Whoopi Goldberg, Amy Poehler, Maury Povich, William Shatner Among NATPE Honorees

WB Television Group Chairman Channing Dungey and media financial backer Jeff Sagansky are likewise among the beneficiaries of NATPE’s 2022 Brandon Tartikoff Legacy Awards.

Diversion goliaths Whoopi Goldberg, William Shatner and Amy Poehler, syndicated program pioneer Maury Povich and veteran maker Alex Kurtzman (Hawaii Five-O, Star Trek: Discovery) will be among the TV greats regarded for the current year with the eighteenth yearly Brandon Tartikoff Legacy grants at the 2022 NAPTE TV market.

Warner Bros. TV Group executive Channing Dungey and maker and media financial backer Jeff Sagansky will likewise be respected as 2022 Brandon Tartikoff grant beneficiaries.

The Tartikoff grants, named after Brandon Tartikoff, who as leader of NBC from 1981 to 1991 revived the organization and aided shape U.S. Television culture with a line of hit commissions, including Hill Street Blues, Family Ties, The Cosby Show, Cheers, Seinfeld and Miami Vice, are intended to perceive people who display “exceptional energy, administration, autonomy and vision” in the “creation and dispersion of content for the world’s conventional and advanced commercial centers.”

Interestingly this year the honors, regularly introduced as a feature of the NATPE TV market in Miami, will be distributed at an occasion service on June 2 at the Beverly Wilshire in Los Angeles.

The function will be important for NATPE Returns, a progression of occasions in New York, L.A. also, Budapest, Hungary, where NAPTE holds a side project occasion zeroed in on the worldwide TV market, which are intended to restart the TV market, which dropped its 2021 and 2022 confabs because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The following NATPE Miami is planned for Jan. 16-23, 2023.