The Academy of Television induced six new members in its renown temple on Saturday evening, while Conan O’Brien, Ryan Murphy, Viola Davis, Henry Winkler, the music composer Mike Post and the register of the late Don Mischer joined the collection of Great on television.
The 27th annual ceremony took place at the JW Marriott Live as O’Brien – presented her honor by a longtime friend Lisa Kudrow – joked: “You know, people say that television is dying, but I want to ask you – if our industry was really in difficulty, would we be gathered right now for our greatest night?
The long -standing television host used part of his speech to think about the current state of the end of the night, recognizing: “Things change quickly. I do not pretend to know the future of our beloved medium, but I know, obtaining the privilege of playing with an hour of television was the great joy of my professional career. ”
He continued: “We are organizing this event now at a time when there is a lot of fear of the future of television, and rightly so. We have evidence here tonight.
And in the wake of CBS announcing that it will end The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Next year, O’Brien said: “Yes, television at the end of the evening as we have known since around 1950 will disappear, but these voices are going nowhere. People like Stephen Colbert are too talented and too essential to disappear. It will not happen, it does not control completely. ” He added the conviction that he thinks that television will always prevail “if the stories are good, if the performances are honest and inspired; If the people who do it are courageous and of good will ”.
Earlier at night, the president of the Academy of Television Cris Abrego and Rick Rosen de Wme, president of the Hall of Fame Committee of Television Academy, launched things, followed by Sally Field presenting Davis with the first honor of the evening. During her emotional speech, the Egot winner noted how television “saved me, it was an elixir. And it was just as satisfactory to be this person in this small screen, which jumped to anyone who allowed me to shake their lives in any way.
Journalist Jon Burlingame presented Post and Dana Walden of Disney was on site to celebrate Murphy, while the creator teased on the podium, “I think that at a certain age in Hollywood, if you are really lucky and you are doing the job, and you are true and you do not give up and you beat yourself like hell, you can first get two things.
By thinking about his career of almost three decades, Murphy noted how he had “created and wrote more than 250 gay characters, around 300 characters of women at 40, more than 1000 Trans characters – and I was told that I wrote 10 consecutive male characters named Brad. I do not remember one of these brads. ” On a more serious note, he commented on how he thought that after having opened a path with the LGBTQ narration, he “would never be sent and hidden again. And now curiously in this year of my fame of the temple of fame, I find that I am wrong, and all the things that I dedicate to my career.”
As a joke that at this stage of his career, he thought he could focus on money, Murphy said now that “a new dark age that I think that none of us suspected.
For the remaining winners, Bob Costas gave the Mischer Prize – accepted by his wife and children – and Adam Sandler sent a video message to the support of Winkler; THE Barry The actor told the crowd: “I live my dream and what I am most proud of is to be in a temple of the fame of television which was so good for me; that I am always at the table. ”
