Best TV Series is the iFANN Awards' honor for the scripted show that defined the period across the whole world. It is not about a single actor or a single episode. It is about the series itself, the one whose story pulled a global fanbase back week after week and would not let go.
A K-drama, a Turkish dizi, a C-drama, a Hollywood prestige drama, a Japanese drama, an Indian series, and a Latin telenovela all compete on the same stage here. iFANN is a global entertainment platform, so the question is simple: of everything airing right now, which series did the most people love the most?
What the award honors
Best TV Series recognizes the finest scripted episodic television of the period, meaning a series told across episodes rather than a stand-alone film. Cable, streaming, and everything in between all qualify, and the show is judged as a whole, for its writing, its performances, its craft, and the hold it had on the people watching.
The award is deliberately borderless. A prestige drama from Los Angeles has no head start over a romance out of Seoul, a revenge dizi out of Istanbul, or a sweeping telenovela out of Mexico City. If a series made an audience feel something and kept them talking, it belongs in this race.
Why it is worldwide
Television stopped being a local business a long time ago. A hit series now travels to well over a hundred countries, gathers fans who do not share a language, and sparks the same arguments in a dozen time zones at once. Best TV Series is built for that reality instead of pretending it does not exist.
Most award shows quietly draw a border around one industry or one country. This one does the opposite. Putting a C-drama, a Japanese drama, and an American series in the same category is the whole point, because that is how audiences actually watch now, jumping from one country's stories to the next without a second thought.
Our selection philosophy
The process begins with fans submitting the people and works they believe deserve recognition. iFANN's internal editorial team reviews every nomination for category fit, eligibility, identity, duplication, and abuse. Accepted nominees join the public ballot. After public voting closes, the iFANN International Editorial Board independently ranks the five finalists.
Winners are then decided the way every iFANN Award is decided. Fan votes account for 60% of the final score, and the editorial board accounts for the remaining 40%. Fans stay at the center of this award, and the panel is there to keep the field honest, not to override the people who actually watch.
Fandoms decide it
No award rallies a fandom quite like this one. People will defend the show they love with everything they have, and a global category turns that into a real contest, where a devoted audience in one country can lift a series above a bigger-budget rival from another.
That is by design. Best TV Series measures love and reach at once, so the winner is the series that its fanbase carried the furthest. When a show wins here, it means its people showed up for it, in numbers, from everywhere.
What a Best TV Series honor includes
Winning series are celebrated and actively promoted across the iFANN platform, given proper media coverage, and featured on the iFANN Pop Show, which reaches entertainment and pop culture fans around the world.
Each winner is also recognized with a physical engraved iFANN trophy, sent to the team behind the show or kept safe in the iFANN library until they are ready to receive it, along with a permanent place in the iFANN awards archive. There is a monthly winner and an annual one, so both the show of the moment and the show of the year get their due.