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April 28, 2017 Daytime Creative Arts Emmy® Awards April 30, 2017 Daytime Emmy® Awards Pasadena Civic Auditorium Lifetime Achievement Honorees MARY HART HARRY FRIEDMAN EMMY ALMANAC DAYTIME PROGRAM, 2PAGE SPREAD REVISION 1 NETFLIX, DAYTIME PUB DATE: 04/30/17 TRIM: 16.25” X 10.875” BLEED: 16.5” X 11.125” 44th annual 44th annual Daytime emmy® awarDs Daytime emmy® awarDs A Message from the Chairman A Message from the CONTENTS of the Board of Trustees President 2 LETTER FROM THE CHAIRMAN 3 LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT The Daytime Creative Arts Emmy® Awards and As Chairman of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS), it is my 4 LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT the Daytime Emmy® Awards have always been the MARY HART pleasure to welcome you to the 44th Annual Daytime Creative Arts Emmy® Awards cornerstone that The National Academy of Television You Gotta Have Hart by Michael Fairman and the Daytime Emmy® Awards! Arts & Sciences has been built on. 10 LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT Tonight we honor the men and women both behind HARRY FRIEDMAN The Daytime Emmy Awards began as an awards program in 1974 at the skating ring Game On! and before the camera and the attainment of a level of by Michael Fairman in Rockefeller Center in New York City. The 1975 show was on a Circle Line boat excellence that is extraordinary and indicative of what 16 DAYTIME EMMY AWARDS circumnavigating the isle of Manhattan. Here it is 2017 and we’re here in one of Southern the Emmy® Awards stand for. NOMINEES California’s outstanding landmarks, the Pasadena Civic Auditorium. Quite a journey. We are also pleased to be celebrating two icons that 38 DAYTIME CREATIVE ARTS EMMY AWARDS NOMINEES have forever left their mark on the television industry, the OFFICERS OF THE NATIONAL We’ve seen Daytime Television mature and go through numerous transformations. As incomparable Mary Hart and Executive Producer, Harry 64 ACADEMY OF TELEVISION ARTS a genre that was known for its many daytime drama series, we’ve welcomed in culinary, Friedman. The entire country fell in love with Mary Hart & SCIENCES from her very first broadcast of “Entertainment Tonight.” talk, morning, children’s and animation programming, lifestyle, travel and promotional, 66 SpECIAL THANKS Mary’s charm, wit, smile and intelligence made her the legal courtroom, game shows, entertainment news programs and much more. It all most trusted anchor in the genre of entertainment news. reflected the ever-changing nature of our country, our lifestyle and our entertainment Her ability to make even the biggest stars comfortable NATAS House Photographers: made audiences welcome her and “ET” into their homes. Bill Dow tastes. Technology has ushered in a completely new era in television: how we view, billdowphotography.com Harry Friedman has produced the two most iconic game use, interact and indeed, where we use it has changed. Whether it’s your office, your Nina Prommer shows in the history of television, if not the world. His milestonefoto.com commuter train, the corner café or your living room, television is everywhere! One constant tweaking of show formats and the addition of the latest technologies has kept “Jeopardy!” and “Wheel ABOUT THE NATIONAL ACADEMY thing that has not changed is the quality of what is presented day-in and day-out by OF TELEVISION ARTS & SCIENCES of Fortune,” at the top of syndicated television with no The National Academy of Television Arts some of the hardest working men and women in the industry. It is with this in mind end in sight. The National Academy could not be prouder & Sciences (NATAS) is a service organization dedicated to the advancement of the arts and that we celebrate these professionals and their accomplishments and honor these to honor both of these extraordinary television stars with sciences of television and the promotion of creative our Lifetime Achievement Award. leadership for artistic, educational and technical distinguished nominees, tonight. achievements within the television industry. It recognizes excellence in television with the In addition to saluting tonight’s many distinguished coveted Emmy® Award for News & Documentary, On behalf of our Board of Trustees, the Executive Committee, our staff at the national Sports, Daytime &, Daytime Creative Arts, nominees, I would like to thank our National staff for their Public & Community Service, and Technology dedication to making tonight’s presentation a success, & Engineering. NATAS membership consists of office and to the many television professionals who made tonight’s presentation possible, over 15,000 broadcast and media professionals especially, David Michaels, SVP, Daytime, Brent Stanton, represented in 19 regional chapters across the we welcome you! country. Beyond