Viewers Voice Awards

Urine drinker!?! Those two words definitely got our attention, as well as your votes, as My Strange Addiction Urine Drinker beat out Strange Sex: Adult Breastfeeding for Most Outrageous Program Title in Channel Guide’s Viewers Voice Awards. Earlier this year, TLC’s popular series My Strange Addiction dedicated an episode to the “Urine Drinker,” a Colorado woman who drinks five glasses of her own urine a day [believing it helped treat her cancer].  While our gag reflexes were in overdrive just seeing the title, viewing the actual episode has left us scarred for life. Most Outrageous Program Title — Winner: My […]

By the time Jessica Pare had “Zou Bisou Bisou”-ed her way into all future lists of TV’s Most Memorable Moments, that 17-month wait for Season 5 was all but forgotten, and completely forgiven. Season 5 went on to give us more signature moments and messy ethical dilemmas, including Joan’s carnal offering to a prospective client, Lane Pryce’s tragic suicide, Peggy leaving the firm, Sally Draper’s continuing coming-of-age, and (perhaps not so shocking) Don leaving Megan. Season 6 will be worth the wait, however long it may be. Best Period-Piece Drama — Winner: Mad Men Mad Men/AMC 38% Boardwalk Empire/HBO 27% […]

Did aliens use mind control on the voters? Were viewers asleep this summer? Nope. The loyal Falling Skies fan base mobilized and wouldn’t be conquered by The Walking Dead, American Horror Story or True Blood. Falling Skies was named the Spookiest Series in the 2012 Channel Guide‘s Viewers Voice Awards. Here’s how the final poll stacked up. Spookiest Series — Winner: Falling Skies Falling Skies/TNT 32% The Walking Dead/AMC 23% True Blood/HBO 20% American Horror Story/FX 18% Being Human/Syfy 7% Percentages may not total 100 due to rounding. Check out our complete list of 2012 Viewers Voice Award winners! Channel […]

The host of a pair of popular Food Network Series — Guy’s Big Bite and Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives (affectionately known as Triple D by its host and legion of fans) — the bleach-blond car fanatic and restaurateur first won viewers’ hearts when he won Season 2 of The Next Food Network Star. Since then, the Ohio native, born Guy Ramsay Ferry, has branched out even further with successful books and cookware lines and as the host of the NBC game show Minute to Win It. Guy’s Big Bite airs Sunday mornings at 10:30/9:30CT Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives airs Monday nights at […]

What happens when you mix one part standard-issue police procedural, a touch of Sherlock Holmes and USA Network’s talent for creating colorful, serio-comedic characters? A recipe for AWESOMENESS called Psych that’s what. USA’s long-running original comedy series Psych follows the adventures of a snarky fake psychic detective and his uptight sidekick, as they solve crimes in wonderfully over-the-top fashion. Stars James Roday and Dulé Hill have a natural chemistry, playing off each other as if they’ve literally been friends since childhood. The two are surrounded by an endearing cast of talented performers, including Roday’s real-life girlfriend Maggie Lawson, Corbin Bernsen and […]

USA Network took the top two slots in this category, with Suits winning the closing argument with its deft combination of legal acumen, office intrigue, strong performances and wit, with USA doing what it does so well in all of its series. Gabriel Macht stars as legendary law partner, Harvey Specter, and SAG Award-nominee Patrick J. Adams stars as his brilliant, but not-technically-legal associate Mike Ross. Despite his lack of bonafide credentials, Mike’s photographic memory and encyclopedic legal knowledge make him an invaluable asset to Harvey. Season 2 brought the duo closer to discovery, along with some romantic complications for […]

How you feel about Dance Moms diva Abby Lee Miller is likely directly related to how you feel about her frequently strident teaching methods, on full display in the Lifetime reality hit. Miller says that what viewers see on TV is often spillover exasperation from multiple requests made of her dancers off camera, and in an unrelated email to Channel Guide, she told us: “I’m not the bad guy — I’ve been teaching dance for 32 years.  …If Chloe didn’t continually miss class and come late and leave early she would be an amazing dancer, or should I say the […]

Who knew an epic — and deadly — American feud could inspire so much love? But we’re hardly surprised, when it’s captured in a viewing experience as well-crafted and impeccably cast as History’s spring miniseries, which landed 16 Emmy nominations and scored the statuettes in five of them, including Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Movie for  Kevin Costner, who starred as William Hatfield. Costner told Channel Guide that he sees his character as much more than a footnote to history, but also as an entrepreneur, father and veteran who tried to befriend Randall McCoy (played by Bill Paxton). “I wanted […]

No, these moms don’t ingest inedible substances, modify their bodies or stockpile rations for the apocalypse  or the hell of it like their category brethren. But their propensity for putting false teeth, hair and eyelashes, tons of makeup and awfully grown-up costumes worth several mortgage payments on their little bitty kids helped Toddlers & Tiaras take our “Most Extreme” crown. The series made a minor star of pageant stand-out Eden Wood, and a pop culture phenomenon of Alana Thompson — AKA “Honey Boo Boo Child” — who scored herself her own TLC series even if she never took home the […]