2020 SCHEDULE
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Submissions open Wednesday, February 19, 2020 https://realtvsubmissions.criticschoice.com/
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Deadline for early submission (with fee discount): Monday, March 9
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Deadline for submissions: (
Monday, April 13) Friday, May 15 -
Nominations Announced: (
Monday, May 4) Monday, June 8 -
Critics Choice Real TV Awards: (
Sunday, June 7) Monday, June 29 at the Beverly Hilton or via press release
CRITICS CHOICE ASSOCIATION (CCA) AND NPACT ANNOUNCE NEW TIMELINE FOR “CRITICS CHOICE REAL TV AWARDS” IN RESPONSE TO CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC
Awards Honor Nonfiction and Reality Content
(March 30, 2020) – LOS ANGELES – The Critics Choice Association (CCA) and nonfiction producers’ organization NPACT have announced a new timeline for the second annual “Critics Choice Real TV Awards,” amidst the current coronavirus pandemic. Submissions will now be accepted through May 15, and nominations will be announced on June 8. Winners will be announced on June 29, with the final event format still to be determined.
New Schedule:
- Submissions open: Wednesday, February 19
https://realtvsubmissions.criticschoice.com/ - Deadline for early submissions (with fee discount): Monday, March 9
- Deadline for submissions: Friday, May 15
- Nominations announced: Monday, June 8
- Critics Choice Real TV Awards winners announced: Monday, June 29
Bob Bain and Joey Berlin will serve as Executive Producers. Michelle Van Kempen is Executive Producer for NPACT.
The Critics Choice Real TV Awards were conceived last year when the CCA (then known as the Broadcast Television Journalists Association) and NPACT joined forces to create a large-scale awards platform dedicated to giving the robust, ever-evolving unscripted genre critical attention and support. The awards celebrate programming across broadcast, cable and streaming platforms, and also recognize industry leaders with special awards highlighting career achievements.
Shows are eligible for nomination if at least six (6) episodes premiered between June 1, 2019 and May 31, 2020 to at least 50% of the total potential U.S. television market.
The Critics Choice Association will monitor all awards submissions and select the nominees in all competitive categories. NPACT will lead the selection of non-competitive discretionary awards. A blue-ribbon nominating committee made up of CCA members with expertise in nonfiction, unscripted and reality programming will determine the nominees. Winners will be chosen by a vote of the CCA membership and announced at the Critics Choice Real TV Awards.
About the Critics Choice Association (CCA)
The Critics Choice Association is the largest critics organization in the United States and Canada, representing more than 400 television, radio and online critics. It was organized last year with the formal merger of the Broadcast Film Critics Association and the Broadcast Television Journalists Association, recognizing the blurring of the distinctions between film, television, and streaming content. For more information, visit: www.CriticsChoice.com.
About NPACT
NPACT, the trade association for non-fiction production companies doing business in the U.S., includes 100+ member companies comprised of production companies of all sizes, as well as allied services companies. Collectively, NPACT members produce the majority of all nonfiction content for U.S. broadcast, cable television and streaming platforms. NPACT serves as the voice for the non-fiction creative community, providing a forum for producers as they tackle challenges and business issues in this age of media disruption.
CONTACT
Andy Gelb / Elyse Weissman
SLATE PR
[email protected] / [email protected]
“QUEER EYE” LEADS WINNERS OF THE INAUGURAL CRITICS’ CHOICE REAL TV AWARDS
Leah Remini Receives First Ever Impact Award at Loni Love Hosted Ceremony
Netflix Tops Networks with Nine Awards
Show Will Air on VH1 on Sunday, June 9
Los Angeles (June 2, 2019) – The Critics Choice Association and NPACT, the trade organization serving the producers of nonfiction entertainment content, announced the winners of the inaugural Critics’ Choice Real TV Awards tonight, live from the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills. Television’s brightest shined at the gala event, which will air on VH1 on Sunday, June 9, and was hosted by comedian Loni Love. Leah Remini received the first ever Impact Award, recognizing her work on her groundbreaking series Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath.
“Queer Eye” led the winners, taking home four awards for Ensemble Cast in an Unscripted Series, Lifestyle Show: Fashion/Beauty, Male Star of The Year for Jonathan Van Ness, and Structured Series. “The Late Late Show with James Corden” also took home multiple awards, for both Late-Night Talk Show (a tie with “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver”) and Show Host for James Corden. Corden’s “Carpool Karaoke: The Series” won the Short Form Series category, sending the Brit home with three awards total. The Relationship Show category also resulted in a tie between “Dating Around” and “Married at First Sight.”
Netflix, which led the networks in nominations, also won the most awards, topping nine categories. CBS, CBS Television/Syndicated, Lifetime, NBC, and PBS each took home two.
Created to give the thriving, ever-evolving genre critical attention and support, the Critics Choice Association- and NPACT-developed awards show was adapted from, and replaced, the NPACT Impact Awards held last year.
