Episode of the Year

Episode of the Year- Just what is it exactly? It is the best single half-hour (or hour, or two) of programming of the past year. It is the single best program of the past year, because it mesmerized critics and fans alike.

2010 Comedy Episode of the Year Nominees:
Curb Your Enthusiasm- "Seinfeld" (HBO)
Glee- "The Power of Madonna" (Fox)
Glee- "Sectionals" (Fox)
The Office- "Niagara" (NBC)
Saturday Night Live- "Betty White/JayZ" (NBC)
The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien- "Episode 146" (Series Finale) (NBC)

PAST WINNERS:
2009: Saturday Night Live, "Justin Timberlake/MotherLover" (NBC)
2008: Californication, "Pilot" (Showtime)
2007: The Simpsons- "24 Minutes" and "You Kent Always Say What You Want" (Fox)
2006: (TIE) Arrested Development- "Development Arrested" (Fox) & South Park- "Trapped in the Closet" (Comedy Central)
2005: Desperate Housewives- "Pilot" (ABC)
2004: Chappelle's Show- "Charlie Murphy's True Hollywood Stories: Rick James" (Comedy Central)
2003: South Park- "I'm a Little Bit Country" (Comedy Central)
2002: The Late Show with David Letterman- Late Night TV returns after the 9/11 Attacks (CBS)
2001: Malcolm in the Middle- "Bowling" (Fox)

SELECT ARCHIVE WINNERS:
1999: Frasier- "Merry Christmas, Mrs. Moskovitz" (NBC)
1998: (TIE) The Larry Sanders Show- "Flip" (HBO) & South Park- "Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride" (Comedy Central)
1997: Ellen- "The Puppy Episode" (NBC)
1994: Frasier- "The Good Son" (NBC)
1993: (TIE) Cheers- "One for the Road" (NBC) & Seinfeld- "The Contest" (NBC)
1992: The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson- "One for the Road" (NBC)
1990: Newhart- "The Last Newhart" (CBS)
1985: The Cosby Show- "Pilot" (NBC)
1984: Happy Days- "Passages" (ABC)
1983: M*A*S*H- "Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen" (CBS)
1982: Barney Miller- "Landmark" (ABC)
1981: Soap- "Episode 90" (ABC)
1979: Soap- "Episode 47" (ABC)
1978: All in the Family- "Edith's 50th Birthday" (CBS)
1977: The Mary Tyler Moore Show- "The Last Show" (CBS)
1976: The Mary Tyler Moore Show- "Chuckles the Clown Bites The Dust" (CBS)
1975: M*A*S*H- "Abyssinia, Henry" (CBS)
1974: The Mary Tyler Moore Show- "The Lars Affair" (CBS)
1973: Maude- "Maude's Dilemma" (CBS)
1972: All in the Family- "Sammy's Visit" (CBS)
1971: All in the Family- "Meet the Bunkers" (CBS)
1968: He & She- "The Coming Out Party" (CBS)
1966: The Dick Van Dyke Show- "Coast-to-Coast Big Mouth" (CBS)

2010 Drama Episode of the Year Nominees:
The CSI Trilogy (CBS)
Law & Order- "Rubber Room" (Series Finale) (NBC)
Lost- "The End" (Series Finale) (ABC)
Mad Men- "Shut the Door, Have a Seat" (AMC)
The Tudors- "405" (Showtime)
24- "Day 2: 2:00PM to 4:00PM" (Series Finale) (Fox)

PAST WINNERS:
2009: ER- "And in the End" (NBC)
2008: The Wire- "-30-" (HBO)
2007: The Sopranos- "Made in America" (HBO)
2006: Grey's Anatomy- "It's The End of the World As We Know It" (ABC)
2005: Lost- "Pilot" (ABC)
2004: The Sopranos- "Long Term Parking" (HBO)
2003: The Sopranos- "Whitecaps" (HBO)
2002: (TIE) Buffy the Vampire Slayer- "Once More with Feeling" (UPN) & 24- "Day 1: 11:00PM to 12:00AM" (Fox)
2001: (TIE) The Sopranos- "Pine Barrens" (HBO) & The West Wing- "Two Cathedrals" (NBC)

