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Here we go, folks. The last few yards. Over 2000 of you voted, and now you can choose the winners of the first annual Readers’  Choice IVy Awards

Look here for a discussion of the candidates. Polling closes at 12:00 AM PDT Saturday, March 23, 2008. Thanks for voting!

(Click the link below to see the full slate of categories and candidates.)

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Well folks, the votes are in, and I am happy that I can now declare the official nominees for the 2007 IVy Awards and the 2007 Readers’ Choice IVy Awards!

For space consideration, I will only list some of the more popular categories, but complete lists can be found on the TV IV’s IVy Awards pages. 

The envelopes please…

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At last! You may now vote for the Readers’ Choice IVy Awards OFFICIAL NOMINEES!

Feel free to vote in as many or as few categories as you choose. You may only vote once for each category. Top five vote-getters will be the official nominees. 

Note that to be a nominee, a candidate must receive at least three votes. Each category must ultimately have at least three nominees. If any category receives fewer nominees, that category will be canceled. Wow! Hahaha! Do I ever feel silly for even mentioning this now.

Look here for a discussion of the candidates. Polling closes at 12:00 PST AM on Saturday, March 8, 2008. Thanks for voting!

(Click the link below to see the full slate of categories and candidates.)

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Did you ever watch the Emmys or the Golden Globes (or how the Golden Globes would’ve turned out) and think, “My favorite show got ROBBED!”? Well, now’s the time to put your votes where your mouth is.

The IVy Awards, the TV IV’s own awards for the best of television, are back. And this time, every reader of the TV IV or this blog can vote on the outcome.

There are three stages to the process: The nomination proposal stage, the nomination stage and the winners voting stage. To receive a nomination, all possible candidates must be proposed in the nomination proposal stage, so be sure to propose your favorite TV shows, actors and episodes now. Feel free to argue for or against whomever you like.

Then on February 8th, the voting will open for the final five nominees in each category. This year, there will be two voting processes: One for administrators and the 30 top editors of the site, and one “reader’s choice” for everybody. Yes, even you.

Please note that from now on, the IVy Awards voting will take place in January, so all shows which have aired since June 2006 are eligible. So was something overlooked last year? Propose it!

Look here for more information throughout January and February, and best of luck to your favorite shows.

tags: tv movies, tv history, events

In November 1983, I was seven years old. I was in a school play at my private school about the life and works of Walt Disney, and I was playing Peter Pan. It was the first time I had ever acted in anything, but this story is not about being bitten by “the acting bug” as James Lipton would call it.

I remember after one performance (or maybe it was a rehearsal), my father said he was in a rush to get home. My father was the most charming, most sociable person I’ve ever known. It was simply unlike him to rush out of any social gathering, particularly one related to theater (he himself having been an actor who had once moved to LA to become a movie star). What could possibly have compelled him to zip past the comraderie of post-rehearsal off hours? Only a very urgent appointment, indeed.

The appointment, as I recall vividly, was meeting his friend Anna and her son Brian as the four of us (my brother and sister were far too young, and my mother must have been out of town, in school or working) watched the ABC movie of the week The Day After.

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tags: SAG Awards, TV, award shows, reviews, events, stars

I watched part of the SAG Awards Sunday night. Yes, I watched an awards show on basic cable. How sad is that? New rule for awards: If you can’t get aired on network primetime, just give out plaques and save yourself the cost of printing the statues. And they were on TNT! Quick quiz: Without looking, tell me the channel number for TNT on your cable service. Can’t do it, can you? I watch a lot of TV. And when I’m saying, “TNT… what is that, 57? No, 56? Somewhere in the 80s? Damn,” you can save a lot of money on the catering budget by just staying the hell home.

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