Ripping Good Yarns: The Rest of the Saturn Television Awards

Continuing to show the award nominees for awards that seem made especially for Rippers!  The Saturn Awards, to be presented in June, are awards designed around great genre action and adventure programs.  Nothing frou-frou or sitting around at tea about these nominees.

I have earlier shown all the movie awards and the top two television categories.  My favorite in the Best Network Series category was Fringe, and my favorite of the cable series was The Walking Dead.

So let me proceed apace with a minimum of interruption:

Best Television Presentation
Breaking Bad - AMC
Continuum - Syfy
Falling Skies - TNT
Game of Thrones - HBO
Ken Follett’s World Without End - Reelz
Mockingbird Lane - NBC

Spartacus: War of the Damned - Starz

Best Youth Oriented Series on Television

Arrow - CW
Beauty and the Beast - CW
Doctor Who - BBC America
Merlin - Syfy
Teen Wolf - MTV
The Vampire Diaries - CW

Best Actor
Kevin Bacon, The Following
Billy Burke, Revolution
Bryan Cranston, Breaking Bad
Michael C. Hall, Dexter
Joshua Jackson, Fringe
Timothy Hutton, Leverage
Andrew Lincoln, The Walking Dead

Best Actress

Moon Bloodgood, Falling Skies
Mireille Enos, The Killing
Sarah Paulson, American Horror Story: Asylum
Charlotte Riley, Ken Follett’s World Without End
Tracy Spiridakos, Revolution
Anna Torv, Fringe

Best Supporting Actor
Jonathan Banks, Breaking Bad
Giancarlo Esposito, Revolution
Todd Lasance, Spartacus: War of the Damned
Colm Meaney, Hell on Wheels
David Morrissey, The Walking Dead
John Noble, Fringe

Best Supporting Actress
Jennifer Carpenter, Dexter
Sarah Carter, Falling Skies
Anna Gunn, Breaking Bad
Laurie Holden, The Walking Dead
Jessica Lange, American Horror Story: Asylum
Beth Riesgraf, Leverage

Best Guest Starring Role in a Series
Blair Brown, Fringe
Terry O’Quinn, Falling Skies
Lance Reddick, Fringe
Mark Sheppard, Leverage
Ray Stevenson, Dexter
Yvonne Strahovski, Dexter

My choices:

Best Television Presentation:  Game of Thrones by a country mile!

Best Yout Orienrted Series:  Doctor Who

Best Actor:  Andrew Lincoln of The Walking Dead

Best Actress: Mirelle Enos, The Killing

Best Supporting Actor: John Noble, Fringe

Best Supporting Actress: Jessica Lange, American Horr Story: Asylum

No opinion on that last one.

Love to hear your choices or thoughts!