Quizzer Extends “Most Emmy® Awards Won By a T.V. Game Show” Record

CULVER CITY, CALIF. (June 22, 2014) – The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences honored JEOPARDY! today with a Daytime Emmy® for Outstanding Game Show at the 41st Annual Daytime Emmy® Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

Today’s win marks America’s Favorite Quiz Show®’s 14th award in this category, the most of any game show in history, and adds to its Guinness World Record® title for the most Emmy® awards won by a TV game show (31 Emmy® Awards overall). It has been nominated for Outstanding Game Show 29 times throughout the show’s 30-year run in syndication.

“I’d like to thank NATAS, as well as everyone who voted for us this year,” said executive producer Harry Friedman, who holds the Guinness World Records® title for Most Emmy® Award Nominations for a Game Show Producer. “It’s an honor to receive this award from our peers, and to be nominated alongside the other excellent programs in this category.”

Earlier this year, JEOPARDY! host Alex Trebek claimed his own Guinness World Records® title for Most Game Show Episodes Hosted by the Same Presenter (One Show).

The 2014 JEOPARDY! Daytime Emmy® Award winners are as follows:

Executive Producer

Harry Friedman

Supervising Producers

Lisa Broffman, Rocky Schmidt

Senior Producer

Deb Dittmann

Coordinating Producer

Bob Sofia

Producer

Brett Schneider

Director

Kevin McCarthy

Editorial Supervisors/Writers

Michele Loud, Billy Wisse

Writers

John Duarte, Mark Gaberman, Debbie Griffin, Robert McClenaghan, Jim Rhine, Steve D. Tamerius

For more information about the Daytime Emmy® Awards, please visit http://emmyonline.com/daytime.

JEOPARDY!, America’s Favorite Quiz Show® and its host, Alex Trebek, are celebrating 30 years of “answers and questions.” The top-rated quiz show in syndication, JEOPARDY! has become a pop culture phenomenon and holds the Guinness World Record for the most Emmy awards won by a TV game show (31 Emmys). In 2014, JEOPARDY! won the inaugural Writers Guild of America award for Outstanding Writing for Quiz and Audience Participation; it is also the recipient of a 2011 Peabody Award. JEOPARDY! is produced by Sony Pictures Television, a Sony Pictures Entertainment Company; it is distributed domestically by CBS Television Distribution and internationally by CBS Television International, both units of CBS Corp. For more information, please visit Jeopardy.com.