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William S.
Paley Television Festival
Celebrates 20 Years oOf
Honoring Excellence Oon Television
Festival to Include Two
Special Anniversary EventsSeminars:
Creating
Comedy and Creating
Drama
Other Pprograms to
include Boomtown, a Rowan &
Martins Laugh-In Reunion,
CSI: Miami, Without Aa
Trace, Sαbado Gigante!,
Columbo, Monk, George Lopez,
24,
The George Lopez Show,American Dreams CSI: Miami, and Life with Bonnie, Monk, Sabado Gigante!, and Rowan & Martins Laugh-In Reunion
(include full line-up, in order of scheduled date)
Los Angeles, CA Celebrating 20 twenty years of
saluting televisions rich and diverse programming, The Museum
of Television & Radio will present its annual William S. Paley Television
Festival from February 26 through to March 125, 2003. Honoring
programs - chosen
for their artistic merit, cultural impact, or historical significance e - or
individuals whose work has had a major impact on television, this years Ffestival
showcases a diverse range of shows, from the ground-breaking
24 to the critically- acclaimed The George
Lopez Show, fromto thea reunion of Rowan & Martins Laugh-In to the longest-running
Spanish-language variety show (NEED TO CONFIRM), Sαabado Gigante!.. Also, the Festival will offer two sSpecial aAnniversary
seminarseventseminarsevenings with leading executive
producerswriters
of some of televisions most memorable dramas and comedies,
offering discussion and insight into the demanding creative process. All
Paley Festival events will be held at the Directors Guild of America (7920 Sunset Boulevard) in Los
Angeles.
The
Paley Festival, named for William S. Paley, founder of both the Museum and CBS,
offers the public an appreciation of the mediums commitment to
quality. During
these evenings, the audience views episodes or highlights of the featured work
and has the opportunity to ask questions of the cast and creative teams or the
individual involved in its production. Since the first Ffestival in 19834, the Museum has honored more than 200 programs, including Cheers, Friends, Gunsmoke, The Honeymooners, Marty, M*A*S*H, Roots, Route 66Buffy the Vampire Slayer, All in the Family, Will & Grace, Gun Smoke, The Honeymooners,
Marty, Friends, The Untouchables, thirtysomething, Seinfeld, The Simpsons, South Park, thirtysomething, The Untouchables, The West Wing, and
(more. . . )
The X-Files, and L.A. LawRoots, along with such
personalities as Lucille Ball, Milton Berle, Alfred HitchcockSid Caesar, Cher, Jim Henson, Bob Hope, Jane Sid Caesar, Jim
Henson, Bob Hope, Jane Fonda, John Frankenheimer, Jack Lemmon, Mary Martin, Carl Reiner, Gene Roddenberry, Garry Shandling, Flip Wilson, Milton Berle, Carl Reiner, and Barbara WaltersJonathan Winters, and many more. Most
of these panels are
available for viewing at the Museum. All Paley Festival events will
be held at the Directors Guild of America (7920 Sunset Boulevard) in Los
Angeles.
(more. . . )
The 2003 William S. Paley Television Festival schedule is as
follows: (NEED TO REVISE AS SCHEDULE IS
CONFIRMEDTITLES)
Special Anniversary SeminarEVENTSEMINAR:
Creating Comedy
Wednesday, February 26 at 7:00
p.m.
The most challenging television comedy has always
commented on American culture. An all-star panel of writers will discuss how
comedy is produced and created with a point of view, how it can critique social
conditions, and how it builds on artistic tradition and other media of the
past. In Person: Judd Apatow (The
Ben Stiller Show, Freaks and Geeks, Undeclared), Norman
Lear (All in
the Family; Maude; Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman), Phil
Rosenthal (Coach, Everybody Loves Raymond), Garry Shandling (It's
Garry Shandling's Show, The Larry Sanders Show), Amy Sherman-Palladino (Roseanne,
Gilmore Girls), Darren Star (Sex and the City, Gross Pointe), Larry Wilmore (The PJs, The Jamie Foxx Show, The Bernie Mac Show).Judd Apatow, Norman Lear, Phil Rosenthal, Amy
Sherman-Palladino, Darren Star, Larry
Wilmore
BOOMTOWN
Thursday, February 27
at 7:00 p.m.
