Showing posts with label Alex Trebek. Show all posts
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Thursday, March 26, 2015

Daytime Creative Arts Emmy Awards Will Be Hosted By Alex Trebek & Florence Henderson

Florence Henderson
The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) announced today that “Jeopardy!” game show icon, Alex Trebek and Florence Henderson, stage and television star of “Oklahoma” and “The Brady Bunch,” will host the Daytime Creative Arts Emmy Awards on Friday, April 24, 2015. The reception and presentation will take place at the Universal Hilton in Los Angeles beginning at 5:30 p.m.

In addition, this year’s Daytime Creative Arts Emmy Award for Lifetime Achievement will be presented to producer, director, Michael Gargiulo, who in his over 50-year career has had a hand in many television classics such as “Password,” “I’ve Got A Secret,” “The Tell the Truth,” The Thanksgiving Day’s Parade,” the “Tournament of Roses,” plus many variety specials for CBS, including the “New Year’s Eve Celebration” for more than 30 years.

“I feel like we have garnered two icons of television royalty in having Alex Trebek and Florence Henderson as co-hosts for our grand celebration of the best in the craft of television at this year’s Daytime Creative Arts gala,” said Bob Mauro, President, NATAS. “Adding Producer/Director Michael Gargiulo as our lifetime achievement honoree to the evening’s festivities with his over-half a century of Emmy-Award winning work guarantees a terrific evening as we honor the best in daytime television.”

“Michael Gargiulo is a behind the camera pioneer who goes back to his days with television legends Bob Stewart and Mark Goodson,” said David Michaels, Senior Vice President, Daytime. “From his historic recording of the Nixon Khrushchev “kitchen debate” to the “$10,000 Pyramid,” Michael Gargiulo has produced and directed just about everything in a career that includes game shows, variety specials and news. We’re delighted to be honoring him with this well-deserved lifetime achievement award.”

Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Melody Thomas Scott Pledges THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS Wedding Gown To The Smithsonian

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will receive the wedding gown worn by actress Melody Thomas Scott as Nikki during one of her 12 weddings on the daytime drama, THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS. This gown was worn on air in 2002 during her second wedding to Victor Newman, played by actor Eric Braeden. Scott has been a major player in THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS daytime drama, acting on the show for more than 34 years. The dress was pledged to the museum during the Sunday, June 16, broadcast of the 40th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards.

The museum has partnered with the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences to collect objects reflecting the contributions of daytime television. A donation ceremony in May marked the partnership’s beginning with donations from ALL MY CHILDREN actress Susan Lucci, Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek, and Kathy and Phil Parker of Barney. The donations represent three of the Daytime Entertainment Emmy categories—daytime dramas, game shows and children’s programming.

Thursday, June 13, 2013

Nikki Newman's 2002 Wedding Gown Will Be Donated To The Smithsonian; Melody Thomas Scott & Alex Trebek Will Appear At The Daytime Emmys

Melody Thomas Scott and Alex Trebek will make a special appear on the June 16th Broadcast to announce the NATAS partnership with The Smithsonian and present Nikki's wedding gown from THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS to The National Museum of American History. WE LOVE SOAPS TV was in Washington last month and spoke with Trebek about the museum's daytime collection and more.

The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History will receive the wedding gown worn by actress Melody Thomas Scott as Nikki Reed during one of her 12 weddings on the daytime drama, THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS. This gown was worn on air in 2002 during her second wedding to Victor Newman, played by actor Eric Braeden. Ms. Thomas Scott has been a major player in THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS daytime drama, acting on the show for more than 34 years. The dress was pledged to the museum during the Sunday, June 16 broadcast of the 40th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards.

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Corbin Bernsen, Jess Walton, Betty White, Max Ehrich, Alex Trebek, Bryton James & Hunter King Among Daytime Emmy Presenters

HLN, the host network of the annual Daytime Entertainment Emmy® Awards show, now in its 40th year, presented live from The Beverly Hilton hotel in Los Angeles on Sunday, June 16, 8-10 p.m., ET/PT, today announces, some of its star-studded line-up of presenters.

This year’s presenters will include some of the biggest names in television, past, present and future including Steve Harvey, Betty White, Wayne Brady, Alex Trebek, Todd Newton and the newest additions to daytime TV, Bethenny Frankel and Kris Jenner. In addition, Betty White will present Game Show Icon Monty Hall and Wayne Brady will present Legendary Producer Bob Stewart with this year’s Lifetime Achievement Awards. THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS’ hot, young stars Max Ehrich, Bryton James and Hunter King are also tapped to present with Corbin Bernsen and Jess Walton confirmed to introduce the “in memoriam” tribute.

Monday, May 27, 2013

Daytime Television at the Smithsonian on WE LOVE SOAPS TV -- Susan Lucci, Alex Trebek, Phil & Kathy Baker, John Gray and Malachy G. Wienges

Photo Credit: Neshan Naltchayan, courtesy and copyright NATAS
On May 9, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in Washington D.C. added artifacts that reflect the contributions of daytime television programming to the national entertainment collection in a special ceremony to mark a new partnership with the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Three-time Indie Soap Award winner Anthony Anderson from ANACASTIA covered the event WE LOVE SOAPS TV.

The donations--from ALL MY CHILDREN actress Susan Lucci, JEOPARDY! host Alex Trebek and BARNEY creators Kathy and Phil Parker—represented three of the primary Daytime Entertainment Emmy categories—daytime dramas, game shows and children’s programming.

WE LOVE SOAPS TV spoke to all the contributors as well as museum director, John Gray, as well as NATAS chairman Malachy G. Wienges. Wienges told us The OnLine Network's ALL MY CHILDREN and ONE LIFE TO LIVE would be eligible for the 2014 Daytime Emmy Awards.

"Those two shows will fall into the normal soap opera categories," Wienges said. "It makes no difference what the genre is."

Check out the latest episode of our web series WE LOVE SOAPS TV below to hear on the scene reaction. Plus, Susan Lucci reveals more about her character on the upcoming primetime soap opera DEVIOUS MAIDS and a possible return to ALL MY CHILDREN.

"I hope so," Lucci told us about the chances of her bringing Erica Kane to the new ALL MY CHILDREN. "I'm trying, and they are trying.  There's a lot to work out simply because when they went into production I was in Atlanta working on the Marc Cherry series, DEVIOUS MAIDS.  And now we're about to start Season 2 on my Investigation Discovery series, DEADLY AFFAIRS next week in New York.  So that's a lot of complicated scheduling.  Plus, ALL MY CHILDREN's schedule is also complicated and challenging because they work five weeks on and five weeks off.  So trying to marry those two things, that's what the challenge is and that's what we're going to try to make happen."

Speaking of DEVIOUS MAIDS, Lucci told us she loves how her character's name, Genevieve Delatour, is pronounced and gave us some insights about her role in the Lifetime series.