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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.
aabout an assembly line worker whos been promoted to manage a
Los Angeles airplane-parts factory firmly grounded.
In
Person: Robert Borden (Executive Producer), Sandra Bullock
(Executive Producer), Luis Armand Garcia (Max), Bruce Helford (Creator/Executive Producer),
George Lopez (Coc-Creator/George), Masiela Lusha (Carmen),
Constance Marie (Angie), Belita Moreno (Benny), Deborah
Oppenheimer (Executive
Producer), Valente Rodriguez (Ernie).
(more. . . )
Robert Borden, Sandra Bullock, Luis Armand Garcia,
Bruce Helford, George Lopez, Masiela Lusha, Constance Marie, Belita Moreno,
Deborah Oppenheimer, Valente Rodriguez
Stand-up comic George
Lopez's easy smile, impeccable timing, and knack for nailing the
verisimilitudes of SoCal Hispanic culture keep this popular family sitcom-about
an assembly line worker who's been promoted to manage a Los Angeles
airplane-parts factory-firmly grounded.
24Monday,
March 10 at 7:00 p.m.
Monday, March 10 at 7:00 p.m.
24 Unfolding
in real time, this ingeniously crafted suspense series not only writes its own
rules for dramatic storytelling, it heightens the spy genres nail-biting quotient by
aligning the viewers well-spent hour with the
race-against-the-clock exploits of counter
terrorism agent Jack Bauer. In
Person: Reiko Ayleswort (Michelle Dessler), Xander Berkeley (George Mason), Carlos Bernard (Tony Almeida), Sarah Clarke (Nina Myers), Robert Cochran (Creator/Executive Producer/Writer), Elisha Cuthbert (Kimberly Bauer), Michelle Forbes ("Lynne
Kresge"), Howard Gordon
(Executive Producer), Laura Harris (Marie Warner), Dennis Haysbert (President Palmer), Penny Johnson Jerald (Sherry Palmer), Joel Surnow (Creator/Executive
Producer/Writer), Kiefer Sutherland (Jack Bauer), Sarah Wynter (Kate Warner).
(more. . . )
Reiko Aylesworth, Xander Berkeley, Carlos Bernard,
Sarah Clarke, Robert Cochran, Elisha Cuthbert, Michelle Forbes, Laura Harris,
Dennis Haysbert, Penny Johnson Jerald, Joel Surnow, Kiefer Sutherland, Sarah
Wynter
Unfolding in real time, this ingeniously crafted suspense
series not only writes its own rules for dramatic storytelling, it heightens the spy genre's nail-biting quotient
by aligning the viewer's well-spent hour with the race-against-the-clock
exploits of counterterrorism agent Jack Bauer.
American Dreams Tuesday, March 11 at 7:00 p.m.
Tuesday, March 11 at 7:00 p.m.
American Dreams Set in
early 1960s Philadelphia, this drama about a
n starry-eyed ambitious teenager and her
quintessentially middle-class family evokes the clash between the innocence of
party dresses, tuna casseroles, and American Bandstand
and the turbulent era ahead. IIn Person: Jonathan Adams (Henry Walker), Dick Clark (Executive Producer), Ethan Dampf (Will Pryor), Arlen Escarpeta (Sam Walker), Will Estes (JJ Pryor), Vanessa Lengies (Roxanne Bojarski), Gail OGrady (Helen Pryor), Jonathan Prince (Executive Producer), Sarah Ramos (Patty Pryor), David Semel (Co-Eexecutive Producer), Gregory Sill (Music Supervisor), Brittany Snow (Meg Pryor), Philip Toolin (Production
Designer), Tom Verica, (Jack Pryor).
Jonathan Adams, Dick Clark, Ethan Dampf, Arlen Escarpeta,
Will Estes, Vanessa Lengies, Gail O'Grady, Jonathan Prince, Sarah Ramos, David
Semel, Gregory Sill, Brittany Snow, Philip Toolin, Tom Verica
(more. . . )
Set in early
1960s Philadelphia, this drama about an ambitious teenager and her quintessentially
middle-class family evokes the clash between the innocence of party dresses,
tuna casseroles, and American Bandstand and the turbulent era ahead.
Life with Bonnie
Wednesday, March 12 at 7:00 p.m.
Wednesday, March 12 at 7:00
p.m.
Life with Bonnie With
its
carefully improvised
moments of subtle amusement, antic farce, and quiet poignancy, Life with Bonnie
emphasizes spontaneity and closely observed behavior over the rapid-fire
zingers and pratfalls of more traditional sitcom fare. In
Person: Chris Barnes (Marv), Samantha Browne-Walters (Samantha Malloy), Mark Derwin (Dr. Mark Malloy), David Alleann Grier (David Bellows), Bonnie
Hunt (Creator/Executive Producer/Writer/Director/Bonnie
Malloy), Don Lake
(Creator/Executive Producer/Writer), Marianne Muellerliele (Gloria), Anthony Russell (Tony Russo), Charlie
Stewart (Charlie Malloy), Holly
Wortell,
(Holly).Chris Barnes, Samantha Browne-Walters, Mark Derwin,
David Alan Grier, Bonnie Hunt, Don Lake, Marianne Muellerleile, Anthony
Russell, Charlie Stewart, Holly Wortell
With its
carefully inprovised moments of subtle amusement, antic farce, and quiet
poignancy, Life with Bonnie emphasizes spontaneity and closely observed
behavior over the rapid-fire zingers and pratfalls of more traditional sitcom
fare.
Wednesday, February 26 at 7:00 p.m.
SHOW DESCRIPTION In Person: SAMPLE Marcos Avila (Executive Producer, The Cristina Show), Jorge Insua
(Former Supervising Producer, The Cristina
Show), Osvaldo Oρoz (Coexecutive Producer, The Cristina Show), Cristina
Saralegui (Host/Executive Producer, The
Cristina Show).
