ATAS honors television with a cause

March 21, 2008 Home From Iraq and Discovery Channel's Planet Earth are among the recipients of the inaugural Television Academy Honors, which recognize television with a conscience. Rounding out the list of nine honorees are Lifetime's movie "Girl, Positive" and its recently canceled series "Side Order of Life," the CNN documentary "God's Warriers," the "Harm" episode of NBC's "Law & Order: SVU," CBS' Hallmark Hall of Fame movie "Pictures of Hollis Woods" and the Showtime documentary "Shame." The Television Academy Honors, an outgrowth of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences' Television Cares Committee, are set to be presented May 1 at the Beverly Hills Hotel at a ceremony produced by Phil Gurin (NBC's "The Singing Bee").

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