awards, NATAS has extensive Executive Director, Daytime and Luke Smith, Director, educational programs including Regional Student Awards Distribution and to Michael Levitt, for lending Television and its Student Award for Excellence Chuck Dages for outstanding journalistic work by high school his creative genius to the program! students, as well as scholarships, publications, and major activities for both industry professionals and Bob Mauro the viewing public. For more information, please visit the website at www.emmyonline.tv 2 THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF TELEVISION ARTS & SCIENCES THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF TELEVISION ARTS & SCIENCES 3 44th annual 44th annual Daytime emmy® awarDs Daytime emmy® awarDs The former Miss South Dakota in the Miss America entertainment news program relegated her to an on-camera Pageant had her epiphany of the trajectory of her life when career being behind a desk, she soon realized she gained being the interviewee herself: “The first time someone mainstream success. “I was asked to perform in the opening sat across me and interviewed me I thought, ‘Wow! How number of the Primetime Emmys that was a great kick,” Hart interesting if I could do that!’” enthused. “I was asked to do Circus of the Stars for three years Hart recalled, “It was like a light bulb went off.” Following in a row, and I did that. I loved it. I did my own sitcom pilot the Miss American Pageant in 1971, where she was a semi- for Paramount at that time. Suddenly, I was going, ‘Wait a finalist, Hart’s host and anchor resume began to come to minute! I am in the middle of it. I’m getting to do so many fruition. After talk show gigs in Sioux City, South Dakota, things in this business. This is a really great job.”’ Cedar Falls, Iowa and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Mary Through ET, Mary’s gams also became all the rage in knew it was her time to move to one of the major markets, what was is now a legendary Tinseltown publicity gimmick. and decided to ‘Go West’ where what awaited her no one Hart shares, “In the early days, Ron Hendren (former ET could have exactly predicted! co-anchor) and I sat in two comfortable chairs with a coffee “I moved to California, and the first job I had was playing table between us. I wanted to make sure I crossed my legs in a a news reporter on Days of our Lives. Then, I was picked to lady-like fashion. But unbeknownst to us people noticed that. host a show called PM Magazine. It was on PM Magazine So, when they built a wooden desk to make us look newsier, that I was on a shoot on Rodeo Drive. Regis Philbin literally the show started getting mail saying, ‘We can’t see Mary’s stopped me on the street. He said, ‘You’re the one. You’re legs.’ PEOPLE magazine found out about it and wanted to do the perfect one. Don’t tell anybody about this yet, but I want you to be my co-host. I’m moving to NBC to do a morning talk show on the network in four months. Do you have a resume tape that you could send over to NBC today?’ It was so stunning and exciting, but I didn’t have a resume tape that day, but believe me working through the night I had a great resume tape. Then, and this is the bizarre and serendipitous The Simon Wiesenthal Center LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD part of the story, Brandon Tartikoff and Grant Tinker (former NBC executives) hired us. The show looked so promising, salutes a great lady, but then in the spring of 1982 they canceled it. By that time, people were just starting to watch Entertainment Tonight and trying to figure out what the show was about. They were trustee and great friend thinking, ‘That ain’t going to work! There is not enough YOU GOTTA HAVE HART entertainment news to be on a show five nights a week.’ Next of the Center and the thing you know, Entertainment Tonight called me up. It was ENTERTAINMENT NEWS TRAILBLAZER, MARY HART, one of the producers of the show going, ‘We would like to Museum of Tolerance. interview you, and we would like to talk about the experience RECEIVES LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD of being canceled, and what does that feel like.’ So we did an by Michael Fairman interview, and then a couple of days later my agent called me and said, ‘These people from Entertainment Tonight would Rabbi Marvin Hier Larry A. Mizel Founder and Dean Chairman of the Board Beauty queen, turned entertainment news anchor, turned In Mary’s case, the motto “Stay true to one’s self ” is what love to have you come over and visit them. They think there celebrity interviewer, turned pop culture phenom, Mary Hart’s has set her apart and defined her career amidst those in the might be something for you over there.’ The rest is history.” and the entire journey throughout show business has been one of natural same industry looking for that hook, or gimmick.