The People v O.J. Tops TCA Wins with Three; Plus Rachel Bloom and Samantha Bee

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2016 TCA Winners: The People v O.J. Simpson, Samantha Bee, Rachel Bloom, The Americans

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The FX limited series The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story was chosen as the Program of the Year by the Television Critics Association tonight where it also picked up wins in the Miniseries category and for Sarah Paulson in Individual Achievement in Drama.

FX also scored the Outstanding Achievement in Drama for The Americans, that show’s second consecutive win. USA’s freshman series Mr. Robot grabbed Outstanding New Program.

In Comedy, black-ish won the series category and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend‘s Rachel Bloom won the Individual award.  won the News and Information award and The Mary Tyler Moore Show won the Heritage Award.

The results were determined from votes cast by the TCA’s membership, comprised of more than 220 professional TV critics and journalists from the United States and Canada.

The complete list of winners from the 2016 TCA awards:

Program of the Year
The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story

Outstanding Achievement in Comedy
Black-ish

Outstanding Achievement in Drama
The Americans

Outstanding Achievement in Movies, Miniseries and Specials
The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story

Outstanding New Program
Mr. Robot

Individual Achievement in Comedy
Rachel Bloom, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

Individual Achievement in Drama
Sarah Paulson, The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story

Outstanding Achievement in News and Information
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee

Outstanding Achievement in Reality Programming
Making a Murderer

Outstanding Achievement in Youth Programming
Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood

Heritage Award
The Mary Tyler Moore Show

Career Achievement Award
Lily Tomlin

Erik Anderson

Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013. He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.

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