The 2010 People’s Choice Awards from the Nokia Center in Los Angeles aired last night on CBS, and the people have spoken. Now, if only the networks would listen.

With more than 60 million votes cast online, viewers got the chance to vote for their favorites in movies, music and yes, television. While votes were tallied for categories like Favorite TV Comedy Actor (Steve Carell), and Favorite Competition Show (American Idol), perhaps the most telling categories were those that revealed viewers favorite television shows.

Favorite TV Obsession went to True Blood, beating out the likes of Gossip Girl and The Hills.

Favorite New TV Drama went to The Vampire Diaries, taking down such shows as NCIS: Los Angeles and The Good Wife. In what I consider to be an upset, Favorite Sci-Fi/Fantasy Show went to Supernatural, over such heavy hitters as LOST and Heroes. With results like these, it’s obvious what the viewers want to see: more monsters and supernatural elements in their programming.

Only a handful of successful television shows come to mind when I think of these things. Buffy the Vampire Slayer and The X-Files being two of them. Those two shows had not only ghosts and monsters, but excellent writing that allowed them to both run for years, and consistently appear in the ratings.

With LOST about to begin its last season, and Heroes being on the way out very soon, the networks are going to be left to fill the void with programs that will not only attract a younger audience, but be able to sustain that audience for a long period of time, and if last night’s People’s Choice Awards are any indication (and believe me, they are) of what the viewers want to see, NBC, ABC and CBS would do well to listen and start finding more shows centered around the supernatural elements people seem to love so much.

Let’s face it, Reality TV isn’t going to cut it forever. Sooner or later the networks are going to have to continue filling the hunger of the American teen for scares and drama. I’m not saying they have to fill every time slot with vampires, but they do have to be prepared to go with the flow, and right now the flow is a river of crimson blood and excellent story-telling.