A Charlottesville native will find out Saturday whether he and his “Karma’s World” teammates will pick up a writing award at the inaugural Children’s & Family Emmys.
Darnell Walker, a Charlottesville High School alumnus, has been nominated for his outstanding writing for an animated program for his work on the Netflix series. The creative arts categories will be presented in a ceremony starting at 5 p.m. Saturday at The Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles. (For hometown fans cheering him on, that’s 8 p.m. in the Eastern zone.)
“I just picked up my tuxedo,” Walker said by phone Friday evening. “It’s a few of us that are on the [writing] team, and we’re hoping for the best.”
Television writing isn’t an occupation for the impatient. The first episode Walker wrote for “Karma’s World” in 2019 recently aired, he said.
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“It’s something you just never forget,” Walker said. “It was my first writing for children I’d done. It was a project I really believed in.”
Creating a standalone program for Emmy Award competition on children’s and family programming categories removes those categories from the Daytime Emmy Awards.
The inaugural Children’s & Family Emmys main event is set for Sunday, also at The Wilshire Ebell Theatre. That’s when Academy Award-winning actor, producer, director and writer Laurence Fishburne will present Lifetime Achievement honors to LeVar Burton, a 13-time Emmy winner known for “Reading Rainbow” and his “LeVar Burton Reads” podcast. Actor Jack McBrayer and singer JoJo Siwa will serve as hosts.
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