viathrough the multiple perspectives of
those who either perpetrate or protect, and then loops it into a Mobius strip
of a narrative-as if life in the City of Angels
were a great dramatic jigsaw puzzle and you, the viewer, were left to put it
together. In Person: Laurence Andries (Coeo-Executive Producer), Laurie
Arent (Writer), Michelle Ashford (Consulting Producer), Jon Avnet
(Executive Producer/Director), Gary Basaraba (Ray Hechler), Chris Brancato (Co-Eexecutive Producer), Nina Garbiras (Andrea Little), Jason Gedrick (Tom Turcotte), Fred Golan (Producer), Javier Grillo-Marxuach
(Producer), Fred Keller (Supervising
Producer), Neal
McDonough (David McNorris), Lana Parrilla (Teresa Ortiz), Albert J. Salke (Coe-Executive Producer), Stephen Sassen (Producer), Joel
Thompson (Writer), Donnie Wahlberg (Joel
Stevens), Mykelti
Williamson (Fearless
Bobby Smith), Graham
Yost (Executive Producer/Writer/Showrunner).Laurence Andries, Laurie Arent, Michelle Ashford,
Jon Avnet, Gary Basaraba, Chris Brancato, Nina Garbiras, Jason Gedrick, Fred
Golan, Javier Grillo-Marxuach, Neal McDonough, Lana Parrilla, Albert J. Salke,
Steve Sassen, Joel Thompson, Donnie Wahlberg, Mykelti Williamson, Graham Yost
(more. . . )
Rowan & Martins Laugh-In Friday, February 28 at 7:00 p.m.
Friday,
February 28 at 7:00 p.m.
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In With
its barrage of one-liners, flash cuts, racy humor, political satire, burlesque,
unabashed silliness, topical commentary, and oft-repeated catchphrases, Laugh-In
shattered the traditional variety show format to become one of the touchstones
of the psychedelic era. In
Person: Billy Barnes (Special Musical
Material), Chris Bearde (Writer), Ian Bernard (Musical
Director), Ruth Buzzi (Cast Member), Tim Conway (Guest Star), Ed Friendly (Executive
Producer), Arte Johnson (Cast Member), Dick Martin (Host/Executive
Producer), Gary Owens (Cast Member), George Schlatter (Executive
Producer), Alan Sues (Cast Member
0), Lily Tomlin (Cast Member), Jo Anne Worley (Cast Member).
(more. . . )
Chris Bearde, Ruth Buzzi, Tim Conway, Ed Friendly,
Dick Martin, Gary Owens, George Schlatter, Alan Sues, Lily Tomlin, Jo Anne
Worley
(more. . . )
Additional panelists to be announced.
With its barrage of
one-liners, flash cuts, racy humor, political satire, burlesque, unabashed
silliness, topical commentary, and
oft-repeated catchphrases, Laugh-In shattered the traditional variety show
format to become one of the touchstones of the psychedelic era.
CSI: Miami Saturday, March 1 at 6:00 p.m.
Saturday, March 1 at 6:00 p.m.
CSI: Miami This
slick and handsome spin-off builds on its predecessors successful high-tech formula
by emphasizing both brains and brawn and shifting to the beaches and waterways
of the Sunshine State
a
transition, quite literally, from night to day. In
Person: Khandi Alexander (Alexx Woods), David Black (Executive
Producer), Jerry
Bruckheimer (Executive Producer), Danny Cannon (Coe-Executive
Producer), David Caruso (Horatio Caine), Rory
Cochrane (Tim Speedle), Ann
Donahue (Executive Producer), Jonathan Littman (Executive Producer), Carol Mendelsohn (Executive Producer), Emily
Procter (Calleigh
Duquesne), Adam
Rodriguez (Eric Delko), Sam
Strangis (Executive Producer), Anthony Zuiker (Executive Producer).
Khandi Alexander, Jerry Bruckheimer, Danny Cannon,
David Caruso, Rory Cochrane, Ann Donahue, Carol Mendelsohn, Nancy Miller, Emily
Procter, Adam Rodriguez, Sam Strangis, Anthony Zuiker
This slick
and handsome spin-off builds on its predecessor's successful high-tech formula
by emphasizing both brains and brawn and shifting to the beaches and waterways
of the Sunshine State-a transition, quite literally, from night to day.
