2015 Broady Awards

6/17/2015

What Are the Broady Awards?

In 2010 The Word created its own special awards for broadcast television shows called the Broadys. You may be asking yourself, “Broadys? What is that?” … Well, the Broadys are yearly awards for broadcast network television series and only broadcast network television series. For years I’d watched the Emmys and Golden Globes and saw almost exclusively cable or premium cable shows (especially in the drama categories) winning all of the awards. Most years you’ll be lucky to see one drama series from broadcast networks (CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox & CW) nominated for anything. Why? Because there’s this stigma that because cable and premium shows can show things like graphic violence and sex and harsher language that that somehow makes them more “real” and thus “award-worthy.” That bothers me for two primary reasons: 1) it seems these shows are throwing excess sex and violence that’s unnecessary (don’t get me wrong sex & violence are both fine if they pertain to the story) into their plots and 2) there’s still so many of us television viewers who don’t have networks like HBO and Showtime, etc. and thus we’re not getting to see these shows anyway and want some love for those we do follow. That is why the Broadys exist.

The great thing about the Broadys is that there are essentially two winners of each award: the official winner chosen by us and the fan vote winner chosen by you ...

Winners will be announced on June 17th.

Julian Spivey
Founder of The Word

Best Drama Series: Parenthood (NBC)

Fan Vote: Person of Interest (CBS)

Past Winners:
2014: Parenthood
2013: Parenthood
2012: Person of Interest
2011: Parenthood
2010: NCIS

Best New Drama Series: Empire (Fox)

Fan Vote: Empire (Fox)

Past Winners:
2014: Sleepy Hollow
2013: Nashville
2012: Person of Interest

Best Actor in a Drama: Jim Caviezel (Person of Interest)

Fan Vote: Jim Caviezel (Person of Interest)

Past Winners:
2014: James Spader (The Blacklist)
2013: Peter Krause (Parenthood)
2012: Jim Caviezel (Person of Interest)
2011: Peter Krause (Parenthood)
2010: Mark Harmon (NCIS)

Best Actress in a Drama: Lauren Graham (Parenthood)

Fan Vote: Taraji P. Henson (Empire)

Past Winners:
2014: Stana Katic (Castle)
2013: Lauren Graham (Parenthood)
2012: Lauren Graham (Parenthood)
2011: Stana Katic (Castle)
2010: Yvonne Strahovski (Chuck)

Best Supporting Actor in a Drama: Craig T. Nelson (Parenthood)

Fan Vote: Kevin Chapman (Person of Interest)

Past Winners:
2014: Craig T. Nelson (Parenthood)
2013: Michael Emerson (Person of Interest)
2012: Robert Carlyle (Once Upon a Time)
2011: Donnie Wahlberg (Blue Bloods)
2010: Michael Weatherly (NCIS)

Best Supporting Actress in a Drama: Erika Christensen (Parenthood)

Fan Vote: Amy Acker (Person of Interest)

Past Winners:
2014: Bellamy Young (Scandal)
2013: Monica Potter (Parenthood)
2012: Lana Parrilla (Once Upon a Time)
2011: Sara Ramos (Parenthood)
2010: Pauley Perrette (NCIS)

Best Guest Actor in a Drama: Ray Romano (Parenthood)

Fan Vote: Enrico Colantoni (Person of Interest)

Past Winners:
2014: Ray Romano (Parenthood)
2013: Ray Romano (Parenthood)
2012: Enrico Colantoni (Person of Interest)
2011: Timothy Dalton (Chuck)
2010: Brandon Routh (Chuck)

Best Guest Actress in a Drama: Taraji P. Henson (Person of Interest)

Fan Vote: Sarah Shahi (Person of Interest)

Past Winners:
2014: Taraji P. Henson (Person of Interest)
2013: Amy Acker (Person of Interest)
2012: Jennifer Beals (Castle)
2011: Linda Hamilton (Chuck)
2010: Gena Rowlands (NCIS)

Best Drama Episode: May God Bless & Keep You Always (Parenthood)

Fan Vote: Asylum (Person of Interest)

Past Winners:
2014: “Endgame” (Person of Interest)
2013: “There’s Something I Need to Tell You” (Parenthood)
2012: “Witness” (Person of Interest)

Best Comedy Series: Brooklyn Nine-Nine (Fox)

Fan Vote: Modern Family (ABC)

Past Winners:
2014: “The Mindy Project”
2013: “The Mindy Project”
2012: “New Girl”
2011: “Community”
2010: “30 Rock”

Best New Comedy Series: Black-ish (ABC)

Fan Vote: Galavant (ABC)

Past Winners:
2014: Brooklyn Nine-Nine
2013: The Mindy Project
2012: New Girl

Best Actor in a Comedy: Will Forte (Last Man on Earth)

Fan Vote: Ty Burrell (Modern Family)

Past Winners:
2014: Garret Dillahunt (Raising Hope)
2013: Alec Baldwin (30 Rock)
2012: Damon Wayans Jr. (Happy Endings)
2011: Ty Burrell (Modern Family)
2010: Alec Baldwin (30 Rock)

Best Actress in a Comedy: Mindy Kaling (The Mindy Project)

Fan Vote: Zooey Deschanel (New Girl)

Past Winners:
2014: Mindy Kaling (The Mindy Project)
2013: Tina Fey (30 Rock)
2012: Zooey Deschanel (New Girl)
2011: Julie Bowen (Modern Family)
2010: Tina Fey (30 Rock)

Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy: Andre Braugher (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)

