There is no foreign television category. Simple as that. It's a matter of practicality. There's simply too many hours of television being produced around the world for it all to be mandatory viewing for award voters.

Vikings isn't eligible for Golden Globe consideration. You have to read the fine print of the awards themselves. Vikings is a Canadian-Irish coproduction, and History has merely purchased US broadcast rights to it. History Channel doesn't make it. In fact, they censor and edit it down quite a bit, as the foreign…