Press tour: TCA Award winners

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. -- The Television Critics Association announced its annual award winners Saturday night with AMC's "Mad Men" the big winner, taking home three awards.

Here's a full list of the categories and winners:

PROGRAM OF THE YEAR: "Mad Men" (AMC)

OUTSTANDING NEW PROGRAM: "Mad Men" (AMC)

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN COMEDY: "30 Rock" (NBC). Star, writer and executive producer Tina Fey thanked TV critics for making "30 Rock" "the most successful cable show on broadcast television." She also joked, "It's a great time to be in broadcast television, like being in vaudeville in the '60s." She also said, "The rest of our cast couldn't be here tonight because NBC is broke."

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN DRAMA: "Mad Men" (AMC). Star Jon Hamm thanked "Flavor of Love," "Rock of Love" and "Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader" for existing on one end of the spectrum so there would be space for the smart, literate "Mad Men" at the other end of the spectrum.

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN NEWS & INFORMATION: "The War: A Film by Ken Burns & Lynn Novick" (PBS)

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN CHILDREN'S PROGRAMMING: "WordGirl" (PBS)

INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT IN COMEDY: Tina Fey, "30 Rock" (NBC)

INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT IN DRAMA: Paul Giamatti, "John Adams" (HBO). In accepting the award, a hyper Giamatti called author David McCullough "a god." "He looks like God, kind of, with the white hair," Giamatti said. Executive producer Tom Hanks agreed, saying, "He has been named God by the Pulitzer Prize committee. He is God." 

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN MOVIES, MINI-SERIES & SPECIALS: "John Adams" (HBO)

HERITAGE AWARD: "The Wire" (HBO). Executive producer David Simon noted that the last season of his show was "a treatise on the state of the media" and what the prize culture of newspapers has done to marginalize the work. "I see now I was completely wrong," Simon joked, holding his TCA Award. "This trumps the work itself." Simon also sounded a note of sincere concern for TV critics, whose ranks have been decimated by newspaper cutbacks: "I really worry about who will do the hard job of social and cultural criticism." 

CAREER ACHIEVEMENT: Lorne Michaels

A full list of the nominations can be found here.

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