The 2014 Television Critics Association winners have been announced, with Breaking Bad, The Good Wife and Orange is the New Black taking home big prizes. The TCA seemed to really want to spread the wealth around this year:
- Program of the Year: Breaking Bad
- Best New Program of the Year: Orange is the New Black
- Best Comedy Series: (tie) Veep; Louie
- Best Drama Series: The Good Wife
- Best Miniseries: True Detective
- Best Individual Performance in Drama: Matthew McConaughey, True Detective
- Best Individual Performance in Comedy: Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Veep
- Best News and Information: Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey
- Best Reality Series: RuPaul's Drag Race
- Best Youth Program: The Fosters
- Heritage Award: Saturday Night Live
- Career Achievement: James Burrows
In case you were wondering, Program of the Year is meant to indicate the most culturally significant show, even if it's not the "best," while it's obvious they only called True Detective a miniseries so they could honor that in one of the categories without having to name it best drama or program of the year. I don't personally like these awards much- all the categories are kind of weird and seem designed so they can pick and choose what goes where so they can get away with choosing as much as possible.
