Deborah D. McAdams / 01.09.2013 01:28PM
Paley Center Announces Lineup for 30th Paleyfest
Scheduled for March 1-15
BEVERLY HILLS, CALIF. -- The Paley Center for
Media announced the full lineup of honorees for their 30th annual
ultimate TV fan festival, “PaleyFest:
The William S. Paley Television Festival,” marking the biggest festival
to date. PaleyFest 2013 will take place at the Saban Theatre, March 1-15, 2013.
The latest series to join the lineup include: “TheWalkingDead,” which will serve as the
opening night presentation for PaleyFest, “Community,”whose
cast will present a live table read at their unprecedented fourth appearance at
the festival; “Parenthood,” “TheMindyProject,” “Nashville,” “Arrow,” “Dallas,”
“NewGirl,” “TheBigBangTheory,”
and “2BrokeGirls.”
These series will join previously announced honorees: “Revolution,” “TheNewsroom,” “Once Upon A Time,” “The New Normal,” and “American Horror Story: Asylum,” which
will close out the 15-day Festival.
As previously
announced the inaugural PaleyFest Icon Award, which is named for William S.
Paley, the pioneering media executive and founder of The Paley Center for
Media, and recognizes individual creative achievements in television, will
honor Ryan Murphy. Murphy, whose series “Glee,”
“Nip/Tuck,” and “American Horror Story” have been
previous PaleyFest honorees, will receive the award at a celebration slated for
Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013 at The Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills, which
will serve as PaleyFest’s kickoff event.
Hulu will
expand its relationship with the Festival as the Premier Sponsor for PaleyFest
2013 and will stream full-length panel content and short form clips, exclusively
on-demand from each PaleyFest panel on the free ad-supported Hulu, and the Hulu
Plus subscription service.