The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) have announced their Lifetime Achievement honorees for the upcoming 2022 Daytime, Daytime Creative Arts & Lifestyle, News & Documentary, and Children’s & Family Emmy Award ceremonies.

Days of our Lives beloved veteran, John Aniston (Victor Kiriakis), has been chosen to be honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award in the field of Daytime Television at the upcoming 49th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards.

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Aniston has been a mainstay on the NBC daytime drama series for more than 35 years, and previously received a Daytime Emmy nomination for his work in the Outstanding Supporting Actor category in 2017. Aniston also appeared in his daytime career on Search for Tomorrow and has a robust resume of credits from the screen to the stage.

The 49th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards will be held on Friday night, June 24th at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium, in Pasadena, California. The ceremony will be broadcast on CBS.

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In addition, to Aniston, the 49th annual Daytime Emmy ceremonies will also honor Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, This Old House. The longtime home improvement series joins both Sesame Street and 60 Minutes as the only programs to receive Lifetime Achievement honors from NATAS.  This Old House has become a television mainstay over the course of its 43-year run.

The show will be honored during The 49th Annual Daytime Creative Arts & Lifestyle Emmy Awards on June 18th, also at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in Pasadena, California.

Other 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award honorees for upcoming NATAS ceremonies will include:

LeVar Burton (Children’s & Family Television Awards): The longtime literacy advocate and host of  Reading Rainbow who taught a generation the joys of reading has already won more than 20 Emmy Awards. Burton will be honored during the first ever Children’s & Family Television Awards to be held on Sunday, December 11, at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles.

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Sir David Attenborough (Documentary Television): One of the world’s preeminent natural history documentarians, Sir David Attenborough is a multiple-time Emmy and BAFTA Award winner.  Attenborough’s Life collection, created with the BBC’s Natural History Unit, is an unparalleled look into the plants and animals of our planet.

Lesley Visser (Sports Television): Trailblazing sports journalist Lesley Visser, who is enshrined in six different halls of fame, is the most highly acclaimed female sportscaster of all time.  She is the only sportscaster, male or female, to have worked on the network broadcasts of the Final Four, the Super Bowl, the NBA Finals, the Olympics, the World Series, the Triple Crown, the World Figure Skating Championship and the US Open Tennis.

Judy Woodruff (News Television): A news and political journalist for more than five decades, Judy Woodruff is the anchor and managing editor of the PBS NewsHour. She has served as Washington correspondent for NBC News and PBS and a senior correspondent for both CNN and PBS, and reported on every national political convention and presidential campaign since 1976.

In a statement, Adam Sharp, President & CEO, NATAS said on the Lifetime Achievement recipients class of 2022: “We look forward to honoring this year’s unparalleled class of Lifetime Achievement honorees — each an icon in their craft — and couldn’t be more excited to award the first-ever Children’s & Family Emmys, After two years of virtual ceremonies, we’re overjoyed to once again be together, in-person, to celebrate the best of television.”

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