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Jimmy Fallon, Tichina Arnold, Kelly McCreary, Ryan Michelle
Bathe,
Drew and Jonathan Scott,
Among Presenters Slated to Celebrate Outstanding Achievement
in Student-Produced Programs During Global Virtual Ceremony
On May 30, 2020 |
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The Television Academy Foundation today
announced that for the first time in its 40-year
history, the College Television Awards has been
reimagined as a virtual event that will be livestreamed to
a worldwide audience on Saturday,
May 30, 2020 ,
at 5:00
PM (PDT) .
The College Television Awards typically
recognizes and rewards excellence in student-produced
programs from U.S. colleges and universities with a
star-studded ceremony, capping several days of
professional development with industry pros.
“A College Television Award nomination is
one of the highest honors aspiring students can receive
because they are selected by members of the Television
Academy,” said Madeline Di Nonno, chair of the
Television Academy Foundation. “While these exceptional
students aren’t able to come together this year in
person, we wanted to ensure that this celebration would
be equally special and memorable. By livestreaming the
awards to a global audience, the Foundation is able to
provide greater exposure for our nominees than ever
before. We’re very proud to have international student
nominees from Israel, South Korea and Venezuela, among
other countries; and now their families around the world
can join in the celebration.”
Nominees will join in the festivities
online, vying for top honors in eight categories,
including comedy, drama, news and nonfiction series, and
a $3,000 cash prize. Awards will be presented to
students remotely by television stars including Tichina
Arnold ( The
Neighborhood ), Melissa
Barrera ( Vida ), Gabi
Butler ( Cheer) , Jimmy
Fallon ( The
Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon ), Kelly
McCreary ( Grey’s
Anatomy ), Ryan
Michelle Bathe ( All
Rise ; The
First Wives Club ), Mishel
Prada ( Vida;
Riverdale ), Drew and Jonathan
Scott ( Property
Brothers: Forever Home ), Yeardley
Smith ( The
Simpsons ),
and Shoshannah
Stern ( Grey’s
Anatomy; This Close ).
The show will be hosted by CBS’s The
Henry Ford’s Innovation Nation and
IMDb’s On
the Scene - Interviews correspondent Albert
Lawrence ,
who is also a Television Academy Foundation alumnus.
The College Television Awards will also
include the presentation of the Loreen Arbus Focus on
Disability Scholarship, a $10,000 cash prize to a
student program that best portrays disability topics and
issues or helps emerging artists with a disability gain
recognition. In addition,
the Seymour Bricker Humanitarian Award will be presented
during the show.
This year the College Television Awards
program also reinvented its Nominee Summit that provides
educational and networking opportunities for students.
The Foundation is arranging exclusive, online events and
webinars designed to educate, mentor and enhance
professional development for all nominees prior to the
awards show. Students will take part in virtual panel
discussions with creative and executive talent from
television series such as Insecure , The
Good Doctor , LEGO
Masters , Vida , The
Wizard of Lies and
more.
About the Television Academy Foundation
Established in 1959 as the charitable arm
of the Television Academy, the Television Academy
Foundation is dedicated to preserving the legacy of
television while educating and inspiring those who will
shape its future. Through renowned educational and
outreach programs, such as The
Interviews :
An Oral History of Television Project, College
Television Awards and Student
Internship Program ,
the Foundation seeks to widen the circle of voices our
industry represents and to create more opportunity for
television to reflect all of society. For more
information on the Foundation, please visit TelevisionAcademy.com/Foundation .
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