th Los Angeles, Sunday, August 30, 2009 Dear Fellow-Lovers of Daytime Television, On behalf of our board and the loyal members and staff of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS), I welcome you to the 36th annual telecast of the Daytime Entertainment Emmy® Awards. I also would like to welcome our new partners in the telecast, The CW Television Network and Associated Television International. These are difficult times financially for many organizations across the country but especially for non-profit organizations such as NATAS. Nevertheless, we want to assure you that our mission to recognize the best in television by awarding the worldwide standard of excellence, the Emmy® Award, continues undiminished. We have worked tirelessly this year against formidable obstacles to secure that this grand tradition of honoring Daytime Television, the dramas, the talk shows, morning shows, entertainment and food and educational programming goes on national television as it has for the past 36 years. The history of this tradition is especially apparent this year as we salute “Guiding Light” for its many years of Daytime drama programming and our Lifetime Achievement honoree, Sesame Street, for helping educate and entertain children around the world for the last 40 years. With our first Sunday evening telecast, hosted by television and recording star, Vanessa Williams, a Daytime and Primetime Emmy® Award nominee this year, we feel confident that this year’s broadcast THEATRE will be one of our best and a harbinger of a bright future ahead. While thanking our colleagues at the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and all our sponsors for helping make the 36th Annual Daytime Entertainment Emmy® Awards a memorable event, we especially would like to thank you, the Daytime Community, for your enthusiasm, your talent and your dedication to excellence which we honor this evening. RPHEUM O Enjoy the show, Herb Granath, Chairman THE The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences TABLE OF CONTENTS OUTSTANDING Talk Show / Entertainment 12 Supporting Actress in a Drama Series 4 Drama Series Writing Team 14 Talk Show/Informative 6 LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD / SESAME STREET 17 Younger Actor in a Drama Series 8 Morning Program 22 Game / Audience Participation Show 8 Talk Show Host 23 Younger Actress in a Drama Series 8 Game Show Host 24 Performer in a Children’s Series 10 Lead Actor in a Drama Series 24 Drama Series Directing Team 10 Lead Actress in a Drama Series 24 Supporting Actor in a Drama Series 12 Drama Series 24 THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF TELEVISION ARTS & SCIENCES 111 West 57th Street, Suite 600, New York, NY 10019 2 The 36th Annual Daytime Entertainment Emmy® Awards Program is published by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.© 2009 NATAS TELECAST LIVE ON COVER ART CHARLES COVER ART FAZZINO Sponsors of the The Master 36th Daytime Entertainment Emmy Awards CHARLES FAZZINO of 3-D Pop Art The Master of 3-D Pop Art Widely considered one of the preeminent pop artists of his generation, Charles Fazzino is best known for his obsession OFFICIAL OFFICIAL with bright colors, incredible RETAIL SPONSOR AIRLINE SPONSOR detail, and a unique hand-assembled 3-D layering technique. His influence on popular culture is undeniable, as hundreds of thousands have enjoyed his whimsical, energetic, and vibrant collection, marking him as one of the greatest historians of our time. His entire collection OFFICIAL HOTEL SPONSOR can be viewed at www.Fazzino.com 4 6 8 OUTSTANDING DRAMA SERIES DIRECTING TEAM 10 12 14 en THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF TELEVISION ARTS &SCIENCES Q a; LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD SESAME STREET ~ for 40 Years of Educational Television iC >® E The current Sesame Street cast E w "E s(]) ~ •..-t t$ ~ -(]) -~ j:J.."l •..-t~ >t -t$ Q .......... @ ~ ...s:l CD (")- Long before Bob the Builder and Dora the Explorer, Sesame Street was pioneer­ ing children's educational entertainment -and the show is still as relevant and engaging as ever. What's the secret to its staying power? By Michael Davis FORTY YEARS AGO THIS NOVEMBER, a new television show designed to educate and entertain kids hit the PBS airwaves. It was unlike anything else on TV at the time, and it captured the attention of children and parents alike. bday, that same show, Sesame Street, continues to break new ground in children's programming, a feat recognized by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS), which will grant a Lifetime Achievement Emmy to the long­ running series at this month's Daytime Emmy Awards. Frank Radice, president of NATAS, praises Sesame's vitality and what it has contributed to society. "There are people