Séamas O'Reilly: The Second Annual Séamie Awards — recognising 2024's most recent TV to date

"...TV has come a long way, but still our methods of surveying the cream of its crop have stagnated, beset by award shows incapable of truly connecting with viewers..."

Australian kids' TV favourite Bluey is presented with the first Special Recognition Award for Cultural Impact at Australia House in London, narrowly beating the Examiner to a in-person booking to receive a Séamie Award.

When John Logie Baird invented the first television in 1925, he could never have imagined that, 99 years later, 2 billion sets would be beaming content around the globe, and FX’s The Bear would be once again miscategorised as a comedy so it could win a suite of Emmy Awards this September.

What this tells us is that TV has come a long way since then (its invention, not September) but still our methods of surveying the cream of its crop have stagnated, beset by award shows incapable of truly connecting with viewers.