'Friday Evening Lights,' 'Game of Thrones' Take Top Honors at TCA Honours

Friday Evening Lights and Bet on Thrones won top honors in the Television Experts Association's 27th annual TCA Honours Saturday evening.our editor suggests TCA Taps Nick Offerman To Host Honours Show 'Game of Thrones,' 'Justified,' 'Parks and Recreation' Top TCA Nominations'Friday Evening Lights': 5 Things Michael B. Jordan Will MissRelated Subjects•TCA The big event, located by Parks and Entertainment star Nick Offerman, happened in the Beverly Hilton, the place to find the TCA summer time press tour during the last two days. THR's Full Dental Coverage Plans from the TCA Summer time Press Tour Program of the season visited DirecTV/NBC's Emmy-nominated drama Friday Evening Lights, an appropriate tribute for any significantly admired, if little-viewed series that ended its five-season run the 2009 summer time. Bet on Thrones, which won over experts and audiences alike throughout its first season on Cinemax, required home the award for outstanding new program, an recognition that visited Fox's Glee this past year. ABC's Modern Family walked away using the award for outstanding achievement in comedy for that second year consecutively, while AMC's Mad Males won its third outstanding achievement in drama award. PHOTOS: The Quotable TCA: TV Press Tour Eavesdropper Males star Jon Hamm (Don Draper) was granted the person achievement in drama award with Family's Ty Burrell (Phil Dunphy) and Parks' Offerman (Ron Swanson) tying for individual achievement in comedy. An entire listing of the 2011 TCA Honours readers follows: Individual Achievement in Drama: Jon Hamm (Mad Males,AMC) Individual Achievement in Comedy: Ty Burrell (Modern Family, ABC)and Nick Offerman (Parks and Entertainment, NBC) Outstanding Achievement in Information and news:Restrepo(National Geographic Funnel) Outstanding Achievement the truth is Programming: TheAmazing Race(CBS) Outstanding Achievement in Youth Programming: Sesame Street(PBS) Outstanding New Program: Bet on Thrones(Cinemax) Outstanding Achievement in Movies, Miniseries and Special offers: Masterpiece: Sherlock (PBS) Outstanding Achievement in Drama: Mad Males(AMC) Outstanding Achievement in Comedy: Modern Family(ABC) Career Achievement Award: The famous host oprah Winfrey Heritage Award: The Dick Van Dyke Show Program of the season: Friday Evening Lights (DirecTV/NBC) Related Subjects TCA Mad Males Modern Family Bet on Thrones Friday Evening Lights Nick Offerman TCA Summer time Press Tour 2011

Play 'Guess the Cause of Death' With These New Images from Final Destination 5

Death continues to wreak fateful havoc in the lives of doomed young persons in next week’s Final Destination 5 (Death doesn’t like to be cheated… out of an opportunity to rake in more money!), but who knows what inventive, grotesque kills await? Play Movieline’s “Guess the Death” and take a stab (ding!) at predicting how each of the film’s cast members (including Emma Bell, Tony Todd, and David Koechner) will meet their maker, based on clues found in these five new stills. 1. Jacqueline MacInnes Wood as Olivia Death by Ludovico technique! Or, more likely: Lasik gone horribly wrong. 2. Nicholas D’Agosto as Sam Clutching the railing for dear life, Sam’s little heart gave out from the strain. 3. David Koechner as Dennis Say it ain’t so, Koechner! Most tragic comic-over-the-cliff death since Rob Riggle in Furry Vengeance? (Apologies for that spoiler alert if you’re still waiting to see Furry Vengeance.) (Condolences if you’ve already seen it.) 4. P.J. Byrne as Isaac Those acupuncture needles aren’t going to commit freak homicide themselves. ARE THEY?? 5. Tony Todd as Bludworth Death by… bees? CANDYMAN CANDYMAN CANDYMAN CANDYMAN CANDYMAN! Click for the full gallery of 20+ images from Final Destination 5, in theaters August 12.

Studios win injunction vs. Zediva

Hollywood studios have won an important legal victory in their effort to shut down the Web service Zediva, a tech startup that buys up recently released DVDs, plays them from its own banks of disc players and streams them on demand to customers. U.S. District Judge John F. Walter granted a preliminary injunction against Zediva in a ruling on Monday, concluding that the company violated the studios' right of public performance. Even though Zediva argued that its service was no different from a brick-and-mortar video rental business, in which owners do not obtain studio permission to rent DVDs to customers, Walter concluded that Zediva violated the "transmit" clause in the Copyright Act, in that the copyrighted works were sent "to the public over the Internet." He also sided with the studios' arguments that Zediva threatened the "windows," or the timeline in which releases are made available to various media because Zediva was able to stream movies into homes earlier than they were licensed to services like Netflix or to on-demand cable customers. "Judge Walter rejected Zediva's argument that it was 'renting' movies to its users, and ruled, by contrast, that Zediva violated the studios' exclusive rights to publicly perform their movies, such as through authorized video-on-demand services," said Dan Robbins, senior VP and associate general counsel for the MPAA. The case now will proceed to a final resolution. Zediva, which launched in March, allowed customers to choose a recently released DVD and control things like start, stop and pause. But the company's machines were playing the disc. Zediva said in a statement that it will continue its fight and the ruling "represents a setback for the hundreds of thousands of consumers looking for an alternative to Hollywood-controlled online movie services. Zediva intends to appeal, and will keep fighting for consumers' right to watch a DVD they've rented, whether that rental is at the corner store or by mail or over the Internet." Contact Ted Johnson at ted.johnson@variety.com