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09/16/2009
CableFAX 2009 Program Awards: Best Host/News
WINNER: DAN RATHER, DAN RATHER REPORTS, HDNET We were glad to see HDNet finally closed a carriage deal with Comcast. This will expose more people to the fact that Dan Rather is hosting a show with some of the best investigative journalism and foreign reporting on television. That’s because Rather is the sole reporter. He’s […]
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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/Music
WINNER: LIVE FROM ABBEY ROAD, SUNDANCE CHANNEL This fascinating 12-part series drops modern-day music acts into the legendary London recording studio where the Beatles once roamed — just to see what happens. The results often are magical. Almost as compelling as the performances themselves is watching otherwise successful music megastars in self-reflection mode as they […]
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09/16/2009
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 up a nice following, partly because she’s so darned entertaining and devoted to […]
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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 […]
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09/16/2009
CableFAX 2009 Program Awards: Best Show or Series/Food
WINNER: BIZARRE FOODS WITH ANDREW ZIMMERN, TRAVEL CHANNEL There may be no better way to drive home the importance of tolerance and diversity than by watching Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern. Although there’s plenty of fun involved, Chef Zimmern could play it totally for laughs — on his global travels he’s eaten fried rodents, frozen […]