I'm surprised no one's mentioned this (it's probably in SF/F but we need our own thread) - Doctor Who and Torchwood: Children of Earth have scored several Saturn Award nominations:
Best Television Presentation: End of Time and Children of Earth were both nominated for this (it's great to see the new version of The Prisoner and V also nominated, but what's The Tudors doing here?).
David Tennant scored a nomination for Best Actor in Television
Bernard Cribbins is nominated for Best Guest Starring Role in Television (his competition includes John Lithgow on Dexter and Leonard Nimoy on Fringe).
Best DVD Television Release nominations went to both Planet of the Dead and Children of Earth. That's quite a cool nomination for DW considering all the others in the category are full-season releases.
Details:
http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com/2010/02/saturn-award-nominations-2010.html
So who do I think will win? Much as I loved The End of Time, and the new version of The Prisoner, I'm giving Best TV Presentation to Children of Earth because it was such an amazing story that pulled no punches. Simply as a story, it was the best of the three. (V is a cool candidate but it really hasn't been running long enough to deserve it yet, while The Tudors has no business being nominated for an SF/F/Horror award unless Henry VIII is a werewolf or something. I'm sure True Blood fans are steamed.)
Best TV actor? Gotta be Tennant. The final minutes of Waters of Mars and his conversation with Wilf regarding regeneration in End of Time Part 1 better score the guy an Emmy nomination, too.
Best Guest-Starring Role? Much as I'd love to see Cribbins win, he's up against Nimoy and Lithgow. It'd be a miracle if he got it (remember the Saturn awards are an American prize, so it's Nimoy who'll get the sentimental vote on this one, rather than Cribbins).
Best DVD release? Children of Earth might get it, but my understanding is the category takes into account things like extra features, etc. and CoE was rather skint in that area. I understand why Planet of the Dead was included but not the Specials box or End of Time, because they weren't released in North America until only a couple of weeks ago, likely well after any deadline for nominations. But I might have given the DW nomination to The Next Doctor because of it including the concert, which is a more substantial extra than the Confidential on POTD (and I don't know if the category takes Blu-Ray release into account though I imagine it will soon enough), plus reading the reviews it would appear The Next Doctor was the better-received of the two specials by critics. If extras are taken into account, the other shows nominated might take this.
Alex
Best Television Presentation: End of Time and Children of Earth were both nominated for this (it's great to see the new version of The Prisoner and V also nominated, but what's The Tudors doing here?).
David Tennant scored a nomination for Best Actor in Television
Bernard Cribbins is nominated for Best Guest Starring Role in Television (his competition includes John Lithgow on Dexter and Leonard Nimoy on Fringe).
Best DVD Television Release nominations went to both Planet of the Dead and Children of Earth. That's quite a cool nomination for DW considering all the others in the category are full-season releases.
Details:
http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com/2010/02/saturn-award-nominations-2010.html
So who do I think will win? Much as I loved The End of Time, and the new version of The Prisoner, I'm giving Best TV Presentation to Children of Earth because it was such an amazing story that pulled no punches. Simply as a story, it was the best of the three. (V is a cool candidate but it really hasn't been running long enough to deserve it yet, while The Tudors has no business being nominated for an SF/F/Horror award unless Henry VIII is a werewolf or something. I'm sure True Blood fans are steamed.)
Best TV actor? Gotta be Tennant. The final minutes of Waters of Mars and his conversation with Wilf regarding regeneration in End of Time Part 1 better score the guy an Emmy nomination, too.
Best Guest-Starring Role? Much as I'd love to see Cribbins win, he's up against Nimoy and Lithgow. It'd be a miracle if he got it (remember the Saturn awards are an American prize, so it's Nimoy who'll get the sentimental vote on this one, rather than Cribbins).
Best DVD release? Children of Earth might get it, but my understanding is the category takes into account things like extra features, etc. and CoE was rather skint in that area. I understand why Planet of the Dead was included but not the Specials box or End of Time, because they weren't released in North America until only a couple of weeks ago, likely well after any deadline for nominations. But I might have given the DW nomination to The Next Doctor because of it including the concert, which is a more substantial extra than the Confidential on POTD (and I don't know if the category takes Blu-Ray release into account though I imagine it will soon enough), plus reading the reviews it would appear The Next Doctor was the better-received of the two specials by critics. If extras are taken into account, the other shows nominated might take this.
Alex