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EIC Announces TV Nominees for 16th Annual Prism Awards

ABC Leads All TV Networks with 14 Nominations

Tim Baysinger (Broadcasting & Cable) -- Multichannel News, 2/9/2012 5:49:29 PM

The Entertainment Industries Council announced Thursday the television nominees for the 16th Annual Prism Awards.

Among the TV networks, ABC led the way with 14 nods, followed by Showtime (nine), NBC (seven) and HBOand CW (five each).

Winners will be announced during the ceremony on April 19 at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles. FX will air the awards on Sept. 16.

For comedy series, nominated episodes or multi-episode storylines hailed from Showtime's The Big C, United States of Tara and Shameless, Desperate Housewives (ABC), Drop Dead Diva (Lifetime), Entourage (HBO), Glee and The Simpsons (Fox).

Nominated comedy performances were Marcia Cross (Desperate Housewives), Adrian Grenier (Entourage), William H. Macy and Emmy Rossum (Shameless) and Shawn Pyfrom (Desperate Housewives).

Drama Episodes nominated were from Blue Bloods and CSI (CBS), Castle and Rookie Blue (ABC), Harry's Law and Parenthood (NBC), House (Fox), Rescue Me (FX),  and The Secret Life of the American Teenager (ABC Family).

Lauren Graham (Parenthood), Jon Huertas and Stana Katic (Castle), Denis Leary (Rescue Me), and Missy Peregrym (Rookie Blue) were nominated for performance in a drama episode.

In the TV movie or miniseries category, Bringing Ashley Home (Lifetime), Cyberbully (ABC Family), (Dis)Connected (MTV), Mitch Albom's Have a Little Faith (ABC), and The Sunset Limited (HBO) earned nominations.

Nominated TV movie performances were A.J. Cook and Jennifer Morrison (Bringing Ashley Home), Samuel L. Jackson and Tommy Lee Jones (The Sunset Limited) and Emily Osment (Cyberbully).

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