Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeThe National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences will launch a new Emmy Awards ceremony next year to honor children’s and family content.
The Children’s & Family Emmy Awards will remove those categories from the Daytime Emmys, where kids fare was previously honored, as recognition that those programs transcend daypart.The Children’s & Family Emmy Awards is the first new Emmy expansion since 1979, and comes following an agreement earlier this year between New York-based NATAS and its Los Angeles counterparts at the Television Academy (which administers the Primetime Emmys) to consolidate all children’s programming, both daytime and primetime, under NATAS’ domain.“This is something we have had in.
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