The Television Critics Association (TCA) has announced its nominations for the 42nd Annual TCA Awards, with The Walt Disney Company earning a total of 23 nominations across its various platforms this time out. This includes programming on FX, Disney+, ABC, and Disney Channel, along with nominations for two 20th Animation/Disney-owned animated series that air on Fox.

Those last couple of shows are The Simpsons and Bob's Burgers, both of which are included amongst the nominees in one of two brand new categories for the TCA this year, Outstanding Achievement in Animation (the other is Outstanding International Series). Also including Hulu's King of the Hill and Disney+'s Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord, the Outstanding Achievement in Animation addition happily allows for more recognition of less kid-specific aimed animated shows, which often fell between the cracks in previous years.

Other notable inclusions are the terrific Disney+ documentary Disneyland Handcrafted in Outstanding Achievement in News and Information category, FX and Hulu's Alien: Earth amongst Outstanding New Program, and another new FX/Hulu series, The Lowdown, nominated both for Outstanding New Program and also for Outstanding Achievement in Comedy. Starring Ethan Hawke, The Lowdown is a wonderful but somewhat overlooked series from and I'm both very happy to see its nominations -- as a TCA

member, it was one of the shows I put on my personal nomination list -- and also highly recommend you check it out. The returning Paradise is also among series to receive multiple nominations this year.

Also exciting to see pick up a nomination is the Disney+ The Muppet Show special with Sabrina Carpenter in the Outstanding Achievement in Variety, Talk or Sketch category. Maybe this will help inspire Disney+ to order it as a full series?

Program of the Year

The Comeback — HBO Max

Hacks — HBO Max 

Heated Rivalry — Crave/HBO Max 

Industry — HBO Max 

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — CBS 

The Pitt — HBO Max (2025 Winner)

Pluribus — Apple TV 

Shrinking — Apple TV

Widow’s Bay — Apple TV

Outstanding Achievement in Comedy  

Abbott Elementary — ABC (2022 Winner) 

The Comeback — HBO Max

The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins — NBC 

Hacks — HBO Max (2024 Winner) 

The Lowdown — FX  

Margo’s Got Money Troubles — Apple TV

Shrinking — Apple TV 

Widow’s Bay — Apple TV 

Outstanding Achievement in Drama

The Gilded Age — HBO Max 

Heated Rivalry — Crave/HBO Max 

Industry — HBO Max 

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms — HBO Max 

Paradise — Hulu 

The Pitt — HBO Max (2025 Winner)

Pluribus — Apple TV 

Task — HBO Max 

Outstanding Achievement in Movies, Miniseries or Specials

All Her Fault — Peacock 

The Beast in Me — Netflix 

Beef — Netflix (2023 Winner)

Death by Lightning— Netflix 

DTF St. Louis — HBO Max  

Half Man — HBO Max

Lord of the Flies— Netflix 

Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette — FX 

Outstanding New Program

Alien: Earth — FX  

The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins — NBC 

Heated Rivalry — Crave/HBO Max 

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms — HBO Max 

The Lowdown — FX  

Margo’s Got Money Troubles — Apple TV

Pluribus — Apple TV 

Widow’s Bay — Apple TV

Individual Achievement in Drama

Marisa Abela, Industry — HBO Max 

Sterling K. Brown, Paradise — Hulu 

David Harbour, DTF St. Louis — HBO Max 

Katherine LaNasa, The Pitt — HBO Max 

Ken Leung, Industry — HBO Max 

Myha’la, Industry — HBO Max 

Rhea Seehorn, Pluribus — Apple TV

Connor Storrie, Heated Rivalry — Crave/HBO Max

Hudson Williams, Heated Rivalry — Crave/HBO Max

Noah Wyle, The Pitt — HBO Max (2025 Winner)

Individual Achievement in Comedy

Hannah Einbinder, Hacks — HBO Max 

Elle Fanning, Margo’s Got Money Troubles — Apple TV  

Harrison Ford, Shrinking — Apple TV 

Lisa Kudrow, The Comeback — HBO Max

Kate O’Flynn, Widow’s Bay — Apple TV  

Matthew Rhys, Widow’s Bay — Apple TV 

Jean Smart, Hacks — HBO Max (2021, 2024 Winner) 

Tim Robinson, The Chair Company — HBO Max

Outstanding Achievement in News and Information

60 Minutes — CBS (2012 Winner) 

The American Revolution — PBS 

CBS This Morning — CBS 

Disneyland Handcrafted — Disney+  

Frontline — PBS (Eight-time Winner in Category) 

Have I Got News For You — CNN 

Marty, Life Is Short — Netflix  

Mr. Scorsese — Apple TV 

Outstanding Achievement in Variety, Talk or Sketch

The Daily Show — Comedy Central  

Jimmy Kimmel Live! — ABC 

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver — HBO Max (2018, 2019, 2021 Winner) 

Late Night with Seth Meyers — NBC 

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — CBS 

The Muppet Show: Sabrina Carpenter — Disney+

Saturday Night Live — NBC 

Outstanding Achievement in Reality

Couples Therapy — Showtime/Paramount+ (2021 Winner) 

Finding Mr. Christmas — Hallmark

The Great British Baking Show — Netflix 

Love on the Spectrum — Netflix 

RuPaul’s Drag Race — MTV (2014 Winner) 

Survivor — CBS

Top Chef — Bravo 

The Traitors — Peacock (2024, 2025 Winner) 

Outstanding Achievement in Family Programming

Disney Twisted-Wonderland: The Animation — Disney+ 

Electric Bloom — Disney+/Disney Channel  

Percy Jackson and the Olympians — Disney+/Hulu 

Phineas and Ferb — Disney+/Disney Channel 

Stranger Things: Tales from ‘85 — Netflix 

Vampirina: Teenage Vampire — Disney+/Disney Channel 

Wizards Beyond Waverly Place — Disney+/Disney Channel

WondLa — Apple TV 

Outstanding Achievement in Children's Programming

Carl the Collector — PBS KIDS

The First Snow of Fraggle Rock — Apple TV 

Mickey Mouse Clubhouse+ — Disney+/Disney Jr.  

Phoebe & Jay — PBS KIDS

Snoopy Presents: A Summer Musical — Apple TV

Sofia the First: Royal Magic — Disney+/Disney Jr. 

Weather Hunters — PBS KIDS

The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball — Hulu 

Outstanding Achievement in Animation – New Category

Bob’s Burgers — Fox

Haunted Hotel — Netflix  

Invincible — Prime Video

King of the Hill — Hulu 

Long Story Short — Netflix 

The Simpsons — Fox 

South Park — Comedy Central

Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord — Disney+

Women Wearing Shoulder Pads — Adult Swim

Outstanding International Series – New Category

The Boyfriend — Netflix  

Crime Scene Zero — Netflix  

Drops of God — Apple TV

The House of the Spirits — Prime Video 

Last Samurai Standing — Netflix  

Squid Game — Netflix