Terminator sweeps the Tubey Awards
Television Without Pity has revealed the winners of this year’s Tubey Awards, voted by television fans across a number of categories.
Josh Friedman’s Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles scored as many as 15 Tubeys (of the positive variety), including Best Drama, Best Returning Show, Best Single Episode, Best Season Finale, Best Smackdown, Best Onscreen Death and Favourite Actress.
Even though the show was cancelled by Fox in May, there is still a chance it might return as a TV/DVD movie, so let’s hope that the huge overseas DVD sales and the strength of the online fandom (see below) count for something with Warner executives.
The other big winner this year was How I Met Your Mother (six Tubeys, including Best Comedy and Favourite Actor), while Grey’s Anatomy got the short end of the stick and was panned in nine different categories. (Apparently brain tumors and zombie sex didn’t work out for some people.)
Here are this year’s winners (and losers):
SCRIPTED TV SHOWS
BEST DRAMA
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
BEST COMEDY
How I Met Your Mother
BEST NEW SHOW
True Blood
WORST NEW SHOW
Dollhouse
NEW SERIES WITH THE MOST WASTED POTENTIAL
Dollhouse
BEST RETURNING SHOW
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
WORST RETURNING SHOW
Jon & Kate Plus 8
MOST PAINFUL SERIES CANCELLATION
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
MOST OVERRATED SHOW
Grey’s Anatomy
MOST UNDERRATED SHOW
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
MOST IMPROVED SHOW
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
LEAST IMPROVED SHOW
Heroes
CABLE NETWORK SHOW MOST DESERVING A MOVE TO BROADCAST NETWORK
Mad Men
BROADCAST NETWORK SHOW MOST IN NEED OF A MOVE TO CABLE
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
GUILTIEST PLEASURE SHOW
True Blood
BEST DAYTIME SOAP
General Hospital
BEST CARTOON
Family Guy
SHOW WITH THE BEST INTERNET EXTENSION
How I Met Your Mother
MOST ANTICIPATED NEW SHOW OF THE 2009-10 SEASON
Glee
ACTORS & ACTRESSES
FAVOURITE ACTOR
Neil Patrick Harris, How I Met Your Mother
LEAST FAVOURITE ACTOR
David Caruso, CSI: Miami
FAVOURITE ACTRESS
Summer Glau, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
LEAST FAVOURITE ACTRESS
Katherine Heigl, Grey’s Anatomy
BEST CAST
How I Met Your Mother
BEST GUEST STAR
Alan Tudyk, Dollhouse
MOST OVERHYPED BIG NAME GUEST APPEARANCE
Oprah Winfrey, 30 Rock
BEST AMERICAN ACCENT BY A NON AMERICAN ACTOR
Hugh Laurie, House
WORST AMERICAN ACCENT BY A NON AMERICAN ACTOR
Melissa George, Grey’s Anatomy
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN INANIMATE OBJECT
The Galactica, Battlestar Galactica
MOST UNDESERVED EMMY AWARDED IN SEPT 2008
Jeremy Piven, Entourage
CHARACTERS
FAVOURITE CHARACTER
Barney Stinson, How I Met Your Mother
LEAST FAVOURITE CHARACTER
Izzie Stevens, Grey’s Anatomy
BEST VILLAIN
Ben Linus, Lost
LEAST VILLAINOUS VILLAIN
Dexter Morgan, Dexter
MOST WELCOME NEW CHARACTER
Castiel, Supernatural
MOST UNWELCOME NEW CHARACTER
Riley, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
CHARACTER MOST IN NEED OF GETTING KILLED OFF
Izzie, Grey’s Anatomy
MOST WRONGLY UNDERUSED CHARACTER
Cameron, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
MOST REDEMPTIVE CHARACTER IN A SUCKY SHOW
Cristina Yang, Grey’s Anatomy
BEST SIDEKICK
Barney, How I Met Your Mother
BEST BADASS
Cameron, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
SHOW MOST IN NEED OF A VAMPIRE CHARACTER
Desperate Housewives
EPISODES & MOMENTS
BEST SEASON FINALE
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
WORST SEASON FINALE
Bones
BEST ON-SCREEN DEATH SCENE
Derek Reese, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
BEST ‘HELL YEAH’ MOMENT
Desmond beats Ben after he tries to kill Penny, Lost
BEST ‘WTF’ MOMENT
John Connor jumps to a future where nobody has heard of him, and he meets Derek, Kyle, Allison, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
WORST ‘WTF’ MOMENT
Izzie has sex with Denny’s ghost, Grey’s Anatomy
BEST SMACKDOWN
Cameron vs. a police station, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
BEST SINGLE EPISODE – COMEDY
“The Bath Gift Item Hypothesis,” The Big Bang Theory
WORST SINGLE EPISODE – COMEDY
“Family Gay,” Family Guy
BEST SINGLE EPISODE – DRAMA
“Allison from Palmdale,” Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
WORST SINGLE EPISODE – DRAMA
“I Am Sylar,” Heroes
BEST DREAM/HALLUCINATION/FANTASY SEQUENCE
Liz sits next to Oprah on an airplane, 30 Rock
WORST DREAM/HALLUCINATION/FANTASY SEQUENCE
Dead Denny and Izzie have sex, Grey’s Anatomy
BEST LINE OF DIALOGUE
“A 12 year-old Ben Linus brought me a chicken salad sandwich. How do you think I’m doing?” – Sayid, Lost
WORST CRIME AGAINST FASHION
Kenley’s hip hop outfit for Leanne, Project Runway
MOST EGREGIOUS PRODUCT PLACEMENT
Vicodin, House
RELATIONSHIPS & STORYLINES
BEST ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP
Bill Adama and Laura Roslin, Battlestar Galactica
WORST ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP
Dead Denny and Izzie, Grey’s Anatomy
BEST ALMOST-ROMANTIC-BUT-NOT-QUITE RELATIONSHIP
John and Cameron, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
BEST NON-ROMANTIC FRIENDSHIP
House and Wilson, House
BEST FAMILY RELATIONSHIP
Chuck and Ellie, Chuck
BEST HOYAY! COUPLE
House/Wilson, House
MOST LUDICROUS PLOTLINE
Izzie having sex with dead Denny, Grey’s Anatomy
NEVERENDING SUBPLOT THAT MOST NEEDS TO BE RESOLVED
Jack/Kate/Juliet/Sawyer love quadrangle, Lost
WORST RETCON
Jimmy Olsen has a younger brother who’s the Jimmy Olsen from the comics, Smallville
BEST FICTIONAL LOCATION
The Island, Lost
For best & worst picks in the reality show category and all the picks from the TelevisionWithoutPity.com staff, head over to TWoP’s Tubeys page.
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