In Person:
Friday, February 28 at 7:00 p.m.
In Person:
Saturday, March 1 at 7:00 p.m.
In Person:
(more. . . )
Monday, March 3 at 9:30 p.m.
In Person:
Tuesday, March 4 at 7:00 p.m.
In Person:
Wednesday, March 5 at 7:00 p.m.
In Person: Judd Apatow (Executive Producer, SHOW), Norman Lear
(Executive Producer, SHOW), Phil Rosenthal (Executive Producer, SHOW), Darren
Star (Executive Producer, Sex in the City), Larry
Wilmore (Executive Producer, SHOW)
Thursday, March 6 at 7:00 p.m.
In Person: J.J. Abrams (Executive Producer, Alias), Steve Bochco (Executive
Producer, NYPD Blue), Tom Fontana
(Executive Producer, Oz), Amy
Sherman-Palladino (Executive Producer, Gilmore
Girls), Aaron Sorkin (Executive Producer, West Wing)
(more. . .)
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Friday, March 7 at 7:00 p.m
In Person:
Saturday, March 8 at 7:00 p.m.
In Person: George
Schlatter ( ), Dick Martin ( )
Monday, March 10 at 7:00 p.m.
In Person:
Tuesday, March 11 at 7:00 p.m.
In Person:
(more.
. .)
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Wednesday, March 12 at 7:00 p.m.
In Person:
In Person:
In Person:
In Person:
TICKETS
Tickets will go on sale to Museum Members on Saturday, February 1, 2003. Tickets will be available to the general
public beginning Thursday, February 6, 2003. Ticket prices are $17 per event for
individual Museum Members and $20 per event for the general public ($17 for
senior citizens and students with valid ID). Museum Membership may be purchased with
Paley Festival tickets at the Museum or by calling tickets.com at (888) 464-2468.Tickets will go on
sale to Museum Members on Saturday, February 1, 2003 at ($17 each). Tickets will be available to the general
public beginning Thursday, February 67,
20032 at $20 each. Museum Membership may be purchased with
Paley Festival tickets at the Museum or by calling tickets.com at (888)
464-2468.
(more. . . )
Tickets can be purchased as follows:
·At The Museum of
Television & Radio, 465 North Beverly Drive in Beverly Hills
(corner of North Beverly Drive and Little
Santa Monica)
February 1 to February 6: Daily from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (For Museum Members only)
From February 7 to February 9: Daily from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
From February 12 to the Festival
conclusion: Regular Museum hours
(Wednesdays through Sundays 12:00 to
5:00 p.m.)
(more. . . )
·By Telephone or
Internet (subject to service charges)
Via Phone: Call tickets.com toll-free at (888) 464-2468, Mondays through Saturdays
from 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
and Sundays from 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. beginning February 1 for Members and
February 7 for the general
public
Via Internet
beginning February 7: www.tickets.com
·At the Directors
Guild of America, DGA Theatre Complex at 7920 Sunset Boulevard
(one block west of
Fairfax)
Tickets for all
events are available at the DGA only on Festival evenings from
6:00 to 8:00
p.m. Tickets can be purchased as follows:
·At The Museum of Television & Radio, 465 North
Beverly Drive in Beverly Hills
(corner of North Beverly Drive and Little
Santa Monica)
·By Telephone or
Internet (subject to service charges)
۰Via
Phone: Call tickets.com toll-free at (888) 464-2468
۰Via Internet at www.tickets.com
Please note: There is a four-ticket limit per person, per event. All seating is general admission; seats
cannot be reserved. For sold-out
evenings, tickets may become available at the Directors Guild ticket table five
minutes prior to starting time. There
are no refunds or exchanges. Events and
participants are subject to change.
FESTIVAL HOTLINE
Information about the
Paley Festival is available through the recorded Festival hotline: (310)
786-1010.
(more. . . )
SPECIAL THANKS THANKS (NEED TO UPDATE)
The
Museum thanks American Airlines, Four Seasons Hotel Los Angeles at Beverly
Hills, Budget Rent a Car Beverly Hills, and Panasonic for their generous
support of this year's Paley Festival. Street banners provided by William Morris
Agency, Inc.
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The
Museum of Television & Radio, with locations in New York and Los Angeles,
is a nonprofit organization founded by William S. Paley to collect and preserve
television and radio programs and advertisements and to make them available to
the public. Since opening in 1976, the
Museum has organized exhibitions, screening and listening series, seminars, and
education classes to showcase its collection of more thanover 120,000 television
and radio programs and advertisements.
In 2001 the Museum initiated a process to acquire Internet programming
for the collection. Programs in the Museum's permanent collection
are selected for their artistic, cultural, and historic significance.
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The Museum of Television & Radio in New York,
located at 25 West 52 Street in Manhattan, is open Tuesdays through Sundays
from noon to 6:00 p.m., until 8:00 p.m. on Thursdays, and Friday evenings until
9:00 p.m. (theaters only). The Museum of Television & Radio in California,
located at 465 North Beverly Drive in Beverly Hills, is open Wednesdays through
Sundays from noon to 5:00 p.m. and until 9:00 p.m. on Thursdays. Both Museums
are closed on New Year's Day, Independence Day, Thanksgiving, and
Christmas. Suggested contribution: Members free; $10.00 for adults; $8.00 for
senior citizens and students; and $5.00 for children under fourteen. Admission
is free in Los Angeles. The public
areas in both Museums are accessible to wheelchairs, and assisted listening
devices are available. Programs are subject to change. You may call the Museum
in New York at (212) 621-6800, or in Los Angeles at (310) 786-1000. Visit the Museums website at www.mtr.org.
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