Fall TV Premiere Award Winners
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BEST OPENING CREDITS
MOM (updated for Season 5)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 19
BEST BETWEEN-SEASONS MAKEOVER
LAW & ORDER: SVU's Benson
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BEST BREAKUP
THE MIDDLE's Brick and Cindy
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FUNNIEST DOUBLE HOMICIDE
THE LAST MAN ON EARTH's Rear Admiral Roy Billups and Pat
Great News - Season 2
BEST GUEST STAR
GREAT NEWS' Tina Fey
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WORST EXIT STORYLINE
KEVIN CAN WAIT's Donna (played by original cast member Erinn Hayes) has been dead for a year (but hey, a kung fu coupon!)
MARSAI MARTIN, JENIFER LEWIS, YARA SHAHIDI, TRACEE ELLIS ROSS, ANTHONY ANDERSON, MARCUS SCRIBNER, MILES BROWN, LAURENCE FISHBURNE
BEST MUSICAL INTERLUDE
BLACK-ISH
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BEST FINALE CLIFFHANGER RESOLUTION
RIVERDALE: Fred's shooter is actually a serial killer
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MOST SHOCKING DEATH
BLUE BLOODS: Danny's wife Linda (played by original cast member Amy Carlson), it was gradually revealed, had died months earlier, off-screen
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WORST FINALE CLIFFHANGER RESOLUTION
ARROW: After an entire island explodes, only 1 confirmed fatality out of 13+ possibilities! (Hold Oliver Queen's beer, Chicago Fire.)
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MOST UNNECESSARY TWIST
JANE THE VIRGIN's Sin Rostro is up to something... again
Supergirl
BEST CAST ADDITION
SUPERGIRL's Odette Annable
Runners-up:
Hawaii Five-0's Meaghan Rath
The Exorcist's John Cho
JASON RITTER, KIMBERLY HEBERT GREGORY
BEST USE OF A FAMILIAR FACE ON A NEW SHOW
Jason Ritter on KEVIN (PROBABLY) SAVES THE WORLD
Pilot
WORST USE OF A FAMILIAR FACE ON A NEW SHOW
The great Linda Lavin on (sigh) 9JKL
KYRA SEDGWICK
BIGGEST RATINGS SURPRISE (OF THE BAD KIND)
TEN DAYS IN THE VALLEY premieres to a 0.5 demo rating, gets shuttled by ABC to Saturdays after three weeks at 0.4
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BREAKOUT STAR
THE MAYOR's Brandon Micheal Hall
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WORST CGI
MARVEL'S INHUMANS
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BEST NEW COUPLE
GREY'S ANATOMY's Arizona and Carina (who at least got off to a good start)
Young Sheldon
FUNNIEST NEWCOMER
YOUNG SHELDON's Raegan Revord
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MOST GRATUITOUS (AND GLORIOUS) SHOW OF SKIN
S.W.A.T.: What seemed to be every third Shemar Moore scene
Supernatural
BIGGEST TEARJERKER
SUPERNATURAL's Dean and Sam say goodbye to Cas
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MOST 'MEH' OPENING CREDITS (NEW SHOW)
STAR TREK: DISCOVERY
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BEST SURPRISE CAMEO
SEAL TEAM's Michael Rooker
Riverdale
BIGGEST RATINGS SURPRISE (OF THE GOOD KIND)
RIVERDALE returns to a 0.8 demo rating (and 2.34 million total viewers), doubling its Season 1 average
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BEST ACTION SEQUENCE
HAWAII FIVE-0's knock-down, drag-out fight amidst a raging wildfire. (We can still feel the smoke in our lungs.)
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BEST CGI
THE GIFTED
The Flash Reborn
BEST REUNION
THE FLASH's Barry and Iris
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WORST NEW COUPLE
EMPIRE's Jamal and Warren
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BEST PLOT TWIST
CRIMINAL MINDS' Prentiss hallucinated the most harrowing parts of her captivity at the hands of Scratch
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MOST MIRACULOUS CLIFFHANGER SURVIVOR
CHICAGO FIRE's Mouch, who had a heart attack (!) while trapped in a burning building (!!)
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MOST WTF? OPENING SEQUENCE
BLINDSPOT's almost Gilmore Girls-like wedding and housewarming montage
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STRANGEST NEW 'COUPLE'
BLINDSPOT's Patterson and Rich Dotcom
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LEAST-SURPRISING TWIST
THE BIG BANG THEORY's Bernadette is pregnant
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WORST BREAKUP
GREY'S ANATOMY's Arizona and Eliza (who wasn't even seen!)
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SOUND THAT WILL FOREVER HAUNTS OUR DREAMS
WISDOM OF THE CROWD's blonk!-blonk!-blonk! "Evidence Alert"
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MOST WTF? CLOSING SEQUENCE
THE BRAVE's beach celebration is crashed by a truck threatening to blow up all of the characters we just met!
NCIS
BEST BETWEEN-SEASONS 'MAKE-UNDER'
NCIS' Gibbs and McGee look properly worse for the wear after months of captivity