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Doctor Who is of course the longest running TV series in the world (forget about just SF) so it has its fans, and I am mostly one. So it is not surprising it does well, especially after they created a category just for short dramas, ie. TV shows, something that I opposed.

TV shows and series do face what they might consider a problem. If there are lots of episodes in a year (anywhere from 13 to 23) then all the fans will divide their support among many episodes, and so it can be that no single episode will make the nomination cut, even though there is broad support.

I have not followed it closely enough to know if the Whovians have ever organized on this sentiment:

Hey, instead of picking your favourite DW episode, show your support for DW as a whole, and this year, everybody nominate these specific ones!

If they did that, it's the same as the puppies, and wrong. Actually even a bit more wrong, because the doctrine that the award is not for the best TV series and only for the specific episode is actually expressed a lot in the community, because it is common for people to be annoyed that their favourite TV series does not get recognition because there is no award for best TV series.

Some of that dates to the time when there was only one award, and it was normally won by movies. People would feel, "Hey, I love this TV series more than I loved any movie, but I agree that no single episode of the series was better than the best movies."

This is the classic problem around works of different scope. It's not fair to compare a novel and a short story. Not fair to compare a TV series that's 20 hours long and a movie that's 1.5 hours long. And the short drama award was created because it's not fair to compare a movie and a TV episode. (My opposition to it was for different reasons.)

Until not that long ago, there just weren't enough SF TV series out there to have a meaningful award for best SF TV series, so there has not been one. Even though today there may be enough (tough I think there should be at least 100 candidates per year to have a good award, not something every category can claim) I feel the Hugos should retain their literary focus. There are lots of awards, and lots of recognition, and lots of conventions, for media SF.