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EW's 2013 Summer TV Awards!

EW's 2013 Summer TV Awards!

See why we salute Stephen Colbert, ''Sharknado,'' ''Devious Maids,'' Sally Draper, Time Warner Cable subscribers, more

By EW Staff

Updated August 19, 2013 at 04:00 PM EDT

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Best Comeback

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

Credit: Brownie Harris/CBS

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

Credit: Syfy

Syfy's Sharknado

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

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Best Pop Culture Reference

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

Credit: Jessica Miglio/Netflix

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

Credit: Jeff Riedel/Showtime

Ray Donovan, Ray Donovan

Runner Up: Michael Westen, Burn Notice

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The 'When Life Gives You Lemons' Award

Credit: Comedy Central

Stephen Colbert gets Daft Punk'd

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The King of One-Liners

Credit: Carole Segal/AMC

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

Credit: HBO

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

Credit: CBS

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

Credit: AMC

No one

Runner Up: Sansa, Game of Thrones

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The 'Things That in Retrospect Seem Inevitable' Award

Credit: Chris Pizzello/AP; Bob D'Amico/ABC

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*

Credit: VH1

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

Credit: CBS

Big Brother racists

Runners Up: Big Brother misogynists and homophobes

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The 'Old Dude's Still Got It' Award

Credit: Showtime

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

Credit: Fox

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

Credit: TNT

Rebecca Romijn, King & Maxwell

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The #GreatestAdCampaignEver Award*

Credit: Lifetime

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

Credit: Melissa Holt/E! Entertainment

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

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Biggest Losers of Summer 2013

Credit: Getty Images

Time Warner Cable Customers

Runners Up: EW.com recappers

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The 'Summer Show Carrying Us into the Fall' Award

Credit: Frank Ockenfels/AMC

Breaking Bad

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EW's 2013 Summer TV Awards!

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Best Comeback

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Summer 2013's Hardest Working Person in TV

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

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Best Pop Culture Reference

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Best Argument for Giving Up Your Cable Subscription

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The Olivia Pope Award for Outstanding Achievement in Morally Ambiguous Fixing

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The 'When Life Gives You Lemons' Award

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The King of One-Liners

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

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Best Dome

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

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The 'Things That in Retrospect Seem Inevitable' Award

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

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

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The 'Old Dude's Still Got It' Award

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The 'Nail in the TV News Coffin' Award

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Worst Runner

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The #GreatestAdCampaignEver Award*

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Award for Outstanding Over-Achievement Given Rock-Bottom Expectations

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Biggest Losers of Summer 2013

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The 'Summer Show Carrying Us into the Fall' Award

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