Vote for Your Favorite TV Shows and Performers! The 2026 Tell-Tale TV Awards (Final Round)

It’s the final round, TV fans! Now it’s time to determine which nominees will win in the 2026 Tell-Tale TV Awards!

You’ve nominated your favorite TV shows and performers and have voted in two rounds so far in this set of reader polls. Voting for Round 2 of the 12th annual Tell-Tale TV Awards has ended, and the top six choices in each category have now moved on to the final round.

Read more about the Tell-Tale TV Awards here.

Vote below for your favorite TV shows and performers in 15 different categories. Who will win the bragging rights this year? That’s entirely up to you!

TV comedies in the final round include Abbott Elementary, Saturday Night Live, Ghosts, Scrubs, Going Dutch, Georgie and Mandy’s First Marriage, Only Murders in the Building, Hacks, Adults, XO Kitty, The Bear, and Resident Alien.

The TV dramas that made it to the final round are 9-1-1, The Rookie, Law & Order: SVU, Law & Order, NCIS, Tracker, Heated Rivalry, NCIS: Tony & Ziva, The Pitt, Bridgerton, The Summer I Turned Pretty, and Dexter: Resurrection.

Sci-fi/Fantasy series in the final round include The Way Home, Outlander, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Stranger Things, Pluribus, and The Boys.

For Favorite Limited or Anthology Series, the nominees that have made it to the final round are Malcolm in the Middle: Life’s Still Unfair, His & Hers, All Her Fault, Love Story, Sirens, and The Beast in Me.

The animated series in the final round include Bluey, The Simpsons, Bob’s Burgers, South Park, The Summer Hikaru Died, and Jurassic World: Chaos Theory.

For Favorite Reality Series or Game Show, the finalists are Finding Mr. Christmas, The Great British Baking Show, Dancing with the Stars, The Traitors, The Voice, and Survivor.

Finalists for favorite new show are NCIS: Tony & Ziva, Heated Rivalry, 9-1-1: Nashville, Outlander: Blood of my Blood, RJ Decker, and Pluribus.

Finally, performers in this final round include Janelle James, Quinta Brunson, Steve Martin, Ayo Edebiri, Oliver Stark, Eric Winter, Hudson Williams, Cote de Pablo, Sam Heughan, Chyler Leigh, Dakota Fanning, and Tessa Thompson, among many others.

You can vote for ONE choice in each category below from now through Thursday, May 21st, at 8pm EST. You can vote once per day until voting closes. (That’s once every 24 hours.)

The winners will be announced on Friday, May 22nd, right here at Tell-Tale TV.

All awards are for television shows airing between May 2025and April 2026.

Okay, so how does voting work? Here are the details:

• Vote for one choice per category in each of the 15 categories below from now through Thursday, May 21st, at 8pm EST.
• Click “vote” after each category.
• You can vote once per day until voting closes.
• The official winners in each category will be announced on May 22nd.

Remember: You can vote for just one nominee in each of the categories below. You can vote once a day until voting closes on May 21st. Please note that you won’t be able to vote more than once within 24 hours.

Are you ready to vote? Let’s get started!

The 2026 Tell-Tale TV Awards: Round 1

Comedy Categories:

 

Remember: you can vote once every 24 hours until voting for Round 2 ends on May 21st. Don’t forget to click “vote” after making your selections. More categories are below.

Drama Categories:

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Sci-fi/Fantasy Categories:

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Limited Series Categories:

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Additional Categories:

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 22nd to see who won! You can also check out all of last year’s winners here.

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