Cable Hot List 2010

By deftly landing Conan O’Brien after NBC’s ham-handed handling of the late-night host, TBS pierced a veil that has long hung between the broadcast networks and the cable cousins they’ve historically looked down upon.

In the past decade, cable nets like TBS, USA, FX and others have proven they can program dramas, sitcoms and even reality on par with the Big Four. But star power—the talent wattage fueling ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox’s klieg lights for so long—has only appeared on cable as random flashes of brilliance.

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