Bionic Buzz® got to cover the red carpet of Children’s & Family EMMYS. Launching in 2022, This marks the first standalone expansion of the Emmy Award competition since the Sports Emmy Awards and the News & Documentary Emmy Awards were launched in 1979, and establishes a dedicated ceremony separate from the Daytime Emmy Awards, which had been home to children’s and family programming categories. The announcement comes in response to Children’s and Family content representing the fastest-growing genre that NATAS awards, with a 23% increase in related programming the past two years.
The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences is an American professional service organization founded in 1955 for “the advancement of the arts and sciences of television and the promotion of creative leadership for artistic, educational and technical achievements within the television industry. https://theemmys.tv/childrens/
On the red carpet we got to interview the winners of the night actor LeVar Burton (Star Trek: The Next Generation, Transformers: Rescue Bots Reading Rainbow), director Benjamin Lehmann (Sesame Street), cast & crew of Sneakerella (Lexi Underwood, Rachel Watanabe-Batton, Chosen Jacobs, Jane Starz, Elizabeth Rosenbaum & Tamara Chestna), Executive Producer Kerri Grant (Ada Twist Scientist), Executive Producer Kurt Mueller (Hilda and the Mountain King), Executive Producer Chris Nee (We the People), actor Nonso Aonzie (Sweet Tooth), actress Quinn Copeland (Punky Brewster), voice actor Daniel Ross (Mickey & Minnie Wish Upon a Christmas), voice actor Eric Bauza (Looney Tunes Cartoons), voice actor Andy Walken (Centaurworld), director James Bobin (The Mysterious Benedict Society), background designer Chris Tsirgiotis (Kid Cosmic), character designer Ron Velasco (Monsters at Work), character designer Craig McCracken (Kid Cosmic) and production designer Alessandro Taini (Star Trek: Prodigy).
Also on our second video red carpet interviews before the award ceremony with Olivia Perez (The Kids Tonight Show, Sesame Street), Dylan Gilmer (The Kids Tonight Show, Young Dylan), Quinn Copeland (Punky Brewster, El Deafo), Recker Eans (The Kids Tonight Show), Mykal-Michelle Harris (The Kids Tonight Show, Cheaper by the Dozen), Ja’Siah Young (Raising Dion, Rough Night, Nicole & OJ), Kyrie McaAlpin (Doug Unplugs, Cheaper by the Dozen), Alyssa Cheatham (Santiago of the Seas), Archer Bishop (The Loud House, Angry Birds Movie 2), David Errigo, Jr. (Ridley Jones, Phineas and Ferb the Movie), Rueby Wood (Better Nate Than Ever), Andy Walken (Centaurworld, We Can be Heroes), Peyton Elizabeth (Doogie Kamealoha, M.D., Andi Mack), Tucker Chandler (Madagascar: A Little Wild, Gabby’s Dollhouse), Natasha Escobar (Santiago of the Seas, Side Hustle), Tabitha Brown (Tab Time, All Love with Tabitha Brown), Jason Berger (Tab Time, Turnt Up with the Taylors), Cast of The Baby-Sitters Club (Shay Rudolf, Vivian Watson, Sophie Grace, Anais Lee, Malia Baker, Momona Tamada & Kyndra Sanchez), Daniel Ross (Mickey & Minnie Wish Upon a Christmas, MultiVersus), Chosen Jacobs & Lexi Underwood (Sneakerella), Kelly Younger, Andrew Williams & Michael Steinbach (Muppets Haunted Mansion), Nonzo Anozie (Sweet Tooth, Cinderella, Conan the Barbarian), Cast of The Proud Family – Proud and Louder (Soleil Moon Frye, Alisa Reyes & Karen Malina White), Christina Ham & Beth Schwartz (Sweet Tooth), Debbie Allen Dance Company (Show Performers), Niki Lopez (Santiago of the Seas), Phil Hay & Karyn Kusama (The Mysterious Benedict Society), Cast of The Proud Family – Proud and Louder (Ralph Farquhar, Calvin Brown, Jr. & Bruce W. Smith), Sharon Lawrence (Punky Brewster, NYPD Blue, Queen Sugar), Karen Prell & John Tartaglia (Fraggle Rock – Red Fraggle & Gobo Fraggle), Eden Espinosa (Alice’s Wonderland Bakery, Wicked), Cast of First Day (Kirsty Stark, Kate Croser & Julie Kalceff), Jacylnn Demas (Nickelodeon News, Peg + Cat), Writers / Cultural Consultants for Molly of Denali and LeVar Burton (Star Trek: Next Generation, Star Trek: Picard, Roots, Transformers & Reading Rainbow).