Ripping Good Yarns: Premium Cable Drama Award

My legion of Ripping Good Yarn fans, I am proud to announce the third award for 2013, given in the category of Premium Cable Dramas!  Two awards will be given in this category, one will be the Ripping Good Strait Award that is solely determined by me because well, to paraphrase one of my least favorite politicians, Ronald Reagan, "I own this microphone!"  The first will be the Ripping Good Fan award determined by all of your votes!

Ripping Good Fan Award, Premium Cable Drama

There are five nominees.  This is based on early nominations and my best estimation.  Voting in this area was very low, as many reminded me they do not have premium cable services. This must disconnect a lot of people to the Emmys as they are increasingly going to premium channels, like the 108 nominations that went to HBO.

The five nominees:

Boardwalk Empire 

Dexter.

A Game of Thrones

Homeland

True Blood

And the winner goes to....

A Game of Thrones!

This is a great show, a tremendously rich drama with a multitude of characters, with all the pageantry and magic of truly great high fantasy.  A fantastic rendition of the books by George R. R. Martin, there really has not ever been anything like it on television before.  No lead character is safe, anything can and does happen. We are HBO subscribers because of this show.

Ripping Good Strait Award, Premium Cable Drama

True Blood!  

Often times a hot mess, it still is a very entertaining and melodramatic show.  Alison caught up with this show over winter and spring and is now watching with me. The fact that we are now watching it together is enough to give it the edge for this ward.  There are a number of good characters on this show, and you often have to adjust your scorecard as to who is evil and who is good from year to year. My favorite in playing a vampire the way he should be played is Russell Edgington.  He is consistently vile, including ripping a news anchor's spine out during a television broadcast.

  

But let's not rest on our laurels.  Start commenting on Comedy series.  This can be from any part of television, broadcast, basic cable, premium cable or even streaming services. 

Nominate as many as you like.  Finalists are selected by how many nominations they get. Comment either here or on Facebook.  And with comedies, it's real plus if they make you laugh, or as our hip new texter friends say - lol.

Remember, we're looking for shows with compelling characters, colorful and exciting plot-lines, and continuing story elements.

Fellow Rippers, I await your input!