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Do prepare to roll away with laughter with The Comedy Awards 2011 debut on Sunday (April 10, 2011) on MTV Networks, which will also be aired on Comedy Central, Nick at Night, Spike TV, TV Land, CMT, VH1 and Logo at 9 ET/PT.  Catch all the fun in crystal clear vision and unmatched audio clarity with DISH Network HD.

Produced by Comedy Central, the first ever, Comedy Awards were taped at 26^th March 2011. Doug Herzog, chief of MTV Networks said, “The world doesn’t need another awards, but the world of comedy needs its own right.”

With humorist like Garry Shandling, Jon Stewart, Louis CK, Will Ferrel and many others, catch all the funniest people of the industry come under one roof at 2011 Comedy Awards. Under the watchful eye of more than 1000 voters including actors, producers, writers, managers and performers,  17 categories are finalized varying from stand up-special to comedy film actors to viral videos and the like.

The Comedy Award nominees 2011 have been selected by a bench of 32 grandeur directors including other eminent personalities Don Rickles, Joan Rivers, Chris Rock and Conan O’Brien. So folks, get ready to be sprayed with laughing gases all over you!

Let’s have a glance at the prestigious, The Comedy Awards 2011 nominations

COMEDY SERIES

• The Office
• 30 Rock
• It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia
• Eastbound And Down
• Modern Family

COMEDY ACTOR – FILM

• Zach Galifianakis, Dinner For Schmucks
• Russell Brand, Get Him To The Greek
• Jonah Hill, Cyrus
• Will Ferrell, The Other Guys
• Paul Giamatti, Barney’s Version

COME DY ACTRESS – FILM

• Emma Stone, Easy A
• Helen Mirren, Red
• Chloë Moretz, Kick-Ass
• Anne Hathaway, Love And Other Drugs
• Tina Fey, Date Night

COMEDY ACTOR – TV

• Steve Carell, The Office
• Tracy Morgan, 30 Rock
• Danny McBride, Eastbound And Down
• Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock
• Ty Burrell, Modern Family

COMEDY ACTRESS – TV

• Kristen Wiig, Saturday Night Live
• Tina Fey, 30 Rock
• Jane Lynch, Glee
• Betty White, Hot In Cleveland
• Jane Krakowski, 30 Rock

SKETCH COMEDY/ALTERNATIVE COMEDY SERIES

• Tim And Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!
• Childrens Hospital
• Tosh.0
• Funny Or Die Presents
• Saturday Night Live

STAND-UP SPECIAL

• Whitney Cummings: Money Shot
• Bill Maher…But I’m Not Wrong
• Aziz Ansari: Intimate Moments For A Sensual Evening
• Louis C.K.: HilariouS
• Ricky Gervais: Out Of England 2

COMEDY FILM

• Get Him To The Greek
• Cyrus
• The Other Guys
• Easy A
• Kick-Ass

COMEDY WRITING – TV

• Modern Family
• 30 Rock
• The Simpsons
• Louie
• The Office

ANIMATED COMEDY FILM

• Shrek Forever After
• Despicable Me
• Megamind
• Toy Story 3

ANIMATED COMEDY SERIES

• Family Guy
• South Park
• American Dad!
• Archer
• The Simpsons

LATE NIGHT COMEDY SERIES

• Jimmy Kimmel Live!
• Late Night With Jimmy Fallon
• Late Show With David Letterman
• The Colbert Report
• The Daily Show With Jon Stewart

COMEDY DIRECTING – TV

• Saturday Night Live
• 30 Rock
• Modern Family
• The Office
• Community

COMEDY DIRECTOR – FILM

• Adam McKay, The Other Guys
• Jay Duplass and Mark Duplass, Cyrus
• Edgar Wright, Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World
• Will Gluck, Easy A
• Matthew Vaughn, Kick-Ass

COMEDY SCREENPLAY

• Kick-Ass
• Tiny Furniture
• Cyrus
• Easy A
• Hot Tub Time Machine

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All the awards fan, get ready as NAACP Awards are back! Want to know whether Rihanna wins or not? Or which motion picture takes the award – is it Colored Girls or Jut Wright? Then, watch out the prestigious awards night as it rolls out on March 4, 2011. Gear up to catch the star-studded lineup of celebrities on the 42nd NAACP Image Awards live on FOX tonight (Friday, March 04, 2011) at 8/7c. Tune in to DISH Network to catch the action.

The 2011 NAACP Image Awards venue will be the Shrine Auditorium, Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA. You have a gorgeous night waiting! So, don’t forget to switch on the channel only on DISH Network. You are sure to have loads of exciting moments and entertainment as you watch your favorite film or actor receiving the NAACP Image Awards 2011.

