Crix Pix Mix II: TCA Award Nominees

Also in today's TV-critics-list-stuff news: The Television Critics' Association released its list of nominees, on which I voted, for its annual awards to be given out this summer. The full list after the jump:

PROGRAM OF THE YEAR
“Battlestar Galactica” (SciFi Channel)
“Lost” (ABC)
“Mad Men” (AMC)
“Saturday Night Live” (NBC) 
“The Shield” (FX)  
 
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN COMEDY
“30 Rock” (NBC)
“The Big Bang Theory” (CBS)
“The Daily Show” (Comedy Central)
“How I Met Your Mother” (CBS)
“The Office” (NBC) 
 
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN DRAMA
“Breaking Bad” (AMC)
“Friday Night Lights” (NBC/DirecTV)
“Lost” (ABC)
“Mad Men” (AMC)
“The Shield” (FX) 
 
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT MOVIES, MINI-SERIES AND SPECIALS
2008 Summer Olympic Coverage (NBC)
“24: Redemption” (Fox)
“Generation Kill” (HBO)
“Grey Gardens” (HBO)
“Taking Chance” (HBO) 
 
OUTSTANDING NEW PROGRAM OF THE YEAR 
“Fringe” (Fox)
“The Mentalist” (CBS)
“No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency” (HBO)
“True Blood” (HBO)
“United States of Tara” (Showtime)   
   
                                  
INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT IN COMEDY 
Alec Baldwin (“30 Rock”)
Steve Carell (“The Office”)
Tina Fey (“30 Rock”)
Neil Patrick Harris (“How I Met Your Mother”)
Jim Parsons (“The Big Bang Theory”) 
 
 
INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT IN DRAMA
Glenn Close (“Damages”)
Bryan Cranston (“Breaking Bad”)
Walton Goggins (“The Shield”)
Jon Hamm (“Mad Men”)
Hugh Laurie (“House”) 
 
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN CHILDREN'S PROGRAMMING
“Camp Rock” (The Disney Channel)
“The Electric Company” (PBS)
“Nick News” (Nickelodeon)
“Sid the Science Kid” (PBS)
“Yo Gabba Gabba” (Nickelodeon) 
 
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN NEWS & INFORMATION
“60 Minutes” (CBS)
“The Alzheimer's Project” (HBO)
“Frontline” (PBS)
“The Rachel Maddow Show” (MSNBC)
“We Shall Remain” (PBS) 
HERITAGE AWARD 
“ER” (NBC)
“M*A*S*H” (CBS)
“Saturday Night Live” (NBC)
“The Shield” (FX)
“Star Trek” (NBC) 

The list is too vast, and my agreements and disagreements too many, to give you my applause and grievances. If you read me regularly, you probably have a pretty good sense which of these picks I love and hate; if you don't you probably don't care.

(Well, OK: I made a valiant effort to campaign for Big Love, which got as royally hosed by the TCA—partly, I suspect, because there are too many great actresses and they split the vote. On the other hand, Walton Goggins was an outstanding choice, even more so than Chiklis, for the final season of The Shield. "Family meeting!" I still get chills.)