LazyTown has been nominated for an Emmy Award for best children’s content for preschoolers. The awards ceremony will take place on April 5, 2016, and LazyTown will compete with children’s content from the UK, Brazil and Japan.
The series has previously received Emmy nominations for acting, directing and music, since the time the adventure began in 1994 when Magnús Scheving wrote the first LazyTown book, Áfram Latibær, which was published in 1995.
The television series about LazyTown have been shown in over 170 countries in about 30 languages.
visir.is – 4 October 2015
LazyTown has been nominated for an Emmy Award for Best Children’s Program for Preschoolers. The series has previously been nominated for awards for acting, directing and music, but did not win. The series did win a BAFTA Award in 2006. Magnús Scheving says it’s great to receive recognition like this.
The award will be presented on April 5th next year.
“It shows that we can compete among the best. This is huge, like the Oscars in movies,” says Magnús in an interview with Vísir. “It’s not often that you get an Emmy nomination. This doesn’t happen bigger, unless we win. On behalf of everyone who works on LazyTown, I’m smiling ear to ear.”
The nominations were announced this morning, but you can view them in more detail here on the Emmy Awards website.
The series has now been on the air for over twenty years and is shown in 172 countries and translated into over 30 languages. Magnús says this is a sign that new and new generations are watching LazyTown.
“The latest series, which is filmed in Iceland, is the coolest thing we’ve ever done. We’re really happy with it.”
LazyTown is now owned by Turner Broadcasting System, which runs major television stations like CNN and Cartoon Network. Magnús says it turned out that LazyTown had the highest viewership on their network. They asked Magnús to come to the United States and help them with the production, which he says was a surprise.
“This nomination is first and foremost an honor for everyone who worked on this. This is a huge recognition and I couldn’t be happier with this.”
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