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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 […]
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09/16/2009
CableFAX 2009 Program Awards: Best Show or Series/Talk Shows
WINNER: CHELSEA LATELY, E! There are some fates worse than death, and one of them might be falling within Chelsea Handler’s crosshairs. The comedienne, whose work on Oxygen’s Girls Behaving Badly was also superb and hilarious, skewers celebs and other public figures with such shameless wit that her guests often aren’t sure whether to egg […]
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09/16/2009
CableFAX 2009 Program Awards: Best Host/Talk Show
WINNER: SUZE ORMAN, THE SUZE ORMAN SHOW, CNBC No one pulls out a can of verbal whoop-ass like Suze Orman. And no one does it with more love, care or empathy. The great thing about this show is that it doesn’t pull punches but uses that tough-love approach to actually help people rather than tear […]