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TELEVIEWS / 2008: The year of surprisingly good actresses
Wm. Penn / Daily Yomiuri Columnist
Yomiuri
Welcome to the Tellies 2008! The Tellies (Televiews Awards for TV Excellence) are my purely personal picks of the year's best TV. It's the awards show with a decades-long history that spurns red carpet celebrity fashion chatter, strangely-named statuettes and silly acceptance speeches. It's not even interrupted by commercials, except for the awarding of the Tellie for Best CM. This goes again to TV's favorite cell phone-wielding fictional family the Whites--Dante Carver, Aya Ueto, Kanako Higuchi and Dad Dog.
As a devotee of the power of positive thinking, Televiews doesn't give any prizes in "the worst" categories. Thus, it is always possible to squeeze the entire awards …