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For the past three weeks, the members and volunteers of Coffee Party USA have been voting on the nominees for the 2019-2020 Golden Coffee Cups for television. Voting closed Sunday so it’s time to announce the winners in seven categories showcasing the best in politics and government on the small screen during the 2019-2020 television season.

Watchmen earned two awards, Best Miniseries or Movie for Television about Politics and Government and split Best Comedy, Drama, Miniseries, or Movie for Television about Fantastic and Futuristic Politics and Government with The Mandalorian. The Handmaid’s Tale won Best Drama Series about Politics and Government. Schitt’s Creek defeated last year’s winner Saturday Night Live for Best Comedy Series about Politics and Government. Last Week Tonight with John Oliver returned as Best Talk Show. Frontline won the initial award for Best Documentary, Nonfiction, or Reality Series about Politics and Government. Kiefer Sutherland as Tom Kirkman on Designated Survivor and Alec Baldwin as Donald Trump on Saturday Night Live will share the office of Best Television President for 2019-2020 Season, replacing Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Selina Meyer on Veep, whose term expired. Sorry, this category does not go to the House of Representatives to break the tie. Congratulations to the winners and thanks to all of our members and volunteers who voted for the best shows and performances about politics and government during the 2019-2020 television season!

With the 2019-2020 television season out of the way, the members and volunteers of Coffee Party USA will move on to the best political movies of the 2020 awards season. Watch for the posting of the shortlists for the show categories on our blog along with an invitation to stream them while staying safe at home.

Coffee Party USA is a project of the Bridge Alliance Education Fund. Follow the Coffee Party at our website and on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

( Follow over the jump for the nominees in each category. )

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The 2019-2020 Golden Coffee Cup TV Nominees

This past February, Coffee Party USA invited its supporters to stream the political TV series on the Golden Coffee Cups shortlist while staying safe at home. For the past four months, the members and volunteers of Coffee Party USA did just that. For the past three weeks, they voted on the nominees. Today, Coffee Party USA announces the nominees for the 2019-2020 Golden Coffee Cups for television.

After the preliminary round of voting, Saturday Night Live leads with four nominations, one for Best Political Comedy and three for Best TV President. Madam Secretary, Outlander, The Handmaid’s Tale, and Watchmen all earned two nominations each. The remaining 29 shows have one nomination apiece.

( Here are the nominees in seven categories showcasing the best in politics and government on the small screen during the 2019-2020 television season. )

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Hey, all of you binge-watching your guilty pleasure shows while staying safe at home, relaxing after working from home, returning for work after wearing a mask all day, or just stressed out from the real world! I have another suggestion to make your time in front of the big-screen TV in the living room, the slightly smaller screen in the bedroom, or even holding your tablet or smartphone work to help your appreciation of politics and government on television and then apply your understanding to help Coffee Party USA in one of our projects.

With the 2018-2019 television season out of the way, the members and volunteers of Coffee Party USA will move on to the 2019-2020 television season. Watch for the posting of the shortlists for the show categories along with an invitation to stream them while staying safe at home. If you want to become one of the voters for this or future Golden Coffee Cups, such as for the best political movies of 2020, become a member. Voting will happen on a members-only Facebook group.

Before I present the shortlists, I’m sharing a two-part activity Coffee Party USA and I are proposing our readers and supporters do.

The first part of the activity is to stream as many of the shows on the shortlists between now and March 13, 2021 to see which have the best portrayals of politics and government on television. The second is to become a member of Coffee Party USA by March 13, 2021, which you can do for as little as $30.00 per year. That’s because the members will also vote on the nominees and winners this year. That means you!

That’s your two-part activity. Now, have fun watching television while supporting the work of Coffee Party USA, whose core values include continuous learning on behalf of an informed citizenry, joining Coffee Party USA, and voting on the nominees!

Without any further ado, I present the shortlists for the Golden Coffee Cups for Television, beginning with the shortlist for Best Drama Series about Politics and Government.*

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9-1-1
Big Little Lies
Billions
Doctor Who
Euphoria
Evil
Better Call Saul
Black Mirror
Carnival Row
David Makes Man
Designated Survivor
Godfather of Harlem
Homeland
How to Get Away with Murder
Hunters
Killing Eve
Madam Secretary
Mindhunter
Mr. Robot
Outlander
Ozark
Penny Dreadful: City of Angels
Pose
Snowpiercer
Star Trek: Picard
Star Trek: Short Treks
Star Wars Resistance
Stranger Things
Stumptown
Succession
S.W.A.T.
The Blacklist
The Boys
The Crown
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
The Good Fight
The Handmaid’s Tale
The Mandalorian
The Man in the High Castle
The Morning Show
The Outsider
The Rookie
Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan
Vikings
Westworld

Succession won last year and Mindhunter the year before. In addition, the first winner of Best Miniseries or Movie for Television about Politics and Government, Black Mirror, has been moved here based on the reclassification of the series by the Television Academy. The shortlist sets up a situation where they could go up against each other for the trophy. Of course, they have to be nominated first. Will you be one of the people to join so you nominate them and the rest of the field?