Bob Bain and Joey Berlin served as Executive Producers. Ed Martin serves as President of the TV Branch of the CCA. John Ford is General Manager of NPACT, where Michelle Van Kempen is Head of Policy & Development. Tiny Horse was on board as Social Media Producer. The Critics Choice Association is represented by Dan Black of Greenberg Traurig.
About Critics Choice Association
The TV branch of the Critics Choice Association and is made up of TV, Radio and Internet journalists who cover television on a regular basis. Along with the Film branch, the two groups will join to present the 25th Annual Critics’ Choice Awards, honoring the finest achievements in film and scripted television, on January 12, 2020 on The CW Television Network. For more information, visit: www.CriticsChoice.com.
About NPACT
NPACT serves as the voice for the non-fiction creative community, helping producers tackle the challenges they face in an age of media disruption, and offering a forum for producers to address critical business issues. NPACT’s 100+ member companies collectively produce the majority of all non-fiction content for US broadcast, cable television and digital platforms, and NPACT membership encompasses production companies of all sizes, as well as allied services companies. The organization maintains offices in New York, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. Visit www.NPACT.org for more information.
CONTACTS:
Andy Gelb / Elyse Weissman
SLATE PR (for BFCA/BTJA)
[email protected] / [email protected]
310-461-0111
Leslie Oren
Babygrande PR (for NPACT)
[email protected]
310-300-3195
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WINNERS OF THE INAUGURAL CRITICS’ CHOICE REAL TV AWARDS
Competition Series
Making It (NBC)
Project Runway (Bravo)
**RuPaul’s Drag Race (VH1)
Survivor: David vs. Goliath (CBS)
Top Chef (Bravo)
Competition Series: Talent/Variety
America’s Got Talent: The Champions (NBC)
So You Think You Can Dance (Fox)
**The Masked Singer (Fox)
The Voice (NBC)
World of Dance (NBC)
Unstructured Series
**Born This Way (A&E)
Deadliest Catch (Discovery)
Intervention (A&E)
Many Sides of Jane (A&E)
RuPaul’s Drag Race: Untucked! (VH1)
Structured Series
Lip Sync Battle (Paramount Network)
Magic for Humans (Netflix)
**Queer Eye (Netflix)
Shark Tank (ABC)
Tidying Up with Marie Kondo (Netflix)
Who Do You Think You Are? (TLC)
Business Show
Bar Rescue (Paramount Network)
Gordon Ramsay’s 24 Hours to Hell and Back (Fox)
Selling Sunset (Netflix)
**Shark Tank (ABC)
T-Pain’s School of Business (Fuse)
Sports Show
**American Ninja Warrior (NBC)
Losers (Netflix)
Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel (HBO)
Sunderland ’Til I Die (Netflix)
Warriors of Liberty City (Starz)
Crime/Justice Show
Betrayed (ID)
**Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes (Netflix)
In Pursuit with John Walsh (ID)
Making a Murderer: Part 2 (Netflix)
The Innocent Man (Netflix)
Ongoing Documentary Series
Chef’s Table (Netflix)
**POV (PBS)
The Circus: Inside the Wildest Political Show on Earth (Showtime)
United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell (CNN)
Vice (HBO)
Limited Documentary Series
Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes (Netflix)
Our Planet (Netflix)
Punk (Epix)
Shut Up and Dribble (Showtime)
**Surviving R. Kelly (Lifetime)
Short Form Series
9 Months with Courteney Cox (Facebook Watch)
Biography Presents: History, Herstory (HISTORY)
**Carpool Karaoke: The Series (Apple TV)
Comeback Kids (The Dodo)
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah: Between the Scenes (Comedy Central)
Live Show
BUILD (AOL)
La Voz (Telemundo)
So You Think You Can Dance (Fox)
**The Voice (NBC)
Yellowstone Live (National Geographic)
Interactive Show
Talking Dead (AMC)
**Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen (Bravo)
You vs. Wild (Netflix)
Talk Show
Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee (Netflix)
**My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman (Netflix)
Red Table Talk (Facebook Watch)
The Ellen DeGeneres Show (Warner Bros. Television/Syndicated)
The View (ABC)
Late-Night Talk Show (TIE)
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee (TBS)
**Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah (Comedy Central)
**The Late Late Show with James Corden (CBS)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (CBS)
Entertainment News Show
Access (NBCUniversal Television/Syndicated)
E! News (E!)
