Best in TV: Our Experts
— -- For our upcoming Best in TV special, ABC consulted a focus group of several dozen of the industry's leading actors, directors, producers and TV writers as well as other experts, including editors and staff from People magazine. They narrowed the fields in 15 categories -- such as Best TV Comedy and Best TV Mom -- to 10 nominees each. The members of the focus group include:
Tim Allen
Home Improvement, Last Man Standing
Stephen Bochco
Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law, Doogie Houser MD, NYPD Blue, Columbo
David Boreanaz
Bones, Angel, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Mark Burnett
Survivor, Celebrity Apprentice, Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?, Shark Tank, The Voice
Cindy Chupak
Sex and the City, Modern Family, Coach, Men in Trees, Everybody Loves Raymond
Vince Gilligan
Breaking Bad, The X-Files
Leonard Goldberg
Blue Bloods, Charlie's Angels, T.J. Hooker, Hart to Hart, The Rookies
Valerie Harper
Rhoda, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Valerie's Family
Jon Hein
creator of JumpTheShark.com and radio host
Judd Hirsch
Taxi, Dear John, Numb3rs
Karen Hornick
Clinical Associate Professor, NYU
Jason Katims
Parenthood, Friday Night Lights, Boston Public, Roswell
Michelle and Robert King
The Good Wife, In Justice
Norman Lear
All in the Family, The Jeffersons, One Day at a Time, Good Times, Fernwood Tonight
Steven Levitan
Modern Family, Back to You, Just Shoot Me, Frasier, The Larry Sanders Show, Wings
Warren Littlefield
Former President, NBC Entertainment
Chuck Lorre
Two and a Half Men, The Big Bang Theory, Mike and Molly, Dharma and Greg, Cybill, Roseanne
Eric McCormack
Will and Grace
Gavin Polone
Curb Your Enthusiasm, Jane By Design, My Boys, Gilmore Girls
Shonda Rhimes
Scandal, Grey's Anatomy, Private Practice
Bob Saget
Full House, How I Met Your Mother, America's Funniest Home Videos
David Schwimmer
Friends
Neal Shapiro
President, Thirteen/WNET, Former president, NBC News
Jimmy Smits
The West Wing, NYPD Blue, L.A. Law
Jamie Tarses
Former president, NBC Entertainment; Former president, ABC Entertainment
From People magazine:
Larry Hackett, Managing Editor
Peter Castro
Kate Coyne
Jen Garcia
Jason Lynch
Tom Gliatto