2017 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 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.

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Best Drama

WINNER: The Blacklist (NBC)

Fan Vote: The Blacklist (NBC)

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Best Comedy

WINNER: Black-ish (ABC)

Fan Vote: The Mick (Fox)

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Best Variety Series

WINNER: Late Night with Seth Meyers (NBC)

Fan Vote: Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon (NBC)

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Best New Drama

WINNER: This Is Us (NBC)

Fan Vote: This Is Us (NBC)

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Best New Comedy 

WINNER: The Mick (Fox)

Fan Vote: The Mick (Fox)

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Best Actor - Drama

WINNER: Milo Ventimiglia (This Is Us)

Fan Vote: Milo Ventimiglia (This Is Us)

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Best Actress - Drama

WINNER: Megan Boone (The Blacklist)

Fan Vote: Megan Boone (The Blacklist) & Kerry Washington (Scandal) - TIE

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Best Actor - Comedy

WINNER: Anthony Anderson (Black-ish)

Fan Vote: Ted Danson (The Good Place)

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Best Actress - Comedy

WINNER: Kaitlin Olson (The Mick)

Fan Vote: Kaitlin Olson (The Mick)

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Best Supporting Actor - Drama

WINNER: Joe Morton (Scandal)

Fan Vote: Sterling K. Brown (This Is Us) & Jeff Perry (Scandal) - TIE

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Best Supporting Actress

WINNER: Chrissy Metz (This Is Us)

Fan Vote: Chrissy Metz (This Is Us) & Virginia Madsen (Designated Survivor) - TIE

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Best Supporting Actor - Comedy

WINNER: Lamorne Morris (New Girl)

Fan Vote: Scott MacArthur (The Mick) & Mel Rodriguez (The Last Man on Earth) - TIE

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Best Supporting Actress - Comedy

WINNER: Mary Steenburgen (The Last Man on Earth)

Fan Vote: Mary Steenburgen (The Last Man on Earth)

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Best Guest Actor - Drama

WINNER: Gerald McRaney (This Is Us)

Fan Vote: Gerald McRaney (This Is Us)

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Best Guest Actress - Drama

WINNER: Susan Blommaert (The Blacklist)

Fan Vote: Susan Blommaert (The Blacklist)

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Best Guest Actor - Comedy

WINNER: Alec Baldwin (Saturday Night Live)

Fan Vote: Alec Baldwin (Saturday Night Live)

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Best Guest Actress - Comedy

WINNER: Melissa McCarthy (Saturday Night Live)

Fan Vote: Melissa McCarthy (Saturday Night Live)

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Best Episode - Drama

WINNER: "Memphis" (This Is Us)

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Best Episode - Comedy

WINNER: "LEMONS" (Black-ish)

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Hall of Fame Legend

WINNER: Edward R. Murrow

Television news today is pretty maligned – whether right or wrong – with people going on about “fake news” and people mistrusting the media in an era of people wanting “news” to back up their own opinions in life. There’s no better time to remember one of the original icons of network news, Edward R. Murrow. Murrow got his start in radio, becoming a prominent name in news during World War II. Despite having misgivings about the new form of media television in the 1950s Murrow would join CBS Evening News doing editorials and covering special events. In 1951, his radio show “Hear It Now” was renamed “See It Now” and television news had its first major face. “See It Now” would run for seven years and most prominently took on Sen. Joe McCarthy and his “McCarthyism” witch hunts against suspected communists. The program essentially led to the downfall of McCarthy and showed for the first time how televised news could be used to make the world a better place. Boy, could we use Edward R. Murrow today. He was posthumously inducted into the first class of the Television Hall of Fame in 1984.  

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Hall of Fame Show 

WINNER: Seinfeld 

It's truly amazing that comedians Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David could take a “show about nothing” and turn it into what’s generally considered the greatest sitcom in television history. Creators Seinfeld and David took the little everyday things that most would consider boring or even irrelevant and mined it for comedy gold. With a stellar cast including Seinfeld, as a version of himself, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jason Alexander and Michael Richards the show would go on to be a major part of the pop culture lexicon. TV Guide ranked the series as the Greatest TV Show of All-Time in 2002. 

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