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Home Box Office dominated the 16th annual CableACE Awards, collecting 23 of the 86 honors handed out over the weekend, including a leading four for its comedy series "The Larry Sanders Show."
A&E was runner-up among the 20 cable channels that received awards, picking up eight, including three for "Cracker: To Say I Love You," which was named cable's best movie or miniseries.
The CableACEs, honoring the best cable-television programming between Sept. 1, 1993, and Aug. 31, 1994, were handed out by the National Academy of Cable Programming in two batches: at a nontelevised event at the Century Plaza on Friday and at a ceremony Sunday at the Wiltern Theatre that was televised live on TNT.
"The Larry Sanders Show," which stars Garry Shandling as the host of a late-night TV talk show, was named cable's best comedy series for the third year in a row. It also was honored for acting (Rip Torn), directing (Todd Holland) and writing (Peter Tolan). Torn and Holland also won last year.
Three programs collected three awards each: A&E's "Cracker," TBS' "National Geographic Explorer" and HBO's special "Barbra Streisand the Concert"-one of them for Streisand herself.
Other top winners among the multitude of competing cable channels were the Disney Channel and TNT with seven CableACEs each, CNN and ESPN with six apiece and Comedy Central with four.
Three special awards also were presented....