SELECT ARCHIVE WINNERS:
2000: The West Wing- "In Excelsis Deo" (NBC)
1999: The Sopranos- "College" (HBO)
1995: ER- "Love's Labour Lost" (NBC)
1991: L.A. Law- "Good to the Last Drop" (NBC)
1988: St. Elsewhere- "The Last One" (NBC)
1987: L.A. Law- "The Venus Butterfly" (NBC)
1986: St. Elsewhere- "Time Heals" (NBC)
1985: Miami Vice- "Brother's Keeper" (NBC)
1984: Hill Street Blues- "Grace Under Pressure" (NBC)
1983: St. Elsewhere- "Cora and Arnie" (NBC)
1981: Hill Street Blues- "Hill Street Station" (NBC)
1980: Dallas- "A House Divided" (CBS)
1979: Battlestar Galactica- "Saga of a Starworld" (ABC)
1974: The Waltons- "Thanksgiving Story" (CBS)
1973: The Waltons- "A Love Story" (CBS)
1972: Emergency!- "Pilot" (NBC)
1971: Adam-12- "Elegy for a Pig" (NBC)
1968: The Fugitive- "Judgment Day" (ABC)
1967: Star Trek- "City on the Edge of Forever" (NBC)

2010 Daytime Nominees:
All My Children- 40th Anniversary (ABC)
As the World Turns- Christmas Eve/Brad Says Goodbye (CBS)
As the World Turns- Bob & Kim's 25th Wedding Anniversary (CBS)
General Hospital- The Carnival (ABC)
Guiding Light- The Series Finale (CBS)
The Young and the Restless- Colleen Carlton Drowns/Victor Newman gets Colleen's Heart (CBS)

PAST WINNERS:
2009: Guiding Light- "The Return of Phillip/Coop's Death" (CBS)
2008: All My Children- "Jesse and Angie Reunion" (ABC)
2007: (TIE) Guiding Light- "70th Anniversary" (CBS) & The Price is Right- "Bob Barker's Farewell" (CBS)
2006: As the World Turns- "50th Anniversary" (CBS)
2005: General Hospital- "Sam's baby dies to save Alexis's daughter" (ABC)
2004: (TIE) General Hospital- "Port Charles Hotel Fire" (ABC) & Port Charles (Series Finale) (ABC)
2003: Port Charles- "Surrender (Premiere)" (ABC)
2002: Mister Rogers' Neighborhood- Series Finale (PBS)
2001: All My Children- "Bianca Comes Out" (ABC)

SELECT ARCHIVE WINNERS:
1999: "Susan Lucci's Historic Emmy Win", The 26th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards (CBS)
1994: "B.J.'s Heart", General Hospital (ABC)
1993: "Maureen Bauer's Death", Guiding Light (CBS)
1991: "I'm Coming, Bud", Guiding Light (CBS)
1990: "Josh & Reva's Wedding", Guiding Light (CBS)
1986: "Doug Cummings (Climax)", As the World Turns (CBS)
1985: "The Slut of Springfield", Guiding Light (CBS)
1984: "Mister Hooper Dies", Sesame Street (PBS)
1983: "The Christmas Miracle", Texas (NBC)
1982: "Luke & Laura's Wedding", General Hospital (ABC)
1980: "The Hall of Mirrors", Guiding Light (CBS)


2010 Reality Moment of the Year Nominees:
American Idol- "The Judges Save Mike" (Fox)
American Idol- "Simon Says Goodbye/Season Finale" (Fox)
Big Brother 11- "Chima Gets Expelled" (CBS)
Project Runway- "(Season 6) Bryant Park Fashion Week" (Lifetime)
The 650 Pound Virgin (TLC)
Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains- "The Dumbest Move" (CBS)

PAST WINNERS:
2009: American Idol- "Songs of Michael Jackson" (Fox)
2008: Not Given
2007: American Idol: "Idol Gives Back I" (Fox)
2006: The Apprentice: "Take Me Out to the Boardroom"/The Firing of Four (NBC)
2005: Survivor Palau- "Ulong Disappears One-by-One" (CBS)

And starting this year, we've introduced a new "Episode of the Year" category, for Animated Programs, and the nominees are:
The Boondocks- "It's a Black President, Huey Freeman" (Cartoon Network)
The Cleveland Show- "Pilot" (Fox)
Family Guy- "Brian and Stewie" (Fox)
South Park- "Dead Celebrities" (Comedy Central)
South Park- "Sexual Healing" (Comedy Central)
South Park- "You Have 0 Friends" (Comedy Central)

Winners for the Episode of the Year Nominees will be Announced on Friday August 6. This year's winners will join the lucky list of winners that were considered the best episodes and moments of television history.

