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02-04-2003, 05:04 PM
The TV Land Awards: A Celebration of Classic TV premieres on TV Land and simulcast on Nick at Nite on WEDNESDAY, March 12 (9:00-11:00 pm ET/PT. The show has moved from the previously announced date of Sunday, March 9.
TV Land's first ever awards show, hosted by Emmy-award winning actor John Ritter, recognizes the best and brightest stars and shows from television's rich history. This two-hour celebration is presented by Chevy Trucks and in part by Revlon.
INNOVATOR AWARD
This award is presented to a show which took a chance with an idea which directly challenged the standard norms of the day. This year's honoree is All in the Family.
Norman Lear's groundbreaking comedic series changed the way television portrayed American families. For the first time ever, the lead character in a sitcom, Archie Bunker, was a prejudiced, out-spoken working class everyman who unabashedly rendered his right-wing opinions to anyone who would listen. The
show was brutally honest and never hid behind political-correctness. What made it so successful was that Bunker, so brilliantly played by Carroll O'Connor, was surrounded by the very people whom he loathed including hippie liberals (son-in-law Mike Stivic, aka "Meathead," played by Rob Reiner), upwardly
mobile African-Americans (neighbors, The Jeffersons, played by Sherman Hemsley and Isabel Sanford), and independent-minded, free-thinking women (daughter Gloria played by Sally Struthers). The glue that held the family together was Bunker's wife, Edith (Jean Stapleton). The series garnered 21 Emmy awards
during its run on CBS.
TV Land's first ever awards show, hosted by Emmy-award winning actor John Ritter, recognizes the best and brightest stars and shows from television's rich history. This two-hour celebration is presented by Chevy Trucks and in part by Revlon.
INNOVATOR AWARD
This award is presented to a show which took a chance with an idea which directly challenged the standard norms of the day. This year's honoree is All in the Family.
Norman Lear's groundbreaking comedic series changed the way television portrayed American families. For the first time ever, the lead character in a sitcom, Archie Bunker, was a prejudiced, out-spoken working class everyman who unabashedly rendered his right-wing opinions to anyone who would listen. The
show was brutally honest and never hid behind political-correctness. What made it so successful was that Bunker, so brilliantly played by Carroll O'Connor, was surrounded by the very people whom he loathed including hippie liberals (son-in-law Mike Stivic, aka "Meathead," played by Rob Reiner), upwardly
mobile African-Americans (neighbors, The Jeffersons, played by Sherman Hemsley and Isabel Sanford), and independent-minded, free-thinking women (daughter Gloria played by Sally Struthers). The glue that held the family together was Bunker's wife, Edith (Jean Stapleton). The series garnered 21 Emmy awards
during its run on CBS.