The TV IV:IVy Awards/2006/Best Made-for-TV Movie, Miniseries or Special

Candidates to be considered the Best Made-for-TV Movie, Miniseries or Special which first aired in the United States between June 1, 2005 and May 31, 2006. Please read carefully the Definitions and Guidelines before putting a candidate up for nomination.

Definitions

made-for-TV movie

Any motion picture, scripted or documentary, which first premiered on television or which was produced and funded by one or more television networks for the express purpose of being distributed on television, even if its premiere was not on television (i.e.: film festival screenings).

miniseries

Any series which fits the definition of miniseries as it is defined in the TV IV Glossary, excluding those miniseries which are seasons of a non-limited TV series.

special

Any production premiering on television which is intended to be a stand-alone production, including those specials which are stand-alone episodes of a television series unless the special airs during the usual night and time of the series itself and summarizes major plots and themes in the series. (In other words, the Lost specials would not be eligible, because they're clip episodes of the series for new viewers which air in Lost's usual timeslot, but the BBC's The Office Christmas Special would have been.)

Guidelines

Please feel free to propose as many or as few candidates as you like in each category. If you change your mind or wish to retract a candidate, don't worry about editing the page, as it could cause some confusion down the road. (If you propose one unworthy enough, it will most likely not make it past the nominating process, anyway.) Feel free to discuss yours or others' proposals as much or as little as you choose. Tell us why you feel a candidate should be considered, or why someone else's candidate is a horrible choice and should not be considered. (Just remember to follow standard TV IV discussion rules regarding civility.)

Please mark all proposed candidates in bold, and link the show titles, even if the linked articles are empty or stubs. Try to avoid using bold elsewhere in the discussion. (To mark a candidate in bold, surround the name with two sets of three apostrophes, and use double brackets for linking, '''[[like this]]'''.)

Candidates Discussion

• Assume the Position with Mr. Wuhl: In this surprisingly funny special, Robert Wuhl re-examines popularly held misconceptions about American history in the light of pop culture, and makes Christopher Columbus, Paul Revere and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow seem like contemporary figures being made fun of by a talk show host.
• The Girl in the Cafe: This TV movie about world poverty manages to work in a touching love story while also delivering its point.
• No Direction Home: Bob Dylan: A documentary about Bob Dylan in his heyday, directed by Martin Scorsese. It's almost impossible not to nominate this film.

JCaesar 07:54, 3 June 2006 (EDT)

Due to its ineligibility for this category, the nomination for The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear has been moved to this page's talk page. JCaesar 23:00, 26 June 2006 (EDT)

• Epitafios - Already considered a ground-breaking show and expected to win many awards throughout the world. --MateoP 10:35, 8 June 2006 (EDT)
• Into the West: TNT's epic look at the settling of the American West managed to keep you engaged with the story and the characters despite covering over 75 years of time and thousands of miles of countryside. They took a unique system of following one family through the whole series whose members seemed to end up entangled in all the important events of the West in the 19th Century. This worked especially well since the family was formed by the marriage of a white man from Virginia and a Lakota Indian allowing them to uniquely observe both sides of the story. It showed the American Indians in a manner which is seldom seen on TV, niether all evil nor completely benevolent and without guilt. It showed that both sides made mistakes and perpetrated atrocities and through the eyes of the Wheeler family the viewer could tell how it would feel to be there and not be able to avert the events as they unfolded. In all a unique and well done look at the American West that could only work in the miniseries format.The-jam 13:49, 9 June 2006 (EDT)

• I Love the Holidays - Yet another VH1 "I Love..." special. You know you really should change the channel and watch something else, or turn off the TV, but you can't... perhaps it's nostalgia, or maybe it's because the show can actually be pretty funny.
• I Love Toys - There's only so many times you can rehash the same two decades over and over, so they moved on to another topic. And you know, it was entertaining. Spent an entire Saturday reminiscing over things like G.I. Joe, Slinky, and Care Bears. - Lampbane 23:26, 12 June 2006 (EDT)

• Baghdad ER - In Vietnam, Americans watched daily news reports live from Vietnam. The current war has been lacking in this kind of coverage, but this HBO documentary shows us what we haven't been seeing every day. Whatever your opinions on the politics of the war, there is no doubt this is a compelling look at the day-to-day face of war. JCaesar 23:00, 26 June 2006 (EDT)