TCA Awards: Where Yo Gabba Gabba! Meets Tom Hanks

The joke about the Television Critics Association’s annual award ceremony is that if you’re a star and you receive an invitation, you’ve won.

You may not know what you’ve won, mind you, but what does it matter? It’s an open bar function with dim sum and pizza, followed by tiny desserts when the show’s over. Most attractive to the stars and producers who show up? No red carpet. The fun part for the critics is casually mingling with the people who make shows we like so much that we voted to have them here. In a sense, the TCA Awards are the small way we try to make up for the grave omissions made by Emmy and the Golden Globes each year.

But last night’s…

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