2010 Silver Garbage Awards- Melrose, Brothers Lead With 14 Nominations

OFFICIAL RELEASE
(July 7, 2010)
When the CW decided to revive “Melrose Place” in the spring of 2009, the execs at the fledgling network were unaware what would happen next.

The failed remake to the successful 1990s primetime soap turned a show that was considered “Appointment TV” to “Must Flee TV”, and was cancelled after one painful season. The show leads with 14 Silver Garbage Award nominations, including Worst Drama and Worst New Series.

“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” said Silver Garbage Awards creator Bryan Curtiss. “And then the CW tried to fix it, and disaster struck.”

Sharing the lead with “Melrose Place” is “Brothers”, Fox’s failed family sitcom, which also has 14 Nominations.

“‘Brothers’ was by far, the worst sitcom in a relatively weak year for Comedies in this awards,” Curtiss said. “It was so weak, that there could be possible scenarios played out as the date pushes forward to announce the winners.”

Joining “Brothers” in the Worst Comedy Series race are “Hank”, “Scrubs”, “Til Death”, and “The Jay Leno Show”.

“Seth Meyers was right when NBC was torn between Leno and Team Coco (Conan O’Brien),” Curtiss said about the failure of Leno’s primetime show, which aired five nights a week. “‘The Jay Leno Show’ was a sign that NBC was desperate to fill up hours in primetime that could have gone to either quality shows, or complete duds. The end result was that nobody really won and NBC became desperate to fill up five hours of programming for the price of one.”

Among the missing shows in the final ballot is the “NCIS” franchise, once a perennial staple in recent years, has faded from Silver Garbage view. Curtiss explains, if they did the expanded nominee format like the Emmys and Bryan Awards, “NCIS” and “NCIS: Los Angeles” would have gotten a little bit more love, as the “NCIS: Los Angeles” finished sixth in voting for Worst New Series, Worst Drama Series, and Worst Remake or Spin-Off.

“‘NCIS’ and ‘NCIS: Los Angeles’ in a relatively ‘weak’ year, would have both gotten in. I still think it’s an overrated show, despite the fact that both shows are hits,” Curtiss remarked.

The first show to be cancelled in the fall season, “TBL: The Beautiful Life” got an amassing 11 nominations, in a show that Curtiss admits has a special spot for the Silver Garbage Awards.

“‘TBL’ was a complete train wreck from the moment that the CW first aired the promos for the show last summer. Not even the network execs themselves were prepared for it to sink that quickly,” Curtiss said about the instant failure of the show, which was pulled after only airing twice last September.

Joining “Melrose” and “TBL” in the Worst Drama lineup are “Eastwick”, “Past Life”, and “Trauma”.

The Nominees for Worst of the First Ten Years will be announced on July 16 and winners announced on August 20. The winners for the Silver Garbage Awards will be announced on August 28, the eve of the telecast for the 62nd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards.

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Glee Leads With Record 42 Nominations

'Glee' Sings With Record 42 Bryan Award Nominations

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: (July 1, 2010)
CONTACT: Bryan Curtiss; BCurtiss@hotmail.com

"Glee", Fox's musical comedy sensation leads all television programs with a record 42 Bryan Award Nominations, including Best Comedy Series and Best New Series.

"Glee‟ is one of those special shows in the history of television that is an innovator for the genre," said Bryan Awards Creator Bryan Curtiss. "Its ability to mix through various genres- comedy, drama, musical, is uncanny, and unbeatable in television today."

Joining "Glee" in the Comedy race are Fox's Animated Sitcom "Family Guy", ABC's freshman family sitcom "Modern Family", CBS's adult dating sitcom "How I Met Your Mother", and a pair of NBC sitcoms, "The Office", and two-time defending Comedy champ "30 Rock".

"As the World Turns", which is ending its 54-year run on September 17, which held the old record of 40 Nominations since 2001, is the second-most nominated show with 32 Bryan Award Nominations, including Best Daytime Soap, after being snubbed in that category last year.

"It's so hard to say goodbye to 'As the World Turns', since it has impacted our lives for so many decades. It‟s been a fixture in my life," Curtiss remarked about the departing show, which wrapped up shooting in its Brooklyn, New York studio on June 23.