**Entertainment Tonight (CBS Television/Syndicated)
Extra (Warner Bros. Television/Syndicated)
Inside Edition (CBS Television/Syndicated)
Culinary Show
Chopped (Food Network)
Nailed It! (Netflix)
Salt Fat Acid Heat (Netflix)
**The Great British Baking Show (PBS)
Top Chef (Bravo)
Game Show
Cash Cab (Discovery)
Common Knowledge (Game Show Network)
Ellen’s Game of Games (NBC)
Hollywood Game Night (NBC)
**Jeopardy! (CBS Television/Syndicated)
Travel/Adventure Show
Expedition Unknown (Discovery)
Larry Charles’ Dangerous World of Comedy (Netflix)
Somebody Feed Phil (Netflix)
**The Great Food Truck Race (Food Network)
The Voyager with Josh Garcia (NBC)
Animal/Nature Show
Amanda to the Rescue (Animal Planet)
Dodo Heroes (Animal Planet)
Dynasties (BBC America)
Hostile Planet (National Geographic)
**Our Planet (Netflix)
Lifestyle Show: Fashion/Beauty
Project Runway (Bravo)
Project Runway All-Stars (Lifetime)
**Queer Eye (Netflix)
Say Yes to the Dress (TLC)
Relationship Show (TIE)
Born This Way (A&E)
**Dating Around (Netflix)
**Married at First Sight (Lifetime)
The Bachelor (ABC)
Wife Swap (Paramount Network)
Lifestyle Show: Home/Garden
Home Town (HGTV)
Love It or List It (HGTV)
**Property Brothers (HGTV)
Tidying Up with Marie Kondo (Netflix)
Trading Spaces (TLC)
Ensemble Cast in an Unscripted Series
Crikey! It’s The Irwins (Animal Planet)
**Queer Eye (Netflix)
RuPaul’s Drag Race (VH1)
The Real Housewives of New York City (Bravo)
Trading Spaces (TLC)
Show Host
RuPaul Charles – RuPaul’s Drag Race (VH1)
Stephen Colbert – The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (CBS)
**James Corden – The Late Late Show with James Corden (CBS)
Busy Philipps – Busy Tonight (E!)
Jerry Seinfeld – Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee (Netflix)
Female Star of The Year
Nicole Byer – Nailed It! (Netflix)
Marie Kondo – Tidying Up With Marie Kondo (Netflix)
**Sandra Lee – Dr. Pimple Popper (TLC)
Samin Nosrat – Salt Fat Acid Heat (Netflix)
Chrissy Teigen – Lip Sync Battle (Paramount Network)
Michelle Visage – RuPaul’s Drag Race (VH1)
Male Star of The Year
David Attenborough – Our Planet (Netflix)
RuPaul Charles – RuPaul’s Drag Race (VH1)
Hasan Minhaj – Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj (Netflix)
Phil Rosenthal – Somebody Feed Phil (Netflix)
**Jonathan Van Ness – Queer Eye (Netflix)
Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction by a Network or Streaming Platform
A&E
Bravo
FOX
Investigation Discovery (ID)
NBC
**Netflix
Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Production
A. Smith & Co. Productions
Big Fish Entertainment
Endemol Shine North America
**Kreativ Inc.
The Intellectual Property Corporation (IPC)
WINNERS BY PROGRAM FOR THE INAUGRUAL CRITICS’ CHOICE REAL TV AWARDS
American Ninja Warrior (NBC) – 1
Sports Show
Born This Way (A&E) – 1
Unstructured Series
Carpool Karaoke: The Series (Apple TV) – 1
Short Form Series
Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes (Netflix) – 1
Crime – Justice Show
Dating Around (Netflix) – 1
Relationship Show (TIE)
Dr. Pimple Popper (TLC) – 1
Female Star of The Year – Sandra Lee
Entertainment Tonight (CBS Television – Syndicated) – 1
Entertainment News Show
Jeopardy! (CBS Television – Syndicated) – 1
Game Show
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) – 1
Late-Night Talk Show (TIE)
Married at First Sight (Lifetime) – 1
Relationship Show (TIE)
My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman (Netflix) – 1
Talk Show
Our Planet (Netflix) – 1
Animal/Nature Show
POV (PBS) – 1
Ongoing Documentary Series
Property Brothers (HGTV) – 1
Lifestyle Show: Home/Garden
Queer Eye (Netflix) – 4
Ensemble Cast in an Unscripted Series
Lifestyle Show: Fashion/Beauty
Male Star of The Year – Jonathan Van Ness
Structured Series
RuPaul’s Drag Race (VH1) – 1
Competition Series
Shark Tank (ABC) – 1
Business Show
Surviving R. Kelly (Lifetime) – 1
Limited Documentary Series
The Great British Baking Show (PBS) – 1
Culinary Show
The Great Food Truck Race (Food Network) – 1
Travel/Adventure Show
The Late Late Show with James Corden (CBS) – 2
Late-Night Talk Show (TIE)
Show Host – James Corden
The Masked Singer (Fox) – 1
Competition Series: Talent/Variety
The Voice (NBC) – 1
Live Show
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen (Bravo) – 1
Interactive Show
WINNERS BY NETWORK FOR THE INAUGURAL CRITICS’ CHOICE REAL TV AWARDS
Netflix – 9
CBS – 2
CBS Television/Syndicated – 2
Lifetime – 2
NBC – 2
PBS – 2
A&E – 1
ABC – 1
Apple TV – 1
Bravo – 1
Food Network – 1
Fox – 1
HBO – 1
HGTV – 1
Kreativ Inc. – 1
TLC – 1
VH1 – 1
