The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Interactive Media Peer
Group has selected the finalists for the 2008 Primetime Emmy Awards
for Outstanding Creative Achievement in Interactive Media.

This year, the awards recognize creative achievement in two areas of
interactive media endeavor: Nonfiction and Fiction.

The finalists for the 2008 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding
Creative Achievement in Interactive Media (Nonfiction) are:

• America’s Player Interactive (CBS/Big Brother)
• Project Runway (Bravo Media)
• Top Chef (Bravo Media)
• Dancing With The Stars Multi-Platform Experience (ABC)
• Disney Channel Games Digital Media Event

The finalists for the 2008 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding
Creative Achievement in Interactive Media (Fiction) are:

• HBO Voyeur
• Kyle XY: The Collective Experience (ABC Family)
• The Heroes Digital Experience (NBC)
• Lost “Find 815″ (ABC)
• The L Word Interactive (Showtime Networks, Ourcharts.com, Fanlib.com)

The finalists were determined by members of the Interactive Media
Peer Group in an initial round of judging that took place between June
23rd and July 14th. The winners will be determined by a Blue Ribbon
panel in a second round of judging that will take place in Los Angeles
on Thursday, August 21st; they will be announced in September.

Blue Ribbon panelists include:
–Don Ahrens, Comcast/TVWorks
–Jesse Alexander, Heroes/The Global Couch
–Nizar Allibhoy, MediaEnable
–Kevin Bachus, Virrata Games
–Shari Barnett, Microsoft Mediaroom
–Miles Beckett, EQAL
–Damon Berger, Revision3
–Brian Black, Black Light Design
–Eric Breitbard, Schematic
–James Brennan, Mandalan Media
–Sean Bunner, HSN
–Alexis D’Amecourt, 19 Entertainment
–Ed Davis, ESPN.com
–Joe DiNunzio, Fido Entertainment
–Allison Dollar, Interactive Television Alliance

–Joanna Drake Earl, Current TV
–David Feldstein, DirecTV
–David Fleischman, Warner Bros.
–Erin Flood, Next New Networks
–Kevin Furuichi, OpenTV
–Nely Galan, television programming executive
–Liz Gannes, NewTeeVee.com
–Michael Gaylord, TV Land
–Stefanie Gelinas, Talpa Media Group
–John Gilles, Method
–Rob Hayes, Showtime Networks
–Dale Herigstad, Schematic
–Courtney Holt, MTV
–Will Kreth, Time Warner Cable
–Todd Krieger, Denuo/Publicis
–Gerard Kunkel, Comcast/GuideWorks
–Karen Lennon, Beyond Z (former Interactive Media Primetime Emmy Award winner)
–Rebecca Lim, Starz Entertainment
–Allan McClennan, Padem Group
–Curt Marvis, Lionsgate
–Angela Morgenstern, PBS
–Margeigh Novotny, Moto.com
–Steve Perlman, Rearden
–Mike Petrusis, Tandberg Television (former two-time Interactive Media Primetime Emmy Award winner)
–Kevin Plunkett, ABC
–Alexis Rapo, ABC (former Interactive Media Primetime Emmy Award winner)
–George Ruiz, ICM
–Jaime Levy Russell, Huge Inc.
–Jeff Sellinger, CBS Mobile
–Adrian Sexton, Participant Productions
–Seth Shapiro, ARC-Artists and Repertory Channel/New Amsterdam Media
–Fran Shea, HBO Lab
–Bill Sheppard, Sun Microsystems
–Arnie Gullov-Singh, Fox Audience Network
–Tyler Slocum, DirecTV
–Evan Spiridellis, JibJab
–Gregg Spiridellis, JibJab

–Howard Stein, FremantleMedia North America
–Sarah Szalavitz, 7 Robot
–Hardie Tankersley, Fox
–Daniel Tibbets, GoTV
–Zane Vella, RCDB
–Allee Willis, songwriter
–Matt Wolf, Double 20 Productions (former Interactive Media Primetime Emmy Award winner)
–Marcia Zellers, Vendaloo.net

Members of the 2008 Interactive Media Peer Group Awards Committee
include: Jesse Albert (ICM), Mugs Buckley (BlackArrow), Richard
Cardran (former two-time Interactive Media Primetime Emmy Award
winner), John Couch (Digital Kitchen), Miles Crakow (Fox), Sanjit Das
(ABC), Brian Havens (CBS), Geoff Katz (Code and Theory), Danila
Koverman (HBO Lab), Alex Liston (TiVo), David Preisman
(Showtime Networks), Guy Ram (NBC Universal), Suzanne Stefanac
(American Film Institute), Ty Ahmad-Taylor (MTV), and Marcia
Zellers (Vendaloo.net). The Interactive Media Peer Group’s co-
governors are David Jensen (IBM) and Marcelino Ford-Livene (Intel);
and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences’ SVP of awards is John
Levence.

URL: Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (Emmys)

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