2017 Television Academy Honors: Speechless

The 13th Television Academy Honors were presented on September 8, 2020.

Executive producer and showrunner, Damon Lindelof, along with actress, Regina King, accept the award for Watchmen.

Co-creator, writer and host, Hasan Minhaj, accepts the award for Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj.

Director, Erin Lee Carr, accepts the award for At the Heart of Gold: Inside the USA Gymnastics Scandal.

Showrunner, Anthony Sparks, accepts the award for Queen Sugar.

Writer and director, Richard Rowley, accepts the award for 16 Shots.

Executive producer, writer and director, Susannah Grant, accepts the Television Academy Honor award for Unbelievable.

Watch as Yeardley Smith shares her journey to playing the brilliant 8-year-old, Lisa Simpson, for three decades on FOX's hit show The Simpsons, at a Television Academy event in 2017.

Watch as Terence Winter, Creator/Writer/EP of Boardwalk Empire, explains how he got an agent and his first writing gig in Hollywood at a Television Academy event in 2017.

Back in 2017, Tyler Perry spoke candidly with award-winning journalist Tamron Hall about how an episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show kickstarted his career, how he stays motivated, and his advice for aspiring writers.