Fan Vote: Timothy Omundson (Galavant)

Past Winners:
2014: Neil Patrick Harris (How I Met Your Mother)
2013: Rainn Wilson (The Office)
2012: Garret Dillahunt (Raising Hope)
2011: Bill Hader (Saturday Night Live)
2010: Tracy Morgan (30 Rock)

Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy: Stephanie Beatriz (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)

Fan Vote: Sarah Hyland (Modern Family)

Past Winners:
2014: Cloris Leachman (Raising Hope)
2013: Cecily Strong (Saturday Night Live)
2012: Maya Rudolph (Up All Night)
2011: Alison Brie (Community)
2010: Jane Lynch (Glee)

Best Guest Actor in a Comedy: Laurence Fishburne (Black-ish)

Fan Vote: Adam DeVine (Modern Family)

Past Winners:
2014: Jonathan Banks (Community)
2013: Steve Carell (The Office)
2012: Jason Lee (Up All Night)
2011: James Spader (The Office)
2010: Mike O’Malley (Glee)

Best Guest Actress in a Comedy: Kyra Sedgwick (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)

Fan Vote: Eva Longoria (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)

Past Winners:
2014: Cristin Milioti (How I Met Your Mother)
2013: Lauren Graham (Go On)
2012: Mary Steenburgen (30 Rock)
2011: Jennifer Morrison (How I Met Your Mother)
2010: Shelley Long (Modern Family)

Best Comedy Episode: Connection Lost (Modern Family)

Fan Vote: Connection Lost (Modern Family)

Past Winners:
2014: “How Your Mother Met Me” (How I Met Your Mother)
2013: “The Final Page: Parts 1 & 2” (How I Met Your Mother)
2012: “Remedial Chaos Theory” (Community)

Best Variety Series: Late Show with David Letterman

Fan Vote: "The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon"

Past Winners:
2014: Late Show with David Letterman
2013: Late Show with David Letterman
2012: Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
2011: Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
2010: Late Show with David Letterman

Hall of Fame Show: "Saturday Night Live"

Past Honorees:
2014: Late Night/Late Show with David Letterman
2013: The West Wing
2012: M*A*S*H
2011: The Twilight Zone

Hall of Fame Legend: Lorne Michaels (Creator/Executive Producer of "Saturday Night Live")

Past Winners:
2014: David Letterman
2013: Andy Griffith
2012: Rod Serling
2011: Alan Alda

11 Comments

Tina Tina

6/9/2015 02:00:33 am

Thornhill

6/11/2015 08:44:17 am

CAN you HEAR me?

6/16/2015 11:57:58 pm

Why even make a fan poll when it is the website who chose the winners? That's ridiculous.

TXGeek

6/17/2015 12:19:13 pm

"The great thing about the Broadys is that there are essentially two winners of each award: the official winner chosen by us and the fan vote winner chosen by you ..."

It wasn't a secret.

Julian Spivey

6/17/2015 12:11:42 pm

It says right off the bat at the top of this page that there are essentially two winners for each award: the one chosen by this website & a fan winner.

The reason for this is two-fold. It gives readers of this website the chance to participate and have their own say in the matter.

But, the reason why this isn't a solely fan voted award is because fan votes cannot and should not be trusted to give out an unbiased award. If anybody had paid any attention to the results of each of the drama categories in this year's awards they would have noticed that "Person of Interest" received at least 80% of all of the votes (and that's why the show won every fan award it was nominated for). This is because the votes were essentially hijacked by 'POI' fans.

That's great for website hits and is greatly appreciated, but doesn't really mean the show is worthy of a clean sweep of the awards.

JCinNYC

6/17/2015 12:45:30 pm

Thank you for your honesty. POI fans repeatedly 'hijack' all the internet polls then turn around and act like it's a big honor to win LOL Then they act shocked when the show isn't nominated for industry awards like the Emmys, etc.

You don't say

6/22/2015 06:44:18 am

What about winning polls? It creates buzz for the show, a show that is dying when it has much more to give... A show that has many characters that we love.... You in the other hand are doing nothing...
More the organizers knew very well what type of poll they were setting... Like they said, they do it for the hits.

Bee

6/22/2015 09:25:12 am

Ever thought maybe the fans of POI actually come together sharing links of polls and voting for it? Don't go accusing us of hijacking when all we do is support our show.

6/22/2015 06:37:31 am

Sure. Now tell me how am to trust you are punbiased too? You don't even state how you do the process of choice. What I see when I look at the poll is that fans voted for POI sure but you guys "hijacked" pretty much everything with Parenthood.
Thank you for the poll anyways.

6/22/2015 09:31:16 am

Have you even watched Person of Interest? It's an amazing intellectual show with compelling characters and actors. Do we fans of POI think the show deserves awards? Yes, and so we vote for it in polls like this. Do we bash shows that beat us to those awards? No. So that says a lot about the fanbase. Please don't belittle us by saying we hijack polls.

Mike

6/22/2015 06:35:44 am

I gotta admit, I'm not mad you don't just take over the fan poll results, really. But the choice of the site's winners seems intransparent and especially after reading about objectivity, I have to admit I doubt the objectivity there, just be seeing how many of the awards went to Parenthood. I don't know the show, I don't want to claim it's bad or anything, but I think there should be some rating system by you to look at, to see the reasoning, especially with the objectivity claim (it seems Parenthood biased now, even though you probably are not!). Maybe even a system that makes a jury vote and calculates a fan vote from the polls and then determines an overall rating for the candidates, you know. That would be cool.

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