Emmy Awards for Discovery Kids, Travel Channel
June 15, 2007
(Silver Spring, MD) Silver Spring, Md. –The Discovery Kids Channel and Travel Channel received Daytime Emmy Awards for three critically acclaimed programs at the 34th Annual Daytime Entertainment Emmy® Creative Arts ceremony broadcast on the CBS television network live from Hollywood’s Kodak Theatre.
Discovery Kid’s animated Real Toon series TUTENSTEIN won in the category of Outstanding Special Class Animated Program. SAVING A SPECIES: THE GREAT PENGUIN RESCUE (hosted by Elijah Wood) won in the category of Outstanding Children/Youth/Family Special. For Discovery Kids Channel these awards brought the network’s Emmy wins to five in the past four years. Travel Channel’s PASSPORT TO EUROPE WITH SAMANTHA BROWN won in the category of Outstanding Lifestyle Directing.
This marks the second Daytime Emmy win for TUTENSTEIN in this category (the series received its first Daytime Emmy in the category of Special Class Animated Series in 2004 and was nominated again in 2006.) TUTENSTEIN chronicles the hilarious antics of a 10-year-old mummy boy-king, who awakens from the dead (via a lightning strike) in the present-day thinking he still rules over all he surveys. Stinky bandages, portals to the underworld and serious entitlement issues abound in Tut’s funny, wild and sometimes-scary adventures, which are derived from real Egyptology, to engage kids’ minds while tickling their funny bones.
The SAVING A SPECIES series of specials has received two prior Emmy nominations and has a positive message for kids about conservation and wildlife preservation. The most recent installment, SAVING A SPECIES: THE GREAT PENGUIN RESCUE, hosted by Elijah Wood, detailed how bird conservation experts, local citizens, tourists, government and business workers and concerned volunteers from all parts of the world partnered to save a colony of African penguins from a giant oil spill off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa.
Lori Rothschild, series executive producer for the Travel Channel, accepted the award for PASSPORT TO EUROPE WITH SAMANTHA BROWN on behalf of the network and Pine Ridge Productions. The popular series, which also received an Emmy nomination in 2006, follows upbeat host Samantha Brown to every corner of the European continent to discover and experience everything each unique city from Venice to Aix-en-Provence has to offer. Interacting with locals along the way, Brown shops, dines and all the while educates viewers about the city’s deep cultural roots and history.
The 34th Annual Daytime Entertainment Emmy Awards is a presentation of the National Television Academy in cooperation with the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
About Discovery Communications
Discovery Communications is the number-one nonfiction media company reaching more than 1.5 billion cumulative subscribers in over 170 countries. Through TV and digital media, Discovery's 100-plus worldwide networks include Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, The Science Channel, Discovery Health and Discovery HD Theater. Discovery Communications is owned by Discovery Holding Co. (NASDAQ: DISCA, DISCB), Advance/Newhouse Communications and John S. Hendricks, Discovery's founder and chairman. For more information please visit www.discovery.com.
About Travel Channel Media
Travel Channel Media is an integrated travel media business, and is wholly owned by Cox Communications, Inc., a leading multi-service broadband communications and entertainment company. Travel Channel Media includes: the Travel Channel television network, available in more than 88 million cable homes; www.travelchannel.com, the network’s broadband travel hub; Travel Channel’s video-on-demand (VOD) and mobile platforms; and World Hum (worldhum.com), a leading online travel blog.