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BANFF 2009: Awards aplenty

BANFF – Home Box Office’s (HBO) John Adams was the big winner on Monday as it picked up the Grand Jury Prize as the best of the best – as well as the best drama award at the Banff World Television Awards, or Rockies, ceremony. “OMFG. We got the big one,” said David Baldwin, executive vice-president of programming planning at HBO, in accepting the Grand Jury Prize. “John Adams was a special project for HBO.” The U.S. mini-series about U.S. president John Adams also has Emmy and Golden Globe wins. The Rockie for best Canadian program went to Passage, from...