The NAACP Image Awards is a premier multi-cultural awards show of the US that celebrates the excellent achievements of people of color in the arts such as literature, recording, television, writing & directing and motion picture), along with those groups or individuals who highly endorse social justice through their creativity and other inspiring endeavors. The 42nd NAACP Image Awards this year is also going to be extremely interesting, as people with outstanding performances in art will be appreciated for all their hard work.

The 42nd NAACP Image Awards nominations 2011 were announced in a special event on January 12, 2011. Popular names like Kimberly Elise, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, Smokey Robinson, Columbus Short, Sanaa Lathan, Clayola Brown – Chairman of the NAACP Image Awards and Affion Crockett were the hosts of this exclusive event. And for the main awards event, the stunning Holly Robinson Peete and handsome Wayne Brady will be the 42nd NAACP Image Awards hosts 2011.

Getting excited to know the 42nd NAACP Image Awards nominees 2011? Check out the complete list here:

2011 NAACP Image Awards nominees

Surely, the 2011 NAACP Image Awards will be a rocking event, for we have really brilliant nominations in popular categories. And it will be a tough call to even speculate 42nd NAACP Image Awards winners 2011.

TELEVISION

Comedy Series

• “30 Rock” (NBC)
• “Glee” (FOX)
• “Are We There Yet?” (TBS)
• “Modern Family” (ABC)
• “Tyler Perry’s House of Payne” (TBS)

Actor in a Comedy Series

• Dulé Hill – “Psych” (USA)
• LaVan Davis – “Tyler Perry’s House of Payne” (TBS)
• David Mann – “Tyler Perry’s Meet the Browns” (TBS)
• Terry Crews – “Are We There Yet?” (TBS)
• Phil Morris – “Love That Girl!” (TV One)

Actress in a Comedy Series

• Cassi Davis – “Tyler Perry’s House of Payne” (TBS)
• Vanessa Williams – “Desperate Housewives” (ABC)
• Essence Atkins – “Are We There Yet?” (TBS)
• Tatyana Ali – “Love That Girl!” (TV One)
• Salli Richardson-Whitfield – “Eureka” (Syfy)

Television Movie, Miniseries or Dramatic Special

• “America: The Story of Us (Part 4)” (History)
• “Luther” (BBC America)
• “The Wronged Man” (Lifetime Movie Network)
• “Filling the Gap” (PBS)
• “Sins of the Mother” (Lifetime Movie Network)

Actor in a Television Movie, Miniseries or Dramatic Special

• Benito Martinez – “Lies in Plain Sight” (Lifetime Movie Network)
• Mahershalalhashbaz Ali – “The Wronged Man” (Lifetime Movie Network)
• Jon Seda – “The Pacific” (HBO)
• Idris Elba – “Luther” (BBC America)
• Michael Jai White – “One Angry Juror” (Lifetime Movie Network)

Actress in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special

• Lucy Liu – “Marry Me” (Lifetime Movie Network)
• Jill Scott – “Sins of the Mother” (Lifetime Movie Network)
• Tamera Mowry – “Double Wedding” (Lifetime Movie Network)
• Rosie Perez – “Lies in Plain Sight” (Lifetime Movie Network)
• Tia Mowry – “Double Wedding” (Lifetime Movie Network)

RECORDING

New Artist

• Jason Derulo (Warner Bros. Records)
• Nicki Minaj (Young Money/Cash Money/Universal Motown)
• B.o.B (Rebel Rock/Grand Hustle/Atlantic)
• Bruno Mars (Elektra Records)
• Willow (Roc Nation/Columbia Records)

Male Artist

• Usher (Laface/Jive Records)
• Cee Lo Green (Elektra Records)
• Kanye West (Island Def Jam Music Group)
• Jay-Z (Roc Nation/Def Jam)
• Ne-Yo (Island Def Jam Music Group)

Female Artist

• Corinne Bailey Rae (Capitol Records)
• Chrisette Michele (Island Def Jam Music Group)
• Rihanna (Island Def Jam Music Group)
• Mary J. Blige (Geffen Records/Matriarch)
• Sade (Epic Records)

Song

• “Fistful of Tears” – Maxwell (Columbia Records)
• “Bittersweet” – Fantasia (J Records)
• “Forget You” – Cee-Lo Green (Elektra Records)
• “Un-thinkable (I’m Ready)” – Alicia Keys (J Records)
• “Soldier of Love” – Sade (Epic Records)

Album

• “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy” – Kanye West (Island Def Jam Music Group)
• “Now and Then” – Smokey Robinson (Saguaro Road/Cracker Barrel/Robso Records)
• “Raymond vs. Raymond” – Usher (Laface/Jive Records)
• “Soldier of Love” – Sade (Epic Records)
• “Wake Up!” – John Legend and The Roots (Columbia Records)

