PBS Dominates List Of Nominations For Children’s Programming For 30th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards

New York, March 12, 2003 — PBS was honored with more children’s programming nominations than any other broadcast or cable network at today’s National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) Daytime Emmy announcement, and overall came in third place in total number of nominations in all categories. With a total of 47 nominations for PBS overall, 39 of those were for PBS KIDS programs.

Many PBS series received multiple nominations, with SESAME STREET leading the way with 12 in all. Other multiple nominees included:

READING RAINBOW (7)
BETWEEN THE LIONS (6)
CLIFFORD THE BIG RED DOG (5)
THIS OLD HOUSE (4)
ZOOM (4)
ARTHUR (3)
MISTER ROGERS’ NEIGHBORHOOD (2)
ELMO’S WORLD: THE WILD, WILD WEST (2)

In the non-children’s categories, besides THIS OLD HOUSE, the Academy honored LIVE FROM LINCOLN CENTER and THE FACE: JESUS IN ART, actually distributed by American Public Television (APT) . The 29th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards presentation will be broadcast on CBS from Madison Square Garden on Friday, May 17 (9-11 p.m., ET). The show will be produced by CBS Productions with Dick Clark of dick clark productions (sic), Inc. serving as the executive producer. The Creative Craft Daytime Emmy Awards, primarily for the creative arts categories, will be presented on Saturday, May 11, in New York at the Marriott Marquis Hotel and in Los Angeles at the Century Plaza Hotel. Emmy Awards are presented to daytime television programs that are broadcast nationally between the hours of 2 a.m. and 6 p.m. The eligibility period for this year’s Daytime Emmy Awards was January 1, 2001 – December 31, 2001. The complete list of PBS nominations, as listed by NATAS, follows below:

Outstanding Children’s Animated Program
ARTHUR
CLIFFORD THE BIG RED DOG
DRAGON TALES

Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction/Set Decoration/Scenic Design
BETWEEN THE LIONS
SESAME STREET

Outstanding Achievement in Single Camera Photography(Film or Electronic)
THE FACE: JESUS IN ART
READING RAINBOW

Outstanding Achievement in Costume Design/Styling
BETWEEN THE LIONS
SESAME STREET

Outstanding Directing In A Service Show
THIS OLD HOUSE

Outstanding Directing In A Children’s Series
READING RAINBOW
SESAME STREET
ZOOM

Outstanding Achievement in Single Camera Editing
BETWEEN THE LIONS
READING RAINBOW
THIS OLD HOUSE
ZOOM

Outstanding Achievement in Multiple Camera Editing
SESAME STREET

Outstanding Achievement in Hairstyling
SESAME STREET

Outstanding Achievement in Lighting Direction
BETWEEN THE LIONS
SESAME STREET

Outstanding Achievement in Main Title Design
SAGWA: THE CHINESE SIAMESE CAT

Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction And Composition
ARTHUR
CLIFFORD THE BIG RED DOG
SESAME STREET

Outstanding Performer In A Children’s Series
MISTER ROGERS’ NEIGHBORHOOD
READING RAINBOW
SESAME STREET

Outstanding Performer In A Children’s Special
ELMO’S WORLD: THE WILD, WILD WEST

Outstanding Performer In An Animated Program
CLIFFORD THE BIG RED DOG (2)

Outstanding Service Show Host
THIS OLD HOUSE

Outstanding Pre-School Children’s Series
SESAME STREET

Outstanding Children’s Series
BETWEEN THE LIONS
READING RAINBOW
ZOOM

Outstanding Service Show
THIS OLD HOUSE

Outstanding Special Class Special
LIVE FROM LINCOLN CENTER: THE CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER: “AN EVENING OF BEETHOVEN”

Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Special Class
BETWEEN THE LIONS

Outstanding Achievement in Live & Direct To Tape Sound Mixing
READING RAINBOW

Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing
ZOOM

Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing – Special Class
ARTHUR
CLIFFORD THE BIG RED DOG
SESAME STREET

Outstanding Achievement in Technical Direction/Electronic Camera/ Video Control
SESAME STREET

Outstanding Writing In A Children’s Series
MISTER ROGERS’ NEIGHBORHOOD
READING RAINBOW
SESAME STREET

Outstanding Writing In A Children’s Special
ELMO’S WORLD: THE WILD, WILD WEST

A complete list of all the nominations can be found at EmmyOnline in the National Awards area.

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