People's Choice Awards: “Walking Dead”, “Outlander” vying for top prize November 16, 2016 - 10:57 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The nominations for the 2017 People's Choice Awards were unveiled on Tuesday, November 15. Jordana Brewster, Jamie Chung, Ken Jeong, Boris Kodjoe, Piper Perabo, Molly Shannon and Wilmer Valderrama were on hand to announce the nominees at The Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills, AceShowbiz said. In TV field, such hit series as "The Walking Dead", "The Big Bang Theory", "Outlander" and "Grey's Anatomy" are dominating the list. Joined by Netflix's breakout series "Stranger Things", they're all vying for the top prize of Favorite TV Show. "The Walking Dead" lands two other nominations in Cable Sci-Fi/Fantasy Show category and in Sci-Fi/Fantasy Actor category for its lead actor Andrew Lincoln. "Outlander" is once again pitted against "Stranger Things" for Favorite Premium Sci-Fi/Fantasy Show title, also battling it out against "Game of Thrones", Marvel's "Luke Cage" and "Westworld". "Grey's Anatomy" bags a total of five nominations, including Favorite Network TV Drama, Favorite Dramatic TV Actress (for Ellen Pompeo) and Favorite Dramatic TV Actor (for Jesse Williams and Justin Chambers). Also vying for the Favorite Network TV Drama gong are "Chicago Fire", "Empire", "How to Get Away with Murder" and "Quantico". "Big Bang Theory", meanwhile, is nominated for Favorite Network TV Comedy alongside "Black-ish", "Jane the Virgin", "Modern Family" and "New Girl". The show's lead stars Jim Parsons and Kaley Cuoco are additionally up for Favorite Comedy TV Actor and Favorite Comedy TV Actress, respectively. Some other freshman series which join the race at the PCAs through Favorite New TV Drama category include "Bull", "The Exorcist", "Lethal Weapon", "MacGyver" and "This Is Us". The PCAs will also honor fans' favorites in movie, music and digital categories. Fans can vote for the winners via PeoplesChoice.com, Facebook and/or Facebook Messenger. The ceremony will air live on CBS from Los Angeles' Microsoft Theater on January 18, 2017. A host and performers will be announced at a later date.   Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running”   Partner news |  Latest news The Power of One Dram to benefit Road of Life charity  The companies inform that the May beneficiary of The Power of One Dram is the “Road of Life” charitable organization.Ucom General Director gives lecture at French University in Armenia The General Director of Ucom Ralph Yirikian delivered a lecture at the French University of Armenia.Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty.Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. |
