The Daytime Emmys were announced today, and Hasbro‘s new Hub channel got a total of 8 nominations. The big news, though, is that Transformers: Prime garnered 6 of those nominations! With two of those nominations already resulting in wins.
Transformers: Prime Nominations• Outstanding Performer In An Animated Program – Peter Cullen as Optimus Prime
• Outstanding Directing In An Animated Program
• Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation – Vince Toyama (WINNER)
• Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation – Christophe Vacher (WINNER)
• Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction And Composition
• Outstanding Writing In Animation
The full press release is available after the jump. Hasbro Studios Garners Eight Daytime Emmy® Award Nominations, with Six for Individual Animated Achievement Winner ‘Transformers Prime’
‘FAMILY GAME NIGHT’ and ‘PICTUREKA!’ Earn One Nod EachMay 11, 2011 08:40 PM Eastern Daylight Time
LOS ANGELES–(EON: Enhanced Online News)–Hasbro Studios’ shows today collected eight Daytime Emmy® Award nominations from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS). Transformers Prime garnered two wins for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation and a total of six nominations. Family Game Night and Pictureka! earned one nod each.
“To be singled out by our industry peers during just our first year of producing shows for the The Hub is a proud achievement, and a testament to all of the incredible hard work put in by our very talented producers, writers and their teams.”
“We are so honored to have the Academy recognize our shows with these eight Daytime Emmy nominations and two wins,” said Stephen Davis, President of Hasbro Studios. “To be singled out by our industry peers during just our first year of producing shows for the The Hub is a proud achievement, and a testament to all of the incredible hard work put in by our very talented producers, writers and their teams.”
Creative stewards Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, along with showrunner Jeff Kline, are the executive producers of Transformers Prime, and Mike Vogel and Brian Lenard are the development executives who helped bring the show to life.
Todd Newton, Barry Poznick and Charles Steenveld (Family Game Night) and Rob George and Linda Ellman (Pictureka) serve as executive producers of the nominated game shows, supported by development executives Bob Boden and Kevin Belinkoff.
Hasbro Studios shows received nominations and/or wins in the following categories:
Outstanding Game Show Host
Ben Bailey, Cash Cab
Todd Newton, Family Game Night
Wayne Brady, Let’s Make A Deal
Meredith Vieira, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire
Outstanding Performer In An Animated Program
Bill Farmer as Goofy, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse
Danny Jacobs as King Julien, The Penguins of Madagascar
Tom McGrath as Skipper, The Penguins of Madagascar
Martin Short as The Cat in the Hat, The Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That!
Peter Cullen as Optimus Prime, Transformers Prime
Steven Tyler as The Mad Hatter, The Wonder Pets!
Outstanding Directing In An Animated Program
Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil
Fanboy & Chum Chum
Martha Speaks
The Penguins of Madagascar
Toot & Puddle
Transformers Prime
Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation – WINNERS
“Diamond” Dave Merritt, Toot & Puddle
Vince Toyama, Transformers Prime
Christophe Vacher, Transformers Prime
Kaz Aizawa, T.U.F.F. Puppy
Outstanding Achievement in Main Title and Graphic Design
Dora the Explorer
The Electric Company
FETCH! With Ruff Ruffman
Pictureka!
Team Umizoomi
Today Show
Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction And Composition
Between the Lions
Mickey Mouse Clubhouse
The Garfield Show
The Penguins of Madagascar
Transformers Prime
The Wonder Pets!
Outstanding Writing In Animation
Arthur
Back at the Barnyard
Dinosaur Train
The Penguins of Madagascar
Transformers Prime
WordGirl
About Hasbro Studios: Hasbro Studios is the Los Angeles-based production division of Hasbro, Inc. (NASDAQ: HAS). The studio develops and produces shows based on Hasbro’s world class brands, including TRANSFORMERS, MY LITTLE PONY and G.I. JOE; delivers new branded content; and produces programs from top third-party content creators. Many of these shows run on The Hub, a television network for children and their families that was re-branded from Discovery Kids on October 10, 2010, as well as on multiple channels in international markets. The Hub is a joint venture between Hasbro and Discovery Communications (NASDAQ: DISCA, DISCB, DISCK).
Lbsammills51
I was flipping back and forth between the game and the awards show. I wanted to see if Margo Martindale won for Justified (yay!) and Connie Britten or Liz Moss won Best Actress.
jazzgirl84
I'm happy to hear they won something! I love Prime!
Congrats to Mr. Cullen as well. He was and always will be Optimus and I'm glad he was recognized for being amazing!
airfox
Only two awards. The same two awards the show had already won when the nominations were announced. And also, the only two wins for The Hub.
Here's a full list of the Daytime Emmys Creative Arts Winners.
Danny Jacobs, as King Julien from Penguins of Madagascar.
-airfox
Lazerwave
Peter Cullen for Outstanding Performer In An Animated Program!?!
Who won besides him?
dsprks75
this. Qft…
Lazerwave
Awesome. Congrats for the 2 winners.
Transmetal
I'm a nerd of many things: football, basketball, cars and yes TF if u can believe it! I just can't stand watching award shows but I many people say the same about sports too.
BenjaminXavier
Haha. My GF freaked out last week when I sat down to watch the 'skins stomp the Giants. "You're not the kind of guy that watches football! You have cabinets full of toys all over the house!"
An Army of Bees
This is a nerdy forum, what the hell is a football?
Transmetal
While I'm happy for anything TF geting good pub, people actually watched the Emmys? I was too into my team blowing a 10 point lead when M Vick went out of the game.
jgoss
you know their is going to be haters but me personally love tf prime almost as much as g1.especially when mr.cullen talks it too sends chills down my spine.
An Army of Bees
Daytime Emmys =/= Emmys from last night.
EDIT: The Daytime Emmys have already passed it seems, and the show did end up winning two awards, both for "Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation" to Vince Toyama and Christophe Vacher.
BenjaminXavier
So did they win anything?
shroobmaster
Good thing it airs in an different day and time-slot then! Hoh! No true competition because kids don't simply go "well provided that I already watch this show, I won't watch other shows".
Irv Gotti
I'm glad TF Prime is getting some recognition. This can only mean good things for the franchise. However, this show better bring it's A-game come season two, because the new Thundercats is turning out to be one Hell of a heavyweight with it's lush animation and stellar Lord of the Rings style of story telling.
Greyley
Great news! Congrats to all who were nominated. Hopefully more of the voice actors will be recognized next year, because so many of them are doing a fantastic job.
And it's good to see the Hub get some positive feedback so soon after its launch. I think having a dedicated, homegrown channel to broadcast on will be a great advantage to Transformers (and all of the other properties too). If anyone's cable carrier doesn't have the Hub, now's the time to call them and request it!
Sprocket
Rescue Ranger fans would disagree.
*shudder* Rescue Ranger fans…
HordakFan
Oh come on, Cullen is Optimus as we fans know that.
evebird
This sums it up for me too. I just can't get into it.
But I am happy for everyone involved. And though I think this is far from Cullen's best work, as an artist, he certainly is deserving of an award for his impressive oeuvre.
Lody666
Garbage
Renegades should have been nominated since it has more of a continuing storyline and the animation is much easier on the eyes
Don't care for Prime at all and will not be following through with the show.
I am tired of seeing GI Joe get whored out over TF.