The Craigy's Twenty Sixteen!

Live from Craig's Dining Room comes the twenty sixteen Craigy Awards! Can you believe it has been a year already?! I know I can't. We have truly been blessed with some of the television we have recieved over the last twelve months. I like to champion those shows that may not get recognitions they derserve [cough - The Emmys - cough] and also some of my own damn favourites that I would like to give awards to to show my love.  So let's get on to our first category and here to present it is ... the voice in your head whilst you read it.

The Nominees

Love

Orange is the New Black

Stranger Things

Doctor Who

Pretty Little Liars

Scandal

Empire

iZombie

Girls

The Winner

Orange is the New Black

The Nominees

Veep

The Big Bang Theory

Bob's Burgers

New Girl

The Mindy Project

Baby Daddy

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

Broad City
Crazy Ex Girlfriend

The Winner

Baby Daddy

The Nominees

Jean-Luc Bilodeau - Baby Daddy

Finn Wolfhard - Stranger Things

Max Greenfield - New Girls

Peter Capaldi - Doctor Who

Jake Johnson - New Girl

Paul Rust  Love

Tituss Burgess - Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

Simon Helberg - The Big Bang Theory

The Winner

Max Greenfield

New Girl

The Nominees

Lena Dunham - Girls

Winona Ryder - Stranger Things

Abbi Jacobson - Broad City

Gillian Jacobs - Love

Ellie Kemper - Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Rachel Bloom - Crazy Ex Girlfriend

Lori Petty - Orange is the New Black

Ilana Glazer - Broad City

Jenna Coleman - Doctor Who

The Winner

Lori Petty

Orange is the New Black

The Nominees

Orange is the New Black

Scandal

Broad City

Doctor Who

Stranger Things

Baby Daddy

The Big Bang Theory

New Girl

The Winner

Stranger Things

The Nominees

Ellen's Design Challenge

The Great British Bake Off

Masterchef US

Ink Master

The Next Food Network Star

The Amazing Race

RuPaul's Drag Race

Big Brother Canada

The Winner

RuPaul's Drag Race

The Nominees

The Bad Girls Club

Catfish

MTV: Suspects

The Real Housewives of New York

Mob Wives

Keeping Up With The Kardashians

Dance Moms

The Real Housewives of Atlanta

The Winner

The Real Housewives of New York

The Nominees

Emma Willis

Arisa Cox

Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins

Caroline Flack

RuPaul

Ant and Dec

Julie Chen

Ryan Seacrest

The Winner

Emma Willis

The Nominees

Bob the Drag Queen - RuPaul's Drag Race

Sonja Morgan - Real Housewives of New York

Kourtney Kardashian - Keeping Up with the Kardashians

Kim Chi - RuPaul's Drag Race

Tiffany Pollard - Celebrity Big Brother

Nadiya Hussain - The Great British Bake Off

Nikki Grahame - Big Brother Canada

Bethenny Frankel - Real Housewives of New York

The Winner

Bob the Drag Queen

RuPaul's Drag Race

The Nominees

Ellen Degeneres

Jimmy Fallon

Seth Meyers

James Corden

Samantha Bee

Graham Norton

Chelsea Handler

The Cast of The Talk 

The Winner

Samantha Bee

The Nominees

American Idol - The Finale

The Brit Awards

Grease Live

Super Bowl Halftime Show

The Oscars

Eurovision

The Winner

Eurovision

The Nominees

Willam

Grace Helbig

Jenna Marbles

Mamrie Hart

Trixie Mattel & Katya Zamolodchikova

Jeffree Star

Hannah Hart

Colleen Ballinger

Drew Monson

The Winner

Trixie Mattel & Katya Zamolodchikova

Congratulations to all the winners!

The Craigy Awards 2015

Can you believe it is that time again! The Craigy's are back! Once again nominations were kept secret so it is anybody's guess who will win. Once again these awards highlight some of the shows that may get forgotten about by the mainstream award shows we all love. We have 15 awards to give out which include two new ones so lets get this show on the road.

Good luck to everyone.

Congratulations to all the winners!

Orange Is The New Black - Season 2 : My Review

First of all let me explain that I am not a professional reviewer, you won't find any long words or any technical language. I am merely but a fan of television and here to have my little soap box moment and say what I wanna say.

