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The People’s Choice Awards are likely to be the most democratic of awards shows, with the general public voting on their favorite contenders in 46 different fields spanning movies, music, and TV.

This year introduces two new TV categories, “Favorite Premium Cable TV Show” and “Favorite TV Fan Following.”

Below are the nominees in those and other TV categories.

You can vote at the People’s Choice Awards’ official website starting today, October 23. And be sure to vote again on November 15, when the second round of selection begins and the top contenders in each category are revealed.


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Favorite Network TV Drama
Grey's Anatomy
Gossip Girl
Grimm
Hart of Dixie
Once Upon a Time
Parenthood
Private Practice
Revenge
Scandal
Smash
The Good Wife
Touch

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Favorite Network TV Drama
2 Broke Girls
Don't Trust the B— in Apartment 23
Glee
Happy Endings
How I Met Your Mother
Mike & Molly
Modern Family
New Girl
Parks & Recreation
The Big Bang Theory
Two and a Half Men
Up All Night

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Favorite Cable TV Drama
Army Wives
Burn Notice
Covert Affairs
Drop Dead Diva
Leverage
Major Crimes
Perception
Pretty Little Liars
Royal Pains
Sons of Anarchy
The Walking Dead
White Collar

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Favorite Cable TV Comedy
Anger Management
Awkward
Bunheads
Franklin & Bash
Hot in Cleveland
House of Payne
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Melissa & Joey
Psych
The Exes
The League
The Soul Man

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Favorite Premium Cable Show
Boardwalk Empire
Boss
Dexter
Episodes
Game of Thrones
Girls
Homeland
Nurse Jackie
Spartacus
The Newsroom
True Blood
Veep

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Favorite Competition TV Show
American Idol
America's Got Talent
Dancing with the Stars
Hell's Kitchen
MasterChef
So You Think You Can Dance 
Survivor
The Amazing Race
The Bachelor/The Bachelorette
The Biggest Loser
The Voice
The X Factor

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Favorite TV Fan Following
Colbert Nation (The Colbert Report)
TVD Family (The Vampire Diaries) 
Dunderheads (The Office)
Gleeks (Glee)
Human Beings (Community)
Little Liars (Pretty Little Liars)
Oncers (Once Upon a Time)
SPNFamily (Supernatural)
Stoned Slackers (The Daily Show)
Team Coco (Conan)
Tru-bies (True Blood)
Whovians (Dr. Who)