It is that time of year again. It's the time when all the celebrities gather together to reflect back over the last year and get some awards. The KBS 2011 Entertainment Awards is KBS's end of year award ceremony to recognize the hard working celebrities in 2011 in the fields of Variety Shows. The MC for this year's awards will be Shin Dong Yub, SNSD's YoonA and Announcer Lee Ji Ae.
The nominee list for this year's Grand Award are as follows - "Gag Concert" and "Birth Of A Family's" Kim Byung Man
- "Happy Together 3's" Yoo Jae Suk
- "Hello and Immortal Song 2's" Shin Dong Yub
- "1 Night, 2 Days'" Lee Seung Gi
- "Qualifying Men's" Lee Kyung Kyu
With Kang Ho Dong out of the nominee list this year due to his retirement, the list at first appears to be pretty much a one horse race, with Yoo Jae Suk being the clear favorite. However the fact that "Happy Together 3" hasn't been as successful as previous years and with the huge success of "Gag Concert" this year, especially the "Master" corner, Kim Byung Man also has a good chance to take the award for this year. Shin Dong Yub is a low favorite. He has worked hard over the year but he failed to stand out in any great way. The talk show "Hello" has been doing quite well on Mondays, while "Immortal Song 2" has slowly been rising in prominence on Saturdays, but whether this is enough for Shin Dong Yub to get the award remains questionable. The selection of Lee Seung Gi from "1 Night, 2 Days" seems a bit questionable. Most people would have expected Lee Soo Geun, but it appears he has been excluded from the nominee's list for some reason. "1 Night, 2 Days" is definitely popular no doubt, and with the program finally concluding next February, they might give Lee Seung Gi the award as an indirect way of giving the whole program the Grand Award. As the winner of last year's KBS Grand Award, Lee Kyung Kyu probably has the lowest chance of getting the award this year. It's definitely not unheard of for someone to get the Grand Award for consecutive years (Just ask Yoo Jae Suk and Kang Ho Dong) but it's relatively unheard of for KBS. And with the relative drop in popularity of "Qualifying Men," it just seems unlikely that Lee Kyung Kyu will beat the other nominees to it. |