( Follow over the jump to read the shortlists for television shows in the other four categories. )

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At the end of May, Coffee Party USA invited its supporters to stream the political TV series on the Golden Coffee Cups shortlist while staying safe at home and asked them to become members so they could vote on the shortlist to determine the nominees. For the past three weeks, the members and volunteers of Coffee Party USA did that just as they did earlier this year for the Golden Coffee Cup movie nominees.

After the preliminary round of voting, Veep leads nominees with three nominations, followed by House of Cards, Madame Secretary, and The Handmaid’s Tale with two each. All of the other 32 nominees have one nomination each.

Here are the nominees in six categories showcasing the best in politics and government on the small screen during the 2018-2019 television season.

( Nominees behind the cut. )

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First, the video I should have included in today's post at Crazy Eddie's Motie News.

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Beyond The Trailer reaction to nominations, snubs, predictions! Watchmen! The Mandalorian! HBO!

Now the linkspam:

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Last week, I posted a linkspam of entries about my Saturn Award movie nominee posts. Today, it's the television shows' turn.

Time to vote!

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I haven't posted linkspams listing the awards shows posts on Crazy Eddie's Motie News here since Posts about awards 2018 show nominees and winners so far and WGA Awards tonight. It's time to close out the month with the rest of them.

'Get Out,' 'The Handmaid's Tale,' and 'BoJack Horseman' win WGA Awards for Fat Tuesday/Paczki Day

'War for the Planet of the Apes,' 'Coco,' and 'Game of Thrones' biggest winners at Visual Effects Society Awards

'The Shape of Water,' 'Blade Runner 2049,' and 'Coco' among speculative fiction winners at the BAFTA Awards

'Blade Runner 2049,' 'Coco,' 'Game of Thrones,' and 'War for the Planet of the Apes' among Golden Reel Awards winners

'The Shape of Water,' 'Wonder Woman,' 'Game of Thrones,' and 'The Handmaid's Tale' all winners at the Costume Designers Guild Awards

Speculative fiction nominees galore at the Makeup and Hair Stylists Guild Awards

My Saturn Award television submissions for 2017-2018

'Guardians of the Galaxy,' 'Game of Thrones,' and 'American Horror Story' all winners at Makeup and Hair Stylists Guild Awards

That's it for this month. I'll be back with my saved comments and the top posts of this month to begin March.

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The winners of the WGA Awards will be announced tonight, so here are the links and descriptions of my posts at Crazy Eddie's Motie News about the nominees.

'Game of Thrones,' 'The Handmaid's Tale,' and 'Stranger Things' nominated for Drama Series at the 2018 WGA Awards
In addition to "Game of Thrones," "The Handmaid's Tale," and "Stranger Things" being nominated for Drama Series, "The Handmaid's Tale" earned a nomination for New Series. "American Horror Story: Cult" is the sole speculative fiction in Long Form Original. Short Form New Media Adapted has episodes of speculative fiction series as three of its four nominees, two episodes of "Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Slingshot" and one of "The Walking Dead: Red Machete"..."The Leftovers" earned a nomination for Episodic Drama...Competing against it is "The OA."

Three shows, "Bob's Burgers," "BoJack Horseman," and "The Simpsons," occupy all five slots in Animated Series, as "BoJack Horseman" and "The Simpsons" have two episodes each nominated. Two shows with fantastic elements, "Just Add Magic" and "The Magical Wand Chase: A Sesame Street Special," earned nominations for Childrens Episodic and Specials.

Celebrate National Screenwriters Day with science and speculative fiction among WGA film nominees
"The Shape of Water" and "Get Out" have been nominated in every major awards show so far, the 2018 Critics' Choice Movie Awards, AFI Awards, Golden Globe Awards, and SAG Awards. I should not be surprised that their excellence began with a great original script...."Logan" is the sole speculative fiction nominee among the adapted screenplay nominees.

I'm rooting for all the speculative fiction nominees, although I suspect "The Handmaid's Tale" will beat both "Stranger Things" and "Game of Thrones."

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I'm still not ready for the next UCLA Band entry, so I'm posting another linkspam from Crazy Eddie's Motie News. This time, it's a list of links to all the awards show winners entries so far this year.

Oprah, 'Big Little Lies,' and 'The Handmaid's Tale' win and say #TimesUp at the Golden Globes

'The Shape of Water' and 'Coco' -- fantasy and diversity both winners at the Golden Globes

'The Shape of Water' leads speculative fiction winners at the Critics' Choice Movie Awards

'The Handmaid's Tale' leads speculative fiction winners at the Critics' Choice Television Awards

Celebrating diversity in awards shows nominees and winners for MLK Day 2018
Videos all taken down as account terminated. :-(

'The Last Jedi' gets its first nomination plus speculative fiction in nearly every category of the Art Directors Guild Awards
The winners will show up farther down this list.

