite TV Drama Actress: Lisa Edelstein
Favorite TV Family Movie: “Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam”
Favorite TV Guest Star: Demi Lovato - “Grey’s Anatomy”
Favorite TV Guilty Pleasure: “Keeping Up with the Kardashians”
Favorite TV Obsession: “Dexter”

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