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09/16/2009
CableFAX 2009 Program Awards: Best Show or Series/Animated
WINNER: HANDY MANNY, DISNEY CHANNEL Crisp animation and lovable characters make Handy Manny a delight to watch, and the show’s smart life lessons about persevering amid challenges and fixing the seemingly unfixable — well, Disney has once again struck the perfect balance between entertainment and learning. In addition, the show’s young viewers get a taste […]
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09/16/2009
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 nightmare possibly, composed of blazing fast clips, in black and white, of tunnels, […]
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09/16/2009
CableFAX 2009 Program Awards: Best Show or Series/Children
WINNER: THE SPROUT SHARING SHOW, PBS KIDS SPROUT Sometimes simplicity wins. Set inside a homemade cardboard puppet theater, The Sprout Sharing Show deftly combines the irresistible kid appeal of a puppet show with a twist: Viewer submitted videos that become part of the act. The concept is no frills. And yet, we know of few […]
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09/16/2009
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 hats (on men and women), the furniture, the cars, the interiors, the hairstyles. Weiner’s attention to […]
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09/16/2009
CableFAX 2009 Program Awards: Best Show or Series/Animals/Nature
WINNER: WILD CHINA, TRAVEL CHANNEL The basis of this six-part series was unorthodox. Western media, tightly restricted by China’s government, normally focuses on problems faced by the densely populated city centers. Often ignored is China’s vast rural landscape, even though it is 80% of the country’s land mass and home to half the population, mostly […]
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09/16/2009
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 premium cable. As an actor and director, Clark Johnson was […]