'The Shape of Water' and speculative fiction nominees galore at the BAFTA Awards

'The Last Jedi' picks up a nomination from the Costume Designers Guild plus other speculative fiction nominees
This is where the Katy Perry video came from.

Speculative fiction winners at the PGA Awards include 'The Shape of Water,' 'Coco,' 'The Handmaid's Tale,' and 'Black Mirror'

'Wonder Woman' and 'Game of Thrones' win for Outstanding Stunt Ensemble at the 2018 SAG Awards

'Transformers: The Last Knight' leads speculative fiction nominees at the 2018 Razzies
Not all awards are good.

'The Shape of Water' and 'Blade Runner 2049' lead speculative fiction nominees at the Oscars

Speculative fiction sweeps movie categories at the Art Directors Guild Awards
"The Last Jedi" didn't win, but "Star Wars: Battlefront II" did. Kathleen Kennedy, the current head of LucasFilm, earned a lifetime award, too, so "Star Wars" got two out of three.

'How Far I'll Go' from 'Moana,' 'The Princess Diarist' and 'The Voyager Golden Record' win at the Grammy Awards

'The Shape of Water,' 'Get Out,' and 'The Handmaid's Tale' all winners at the DGA Awards

'Coco,' 'Rick and Morty,' and 'Samurai Jack' among Annie winners

Yes, I've been busy during awards season.

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"I have lots of science fiction in visual media to write about." That's how I concluded my series of Examiner.com articles yesterday. Here are the links and teasers to my entries at Crazy Eddie's Motie News on the nominated speculative fiction movies and TV shows for this month alone.

Science, science fiction, and fantasy among the 2017 Grammy nominees
Speculative fiction and science are well represented among this year's Grammy nominees. "Arrival," "Game of Thrones," "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2," "Moana," and "The Princess Diarist" represent science fiction and fantasy, while "Astrophysics for People in a Hurry," "Hidden Figures," and "The Voyager Golden Record: 40th Anniversary Edition" represent space and science fact.

'The Shape of Water' leads speculative fiction at the 2018 Critics' Choice Movie Awards
"Nominations for the 2018 Broadcast Film Critics Association’s Critics’ Choice Awards have been announced. Guillermo del Toro’s sci-fi romance The Shape of Water stole the show with a dominating 14 nominations" -- Wochit Entertainment.

Science fiction, activism, science, and economics for Nobel Prize Day 2017
While his most famous novel is probably the Booker Prize winner "The Remains of the Day," which was made into an Oscar-nominated and BAFTA-winning movie, Ishiguro deserves being mentioned here because of his dystopian science fiction novel "Never Let Me Go" and fantasy novel "The Buried Giant."...Yes, a speculative fiction writer won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Speculative fiction and science at the 2018 Critics' Choice Television Awards
Four speculative fiction series, "American Gods," "Game of Thrones," "The Handmaid's Tale," and "Stranger Things 2," earned three nominations each, including Best Drama Series. Two other speculative fiction shows, "Outlander" and "Orphan Black," both have female leads nominated for Best Actress in a Drama Series. Two shows that are speculative-fiction-adjacent thrillers, "Bates Motel" (horror) and "Mr. Robot" (science fiction), also have one nomination each, "Bates Motel" for Actor in a Drama Series and "Mr. Robot" for Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.

A good year for speculative fiction in the AFI top movies and TV shows of 2017
Three of the top ten movies of the year are speculative fiction movies, "Get Out," "The Shape of Water," and "Wonder Woman." Speculative fiction did even better on television than at the movies with four honorees in speculative fiction genres, "Game of Thrones" and "The Good Place" in fantasy, "The Handmaid's Tale" in science fiction, and "Stranger Things 2" in horror.

'The Shape of Water' and 'Get Out' lead speculative fiction at the movies at the 2018 Golden Globe Awards
"The Shape of Water" earned seven nominations, "Get Out" two, and "Downsizing" one at the Golden Globes.

'The Handmaid's Tale' leads speculative fiction on television at the 2018 Golden Globe Awards
The leading drama series is "The Handmaid's Tale" with three nominations, Best Television Series — Drama, Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series — Drama, and Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series, or Motion Picture Made for Television. This ties it with the other leading drama series, "This Is Us." Next is "Stranger Things 2" with two nominations, Best Television Series — Drama and Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series, or Motion Picture Made for Television. The last speculative fiction show nominated for Best Television Series — Drama is "Game of Thrones."

'Game of Thrones,' 'The Handmaid's Tale,' and 'Stranger Things' nominated for Drama Series at the 2018 WGA Awards
In addition to "Game of Thrones," "The Handmaid's Tale," and "Stranger Things" being nominated for Drama Series, "The Handmaid's Tale" earned a nomination for New Series.

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