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EW's 2013 Summer TV Awards!

By EW Staff August 19, 2013 at 04:00 PM EDT
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Best Comeback

Mireille Enos, The Killing | The Killing After a cancellation, a near-run at Netflix, and a return to AMC, the drizzly, grisly procedural got its mojo back in season 3.Â…
Credit: Carole Segal/AMC

The Killing
After a cancellation, a near-run at Netflix, and a return to AMC, the drizzly, grisly procedural got its mojo back in season 3.

Runner Up: True Blood
A shift away from political allegories and onto ''dangerwhore'' Sookie's past (not to mention a little Eric Northman full-frontal) made for a bloody good sixth season.

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Summer 2013's Hardest Working Person in TV

Dean Norris, Stephen King, ... | Dean Norris, Under the Dome and Breaking Bad Runners Up: Heidi Klum, America's Got Talent and Project Runway ; Michelle Fairley, Game of Thrones andÂ…
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Dean Norris, Under the Dome and Breaking Bad

Runners Up: Heidi Klum, America's Got Talent and Project Runway; Michelle Fairley, Game of Thrones and Suits

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The 'No, That's Not a Real Thing' Award

Sharknado | Syfy's Sharknado Runners Up: Discovery Channel's Megalodon , Animal Planet's Mermaids
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Syfy's Sharknado

Runners Up: Discovery Channel's Megalodon, Animal Planet's Mermaids

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Best Pop Culture Reference

SUITS

Suits pays homage to The Wire

Runner up: Breaking Bad's Star Trek script

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Best Argument for Giving Up Your Cable Subscription

What began as a show about a white, upper-middle-class, Whole Foods-eating, Toms-shoes-buying yuppie ultimately pulled a marvelous bait and switch, getting us to care lessÂ…
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Orange Is the New Black on Netflix

Runner Up: The Awesomes on Hulu

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The Olivia Pope Award for Outstanding Achievement in Morally Ambiguous Fixing

Liev Schreiber, Ray Donovan | Ray Donovan, Ray Donovan Runner Up: Michael Westen, Burn Notice
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Ray Donovan, Ray Donovan

Runner Up: Michael Westen, Burn Notice

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The 'When Life Gives You Lemons' Award

Bryan Cranston, Stephen Colbert, ... | Stephen Colbert gets Daft Punk'd
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Stephen Colbert gets Daft Punk'd

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The King of One-Liners

Joel Kinnaman, The Killing, ... | Best One-Liner: ''Take it easy, Thunderheart, you haven't given me a safe word yet.'' ( To a tribal security officer roughing him up ) AÂ…
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Stephen Holder (Joel Kinnaman), The Killing

Runners Up: Saul Goodman (Bob Odenkirk), Breaking Bad; John Oliver, The Daily Show

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The 'Don't Eat While Watching This!' Award

True Blood, True Blood | Nora dissolves into a pool of vamp blood in Eric's arms, True Blood (in the episode ''In the Evening'' Runner Up: Kristyn removes her fakeÂ…
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Nora dissolves into a pool of vamp blood in Eric's arms, True Blood (in the episode ''In the Evening''

Runner Up: Kristyn removes her fake eye, Catfish (in the episode ''Mike & Kristen'')

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Best Dome

Under the Dome | Under the Dome 's Big Dome Runners Up: Under the Dome 's Little Dome, Dean Norris's Under the Dome chrome dome
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Under the Dome's Big Dome

Runners Up: Under the Dome's Little Dome, Dean Norris's Under the Dome chrome dome

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The 'Who Had a Worse Summer Than Sally Draper?' Award

Jon Hamm, Mad Men, ... | No one Runner Up: Sansa, Game of Thrones
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No one

Runner Up: Sansa, Game of Thrones

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The 'Things That in Retrospect Seem Inevitable' Award

