Legendary TV comedy performers Ted Danson and Jean Smart, irreverent South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, current Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos, former HBO Documentary Films chief Sheila Nevins and the late 60 Minutes correspondent Ed Bradley will be inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame, the organization announced Tuesday.
The seven, who constitute the 28th class of inductees since the establishment of the Hall of Fame in 1984, will be feted at a ceremony on the opening night of Televerse, the Television Academy’s official festival, on Thursday, Aug. 13.
The prior 27 classes of inductees have included some 180 individuals, groups or shows who/that “have made outstanding contributions in the arts, sciences or management of television over a lifetime career or via singular achievements.” Among them: Lucille Ball, Milton Berle, Norman Lear, Edward R. Murrow, Rod Serling, Sid Caesar, Carol Burnett, Walter Cronkite, Mary Tyler Moore, Jackie Gleason, Bob Hope, Johnny Carson, Jim Henson, Jack Benny, Ted Turner, Dick Clark, Oprah Winfrey, Howard Cosell, Bill Moyers, Dick Van Dyke, Betty White, Aaron Spelling, Carl Reiner, Fred Rogers, Lorne Michaels, Katie Couric, Regis Philbin, James Burrows, William Shatner, Merv Griffin, Dick Wolf, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Joan Rivers, Shonda Rhimes, Ken Burns and Henry Winkler.
