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The Television Academy revealed the nominations for the 77th Los Angeles Area Emmy Awards, recognizing 111 nominees across 31 categories that spotlight the best in locally produced television, from arts and culture to crime, environment and public affairs.

The awards will be presented Saturday, July 26, at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles. The ceremony will be hosted by Kelvin Washington, anchor and host for Spectrum News 1.

The Los Angeles Area Emmy Awards celebrate excellence in programming produced for the Los Angeles region.

Among this year’s nominees are several standout programs from PBS SoCal, Kmex-tv, KTLA5, Kvea, ABC7, and others that highlight Southern California’s diverse storytelling and journalism.

The full list of nominees are below.

News and Programming

“L.A. Local Color”

“Arts & Architecture: The Case Study House Program” (“Artbound”)

• PBS SoCal

Tamara Gould, Executive Producer

Angela Boisvert, Executive Producer

Nic Cha Kim, Producer

Corbett Jones, Director, Director of Photography,...

The Television Academy today revealed the nominees for its 77th annual Los Angeles Area Emmy Awards, which honor locally produced programs in the categories of Crime and Social Issues, Culture and History, the Arts, Human Interest, Sports, the Environment, and Live and Breaking News Coverage. See the full list below.

Kelvin Washington, host and anchor for Spectrum News 1 in Los Angeles, will host the ceremony on July 26 at the Skirball Cultural center.

Here are the nominees for the 2025 Los Angeles Area Emmys:

News And Programming

L.A. Local Color

Arts & Architecture: The Case Study House Program (Artbound)

• PBS SoCal

Tamara Gould, Executive Producer Angela Boisvert, Executive Producer Nic Cha Kim, Producer

Corbett Jones, Director, Director of Photography, Editor, Producer Anna Rau, Director, Producer

Ryan Carmody, Director of Photography Kathy Kasaba, Supervising Producer

Luis Alfonso De la Parra, Associate Producer

County Critters: LA County’s Animal Workforce Reports for Duty...

Public broadcaster Kcet is once again the leader in Los Angeles Area Emmys nominations, landing 22 this year (down slightly from last year’s 24), thanks to expecially to the locally produced series “Artbound” and its “10 Days in Watts.” Cable news outlet Spectrum News 1 was in second, with 17 — up from 14 last year.

Meanwhile, Kabc-tv — aka ABC7 — saw a nice surge to 14 noms, up from 7 last year and good enough to top the commercial broadcast outlets. Nominees included the late Sam Rubin, who was nominated in the entertainment news story for his coverage of the SAG-AFTRA strike on Ktla.

As usual, all stations that enter are immediately nominated in the daily morning newscast (4 a.m. to 11 a.m.), daily daytime newscast (11 a.m. to 7 p.m.), and daily evening newscast (7 p.m. to 12 a.m.) categories.

Last year, Telemundo outlet Kvea swept the newscast categories, winning the Emmys for evening (7 p.m.

Kcet won a leading six awards on Saturday night in a livestream ceremony to bestow the 2022 Los Angeles Area Emmy Awards. ABC7 and NBC4 followed with five wins apiece at the show hosted by Spectrum News 1 journalist Giselle Fernández from the Television Academy Plaza in North Hollywood.

The ceremony honored locally produced programs in the categories of Live and Breaking News Coverage, Crime and Social Issues, Culture and History, the Arts, Human Interest, Sports, and the Environment.

KTLA5 won one of the big awards on the night, for Regularly Scheduled Daily Evening Newscast, for its 11 p.m. newscast. NBC4 won for morning newscast while Kvea’s Noticiero Telemundo 52 won for daytime.

Television Academy chairman and CEO Frank Scherma presented this year’s Governors Award to Ktla’s Gayle Anderson for her “contributions to television broadcasting in the greater Los Angeles area.”

Here’s the full winners list:

Regularly Scheduled...

Public broadcaster Kcet, which had led all local TV stations in nominations for the this year’s Los Angeles Area Emmy Awards, also wound up taking home the most (for the fifth year in a row), with nine awards. It was followed by Telemundo’s Kvea and Spectrum SportsNet, both of which landed six.

