1st Critics' Choice Television Awards

Date: 20 June 2011
Host: Cat Deeley

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Best Series

Best Comedy Series

• Modern Family (ABC)

30 Rock (NBC)
Archer (FX)
The Big Bang Theory (CBS)
Community (NBC)
Glee (FOX)
Louie (FX)
The Middle (ABC)
The Office (NBC)
Parks and Recreation (NBC)


Best Drama Series

• Mad Men (AMC)

Boardwalk Empire (HBO)
Dexter (Showtime)
Friday Night Lights (NBC / Audience Network)
Fringe (FOX)
Game of Thrones (HBO)
The Good Wife (CBS)
Justified (FX)
The Killing (AMC)
The Walking Dead (AMC)
Most Exciting New Series


Most Exciting New Series

• Alcatraz (FOX)
• Awake (NBC)
• Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23 (ABC)
• Falling Skies (TNT)
• New Girl (FOX)
• Ringer (The CW)
• Smash (NBC)
• Terra Nova (FOX)

Best Acting in a Comedy Series

Best Actor

• Jim Parsons as Dr. Sheldon Cooper (The Big Bang Theory)

Alec Baldwin as Jack Donaghy (30 Rock)
Steve Carell as Michael Scott (The Office)
Louis C.K. as Louie (Louie)
Charlie Day as Charlie Kelly (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia)
Joel McHale as Jeff Winger (Community)


Best Actress

• Tina Fey as Liz Lemon (30 Rock)

Courteney Cox as Jules Cobb (Cougar Town)
Edie Falco as Jackie Peyton (Nurse Jackie)
Patricia Heaton as Frankie Heck (The Middle)
Martha Plimpton as Virginia Chance (Raising Hope)
Amy Poehler as Leslie Knope (Parks and Recreation)

Best Supporting Actor 

• Neil Patrick Harris as Barney Stinson (How I Met Your Mother)

Ty Burrell as Phil Dunphy (Modern Family)
Nick Offerman as Ron Swanson (Parks and Recreation)
Ed O'Neill as Jay Pritchett (Modern Family)
Danny Pudi as Abed Nadir (Community)
Eric Stonestreet as Cameron Tucker (Modern Family)

Best Supporting Actress

• Busy Philipps as Laurie Keller (Cougar Town)

Julie Bowen as Claire Dunphy (Modern Family)
Jane Krakowski as Jenna Maroney (30 Rock)
Jane Lynch as Sue Sylvester (Glee)
Eden Sher as Sue Heck (The Middle)
Sofía Vergara as Gloria Delgado-Pritchett (Modern Family)

Best Acting in a Drama Series

Best Actor

• Jon Hamm as Don Draper (Mad Men)

Steve Buscemi as Nucky Thompson (Boardwalk Empire)
Kyle Chandler as Eric Taylor (Friday Night Lights)
Michael C. Hall as Dexter Morgan (Dexter)
William H. Macy as Frank Gallagher (Shameless)
Timothy Olyphant as Raylan Givens (Justified)

Best Actress

• Julianna Margulies as Alicia Florrick (The Good Wife)

Connie Britton as Tami Taylor (Friday Night Lights)
Mireille Enos as Det. Sarah Linden (The Killing)
Elisabeth Moss as Peggy Olson (Mad Men)
Katey Sagal as Gemma Teller Morrow (Sons of Anarchy)
Anna Torv as Olivia Dunham (Fringe)

Best Supporting Actor

• John Noble as Dr. Walter Bishop (Fringe)

Alan Cumming as Eli Gold (The Good Wife)
Walton Goggins as Boyd Crowder (Justified)
Shawn Hatosy as Det. Sammy Bryant (Southland)
Michael Pitt as Jimmy Darmody (Boardwalk Empire)
John Slattery as Roger Sterling, Jr. (Mad Men)

Best Supporting Actress

• Christina Hendricks as Joan Harris (Mad Men) (tie)
• Margo Martindale as Mags Bennett (Justified) (tie)

Michelle Forbes as Mitch Larsen (The Killing)
Kelly Macdonald as Margaret Schroeder (Boardwalk Empire)
Archie Panjabi as Kalinda Sharma (The Good Wife)
Chloë Sevigny as Nicolette Grant (Big Love)

Best Reality Series

• Hoarders (A&E) (tie)
• The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills (Bravo) (tie)

Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (ABC)
Sister Wives (TLC)
Undercover Boss (CBS)

Best Reality Series – Competition

• American Idol (FOX)

The Amazing Race (CBS)
Dancing with the Stars (ABC)
Project Runway (Lifetime)
RuPaul's Drag Race (Logo)
Top Chef (Bravo)

Best Talk Show 

• The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (Comedy Central)

Chelsea Lately (E!)
The Ellen DeGeneres Show (NBC)
Jimmy Kimmel Live! (ABC)
The Oprah Winfrey Show (CBS)


Best Reality Show Host

• Mike Rowe (Dirty Jobs)

Tom Bergeron (Dancing with the Stars)
Cat Deeley (So You Think You Can Dance)
Ty Pennington (Extreme Makeover: Home Edition)
Ryan Seacrest (American Idol)


Shows with Multiple Wins

• Mad Men (3)

Shows with Multiple Nominations

• Modern Family (6)

Mad Men (5)
30 Rock (4)
Boardwalk Empire (4)
The Good Wife (4)
Justified (4)
Community (3)
Friday Night Lights (3)
Fringe (3)
The Killing (3)
The Middle (3)
Parks and Recreation (3)
American Idol (2)
The Big Bang Theory (2)
Cougar Town (2)
Dancing with the Stars (2)
Dexter (2)
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (2)
Glee (2)
Louie (2)
The Office (2)