For the period from 2005-2008, Adam Dunn finished with exactly 40 home runs each season. I find myself thinking about that as I notice that for the third consecutive year, we have chosen Chuck to be the sixth best television program. How random. Apparently, we will only reward the show a certain amount for gratuitous Yvonne Strahovski costuming choices and for being a highly entertaining albeit silly spy comedy. I for one fear that this discourages the show's producers from future reduction of Strahovski's clothing. It's like we're willing throwing away our best hope for world peace. Meanwhile, the seventh place show is last year's winner, 30 Rock, quite possibly the worst voting choice since the Academy Award for Best Picture went to Crash. Now that the arguments have died down and the show's champions are left to watch it on a weekly basis, they've started to be more realistic about its quality. A year too late.

Rounding out the top ten are a couple of standing favorites as well as a new entrant that had been overlooked for too long. Former category winner Battlestar Galactica finished in eighth place last year and it repeated this position again in the final half of its final season. We loved the show and felt it went on a high note, although the staff is divided as to the quality of the follow-up movie, The Plan. Dexter fell from fourth place in 2009 to ninth place this year, perhaps a surprising result given the high praise lavished on the most recent season of the show. Finally, tenth place is claimed by Psych, the adorable USA Network program that offers a type of spirit and whimsy that is sorely missing from network programming as a whole.

Finishing just outside our nominations this year are previously popular The Office, upcoming favorite Glee, recently defunct Dollhouse, silly-sweet Castle, apparently still on-the-air South Park, that vampire show on HBO (not the CW) True Blood, and surprisingly entertaining Scrubs successor Cougar Town. (David Mumpower/BOP)

Best Actor
Best Actress
Best Album
Best Breakthrough Performance
Best Cast
Best Director
Best DVD
Best Overlooked Film
Best Picture
Best Scene
Best Screenplay
Best Supporting Actor
Best Supporting Actress
Best TV Show
Best Use of Music
Best Videogame
Worst Performance
Worst Picture

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