Tradition of Excellence

SOURCE: Multichannel News

Home Box Office  and TBS’s comedy series Tyer Perry’s House of Payne garnered the lion’s share of cable’s NAACP Image Award nominations, announced Wednesday

HBO drew nine nominations – including an outstanding drama series nod for its now-retired series The Wire– while TBS’s House Of Payne garnered six nominations, including outstanding comedy series, according to the civil rights organization. The NAACP Image Awards honor African-American excellence in television, music and movies.

Tyler Perry and Halle Berry will host the 40^th annual ceremony, which airs live on Fox Feb. 12.

Other cable networks garnering nominations include: Lifetime (five), Hallmark (three); Black Entertainment Television and ABC Family (two apiece); and USA Network  A&E, CNN, TV One, Sundance Channel, Bravo, FX, and MTV (all with one).

Disney Channel and Nickelodeon programs represented all nomination slots in the outstanding children’s Program and outstanding performance in a youth/children’s program, series or special categories.

Broadcast network ABC led all television networks with 24 nominations, followed by CBS with 14 and the CW and NBC with 10 each.

A full list of nominees can be found here.