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09/16/2009
CableFAX 2009 Program Awards: Best Show or Series/Regional
WINNER: "O", WHAT A NIGHT! WASHINGTON POST LIVE! COMCAST SPORTSNET Nobody is a more unlikely subject of a CableFAX Program Award than Andy Ockershausen, who, at 80 years young, is going strong as an executive with Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic. Thing is, outspoken Andy predicted decades ago that this new thing called cable wouldn’t stick. Never […]
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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 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 superior to its fine freshman year. While season 1 introduced us to ad exec Don Draper (Jon […]
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09/16/2009
CableFAX 2009 Program Awards: Best Show or Series/Reality/Game Show
WINNER: MY FAIR WEDDING, WE TV Oh, the things you learn on My Fair Wedding, the series where party planner-to-the-stars David Tutera arrives three weeks before a wedding to inject style into what would have been very unstylish nuptials. For example, who knew blue roses don’t exist in nature? (You have to paint or dye […]
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09/16/2009
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 of steak or a 12-egg omelet, Richman’s cast-iron constitution is a source […]
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09/16/2009
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 carve out its own niche of sci-fi excellence. And it was the first to […]