I fell in love with Orange Is The New Black as soon as I discovered it, I was sceptical at first as no one expects big things for shows that are just made for the internet. You don't expect money to be really invested and your expectations of high level talent are in large parts nothing but disappointments. However, along came OITNB and all these opinions diminished. The story was interesting and entertaining, the acting was top notch and the quality was up there to rival any network television show. I am going to write my review the best way I know how- in a list:

IT SHOULD GO WITHOUT SAYING - **SPOILER ALERT**

Highs

• The first episode, which was mainly focused on Piper's transfer to a prison in Chicago. I was scared for her thinking she may never go back to the prison she has come accustomed to.
• The crazy woman who thought Piper might be Lindsay Lohan, and desperately needed to know what time of day she was born.
• Knowing a little more of Suzanne's (Crazy Eyes) past. Her Mum's speech to the stuck up mother of her daughter's friend brought a tear to my eye.
• Introduction of Vee, her taking over and ultimate demise were written so well.
• Pennsatucky and Healy's little relationship, and the very short moments in 'Safe Place'
• Finding out why Morello is in prison. Finding out everything she said about her fiancé was a lie.
• O'Neill singing to the nuns
• Sophia's new weave and reconnecting with her son.
• Nicky been strong and not taking the drugs even though she could of.
• Poussey becoming a more main character, the actress is beautiful, she is so talented and her smile slays me. When she spoke to the camera about what love is I melted.
• Miss Rosa's cancer storyline. Her moments in the hospital with that guy were special. Plus her back story was one of the best from the season.
• Red's transformation from been bottom of the pack to been back on top. Her constant battle with Vee was well written and believable.
• The Golden Girls - who knew old women could be so cut throat. 

Lows

• Suzanne becoming a much more darker character. I know she has some mental problems but she was my comic relief in some parts of the show. Don't get me wrong I love knowing about her on a deeper level but I didn't like that Vee took advantage of her.
• Larry. I just don't like his character that much. I don't think he brings much to the show. I am grateful that his character keeps Poppy on the show but thats it.
• Diaz's pregnancy. Seriously how many months has she been pregnant now. I wish there was some sense of time on this show. Plus every conversation with Bennett are the same -  moaning about what life will be like outside of prison, John should come clean about being the father blah blah blah. Just give birth already.
• Fischer been fired, god I hope she comes back for season 3.
• Soso, I am not completely sold on this character. She definitely made me laugh a bit, and I think we aren't supposed to like her. She annoys Piper, therefore she annoys us.
• The prison guards, I don't know if this is just me,  but I don't care about their life outside of the prison. I care much more about the prisoners themselves.
• Laura Prepon where were you?! I understand you had other work so your part on this show had to be limited, but I missed you!

All in all it was a great season. I watched it in 3 days, and it only took me that long because sleep and work got in the way. I cannot wait for season 3. The show definitely grew, the characters became more developed and some actresses truly shone. 

TV Binging - A Serious Condition

I am not well. It started slowly and then developed in to this big thing that has completely taken over my life. I am of course talking about my TV binging. I will lose hours of conciousness at a time, I lose all concept of time and the most common thought in my head is 'Just one more'. It is a sickness, I will happily make no plans for days at a time knowing that I have an entire series of a television show to watch. I won't even eat for hours - as long as I have a can of coke, some cigarettes and my Netflix account details, I might aswell be dead to the world when I am in one of my sessions.

The thing is is that I am not even mad at myself for allowing it to happen. These people at these TV networks are creating art, and who am I to not acknowledge it? I am constantly learning life lessons without having to experience them - for a lazy person such as myself it works pretty well. Netflix has fast become my best friend; they are always recommending new things for me and they are always right. I discovered 'It's Always Funny In Philadelphia' and 'Criminal Minds' through their recommendations. American shows are the best things to binge watch as their seasons are around 22-24 episodes long so you know you got something for a while, its not like a British show where you get 6 episodes and that's your lot. Comedy is probably my favourite thing to binge, quickly followed by drama's and a bit of sci-fi. A new type I am starting to binge are American reality shows - I'm talking about Big Brother and The Amazing Race (I freaking love them).

So right now I am not looking for a cure, I am content. I know for a fact when I go back to Uni and civilisation in a week that I will miss my laptop more than anything. Unfortunately I can watch as much Project Runway as I want, but it won't get me a degree.

My Top Picks for Binge Watching

Orange is the New Black

Always Funny in Philadelphia

Orphan Black

Parks and Recreation

Buffy The Vampire Slayer

Charmed

30 Rock

The Big Bang Theory

American Horror Story

Arrested Development

Criminal Minds

Pretty Little Liars

Grey's Anatomy

Game Of Thrones

Modern Family

Gossip Girl

The Vampire Diaries

True Blood

Glee

New Girl

Girls