LITERATURE

Literary Work -Fiction

• “Getting to Happy” – Terry McMillan (Penguin Group)
• “A Taste of Honey” – Jabari Asim (Broadway Books)
• “Till You Hear From Me” – Pearl Cleage (Ballantine Books/One World)
• “Glorious” – Bernice L. McFadden (Akashic Books)
• “Wench” – Dolen Perkins-Valdez (Amistad)

Literary Work -Non-Fiction

• “Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority” – Tom Burrell (SmileyBooks)
• “Surviving and Thriving 365 Days in Black Economic History” – Dr. Julianne Malveaux (Last Word Productions, Inc.)
• “Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts of Women in SNCC” – Editors: Faith S. Holsaert, Judy Richardson, Martha Prescod Norman Noonan, Betty Garman Robinson, Jean Smith Young, Dorothy M. Zellner (University of Illinois Press)
• “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness” – Michelle Alexander (The New Press)
• “The History of White People” – Nell Irvin Painter (W.W. Norton & Company)

MOTION PICTURE

Motion Picture

• “For Colored Girls” (Lionsgate/34th Street Films)
• “The Book of Eli” (Warner Bros. Pictures)
• “Just Wright” (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
• “Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married Too?” (Lionsgate)
• “The Kids Are All Right” (Focus Features)

Actor in a Motion Picture

• Common – “Just Wright” (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
• Denzel Washington – “The Book of Eli” (Warner Bros. Pictures)
• Anthony Mackie – “Night Catches Us” (Magnolia Pictures)
• Jaden Smith – “The Karate Kid” (Columbia Pictures)
• Morgan Freeman – “Red” (Summit Entertainment)

Actress in a Motion Picture

• Janet Jackson – “Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married Too?” (Lionsgate)
• Kerry Washington – “Night Catches Us” (Magnolia Pictures)
• Halle Berry – “Frankie & Alice” (Freestyle Releasing)
• Zo’ Saldana – “The Losers” (Warner Bros. Pictures)
• Queen Latifah – “Just Wright” (Fox Searchlight Pictures)

DOCUMENTARY

Documentary (Theatrical or Television)

• “Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel” (Metaphor Films)
• “For Love of Liberty: The Story of America’s Black Patriots” (PBS)
• “Waiting for “Superman” (Paramount Vantage)
• “If God is Willing and the Creek Don’t Rise” (HBO)
• “William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe” (POV)

WRITING

Writing in a Comedy Series

• Daniel Chun – “The Office” -Nepotism (NBC)
• Kenny Smith – “Pair of Kings” -Where the Wild Kings Are (Disney XD)
• Aaron McGruder – “The Boondocks” -The Fund-Raiser (Cartoon Network)
• Vali Chandrasekaran – “30 Rock” -Khonani (NBC)
• Myra J. – “Tyler Perry’s Meet the Browns” -Meet the Racist (TBS)

DIRECTING

Directing in a Comedy Series

• Justin Lin – “Community” -Modern Warfare (NBC)
• Joe Morton – “Eureka” -Stoned (Syfy)
• Kevin Rodney Sullivan – “Modern Family” -Game Changer (ABC)
• Ken Whittingham – “30 Rock” -Anna Howard Shaw Day (NBC)
• Michael Schultz – “Chuck” -Chuck vs. “The Couch Lock” (NBC)

So, find out whether Halle Berry wins the best actress award or not only on 2011 NAACP Image Awards on FOX sharp at 8pm ET on Friday, March 4, 2011. You will be engrossing time watching celebrities walking up the podium and grasping their award for the night. So, don’t forget to tune into DISH Network on time! You can’t miss a single moment!

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The last Sunday night was pretty entertaining and exciting with all the predictions coming true! You simply had a blast enjoying 53rd Annual Grammy Awards 2011 on CBS aired on DISH Network on last Sunday (February 13, 2011). Most of the awards were handed to usual expectants, as opposed to the 2 prestigious and biggest awards of Grammys 2011. Yes, Esperanza Spalding has been one of the most talked-about artists among the 2011 Grammy Awards Winners. Esperanza Spalding won the 2011 Grammys Best New Artist award, whereas the Arcade Fire bagged the Album of the Year award for their album The Suburbs (beating prominent Eminem, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry and others).

First time in the history of 35 years, the music organization has honored a jazz artist in the Best New Artist category. Esperanza Spalding, a jazz singer not so popular in the main stream media, was announced the Best New Artist during the 53rd Ceremony of Grammy Awards night on late Sunday that was held at Los Angeles’ Staples Center.

The young artist, who is just 26, is a bassist and fusionist, managed to steal the celebrated award from the pop and well respected lineup of artist – Justin Bieber, Drake, Florence + The Machine, and Mumford & Sons. She was honored with the award for her third CD Chamber Music Society (earlier she released Esperanza in 2008 and Junjo in 2006).