out there who don't know what a [vinyl] record is or have never seen a type­ writer;' he says. "But they know Big Bird." 17 Sesame Smarts article courtesy of American Airlines Published in AMERICAN WAY magazine, August 15, 2009 AMERICAN WAY Magazine, August 15, 2009 all The show's well-known theme song asks, has stopped by the stoop at 123 Sesame nickname Big. Ever-obliging Grover tries to "Can you tell me how to get/ How to get to Street over the years. A (very) incomplete help by bringing her a big rock. Sesame Street?" We not only know how to list includes Jack Black, Carol Burnett, Sid get to Sesame Street, we know how - and Caesar, Jim Carrey, Bill Cosby, Billy Crys­ (fllfifi11AHMt11trnlrtmi!BWI4' U why - Sesame StTeet gets to you, even all tal, Ellen DeGeneres, Tina Fey, Jay Leno, Kids may not be familiar with Kristin Che­ these years later. Let us count the ways. We Cheech Marin, Richard Pryor, Jon Stewart, noweth, who pops up during "Elmo's Wo rl d­ love to count. (Cue lightning flashes and Ben Stiller, and Lily Tomlin. Adam Sandler segments as Ms. Noodle, the voiceless. clue­ Transylvanian bats.) will join that alumni association this fall. less sister of baggy-pants clown Mr. ·oodle (played by Bill Irwin). Parents, ho11·eyer. ~11£\ifiilailiii!' ) (fJI(ifi!IWmmlkl;- il$1) likely recognize not only the incand cent Sesame StTeet has maintained a strict edu­ The researchers, writers, producers, and Broadway star but also what her clu>racter cational mandate through the years, but the petformers behind the series make cheeky is meant to be: a Charlie Chaplin que show's pedagogical gears, the mechanisms children's television that tickles adult sensi­ homage to silent-film stars that in used to teach preschoolers, have always bilities. Here's why: It was an early in-house children to the art of mime. been greased by comedy. When Sesame de­ supposition, one that was later supported "The Noodles don't really kno"! what buted in 1969, it was a video reincarnation by bona fide educational research, that chil­ they're doing wrong in any situation: Che­ 3 of vaudeville, with its classic buddy bits and dren learn much more if grown-ups watch noweth says. "The kids watching them call 1 sassy send-ups. and laugh along with them. (And who out, 'No, no, no!' They see an adult is doing The show's quick-cut comedic pace, a wouldn't laugh at a segment about healthy something wrong, and they know ho11· to hallmark of Sesame's early years, was pat­ eating that features a Howie Mandel look­ fix it. I was in a bank once when a little girl terned after late-1960s TV sensation Row­ alike Muppet who hosts a show called Meal pointed at me and said, 'Ms. Noodle! You do an C3 MaTtin's Laugh-In, which featured OT No Meal?) The 40th season will feature things wrong. And you don't talk: I aid, 'I blackouts, knock-knock jokes, and sight a bit with Sarah Jessica Parker waiting know, but you help me figure things out:" gags. And just as Laugh-In had its walk­ around the Sesame Street stoop for her Sex When legendary musician James Taylor on cameos, a contingent of comedy greats and the City love interest, who goes by the is on tour, he occasionally takes requests to 18 play "Jellyman Kelly;' a nonsense song he performed, with jazz virtuoso Howard John­ son on tuba, on Sesame Street in 1983. Tay­ lor credits his multiple appearances on the show with extending his popularity beyond the generation that first discovered him. Indeed, you could learn an awful lot about music, literature, art, science, sports, and politics simply by studying the letter A on Sesame Street's lengthy list of guest stars. It includes legendary dance-company founder Alvin Ailey, moon-walking astro­ naut Buzz Aldrin, beloved novelist and poet Maya Angelou, former secretary gen­ eral of the United Nations Kofi Annan, and barrier-breaking athlete Arthur Ashe. (tNififill®i!ffiffJ!fffiM£1@1) Sesame Str·eet's formula of mixing puppetry, animation, short films, original music, and an ensemble cast still provides an alchemy that entrances as it informs. "It's a total con­ nect with children;' says Kevin Clash, who produces and directs some of Sesame's epi­ sodes but is best known as the Muppeteer behind ever-popular Elmo. The show's ratings may not be what they once were, thanks in part to the proliferation of quality preschool shows on Nickelodeon, Disney Channel, and Noggin. Still, Sesame remains its demographic's most beneficial tries to program. No other series better stimulates the growing child's intellectual, emotional, and social development. "We offer a whole­ child curriculum," says Rosemary Truglio, vice president for education and research for Sesame Workshop (formerly Children's Television Workshop). The old adage "The more things change, the more they stay the same" does not apply to Sesame StTeet.