Whoopi Goldberg, Amy Poller, Mori Povich, William Shatner among NATPE honors

Entertainment giants Whoopi Goldberg, William Shatner and Amy Poller, talk show pioneer Mori Povich and veteran producer Alex Kurtzman (Hawaii Five-O, Star Trek: Discovery) will be among the TV greats to host this year’s 18th Annual Brandon Tartikoff Legacy Awards at NAPTE TV Market 2022.

The president of Warner Bros. Television Group, Channing Dunge, and producer and media investor Jeff Sagansky will also be honored as recipients of the 2022 Brandon Tartikoff Award.

The Tartikoff Award, named after Brandon Tartikoff, who renewed the network from 1981 to 1991 as president of NBC and helped shape American television culture with a number of successful works, including Hill Street sadness, ᲝFamily ties, cosby show, Health, Seinfeld s Miami viceIt is intended to identify individuals who exhibit “extraordinary passion, leadership, independence and vision” in “creating and distributing content for the traditional and digital global marketplace”.

This year, for the first time, the awards, which are usually presented at the NATPE TV Market in Miami, will be presented at a gala on June 2nd in Beverly Wilshere, Los Angeles.

The ceremony will be part of NATPE Returns, a series of events in New York, Los Angeles and Budapest, Hungary, where NAPTE will carry out a spin-off focused on the international television market with the aim of renewing the television market, which has canceled its 2021. and 2022. Konfab seasons due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The next NATPE Miami is scheduled for January 16-23, 2023.