TCA Award for Program of the Year

The TCA Award for Program of the Year is an award given by the Television Critics Association.^[1]

[edit] Winners and nominees

Year	Winner and nominees	Network
1985	The Jewel in the Crown	PBS
	The Burning Bed	NBC
	Cheers	NBC
	The Cosby Show	NBC
	Fatal Vision	NBC
	Miami Vice	NBC
	St. Elsewhere	NBC
	Summer Olympics coverage	ABC
1986	Death of a Salesman	CBS
	The Vanishing Family: Crisis in Black America	CBS
	Anne of Green Gables	PBS
	The Cosby Show	NBC
	An Early Frost	NBC
1987	Eyes on the Prize	PBS
1988	Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam	HBO
	Frank's Place	CBS
	L.A. Law	NBC
	St. Elsewhere	NBC
	The Wonder Years	ABC
1989	Lonesome Dove	CBS

Year	Winner and nominees	Network
1990	Twin Peaks	ABC
	Eyes on the Prize II	PBS
	L.A. Law	NBC
	The Simpsons	Fox
1991	The Civil War	PBS
	CNN's Persian Gulf War coverage	CNN
	Northern Exposure	CBS
1992	Northern Exposure	CBS
	Brooklyn Bridge	NBC
	I'll Fly Away	NBC
	The Simpsons	Fox
1993	Barbarians at the Gate	HBO
	Cheers	NBC
	Homicide: Life on the Street	NBC
	Seinfeld	NBC
	The Simpsons	Fox
1994	Late Show with David Letterman	CBS
	The Great Depression	PBS
	Gypsy	CBS
	NYPD Blue	ABC
	Prime Suspect 3	PBS
	Winter Olympics coverage	CBS
1995	ER	NBC
	Baseball	PBS
	Homicide: Life on the Street	NBC
	My So-Called Life	ABC
	The X-Files	Fox
1996	Homicide: Life on the Street	NBC
	ER	NBC
	Gulliver's Travels	NBC
	Murder One	ABC
	NYPD Blue	ABC
1997	EZ Streets	CBS
	Homicide: Life on the Street	NBC
	The Odyssey	NBC
	Seinfeld	NBC
	The X-Files	Fox
1998	From the Earth to the Moon	HBO
	Ally McBeal	Fox
	Homicide: Life on the Street	NBC
	Nothing Sacred	ABC
	South Park	Comedy Central
1999	The Sopranos	HBO
	Everybody Loves Raymond	CBS
	The Farmer's Wife	PBS
	NYPD Blue	ABC
	The Practice	ABC
	Sports Night	ABC

Year	Winner and nominees	Network
2000	The West Wing	NBC
	Buffy the Vampire Slayer	The WB
	Sex and the City	HBO
	The Sopranos	HBO
	Who Wants to Be a Millionaire	ABC
2001	The Sopranos	HBO
	Buffy the Vampire Slayer	The WB
	Gilmore Girls	The WB
	Survivor	CBS
	The West Wing	NBC
2002	24	Fox
	Band of Brothers	HBO
	The Osbournes	MTV
	The Shield	FX
	Six Feet Under	HBO
2003	American Idol	Fox
	24	Fox
	Boomtown	NBC
	The Daily Show with Jon Stewart	Comedy Central
	The Wire	HBO
2004	Angels in America	HBO
	The Apprentice	NBC
	Arrested Development	Fox
	The Daily Show with Jon Stewart	Comedy Central
	The Sopranos	HBO
2005	Desperate Housewives	ABC
	Arrested Development	Fox
	The Daily Show with Jon Stewart	Comedy Central
	Deadwood	HBO
	Lost	ABC
2006	Grey's Anatomy	ABC
	24	Fox
	Lost	ABC
	The Office	NBC
	The Sopranos	HBO
2007	Heroes	NBC
	American Idol	Fox
	Friday Night Lights	NBC
	Planet Earth	Discovery
	When the Levees Broke	HBO
	The Wire	HBO
2008	Mad Men	AMC
	John Adams	HBO
	Lost	ABC
	The War	PBS
	The Wire	HBO
2009	Battlestar Galactica	Syfy
	Lost	ABC
	Mad Men	AMC
	Saturday Night Live	NBC
	The Shield	FX