TV Academy has announced that it is Inauguration festival will contain a 20th anniversary “Bones” recycling panel and a special acting class performed by none other than living TV legend Henry Winkler.
The first wave of programming for the multi-day event, which will develop August 14-16 at JW Marriott on La Live, was announced on Tuesday morning. The festival is scheduled to take place before the last round of the Emmy vote and promises not only to celebrate TV and its icons but also give participants and awards voters with outstanding access and insight into some of the year’s largest TV programs and award winners.
As announced on Tuesday, the Televerse festival will include an acting class with Henry Winkler, where the “Happy Days” star will host a “live actor, who deeps into the art of performing, building character and connecting to your audience.” Winkler especially won an Emmy for his performance as Gene Cousineau, an actor, in HBO’s “Barry.”
The festival will also host a 20th anniversary “Bones” panel with creator Hart Hanson and stars Emily Deschanel, David Boreanaz, Tj Thyne and Tamara Taylor. Together, the creatives will investigate some of the show’s themes, its lasting resonance with fans, its real origin and the chemistry that was achieved between the series’ key.
In addition, “Andor” and “House of Cards” writer Beau Willimon will host a “Breaking Story” workshop where he takes the participants “in the author room with a real -time demonstration of the narrative process of participation from a living audience.”
In collaboration with Peacock and UCP, the introductory Televerse festival will offer a sneak-peak screening of the new limited series “Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy,” which will premiere this fall, followed by a conversation then with the creator/showrunner Patrick MacManus and Further TBA-PANUS.
Sports fans, meanwhile, will get the chance to attent “Game on: Inside the Booth with the Los Angeles Dodgers,” A Panel Featuring Lead Dodgers Play-by-Play Announger Joe Davis, Forms Pitcher and Current Kirsty, Sports, sports Executive Producer Mike Levy and Director Ben Dillenberger that promises to victim attentes “A Rare Inside Look Into the process of Delivation Live Sports Television.”
The festival will include TV Academy-sanctioned, for your predominantly round 2 panels as well, which will give voters access to new discussions about Emmy-nominated shows and artists. The festival will then be closed on the evening of August 16 with the academy’s induction by Viola Davis, Don Mischer, Ryan Murphy, Conan O’Brien, Mike Post and Henry Winkler into the TV Hall of Fame.
More programming messages will arrive during the remaining weeks until the event. Those who are interested can register to be announced about future announcements and updates on Televerse.com. Tickets for all festival’s events are expected to be sold in mid -July.
2025 The Televerse festival will be run August 14-16. The 77th Primetime Emmy Awards will be broadcast on CBS and Paramount+ on Sunday 14 September.
