The 1st Annual Epsilon Institute Television Awards

Here are the winners of the first annual Epsilon Television Awards:

Best Show for Mindless Entertainment in a Reality or Competition TV Program: American Idol
Best Show for Good, Quality Writing and Acting: The Closer
Best Show for Mindless Entertainment in a Drama/Action Category: 24
Best Show for Thinking on a Shakespearian Level: Lost
Best Show for Over-the-Top-and-they-know-it Entertainment: Ugly Betty
Best Show Containing the Words "The Office" in the Title: The Office
Best Show with real on-screen chemistry between the entire cast: Bones
Best Show for Yelling at Lifeless Objects and Randomly Making Money in the Process: Deal or No Deal
Best New Game Show That Actually Requires Some Skill: 1 vs. 100
Best Show That's Really Good But Has A Ginormous Cast and Move Really Quickly: Heroes
Best Show That Had Potential, but bombed anyways: The Nine
Best Character That Yells Instead of Speaking: Jack Bauer, 24
Best Character That Get's Good One-Liners: Christina, Ugly Betty
Best Character That Acts Like Gollum from Lord of the Rings: Niki/Jessica, Heroes
Best Character That Really, Really Creeps Me Out: Benjamin "Henry Gale" Linus, Lost
Best Character That Could Probably Shoot Out Laser Beams from their eyes: Juliet, Lost
Best Reality TV Show Contestant That I loved to hate, but I never wish I saw in the first place: Leonid the Magnificent, America's Got Talent
Best Use of Soundtrack in a Television Show: Ugly Betty
Best Story Twists That Make My Head Hurt, Because they don't make ANY sense: 24 (Cougars?)
Best Story Twists That Make My Head Hurt, Because we'll get an answer to it one full season later: Lost

1 comment:

  1. I beg to differ. 1 vs 100 requires absolutely no skill and no brains. I've seen people freak out over whether a dime is bigger than a penny and that actually was one of the harder questions. I'm still addicted, mind you, but it's a dumb show.

    Deal or No Deal is freaking awesome.

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