Special Anniversary EVENTseminar:
Creating DRAMA
Monday, March 3 at
7:00 p.m.
Creating Drama
the heirs not only to pioneers like Paddy
Chayefsky, Reginald Rose, and Rod Serling, but also to serial novelists like
Charles Dickens and American realists like Theodore Dreiser will discuss how they use the medium to explore
values and lifestyles in contemporary society.
In
Person:
Steven Bochco (Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law, NYPD Blue), Aaron
Sorkin (Sports Night, The West Wing), .
Dick Wolf
(Law & Order,
Law & Order: Special
Victims Unit, Law & Order: Criminal
Intent).J. J. Abrams
Steven Bochco
Tom Fontana
Aaron Sorkin
A panel of leading television-drama auteurs-the
heirs not only to pioneers like Paddy Chayefsky, Reginald Rose, and Rod
Serling, but also to serial novelists like Charles Dickens and American
realists like Theodore Dreiser-will discuss how they use the medium to explore
values and lifestyles in contemporary society.
Without a Trace Tuesday,
March 4 at 7:00 p.m.
Tuesday, March 4 at 7:00 p.m.
Without a Trace Operating
under the maxim Learn who the victim is in order to
learn where
the victim is, this tersely paced forensics
procedural follows the urgent efforts of the FBIs Missing Persons Squad as they reconstruct the
lives of the disappeared. In Person: Jerry Bruckheimer (Executive Producer), Eric Close (Martin Fitzgerald), Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Vivian Johnson), Anthony LaPaglia (Jack Malone), Jonathan Littman (Executive
Producer), Poppy Montgomery (Samantha Spade), Enrique Murciano (Danny Taylor), Ed Redlich (Executive Producer), Hank Steinberg (Creator/Executive Producer).
(more. . . )
Jerry Bruckheimer, Eric Close, Marianne
Jean-Baptiste, Anthony LaPaglia, Jonathan Littman, Poppy Montgomery, Enrique
Murciano, Ed Redlich, Hank Steinberg
Operating
under the maxim "Learn who the victim is in order to learn where the
victim is," this tersely paced forensics procedural follows the urgent
efforts of the FBI's Missing Persons Squad as they reconstruct the lives of the
disappeared.
Sαbado Gigante!Wednesday,
March 5 at 7:00 p.m.
Wednesday, March 5 at 7:00
p.m.
Sαbado Gigante
In Person: Mario Kreutzberger
Additional panelists to be announced.
-all held together by indefatigable host Don
Francisco. In
Person: Antonio
"Cuco" Arias (Excutive Producer), Mario Kreutzberger (Host Don Francisco), Stephen Gaymont
(Director of Creative Services, Univision), Mario Kreutzberger
("Don Francisco"/Creator/Creative Producer), Vicente Riesgo
(Director).additional panelists
to be announced.
(more. . . )
ColumboThursday,
March 6 at 7:00 p.m.
Thursday, March 6 at 7:00 p.m.
Columbo In this inversion of the classic
detective formula
In Person: Ed Begley, Jr., Peter Falk, William Link
Additional panelists to be announced.
- a "howdunnit" rather than a "whodunnit" -the
charmingly idiosyncratic Peter Falk and his famously rumpled raincoat made the
shambling, seemingly inept Lt. Columbo one of the more enduring characters in
popular culture. In Person: Ed
Begley, Jr. (Guest Star),
Peter Falk (Lieutenant Columbo/Executive Producer), William Link (Co-cCreator/Executive Producer).
(more. . . )
MONK
Friday, March 7 at 7:00 p.m.
Friday, March 7 at 7:00 p.m. Monk
Andy Breckman, Jason Gray-Stanford, David Hoberman,
Ted Levine, Bitty Schram, Tony Shalhoub
Tony Shalhoub brilliantly shifts between pathos
and physical comedy as a private eye who, in the aftermath of his wife's
unsolved murder, develops an extreme case
of obsessive-compulsive disorder that enables him to analyze evidence in
mind-boggling detail.
George
Lopez Saturday, March 8 at 7:00 p.m.
George Lopez Saturday, March 8 at 7:00 p.m.