When Breaking Bad premiered this January, it was an instant hit with critics across the country. Five months later, the show finds itself nominated for Outstanding New Program by the Television Critics Association. The other nominees are HBO's Flight of the Conchords, FX's Damages, ABC's Pushing Daisies, and AMC's own Mad Men..

The winner wil be chosen by the association's 200-plus critics and journalists later this summer and will be announced in a ceremony at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California on Saturday, July 19