Vote for Your Favorites! The 2021 Tell-Tale TV Awards (Round 1)
Get your voting fingers ready! We’re celebrating our love of television with our annual Tell-Tale TV Awards, and voting is officially open!
Even in a year where television schedules changed dramatically and shows faced major production challenges, there was no shortage of great of television.
As usual, nominees for the awards came from our hard-working team members as well as from you, our dedicated readers.
You can vote below for your favorite TV shows, performers, and the year’s best series finale. There are 31 categories this year, including Favorite New Comedy Series, Favorite Network Drama Series, Favorite Cable or Streaming Sci-fi / Fantasy / Horror Series, Favorite TV Movie, more.
There will be a total of three rounds of voting, and the final winners will be announced on May 28th.
Some of the shows included in this year’s nominees are Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist, Superstore, Ted Lasso, Julie and the Phantoms, Grey’s Anatomy, Good Girls, 9-1-1, SEAL Team, Perry Mason, The Crown, Supernatural, Lucifer, Shadow and Bone, The Queen’s Gambit, and WandaVision.
But that’s just naming a few!
A few of the performers included with this year’s nominees are America Ferrera, Jane Levy, Issa Rae, Jason Sudeikis, Marina Squerciati, Caterina Scorsone, Ryan Eggold, Tala Ashe, Tom Ellis, Jurnee Smollett, and Elizabeth Olsen, among many others.
There were also a few performers who were nominated more than once, some even for the same category. Kenan Thompson, Kathryn Hahn, Emily VanCamp, and Tom Holland were among those who received more than one nomination this year.
Okay, so how does voting work?
You can vote for up to THREE choices in each of the many categories below from now through Thursday, May 13th at 8pm EST. You can vote once per day until voting closes. All awards are for shows airing between May 2020 and April 2021.
Make sure to click “vote” after each category.
The top 12 nominees in each category (or more in cases of ties) will then move on to Round 2, which will begin on Friday, May 14th.
Ready to vote?
Remember! You can vote for up to three nominees in each of the categories below. You can come back and vote once a day until voting closes on May 13th.
We can’t wait to find out which TV shows and performers will earn the bragging rights this year!
Voting is now closed! Come back tomorrow, May 14th, to see which nominees made it to the second round!
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Thanks for voting!
Be sure to share this link with a friend and let them know who you voted for. And don’t forget to come back on May 14th for Round 2! You can also check out all of last year’s winners here.
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