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CableFAX 2009 Program Awards: Seek and Thou Shall Find
I hear it regularly at social events of all kinds, big parties, small get-togethers, in casual conversations with friends and relatives. It would be nice to say I hear it mostly from a particular demographic and at a specific time of the year. In fact, I hear...
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CableFAX's Guide to New Cable Programming: Fall 2009
In the days of All in the Family, Get Smart and The Dick Van Dyke Show, fall was traditionally the season for premieres of TV shows, but TV and its calendar aren’t what they used to be. New shows appear throughout the year now, but TV’s roots run...
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CableFAX's 2009 Programming Hall of Fame
Battlestar Galactica Fans may never agree on the best science fiction TV series of all time. But Syfy’s (then Sci Fi Channel’s) Battlestar Galactica, which ended its fabulous six-season run this year, may be the first series since Star Trek to...
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CableFAX 2009 Program Awards: Best Cable Program
WINNER: MAD MEN, AMC Last year’s Best New Cable Program is this year’s Best Program. No doubt, Matthew Weiner’s creation escaped a sophomore slump. Even The Sopranos couldn’t do that. Indeed we’d argue Mad Men season 2 was...
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CableFAX 2009 Program Awards: Best Show Drama
CO-WINNER: BRITZ, BBC AMERICA Yes, it’s a cliché but this 2-part, post 9/11 drama about a brother and sister who are university students and Muslims contained thrills and chills. The brother loves his new country Britain, the sister hates it...
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CableFAX 2009 Program Awards: Best Actress in Cable
WINNER: ELISABETH MOSS, MAD MEN, AMC Seeking nominations for CableFAX’s Most Powerful Women in Cable edition, our Steve Goldstein wrote, "For those of you with short memories — or relatively recent birth dates — it wasn’t too long...
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CableFAX 2009 Program Awards: Best Actor in Cable
WINNER: BRYAN CRANSTON, BREAKING BAD, AMC Who didn’t love Bryan Cranston in Malcolm in the Middle? The goofy faces. The Jacques Clouseau-esque bumbling. A court jester surrounded by a family of court jesters. Apparently, playtime is over...
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CableFAX 2009 Program Awards: Best New Cable Program
WINNER: SONS OF ANARCHY, FX So this new show follows a crime boss, his gang and a volatile protégé whose girlfriend is played by Drea de Matteo. No this isn’t 1999, and we’re not talking about The Sopranos. This is completely...
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CableFAX 2009 Program Awards: Best Director
WINNER: CLARK JOHNSON, THE SHIELD, FX While most great TV shows fizzle and sputter out, The Shield kept getting better every season as it established FX as home base for the type of quality original drama that had previously existed only on broadcast TV and...
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CableFAX 2009 Program Awards: Best Producer
WINNERS: MATTHEW WEINER AND SCOTT HORNBACHER, MAD MEN, AMC Honoring Weiner (top) and Hornbacher is particularly appropriate since the series’ production elements are critical to its tremendous success. Half the fun of Mad Men are the 1960s clothes, the...
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CableFAX 2009 Program Awards: Best Opening Sequence
WINNER: DARK PATH CHRONICLES, FEARNET Cross horror film classic Pet Sematary with music videos, like those for Madonna’s Material Girl and Like a Virgin, and you have an idea of the opening sequence for Dark Path Chronicles. It’s like a dream, a...
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CableFAX 2009 Program Awards: Best Writer
WINNER: RONALD D. MOORE, BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, SYFY Moore’s reimagining of 1970s one-season-wonder Battlestar Galactica was the best-written science-fiction series ever on television. While Star Trek will always rule the universe, Moore’s...
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CableFAX 2009 Program Awards: Best Show Online-Only/Mobile-Only
CO-WINNER: GREAT AND TELLING TALES WITH TIMOTHY DICKINSON: RASPUTIN, HISTORY To know Timothy Dickinson is to understand why our judges loved his online series. Forever attired in a rumpled dark suit with a white blossom in his lapel, Dickinson is obsessed...
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CableFAX 2009 Program Awards: Best Online/Mobile Extras for a Linear Show
WINNER: SONNY WITH A CHANCE, DISNEY CHANNEL The irony of a sitcom starring a tween actress playing a tween actress on a tween-themed sketch comedy show is salient. But hey — it works. And as usual, Disney understands its young audience well enough to...
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CableFAX 2009 Program Awards: Best Show Documentary
WINNER: 102 MINUTES THAT CHANGED AMERICA, HISTORY History execs grapple daily with the question: How to present history in a unique way? We felt History got it right with 102 Minutes That Changed America. So did viewers, whose outcry was so great for the 9/11...
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CableFAX 2009 Program Awards: Best Actor/Comedy
WINNER: TONY SHALHOUB, MONK, USA NETWORK When it comes to comedy, there’s slapstick, highbrow, lowbrow, juvenile and a million other variations. And then there’s what Tony Shalhoub does on Monk. Like the eccentric character he plays, this brand of...
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CableFAX 2009 Program Awards: Best Video on Demand the Legends of Wrestling
WINNER: LEGENDS OF WRESTLING PRESENTS SOUL OF WRESTLING, WWE Professional wrestling and civil rights are not words often paired in one’s mind. That’s one reason why WWE’s On Demand series, WWE Classics, decided to do an episode about how...
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CableFAX 2009 Program Awards: Best Host Educational/Instructional
WINNER: PAUL LISNEK, POLITICAL UPDATE WITH PAUL LISNEK, COMCAST CN100, CHICAGO If you could create the prototypical host for an educational television program, you might come up with Paul Lisnek, the veteran talent of CN100’s weekly Political Update...
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CableFAX 2009 Program Awards: Best Host/Food
WINNER: ADAM RICHMAN, MAN V. FOOD, TRAVEL CHANNEL Talk about taking one for the team (or eating as much as an entire team). Adam Richman routinely sacrifices his stomach so you don’t have to. Whether it’s downing multiple 24 milk shakes, 10 pounds...
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CableFAX 2009 Program Awards: Best Host/Animals
WINNER VICTORIA STILWELL, IT’S ME OR THE DOG, ANIMAL PLANET We love to watch Victoria Stilwell work. And we’re glad we’re not the dog owners who must often endure her wonderfully British form of tough love. In any event, Stilwell has built...
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