The Television Academy announced the 2021 Los Angeles Area Emmy Award winners in an in-person ceremony at its North Hollywood headquarters on Saturday. Spectrum News 1 journalist Giselle Fernández hosted this year’s awards ceremony, which was produced by Bob Bain and Bob Bain Productions.

Other big winners included Ktla-tv, which was named best morning newscast (between 4 a.m. and 11 a.m.) and evening newscast (between 7 p.m. to midnight).

As usual, all stations that enter are immediately nominated in the daily morning newscast (4 a.m. to 11 a.m.), daily daytime newscast (11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Kcet has now led in wins at the Los Angeles Area Emmy Awards, for five years in a row.

At the 73rd awards ceremony, which took place Saturday, the station claimed a total of nine statuettes. Kvea and Spectrum SportsNet followed it up with six wins apiece. Other outlets scoring multiple wins at the show, hosted by Spectrum News 1 journalist Giselle Fernández, included ABC7 (four), Kmex (three), KTLA5 (two), Kttv-tv (two) and Spectrum News 1 (two).

The Los Angeles Area Emmy Awards honor locally produced programs in the categories of Live and Breaking News Coverage, Crime and Social Issues, Culture and History, the Arts, Human Interest, Sports, and the Environment. Presenters for this year’s ceremony, which streamed live on the Emmys website, included Carrlyn Bathe (Fox Sports West), Mike Bresnahan (Spectrum SportsNet/LA), Enrique Chiabra (Telemundo/Kvea), Allie Clifton (Spectrum SportsNet/LA), Suzanna Guzmán (Kcet/PBS SoCal), Elex B.

The Television Academy has unveiled nominations for the 72nd Los Angeles Emmy Awards. Kcet has re-claimed the top spot with 20 nominations, followed by last year’s leader Spanish-language outlet Kmex with 15. Last year was the first time since 2015 that Kmex had led the nominations outright. Kvea is third with 13 nominations, followed by Spectrum News 1 with 12.

In all, there are 121 nominations in 33 categories including Crime and Social Issues, Culture and History, the Arts, Human Interest, Sports, the Environment, and Live and Breaking News Coverage.

Due to production restrictions resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic, the Los Angeles Emmy Awards will be held virtually this year. Trophies will be presented Saturday evening, July 18 at 7 Pm on Emmys.com. The show will be produced by Bob Bain Productions and is currently in development.

Here is the full list of nominees:

Programming & News Categories

L.A. Local Color

Día de Los Muertos (Artbound) • Kcet

Juan Devis,...

Spanish-language outlet Kmex leads with the field with 22 nominations for the 71st annual Los Angeles Area Emmy Awards, topping Kcet’s 19. Read the full list below, and check out the nominations by network here.

It’s the first time since 2015 that Kmex has led the noms list outright. Last year it tied with Kcet for the most noms from the Television Academy, with the former PBS outlet, ultimately scoring the most trophies six months later.

Kvea is running third with 12 nominations, with NBC4 next with nine.

The hardware will be handed out during a July 27 ceremony at the Academy’s Saban Media Center in North Hollywood.

Here is the full list of nominees:

Programming & News Categories

L.A. Local Color

30 Years with Val Zavala (SoCal Connected) • Kcet

Linda Burns, Senior Producer Karen Foshay, Executive Producer

Kathy Kasaba, Supervising Producer Robert McDonnell, Supervising Producer

Louis & Jazz (The Migrant Kitchen) • Kcet

Matthew Crotty,...

NBC4 was the big winner at the 66th Los Angeles Area Emmy Awards, taking home eight trophies, including investigative news reporting and news featuring reporting.

ABC7 won six statuettes, including light news story (single report) and information/public affair series (more than 50% remote).

The Television Academy held the awards ceremony Saturday night at the Leonard H. Goldenson Theatre in North Hollywood.

A complete list of winners follows:

L.A. Local Color

54th Annual L.A. County Holiday Celebration, Kcet

Adam Davis, Producer

Jennifer Fukutomi, Associate Producer

Robert McDonnell, Producer

Heather Rigby, Associate Producer

Kenneth Shapiro, Producer

Teresa Taylor, Coordinating Producer

Bohdan Zachary, Producer

Laura Zucker, Executive Producer

Public, Municipal And Operator Produced Cable

Metro Motion: Union Station 75th Anniversary Special , CityTV of Santa Monica

R. Daniel Farias, Producer

Robin Gee, Executive Producer

Al Johnson, Associate Producer

Marc Littman, Executive Producer

Kim Upton, Producer

Education

The Power of the PSA, CBS2/KCAL9

Garry Ashton,...

