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Roy Samuelson

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Audio Description Narration included in the home of the Primetime Emmys, the Television Academy

I’ve been an Active member of The Television Academy for a decade or so. For the last few years I’ve also been a member of their Performers Peer Group Executive Committee. Lobbying for inclusion of audio description narration has been a passion and an advocacy of mine for years. Thanks to strategic guidance from the peer group Governors, I’m so happy to share that the home of the Primetime Emmys, The Television Academy, now includes television work in audio description narration as qualifying credits for membership in The Performers Peer Group along with other performing credits, such as on-camera comedy and drama, hosting, commercials, animation and narration voiceover, etc.

https://www.emmys.com/academy/organization/peer-groups/performers

Audio description was created by blind people for blind people. And as more blind professional talents contribute to this work, the work gets better. And as more of the entertainment industry recognizes this work, the more our audiences can have an experience similar to the quality television experiences of sighted audiences.

This precedent of inclusion of television audio description narrators for membership in the Television Academy isn’t an end, but a start in recognizing the entire industry, importance and need for audio description professionals.

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Girls face with the hands of a witch above her

The Turning

The title front and center a couple on the right pictured sideways and a mother daughter on the left pictured sideways

The Third Day

Hugh Grant and Nicole Kidman embracing with a double image of Nicole above the title

The Undoing

Regina King as Sister Night in front of a large yellow clock with title in front

Watchmen

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Years and Years

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The Dropout

Cast members above the title

The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete

A Hand over the City of Los Angeles

City of Angels, City of Death

Holy Mother of Russia sitting on a throne with a man sitting underneath her with a stick in front of the title

The Great – Seasons 1-2

Legs in the sand one foot is a skelton the other has flesh below the title

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Amplifying #AudioDescription excellence and quality, to be in parity to sighted audiences' experience, through #KevinsWay #BlindPeopleWatchMovies

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25 Jun

🧵I’m coming back to social media soon. And I felt I had to jump in with a thought that’s kept me smiling.

It’s been thrilling to see the changes and growth - both in quantity and quality - since Kevin and I begin our strategic journey of pivoting #AudioDescription away from ...

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AvatarRebecca Odum@rwritesfantasy·
23 May

@RoySamuelson This is awesome! Thank you for sharing this! I just completed training to become a quality control specialist for audio description! I am also A consumer and audio description has changed the way I enjoy entertainment!

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