MUMBAI: With more than 72 million votes cast across music, movies, TV, and digital, the run-up to the People’s Choice Awards 2016 is already shaping up to be incredibly contentious. The shows on Star World, Star World Premiere HD and FX have received a whopping 58 nominations across categories including favourite TV show.
The bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra has been nominated for the favorite actress in a new TV series for Quantico which has also been nominated for the favourite new TV drama. Viola Davis made it to the list as well by bagging a nomination for favourite dramatic TV actress for How to Get Away with Murder alongside Taraji P Henson for her role in Empire. Reigning winners of the favourite TV crime drama actor and actress respectively Nathan Fillion and Stana Katic are competing in the same category again for their performances in the hit TV crime drama, Castle.
Speaking on sweeping the nominations at the People’s Choice Awards, a Star spokesperson said, “The content on our channels are customized for global Indian audiences who are quite aware about shows launching and being telecast across the world. The channel has the freshest and biggest shows concurrent with the USA. We have the biggest shows from the biggest studios and this is what sets us apart. We are very excited to be nominated in various categories and hope to bag many of them.”
Here’s a list of Star English GEC that has bagged nominations for this year.
For favourite network TV comedy, the shows nominated are 2 Broke Girls, Modern Family and New Girl. The nomination for favourite comedic TV actress includes Sofía Vergara and Zooey Deschanel. For favourite network TV drama the shows nominated are Empire and How To Get Away With Murder. Favourite dramatic TV actress includes Taraji P. Henson and Viola Davis. The nomination for favourite TV crime drama includes Bones, Castle, Criminal Minds and Person of Interest. For favourite TV crime drama actor they have Jim Caviezel, Nathan Fillion and Shemar Moore. For favourite sci-fi/fantasy TV actress the nominations are Ginnifer Goodwin, Jennifer Morrison and Lady Gaga. The nominations for favourite new TV comedy are Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Grandfathered, The Grinder, Life in Pieces, The Muppets and Scream Queens while for favourite new TV drama the nominations are Blood & Oil, Minority Report, Quantico and Rosewood.
