Throughout the weekend ahead of our live Great American Bash coverage on Sunday night, we’re posting our half-year awards, looking at the best and the worst of WWE in the first half of 2008.

So far on we’ve posted our awards for the following (click links to view our picks and reasons for them):

- Worst in-ring performer in the WWE
- Least improved wrestler of the year so far
- Worst WWE PPV of the year so far
- Worst announcer in the WWE (aka The Adamle Award)
- Worst feud/storyline in the WWE in 2008 so far
- Worst match in the WWE
- Worst on-screen character in the WWE
- Most improved wrestler of the year so far
- Best WWE PPV of the year so far

Our next award is for the Best WWE TV show, plus later on today ahead of our live PPV coverage, we’ve got the awards for:

- Best announcer in the WWE
- Best feud/storyline in the WWE
- Best match in the WWE
- Best on-screen character in the WWE
- Best in-ring performer in the WWE

We’ll be posting the results of these from 2pm EST (7pm UK) up until 7pm EST (12midnight), plus we’ll also have a preview of tonight’s PPV and notes from backstage ahead of our live coverage which kicks off at 8pm EST/1am UK time!

Best WWE TV show of the year so far:

Phil Lowe: Raw shades it ahead of Smackdown for me. The wrestling on Smackdown in the first half of the year has arguably been better, but Raw is the better show overall. I don’t know whether its because its live television, but I always feel that if I miss a week of Raw, I’ll more often than not missed on something. But I can miss a week or two of Smackdown and not feel as if I’ve missed much at all other than an angle at the top of the card.

While its unlikely to happen on a regular basis, despite some reports over the past few weeks, I’d really like to see Smackdown go live. I know its costly, but the draft truly did shake things up and I think viewers would like to see the Friday night show have the same twists as turns as Monday night’s live broadcast can sometimes provide us with.

Mark Bright: I’m going for Raw on this one. While Raw’s lows (Vince dying, Kane hearing voices again) have been really low, the fact is that Smackdown just seems like a dull show where people go through the motions, with the aforementioned Edge and Vickie exception.

But Raw has so many more highs, such as the Jericho/Michaels promo work, the draft episode, the week before and day after WrestleMania XXIV focused on Ric Flair, the King of the Ring show and Regal abusing his power in the weeks that followed, the stuff with Orton and Hardy early in the year, the Big Show/Floyd Mayweather interactions and the episode where CM Punk won the World Title that it is still the most important and most memorable - and therefore best - TV show the WWE has.

Michael Campbell: Raw. Smackdown always threatens with some quality, in-ring efforts, but in general, Raw has been where the best stuff has transpired. Unless the Punk/Batista rivalry swiftly comes good, the Blue Brand threatens to overtake it’s big brother.

Martin Smith: Raw. Smackdown has been average at best and ECW has been dire. This wasn’t a hard choice really, but when something happens in the WWE, you can bet 95% of the time it’s on Raw.

Steve McLaren: I’d go for Smackdown personally. Nine times out of 10 they’ll have a match on there that I’ll enjoy. There were a few bad shows during the Cole and Coach period partly down to those two. I really enjoyed Undertaker’s short run as champ too.

James Mustoe: Raw. Raw and Smackdown have both have had their ups and downs, but Raw, in its position as ‘number one show’ has had the greater number of memorable matches and moments, as well as providing me with two genuine mark-out moments in William Regal winning the King of the Ring and CM Punk winning the World Championship.

RESULTS:

Raw (5)
Smackdown (1)