Wednesday, May 6, 2026

'Andor' earns a Hugo nomination for Revenge of the Sixth on Wayback Wednesday


Today's celebration of Revenge of the Sixth, the dark side of Star Wars Day, hearkens back to 'The Mehdi Hasan Show' examines the politics of ‘Andor’ for Revenge of the Sixth and 'Andor' vs. 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' and 'Severance' for Best Science Fiction Television Series at the Saturn Awards. Star Wars News on Instagram reported, "Andor Season 2 has been nominated for the 2026 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation – Long Form! It’s the only TV series nominated in a category that otherwise features only movies." Here are the rest of the nominees in this category.


Andor isn't likely to win, as it's not also nominated for the The Ray Bradbury Nebula Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation. Instead, I think the three Hugo nominees also nominated for the equivalent Nebula Award, KPop Demon Hunters, Sinners, and Superman, are most likely to win. Of the three, I think Sinners is the favorite.

Andor can take some consolation from Andor wins the BAFTA for Special, Visual & Graphic Effects | BAFTA TV Craft Awards.

Andor wins the BAFTA for Special, Visual & Graphic Effects at the BAFTA TV Craft Awards with Samsung OLED.

Presented by Chris Chung.
Congratulations!

Follow over the jump for the nominees for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form and Best Game or Interactive Work plus a retrospective of the top entertainment entries from the back catalog, excluding those about the Emmy Awards.


Again, I think the nominees also nominated for a Nebula Award, Murderbot, Pluribus, and Severance, have the inside track. My personal favorite is Pluribus, but three episodes of Murderbot earned enough votes to qualify for a nomination yet only two could be on the ballot, so the showrunners withdrew “Free Commerce” to abide by that restriction. The Hugo voters like Murderbot. Remember, electorates matter.


I'm recycling my reaction from 'The Last of Us' wins Best Adaptation at The Game Awards.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was the only game to win multiple awards at last week's ceremony, including Best Game Direction, Best Narrative, Best Art Direction, Best Score & Music (Lorien Testard), Best Performance (Jennifer English), Best Role Playing Game, Best Independent Game, and Best Debut Indie Game in addition to Game of the Year for a total of nine. This beats the last record holder, The Last of Us, Part II, which won seven awards in 2020. I am not surprised. I watched a lot of streamers play Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 on Twitch this year and I thought it was Game of the Year material from the first time I saw it. I fully expect it to be nominated and win Best Game or Interactive Work at the Nebula and Hugo Awards next year.
And here it is. I think it's also the favorite to win. That written, it's not my personal favorite; that's Dispatch, which became the game I most enjoyed watching people play on Twitch. I told several streamers that I expected it would be nominated at both the Hugo and Nebula awards and it earned nominations at both. I also told some of them it was the best superhero story I saw in any media last year. It's certainly the most original. I know of no awards where it could compete against Superman or Peacemaker, but I still think so.

Now for the most read posts about entertainment from the back catalog that aren't also about the Emmy Awards.


Web search and a persistent spammer contributed to Entertainment for the sixth year of Crazy Eddie's Motie News from April 23, 2017 ending the 2025-2026 blogging year with 631 default and ~1,190 raw page views between March 21, 2025 and March 20, 2026, ranking it seventh by the former and eleventh by the latter. It placed 13th during March 2025 with 103 default and 146 raw page views, tenth and ninth during October 2025 with 90 default and 106 raw page views, fourth during December 2025 with 229 default and 240 raw page views, and sixth and fourth during March 2026 with 170 default and 336 raw page views, its best month ever up to that time. It collected 17 comments during the blogging year, three during February and 14 during March, all hidden as spam, which qualified for second most, even if no one sees them but me.


Web search propelled Finally, a Ringworld movie! from May 23, 2013 to 706 raw page views, placing it 36th overall for the blogging year. It tied for 17th by default page views with 70 and 22nd by raw page views with 84 during April 2025, ranked 22nd with 110 raw page views during June 2025, and 15th with 127 raw page views during March 2026.


Web search snuck 'Wonder Woman' is already winning awards — for its trailer from June 11, 2017 into 84th place with 427 raw page views.

I plan on resuming my series on the News & Doc Emmy Awards tomorrow for Throwback Thursday. In the meantime, enjoy Wednesday Addams, the mascot for Wayback Wednesday.


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