Ripping Good Yarn 3rd Annual TV Awards: It's Time to Nominate Your Favorite Dramas

Let me try this again.

It's time to nominate your favorite drama for a shiny new Ripper.  This is the third year we've done these.  I'm a little concerned as, although page views haven't been declining, participation has, particularly on Facebook.  It has become harder to maintain flow of traffic to specific groups, and The Ripping Good Yarn group is being visited by fewer and fewer people.

I will do what I can to resolve that, but I welcome participation by anyone, whether a Ripper visitor or not.  Posting directly to The Strait Line via comments is encouraged, or any message you can get to me in any form.

It's been a great year on television, with many great shows, new and old, on multiple platforms.  This year the awards are going to be split into three divisions - Broadcast, Basic Cable, and Premium/Streaming.  BUT YOU DON'T NEED TO WORRY ABOUT THAT, not at the nominating stage.  Just name your favorites from the last TV season, regardless of where they're from.  I will sort all that out.

To help out, because I am a kind and helpful soul, here is a list of those drama shows that I know were part of the 2013-14 TV season:

BROADCAST TV

ABC : Betrayal, Killer Women, Lucky 7, Mind Games, Once Upon A Time in Wonderland, Agents of S.H.E.I.L.D., Castle, Grey's Anatomy, Once Upon A Time, Nashville, Resurrection, Revenge, Scandal
CBS: Intelligence, Hostages, Blue Bloods, Criminal Minds, CSI, Elementary, Hawaii Five-O, NCIS, NCIS:LA, Person of Interest, The Good Wife, The Mentalist
CW: Nikita, Star-Crossed, The Carrie Diaries, The Tomorrow People, Arrow, Beauty & the Beast, Hart of Dixie, Reign, Supernatural, The 100, The Originals, The Vampire Diaries
FOX: Almost Human, Rake, Bones, Glee, Sleepy Hollow, The Following
NBC:  Believe, Crisis, Dracula, Ironside, Revolution, Chicago Fire, Chicago P.D., Grimm, Hannibal, Law & Order:SVU, Parenthood, The Black List
PBS:  Call the Midwife, Downton Abbey, Mr. Selfridge, Sherlock

BASIC CABLE

ABC Family: Pretty Little Liars, Switched At Birth
A & E: Bates Motel, Longmire
AMC: Breaking Bad, Hell On Wheels, The Killing, Low Winter Sun, Mad Men, Turn, The Walking Dead
BBC: Doctor Who, In the Flesh, Orphan Black
FX: American Horror Story, The Americans, The Bridge, Justified, Sons of Anarchy
Lifetime: Army Wives, The Client List, Witches of East End
Syfy: Being Human, Bitten, Continuum, Defiance, Haven, Helix, Lost Girl, Warehouse 13
TNT: Dallas, Falling Skies, Franklin & Bash, Perception, Rizzoli & Isles, Southland
USA:  Burn Notice, Covert Affairs, Graceland, Psych, Royal Pains, Sirens, Suits, White Collar
WGN: Salem

PREMIUM & STREAMING

Cinemax: Banshee, Strike Back
HBO: Boardwalk Empire, Game of Thrones, The Newsroom, Treme, True Blood
Showtime: Homeland, Masters of Sex, Ray Donovan, Penny Dreadful
Starz: Black Sails, DaVinci's Demons, The White Queen
Sundance: Rectify, Top of the Lake
Netflix: Orange is the New Black, House of Cards



I am particularly light in streaming dramas.  If you know of others, please feel free to nominate.

This is JUST the preliminary round to select finalists.  But I am hoping for as much input as possible.  I want to have as broad of representation as possible.

Please note your selections here, or via Facebook, directly or by private message.

Let the nominations........BEGIN!!!