Nominees for the 2nd Annual RealityWanted TV Awards were announced Wednesday night in Los Angeles at The Parlor Hollywood with several reality television stars, television executives, and the RealityWanted TV Awards’ executives on hand.
The top industry accolades announced were first submitted for nomination voting by industry professionals such as their network or production company and then were voted on for several weeks in a closed “industry professional only” format. Industry voting was completed February 16, 2014 and the top six in each category made the official nomination ballot. The voting process will now move to the fans who will be allowed to vote online daily until the deadline. Several shows received multiple votes; the leaders were Deadliest Catch with seven nominations, MasterChef and The Voice tied with six and Shark Tank, Vanderpump Rules and RuPaul’s Drag Race all tied with 5 nominations each.
Of all of the Housewives franchises, the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills dominated the zip codes with four nominations. While the Jersey Shore spinoff Snooki & JWOWW received two nominations, tying with breakout police reality hit Boston’s Finest. The show’s Executive Producer is New Kids on the Block front man and star of CBS’ crime drama Blue Bloods, Donnie Wahlberg
Final voting will conclude on April 5th, 2014. Results will be tallied and sealed until the envelopes are opened by the presenters at the 2nd Annual RealityWanted TV Awards ceremony on April 17, 2014.
The RealityWanted TV Awards Gala is scheduled as a black tie affair at Supperclub Los Angeles. Red Carpet Arrivals are set for 7:00PM PST.
Here are some of the nominees:
Overall Show
Deadliest Catch
Duck Dynasty
Hell’s Kitchen
MasterChef
Real Housewives of Beverly Hills
Shark Tank
Reality King
Adam Levine
Blake Shelton
Gordon Ramsay
Mark Cuban
Tim Gunn
Reality Queen
Abby Lee Miller
Barbara Corcoran
Betty White
Big Ang
Lisa Vanderpump
Nene Leakes
Check out the rest of the list of nominees here.
Black Tie?