Critics' Choice Television Awards 2014

The Beverly Hills Hotel, venue for the 2014 Critics' Choice Television Awards

Cedric the Entertainer, presenter of the award ceremony

The 2014 Critics' Choice Television Awards were presented by the Broadcast Television Journalists Association (BTJA) on June 19, 2014 at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills , California . The nominations were announced on May 28, 2014. Programs that were broadcast in prime time in the period from June 1, 2013 to May 31, 2014 were taken into account . In the United States, the ceremony was broadcast live on The CW . The event was moderated by Cedric the Entertainer .

Regardless of the actual presentation, the awards in the category Most Promising New Series (in the original Most Exciting New Series ) were presented on June 9, 2014 .

Overview

The most successful series / films
(at least three nominations; highlighted = most awards
N = nomination; A = award)
Series / film	N	A.
Fargo	5	3
The normal heart	5	2
The Big Bang Theory	5	1
Masters of Sex	5	1
Good Wife	5	0
Orange is the New Black	4th	3
Breaking Bad	4th	2
The Americans	4th	0
Sherlock : His last vow	4th	0
American horror story	3	1
Veep - The Vice President	3	1
An adventure in space and time	3	0
Louie	3	0
Silicon Valley	3	0
The Trip to Bountiful	3	0

The seventh season were the most frequently nominated with 5 mentions the comedy series The Big Bang Theory , the fifth season of the political series The Good Wife , the respective premiere seasons of the drama series Fargo and Masters of Sex and the HBO - TV movie The Normal Heart on the outbreak of AIDS - Epidemic in the early 1980s. For The Big Bang Theory and The Good Wife , it is in the category Best Comedy Series and Best Drama Series already the fourth nomination in a row. For every 4 nominations, The Americans by FX , AMCs Breaking Bad , the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black and the last episode of the third season of the British crime series Sherlock , which bears the German title His last oath . With a running time of almost 90 minutes, all episodes of the series have the character of a television film, which means that they could be nominated as best (television) film .

The television multi-part series American Horror Story , which was nominated six times last year in the TV film or mini-series category, was only mentioned three times this year for the third season (originally known as American Horror Story: Coven ). The comedy series Louie , Silicon Valley and Veep - The Vice President , the television film The Trip to Bountiful and the docu-drama An Adventure in Space and Time about the creation of the science fiction series Doctor Who on the occasion of its 50th anniversary were also nominated three times Anniversary. Christopher Evan Welch received a posthumous nomination for his role as Peter Gregory in Silicon Valley ; Welch passed away while filming the first season.

Among the nominees for the first time are Broad City , Dancing on the Edge , Mom , Scandal , True Detective (2 nominations each), The Crazy Ones , Die Goldbergs , The Mindy Project and Looking (1 each). In the TV film or miniseries division , the category of best film or miniseries was split up for the first time since the introduction of such a film in 2012 . In addition to The Normal Heart , Sherlock - His Last Oath , The Trip to Bountiful and An Adventure in Space and Time , the BBC film Burton and Taylor and the documentary drama Killing Kennedy on the National Geographic Channel were nominated as best film . In addition to Fargo , American Horror Story and Dancing on the Edge , Luther , Bonnie & Clyde and the TV film series The Hollow Crown , which is broadcast in the USA by PBS , were considered in the Best Miniseries category .

For the reality TV formats, the casting show The Voice and the documentary series Our Cosmos: The Journey Continues received two nominations each (for reality show and for the best presenter). As the presenter of Dancing with the Stars , Tom Bergeron was nominated for the fourth time in a row as the best presenter of a reality show . Among the talk shows, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and Jimmy Kimmel Live! with four nominations since the award was introduced in 2011, like last year. Archer set the same record for the cartoon series, even if this category was only introduced in 2012, so the series was nominated for best comedy series in 2011.

In the Most Promising New Series category , AMC's Halt and Catch Fire , Gotham from Fox , The Leftovers ( HBO ), FX Networks The Strain , the CBS summer series Extant , Penny Dreadful from Showtime and Starz ' Outlander , based on the seven volume Highland saga, went to by Diana Gabaldon , excellent.