This African-American or Welsh and Spanish singer, (formerly from Portland, Oregon) said in her award speech, “I know I don’t have a lot of time, so first, thank you to the Academy for even nominating me in this category.” She is, in fact, the youngest lady to enter the prestigious Berklee School of Music in Boston Massachusetts. She continued to say, “I take this honor to heart so sincerely, and I’ll do my damndest to make a whole lot of great music for all of you. It’s such a blessing and an honor. God bless. Thank you.”

Although, Esperanza Spalding is not so familiar among Americans, but she happens to be Barack Obama’s one of the favorite artists, who played twice at the White House. She even entertained audiences at the Nobel Prize for Peace reception in Oslo in 2006, where the President was honored.

On the other hand, the Arcade Fire came as a real shock for all those Perry, Gaga and Eminem lovers, when the Album of the Year award went to the Indie Rockers – the Arcade Fire. Even the eight-member band expressed surprise mixed with victorious smiles. According to front man Win Butler, “It was shocking. This award is for our record. We really believe in records. When we make a record, we really put all of our soul into it. To be recognized for that [by] this group of people, in the age of the iPod or in the age of the single or whatever it is, we still really care about records so it means a lot to us.”

Other Grammy Awards winners 2011 include Lady Antebellum who won the most trophies that include Song of the Year, Record of the Year, Best Country Song and Best Country Performance by Duo/Group for the song “Need You Now”. Lady Gaga walked away with the Best Pop Vocal Album for ‘The Fame Monster’. And you all enjoyed watching these 2011 Grammys winners on CBS this Sunday.

So, are you happy, sad or surprised to know about the Grammy Awards 2011 winners? Whatever it is, the best has stolen the Grammys this time for all their diligent work and excellence. Keep watching DISH Network for exciting programs all through the year.

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The 17^th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards 2011 or SAG Awards 2011 is all slated to be aired on TNT and TBS on this Sunday, January 30, 2011 at 8 pm EST. You can best watch this program on DISH Network, as it is the leading satellite TV provider in the United States and will give you a clear picture making the show enjoyable to the extremes.

The Annual Screen Actors Awards show has always been a unique show since the actors here themselves select the best performances from among their actor friends. The show is popular with movie lovers since 1995. The nominees in this awards show are quite similar to those nominated in the Oscars; thus, you can fathom the prestige associated with getting a SAG Award.

The Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations 2011 have already been announced in mid-December 2010. Lots of people are waiting eagerly to hear their favorite actor’s and actress’ name be announced in the main categories of Best Actor and Best Actress. The nominations for Best Actor include Jeff Bridges for True Grit, Robert Duvall for Get Low, Jesse Eisenberg for The Social Network, Colin Firth for The King’s Speech, and James Franco for 127 Hours. The 2011 Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations for Best Actress category include Nicole Kidman for Rabbit Hole, Annette Bening for The Kids Are All Right, Jennifer Lawrence for Winter’s Bone, Hilary Swank for Conviction, and Natalie Portman for Black Swan. All the actors and actresses have good chances of winning.

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The most prestigious critic’s award is here again to dazzle the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles, California with stars tonight. Yes, now catch the 16th Annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards on VH1 tonight (Friday, January 14, 2011) at 9 PM ET/PT. All those entertainment aficionados and cinema fans are going to have a feast tonight when their favorite actors would collect this esteemed award for their brilliant performances on-screen. So, don’t forget to tune into VH1 tonight only on DISH Network!

Get ready as the red carpet has been laid and cinema critics have made their decision. They will honor the best people who have achieved cinematic excellence in the last year. See your beloved celebrity at the Critics’ Choice Movie Awards 2011 on January 14, 2011. Maroon 5, a popular band, will play some classics and new songs for the audiences and viewers for the evening in between awards.

Regarding the 2011 Critics’ Choice Awards nominees and guests, the President of VH1 said, “The nominees, presenters and guests in the house at the annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards are all A-list. We’ve been huge supporters of Maroon 5 since the beginning of their career, and watched them become an international success.  Having them join our production as the house band brings an unprecedented level of excitement and musical talent to the show”.

The largest organization of film critics in the United States of America and Canada, the BFCA comprising of 250 members, has chosen Critics’ Choice Movie Awards 2011 nominees in every one of 25 categories. If we look at history, we will know that the Annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards 2011 on VH1 is a perfect interpreter of the Academy Award nominations. The winners of Critics’ Choice Awards in 2010 were the winners at the Academy Awards in the 4 major acting categories.

In the 2011 Annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards show, there will excitement and entertainment at its best. The executive producers of 16th Critics’ Choice Movie Awards are Joey Berlin for Berlin Entertainment, Jesse Ignjatovic for Den of Thieves, and Lee Rolontz for VH1.

So, let’s find out tonight on VH1 who all wins the awards and moves on. In case to view it as many times you want, you can record it on DISH DVR.

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