September 12th, 2016

CNN Wins Primetime Emmy® Awards For Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown and The Hunting Ground

Parts Unknown Awarded Fourth Consecutive Emmy® in Outstanding Informational Series or Special; Diane ‎Warren wins Outstanding Original Music & Lyrics For The Hunting Ground Theme

The CNN Original Series’ Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown was honored in the 68th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy® Awards ceremony,  with its fourth consecutive Emmy® in the Outstanding Informational Series or Special category.  Additionally, Diane Warren earned an  Emmy®  in the Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics category for “Til It Happens to You,” the anthem for sexual assault survivors, ‎for the CNN Films documentary The Hunting Ground.  

The Emmy® presentations took place over two nights on Saturday, September 10 and Sunday September 11 at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.

 Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown, which premieres its eighth season on CNN on September 25 and features a dinner with President Obama in Hanoi, is produced by Zero Point Zero Production.  Receiving the award were host/executive producer Bourdain, executive producers Christopher Collins, Lydia Tenaglia and Sandra Zweig, and producers Toby Oppenheimer, Tom Vitale and Mike Steed.

Receiving the Emmy ® for The Hunting Ground, which originally aired on CNN on November 22, 2015, was composer and lyricist Diane Warren.

About CNN Original Series and CNN Films

The CNN Original Series group develops non-scripted programming for television via commissioned projects, acquisitions and in-house production. Amy Entelis, executive vice president of talent and content development, oversees the strategy for CNN Original Series and CNN Films for CNN Worldwide. Lizzie Fox, vice president of development, works directly with producers to develop original projects for CNN Original Series; Courtney Sexton, vice president of content development for CNN Films works day-to-day with filmmakers to oversee projects for CNN Films.

About CNN

CNN Worldwide is a portfolio of two dozen news and information services across cable, satellite, radio, wireless devices and the Internet in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. Domestically, CNN reaches more individuals on television, the web and mobile devices than any other cable TV news organization in the United States; internationally, CNN is the most widely distributed news channel reaching more than 271 million households abroad; and CNN Digital is a top network for online news, mobile news and social media.  Additionally, CNN Newsource is the world’s most extensively utilized news service partnering with hundreds of local and international news organizations around the world.  CNN is division of Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., a Time Warner Company.

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