For this year’s My TV Awards we limited each category to just 5 nominees. Any show that aired original episodes during 2008 qualified for consideration. 

Please post comments or send us an email at mytvpodcast@gmail.com to vote for your TV favourites of 2008.

Winners will be announced in the new year.

* indicates the nomination has been changed since the podcast announcement

Without any further ado, here are the 2008 My TV Award Nominees:

Best Drama

• Dexter
• Mad Men
• Brothers & Sisters
• Lost
• Friday Night Lights

Best Comedy

• How I Met Your Mother
• The Big Bang Theory
• The Office
• Ugly Betty
• 30 Rock

Best Reality/Game Show

• So You Think You Can Dance
• Top Chef
• Big Brother
• Project Runway
• The Amazing Race

Best Variety/Talk Show

• The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
• The Colbert Report
• The Oprah Winfrey Show
• Ellen
• Saturday Night Live

Best Ensemble Cast in a Drama

• Lost
• Brothers & Sisters
• Dexter
• Grey’s Anatomy
• Friday Night Lights

Best Ensemble Cast in a Comedy

• Ugly Betty
• The Office
• My Boys
• 30 Rock
• Desperate Housewives

Best Actor in a Drama

• Kyle Chandler (Friday Night Lights)
• Michael C Hall (Dexter)
• Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad)
• Donald Sutherland (Dirty Sexy Money)
• Jon Hamm (Mad Men)

Best Actress in a Drama

• Connie Britton (Friday Night Lights)
• Rachel Griffiths (Brothers & Sisters)
• Calista Flockhart  (Brothers & Sisters)
• Sally Field (Brothers & Sisters)
• Evangeline Lily (Lost)

Best Actor in a Comedy

• Lee Pace (Pushing Daisies)
• Carlo Rota (Little Mosque on the Prairie)
• Jim Parsons (Big Bang Theory)
• Alec Baldwin (30 Rock)
• Steve Carell (The Office)

Best Actress in a Comedy

• Christina Applegate (Samantha Who?)
• Marcia Cross (Desperate Housewives)
• Julia Louis Dreyfus (The New Adventures of Old Christine)
• Tina Fey (30 Rock)
• Joanna Garcia (Privileged)

Best Supporting Actor in a Drama

• William Fichtner (Prison Break)
• Ed Westwick (Gossip Girl)
• Justin Chambers (Grey’s Anatomy)
• Gaius Charles (Friday Night Lights)
• Kevin McKidd (Grey’s Anatomy)

Best Supporting Actress in a Drama

• Julie Benz (Dexter)
• Jennifer Carpenter (Dexter)
• Yun Jin Kim (Lost)
• Adrianne Palicki (Friday Night Lights)
• Sandra Oh (Grey’s Anatomy)

Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy

• Neil Patrick Harris (How I Met Your Mother)
• Jamie Kaler (My Boys)
• Michael Urie (Ugly Betty)
• Simon Helberg (Big Bang Theory)
• Chi McBride (Pushing Daisies)

Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy

• Amy Pietz (Aliens in America)
• Kristin Chenoweth (Pushing Daisies)
• Becky Newton (Ugly Betty)
• Jennifer Esposito (Samantha Who?)
• Jean Smart (Samantha Who?)

Best Late Night Personality

• Amy Poehler (Saturday Night Live)
• Seth Meyers (Saturday Night Live)
• Bill Hader (Saturday Night Live)
• John Stewart (The Daily Show)
• Steven Colbert (The Colbert Report)

Best Reality Star

• Stephen ‘Twitch’ Boss (So You Think You Can Dance)
• Dan Gheesling (Big Brother)
• Nicole Williams (The Mole)*
• Nico Archambault (So You Think You Can Dance Canada)
• Nick Spangler (The Amazing Race)

Best Reality Host

• Cat Deeley (So You Think You Can Dance)
• Padma Lakshmi (Top Chef)
• Jeff Probst (Survivor)
• Heidi Klum (Project Runway)
• Ryan Seacrest (American Idol)

Best Reality Judge

• Tom Colicchio (Top Chef)
• Simon Cowell (American Idol)
• Mia Michaels (So You Think You Can Dance)
• Lil C (So You Think You Can Dance)
• Rex Harrington (So You Think You Can Dance Canada)

Choreography

• “Bleeding Love”- Tabitha and Napoleon D’Umo (So You Think You Can Dance)
• “No Air”- Tabitha and Napoleon D’Umo (So You Think You Can Dance)
• “Ave Maria”- Mia Michaels (So You Think You Can Dance)
• “The Garden”- Sonya Tayeh (So You Think You Can Dance)
• “Slow Me Down”- Stacey Tookey (So You Think You Can Dance Canada)

Best Writing for a Drama

• Lost “There’s No Place Like Home Part 1”- Damon Lindelof & Carlton Cuse
• Friday Night Lights “May the Best Man Win”- David Hudgins
• Brothers & Sisters– “Separation Anxiety”- David Marshall Grant & Molly Newman
• Grey’s Anatomy “In The Midnight Hour”- Tony Phelan & Joan Rater
• Dirty Sexy Money “The Verdict”- Craig Wright

Best Writing for a Comedy

• 30 Rock “Reunion”- Matt Hubbard
• How I Met Your Mother “Do I Know You” – Carter Bays, Craig Thomas
• Ugly Betty “When Betty Met YETI”- Brian Tanen
• The Office “Weight Loss”- Lee Eisenberg, Gene Stupnitsky
• Big Bang Theory “The Peanut Reaction”- Bill Prady, Lee Aronsohn, Steven Molaro, David Goetsch

Best Costumes

• Gossip Girl
• Pushing Daisies
• Ugly Betty
• Mad Men
• So You Think You Can Dance

Best Guest Star

• Dean Winters (30 Rock)
• Will Arnett (30 Rock)
• Amy Ryan (The Office)
• Sara Gilbert (Big Bang Theory)
• Lily Tomlin (Desperate Housewives) 

Best Network Lineup

• ABC
• NBC
• CBS
• FOX
• The CW

Most Ridiculously Good Looking Male

• Blair Underwood (Dirty Sexy Money)
• Wentworth Miller (Prison Break)
• Luke Macfarlane (Brothers & Sisters)
• Eric Dane (Grey’s Anatomy)
• Kyle Howard  (My Boys)

Most Ridiculously Good Looking Female

• Sandra Oh (Grey’s Anatomy)
• Katherine Heigl (Grey’s Anatomy)
• Blake Lively (Gossip Girl)
• Leighton Meister (Gossip Girl)
• Tre Armstrong (So You Think You Can Dance Canada)

The Marry- Me Award

• John Krasinski (The Office)
• Lee Pace (Pushing Daisies)
• Wentworth Miller  (Prison Break)
• Zaib Shaikh (Little Mosque on the Prairie)
• Seth Myers (Saturday Night Live)

The Be-My-Best-Friend Award

• Tina Fey (30 Rock)
• Neil Patrick Harris (How I Met Your Mother)
• Mia Michaels (So You Think You Can Dance)
• Alyson Hannigan (How I Met Your Mother)
• Melissa McCarthy (Samantha Who?)

The Moment of the Year Award

• Michael finally asks out Holly (The Office)
• Barney loves Robin! (How I Met Your Mother)
• Tina Fey’s first Sarah Palin sketch (Saturday Night Live)
• Kevin’s proposal to Scotty (Brothers & Sisters)
• The Oceanic 6 step off the plane to greet their families (Lost)