Edward J. Scott
Edward J. Scott was born in Santa Monica, California, United States on September 15th, 1944 and is the TV Producer. At the age of 79, Edward J. Scott biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Five-time Emmy Award-winning executive producer Edward Scott is currently partnered with producer/writer Brendan Burns in the film and television production company Scott / Burns. Most recently, Scott received a 2009 Daytime Emmy Award nomination for “Outstanding Daytime Drama” as executive producer of the NBC daytime drama Days of Our Lives (August 2007 – August 2008), securing a record 13 nominations, the most Emmy Award nominations for the 2008 season in all major categories than any other daytime drama, according to TV Guide.
Formerly executive producer of the #1-ranked CBS Television daytime drama, The Young and the Restless for over 25 years, Scott helmed the daytime drama through its current, record-breaking, 20 year plus, 1,000 week plus reign as the #1 American daytime television drama, according to Nielsen. Under the Scott regime, CBS Television also secured the #1 dominance in the day part, a record it has held for more than two decades, according to Nielsen.
Scott had a 25-year producing partnership and creative collaboration with William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell, the co-creators of The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful, the two most popular daily American television series worldwide. Both daytime dramas are syndicated internationally to a combined total of over 125 markets worldwide, with a combined daily viewing audience in excess of 100 million viewers on six continents.
During Scott’s tenure as executive producer of The Young & The Restless, the series received five Emmy Awards for “Outstanding Daytime Drama,” accumulating more Emmy nominations in that category and in all other categories than any other drama series in the history of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. In 2000 alone, the series received 28 Emmy Award nominations, a record for both American primetime and daytime television, an accomplishment acknowledged by the Guinness Book of World Records. Scott received a total of 5 Emmy Awards (2007, 1993, 1986, 1985, 1983) and 14 Emmy nominations for “Outstanding Daytime Drama” for The Young and The Restless.
Under Scott's leadership, the show also received “The People’s Choice Award, The TV Guide Reader’s Poll, and more NAACP Image Awards for “Outstanding Daytime Drama” than any other American television series, primetime or daytime.