Univision’s flagship Kmex-tv leads the list of stations vying for the 66th annual Los Angeles area Emmy Awards.

Kmex landed 20 noms, including bids for hard news reporting (for reporter Antonio Valverde), investigative reporting (for reporter Leon Krauze) and reporting on crime/social issues. Knbc-tv was second with 16 mentions, followed by Ktla (14), Kabc (13) and Telemundo’s Kvea (10). Time Warner Cable Deportes was the top cabler with 9 noms, tied with indie pubcaster Kcet.

Kmex is a contender in two of the top newscast races, for morning newscast (airing between 4 a.m.-11 a.m.), and daytime newscast (11 a.m.-7 p.m.). There are no nominations in the top three newscast categories, which include the category of late newscasts (7 p.m.-midnight); all stations that choose to enter in any of the three categories are considered in the final judging.

Knbc’s noms included a bid for its news special on...

20th Century Fox continues to turn a profit by turning comic strip animals into movie stars. On the heels of two Garfield movies and last year's Marmaduke, Fox Animation will make a film out of "Mutts." "Mutts" is about two pets in one house -- Earl the dog and Mooch the cat -- and just how different they are. The strips creator and his brother, Patrick and Robert McDonnell, will write the script with Patrick also exec producing.

To check out the Mutts website, click Here.

Source: Variety...

The animation division at 20th Century Fox hired Mutts creator Patrick McDonnell and his brother Robert McDonnell to adapt his acclaimed comic strip into an animated feature film. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Patrick McDonnell also signed on to executive produce the film. Patrick McDonnell created Mutts in 1994, a series of comic adventures featuring a dog named Earl, and a cat named Mooch as well as their fellow animal pals in their neighborhood including the orphan kitty Shtinky Puddin’ and the feral alley cat Noodles and their human guardians Ozzie, Millie and Frank. Since ’94, the Mutts comic strip topped over 700 newspapers in over 20 countries in addition to the 2007 book The Best of Mutts.

The animation division at 20th Century Fox hired Mutts creator Patrick McDonnell and his brother Robert McDonnell to adapt his acclaimed comic strip into an animated feature film. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Patrick McDonnell also signed on to executive produce the film. Patrick McDonnell created Mutts in 1994, a series of comic adventures featuring a dog named Earl, and a cat named Mooch as well as their fellow animal pals in their neighborhood including the orphan kitty Shtinky Puddin’ and the feral alley cat Noodles and their human guardians Ozzie, Millie and Frank. Since ’94, the Mutts comic strip topped over 700 newspapers in over 20 countries in addition to the 2007 book The Best of Mutts.

The animation division at 20th Century Fox hired Mutts creator Patrick McDonnell and his brother Robert McDonnell to adapt his acclaimed comic strip into an animated feature film. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Patrick McDonnell also signed on to executive produce the film. Patrick McDonnell created Mutts in 1994, a series of comic adventures featuring a dog named Earl, and a cat named Mooch as well as their fellow animal pals in their neighborhood including the orphan kitty Shtinky Puddin’ and the feral alley cat Noodles and their human guardians Ozzie, Millie and Frank. Since ’94, the Mutts comic strip topped over 700 newspapers in over 20 countries in addition to the 2007 book The Best of Mutts.

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20th Century Fox's animation division is on a roll. After hitting it big with the 'Ice Age' franchise, 'Horton Hears a Who!' and 'Rio,' the studio wants to try its luck with a big-screen version of the popular comic strip 'Mutts.' According to The Hollywood Reporter, the studio's animation division has hired 'Mutts' creator Patrick McDonnell and his brother Robert McDonnell to write the script for a feature-length animated film.

'Mutts,' syndicated by King Features Syndicate to 700 newspapers in 20 countries, is a daily comic strip McDonnell created in 1994 that follows the antics of a dog named Earl and a cat named Mooch, and their interactions with their human owners and a large cast of neighborhood animals.

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