"As the World Turns" isn't the only departing series to pick up a truckload of accolades at the Bryan Awards. "Lost", which finished its six-year run with one of the biggest finales in television history and Showtime's 16th Century Royal Drama, "The Tudors" have 18 and 16 nominations respectively, including nods for Outstanding (Primetime) Drama. "Guiding Light", which ended its 72-year broadcast run almost ten months ago, finishes with 14 additional nominations to its tally, and Fox's action thriller "24" received 12 final nods.

Joining "Lost" and "The Tudors" in the Drama Series race are AMC‟s "Breaking Bad", Showtime‟s serial killer "Dexter", HBO‟s vampire hit "True Blood", and two-time defending Drama Series winner, "Mad Men."

"The 2009-10 season was a season of sentimentality, as we saw old favorites bite the dust," Curtiss said about the recognition of the departing series. "It was one of the most sentimental seasons in television history, compared to other years in television history. It was hard to say goodbye to the longest running show in broadcast history, plus the longest running espionage show in primetime history, and the co-longest running primetime drama in television history. It was probably the most sentimental year since a few years."

The Nominees in the Most Missed Series category are "Guiding Light", "Lost", "The Tudors", "24", "Law & Order", and "Monk".

In the Miniseries and Movie races, HBO reigns supreme again, with three of the four nominees in the Made for Television Movie category, including "Temple Grandin", a film about an autistic professor, which leads all television movies with 14 Bryan Award nominations.

"Temple Grandin‟ was a superb story about a woman battling a mental affliction, and the impact that she has made," Curtiss said.

Joining "Grandin" in the Made for Television Movie category are Masterpiece Theatre‟s South African thriller "Endgame", HBO‟s Tony Blair-Bill Clinton piece "The Special Relationship", and "You Don't Know Jack", about famed assisted suicide advocate Dr. Jack Kevorkian.

The Miniseries category features a range of nominees, from an adaptation to a Jane Austen classic, to a documentary on professional football, to the unofficial sequel to "Band of Brothers" in "The Pacific", to a remake of a 1960s British series which made its American debut 42 years ago, to the sequel to 2008 Bryan Nominee "Cranford", to an adaptation of "Alice in Wonderland".

The Nominees for Outstanding Miniseries are "Alice", "Emma", "Full Color Football: The History of the American Football League", "The Pacific", "The Prisoner", and "Return to Cranford."

"The reason that 'Full Color Football (The History of the American Football League)' was submitted in this race was because it was different from the traditional miniseries," Curtiss remarked. "Yes, it was a documentary, but the footage from the NFL Films archives would make for great performances, if it were dramatized."

The winners in the main categories of the Bryan Awards will be announced on Sunday August 15. The winners in the other categories will be announced on Friday August 6. For a complete list of the nominees, go to http://thebryanawards.bravehost.com/Television_Awards/2010s/2010awards.html.

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Welcome

The 2010 Bryan Award Nominations will be announced Next Week

BLIND ITEMS (for the Daytime Categories):
- One of the two cancelled soaps is the most-nominated Daytime program, and the second-most nominated program overall, Daytime or Primetime
- Three of the four Daytime Emmy Drama Series nominees are nominated.
- Three of the Daytime Drama series nominees have a combined XX nominations this year, and at least XY nominations apiece.
- Two perceived Daytime Emmy frontrunners who were snubbed, are both nominees for Bryan Awards
- Two of the female acting nominees are also competing in another category, in the Primetime level
- Three of the nominees for Cutest Couple are same-sex couples.
- Two of those three nominees in the previous blind item are also up for Daytime Tandem.
- The New Kid(s) on the Daytime Block is/are nominated.

BLIND ITEMS (for the Primetime Categories):
- The ultimate "sensation of the year" dominates all shows and is THE most nominated program of the year.
- Two departing dramas are not only up in the Drama Series race, but they are the two of the three most-nominated (Primetime) dramas.
- Two Guest Acting nominees are nominated head-to-head in not one, but two categories.
- The "Queen" is back at the Bryan Awards, one of the most revered and honored actresses of the first decade of the Bryan Awards garners some love for her return to Primetime television.
- One of the biggest new shows barely made the cusp in the Comedy/Drama Series race.
- Another of the biggest new shows was well received, but failed to be nominated for Best New Series.
- There will be a joint acting nominee in one of the Lead Acting races.
- A beloved Animated/Variety show is missing for that respective series category, because it is entering a different Series race.

The 2010 Bryan Award Nominations will be announced around 10:00AM Eastern Time on July 1. Winners in the Main Categories will be announced on August 15. Winners in the Technical Categories will be announced on August 6.