Five Cable Shows Get Prism Awards
By Simon Applebaum -- Multichannel News, 5/12/2003 6:41:00 AM
Five cable programs were given Prism Awards Friday night in Los Angeles for their accurate depiction of drug, alcohol or tobacco use and its consequences.
Not in the winner's circle: FX, which will present the event on TV for the first time since its launch in 1997.
The honored productions:
\u0007 Strong Medicine's "Contraindications" episode on Lifetime Television (drama series);
\u0007 Wasted from MTV: Music Television (movie/miniseries);
\u0007 Flipped's "Smoking and Tobacco" episode, again from MTV (teen nonfiction series/special);
\u0007 VH1's Behind the Music for its "Aerosmith" hour (biographical series/special); and
\u0007 The E! True Hollywood Story segment from E! Entertainment Television on actor Andy Dick (biographical series/special).
Also, theatrical release Skins, funded in part by Starz Encore Group LLC, received the feature-film award.
FX will carry the Prism Awards May 25 at 6 p.m. EST.
The awards are organized and presented by Entertainment Industries Council Inc., in association with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
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