Satellite Award for Best Television Series – Drama

The Satellite Award for Best Television Drama Series is an annual award given by the International Press Academy as one of its Satellite Awards.

Winners and nominees

1990s

Year Winners and nominees Network
1996 The X-Files Fox
Chicago Hope CBS
ER NBC
Homicide: Life on the Street NBC
NYPD Blue ABC
1997 NYPD Blue ABC
Homicide: Life on the Street NBC
Law & Order NBC
The Pretender NBC
The X-Files Fox
1998 Oz HBO
ER NBC
NYPD Blue ABC
The Pretender NBC
The X-Files Fox
1999 The West Wing NBC
Law & Order NBC
Oz HBO
The Practice ABC
The Sopranos HBO

2000s

Year Winners and nominees Network
2000 The West Wing NBC
The Fugitive CBS
Once and Again ABC
The Practice ABC
The Sopranos HBO
2001 24 Fox
The District CBS
Six Feet Under HBO
The Sopranos HBO
The West Wing NBC
2002 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation CBS
24 Fox
Alias ABC
Buffy the Vampire Slayer UPN
Without a Trace CBS
2003 The Shield FX
Boomtown NBC
Carnivàle HBO
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit NBC
Nip/Tuck FX
Six Feet Under HBO
2004 Nip/Tuck FX
Boston Legal ABC
The L Word Showtime
Lost ABC
The Shield FX
2005 House Fox
Grey's Anatomy ABC
Lost ABC
Nip/Tuck FX
Rescue Me FX
Rome HBO
2006 House Fox
24 Fox
Dexter Showtime
Heroes NBC
Rescue Me FX
The Wire HBO
2007 Dexter Showtime
Brothers & Sisters ABC
Friday Night Lights NBC
Grey's Anatomy ABC
Mad Men AMC
The Riches FX
2008 Dexter Showtime
Brotherhood Showtime
In Treatment HBO
Life on Mars ABC
Mad Men AMC
Primeval ITV
2009 Breaking Bad AMC
Big Love HBO
Damages FX
The Good Wife CBS
In Treatment HBO
Mad Men AMC

2010s

Year Winners and nominees Network
2010 Breaking Bad AMC
Boardwalk Empire HBO
Dexter Showtime
Friday Night Lights NBC/DirecTV
The Good Wife CBS
Mad Men AMC
The Tudors Showtime
2011 Justified FX
Boardwalk Empire HBO
Breaking BadAMC
Friday Night Lights NBC/DirecTV
Sons of Anarchy FX
Treme HBO
2012 Homeland Showtime
Breaking Bad AMC
Downton Abbey PBS
Game of Thrones HBO
The Good Wife CBS
Justified FX
The Newsroom HBO
Nashville ABC
2013 Breaking Bad AMC
The Americans FX
Downton Abbey PBS
The Good Wife CBS
Homeland Showtime
House of Cards Netflix
Last Tango in Halifax BBC One, PBS
Mad Men AMC
Masters of Sex Showtime
Rectify Sundance Channel
2014 The Knick Cinemax
The Affair Showtime
The Fall BBC, Netflix
Fargo FX
Halt and Catch Fire AMC
Hannibal NBC
House of Cards Netflix
True Detective HBO