Alec Baldwin, Elisabeth Hasselbeck | TIE: Alec Baldwin inks deal at MSNBC, Elisabeth Hasselbeck heads to Fox News Runner Up: The ''revelation'' that Paula Deen has used the N-word before
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TIE: Alec Baldwin inks deal at MSNBC, Elisabeth Hasselbeck heads to Fox News

Runner Up: The ''revelation'' that Paula Deen has used the N-word before

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The 'This Is an Actual Show? On Television?' Award*

VH1's Hit the Floor ( Find out why ) Runner Up: Discovery Channel's Naked and Afraid *The above shows are real, but take our quizÂ…
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VH1's Hit the Floor (Find out why)

Runner Up: Discovery Channel's Naked and Afraid

*The above shows are real, but take our quiz to find out which other insane-sounding TV shows came out this summer.

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The 'If You Don't Have Anything Nice to Say...' Award

Big Brother, Big Brother | Big Brother racists Runners Up: Big Brother misogynists and homophobes
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Big Brother racists

Runners Up: Big Brother misogynists and homophobes

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The 'Old Dude's Still Got It' Award

Jon Voight, Ray Donovan | Jon Voight wearing a towel while smoking a joint and dancing with a hooker, Ray Donovan
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Jon Voight wearing a towel while smoking a joint and dancing with a hooker, Ray Donovan

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The 'Nail in the TV News Coffin' Award

Fox News Channel | Fox News anchor Lauren Green is perplexed why religious scholar Reza Aslan, a Muslim, would possibly be interested in writing a book about Jesus RunnerÂ…
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Fox News anchor Lauren Green is perplexed why religious scholar Reza Aslan, a Muslim, would possibly be interested in writing a book about Jesus

Runner Up: Al Roker oversleeps and misses his own show

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Worst Runner

Rebecca Romijn | Rebecca Romijn, King & Maxwell
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Rebecca Romijn, King & Maxwell

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The #GreatestAdCampaignEver Award*

Devious Maids ' ''steamy'' SEX ad *Category judged by a horny but not really that clever 11-year-old boy
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Devious Maids' ''steamy'' SEX ad

*Category judged by a horny but not really that clever 11-year-old boy

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Award for Outstanding Over-Achievement Given Rock-Bottom Expectations

Lindsay Lohan
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Lindsay Lohan, hosting Chelsea Lately and being interviewed on Oprah's Next Chapter

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Biggest Losers of Summer 2013

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Time Warner Cable Customers

Runners Up: EW.com recappers

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The 'Summer Show Carrying Us into the Fall' Award

Breaking Bad | Breaking Bad
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Breaking Bad

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    1 of 21 Best Comeback
    2 of 21 Summer 2013's Hardest Working Person in TV
    3 of 21 The 'No, That's Not a Real Thing' Award
    4 of 21 Best Pop Culture Reference
    5 of 21 Best Argument for Giving Up Your Cable Subscription
    6 of 21 The Olivia Pope Award for Outstanding Achievement in Morally Ambiguous Fixing
    7 of 21 The 'When Life Gives You Lemons' Award
    8 of 21 The King of One-Liners
    9 of 21 The 'Don't Eat While Watching This!' Award
    10 of 21 Best Dome
    11 of 21 The 'Who Had a Worse Summer Than Sally Draper?' Award
    12 of 21 The 'Things That in Retrospect Seem Inevitable' Award
    13 of 21 The 'This Is an Actual Show? On Television?' Award*
    14 of 21 The 'If You Don't Have Anything Nice to Say...' Award
    15 of 21 The 'Old Dude's Still Got It' Award
    16 of 21 The 'Nail in the TV News Coffin' Award
    17 of 21 Worst Runner
    18 of 21 The #GreatestAdCampaignEver Award*
    19 of 21 Award for Outstanding Over-Achievement Given Rock-Bottom Expectations
    20 of 21 Biggest Losers of Summer 2013
    21 of 21 The 'Summer Show Carrying Us into the Fall' Award

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