Rebecca Marks receives Lifetime Achievement Honor

Widely respected TV publicity veteran Rebecca Marks was honored Wednesday with the Ben Halpern Lifetime Achievement Award, recognized for her continued career as one of the most trusted communications execs in the industry. Marks, who is now executive vice president of publicity, communications and social media at Warner Bros. Television Group, previously held a long tenure at NBC.

In presenting Marks with the award, TPEC noted that she “has hired, trained and mentored many of the top public relations professionals currently working in the public relations industry.” Her credits include overseeing publicity efforts for such series as “Saturday Night Live,” “The Voice,” “Friends,” “The Tonight Show,” “Abbott Elementary,” “The West Wing,” “Young Sheldon” and ‘Ted Lasso. ”

The Ben Halpern Lifetime Achievement Award is named after one of the founders of TPEC (the Television Publicity Executives Committee), which also presented its second annual TPEC Awards on Thursday – recognizing some of the most successful television publicity campaigns of the year. Winners included teams from 20th Television, Amazon MGM Studios, CBS Studios, Hulu, Lifetime, NBC, Paramount+ and Peacock.

Also, for the first time, TPEC presented a “Rising Star Award” to individuals “whose exemplary contributions to their PR team strengthen their future in the field”: Brandon Bassler (Lifetime), Tori Morris (Hallmark) and Jillian Santoro (Smithhouse Strategy) .

“For our second year, we saw an impressive selection of campaigns from our colleagues at studios, networks and viewing platforms,” said TPEC President Wendy Zocks (the founder of Wendy Zocks PR). Zocks. “These campaigns demonstrated creative and strategic thinking to support an impressive range of content across an evolving landscape of networks and services. TPEC continues to evolve and this year we are pleased to shine a light on our rising stars and honor one of the most respected executives in our industry, Rebecca Marks.”

These are the TPEC Awards 2024:

Campaign of the Year: “The Traitors” (Peacock)

Recurring drama: “Star Trek: Picard,” Season 3 (Cornelia Thomson CBS Studios; Jennifer Verti, CBS Studios; Rachael Wesolowski, CBS Studios; Nikki Kozel, Paramount+; Mackenzie Lawn, Paramount+; Taylor Webster, Paramount+)

New drama: “Goosebumps” (Steven Beydler, Disney Branded Television; Morgan Di Stefano, Disney Branded Television; Katherine Nelson, Disney Branded Television; Kristina Quintos, Disney Branded Television; Chrissy Woo, Disney Branded Television; Lauren Grossman, Sony Pictures Television; Annalisa Race , Sony Pictures Television)

Recurring comedy: “Only Murders in the Building,” Season 3 (Yasamin Azarakhsh, Hulu; Emily Leitz, Hulu; Lydia McMahon, Hulu; Suzy Ejuryan, 20th Television; Chris Kaspers, 20th Television)

New comedy: “Frasier” (Kacy Barrasas, CBS Studios; Beth Haiken, CBS Studios; Langley Turcsanyi, CBS Studios; Eve Kenny, Paramount+; Magee Snyder, Paramount+; Yahnnica Tate, Paramount+)

Return unscripted: “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” Season 15 (Michael Fabiani, MTV Entertainment Studios; Mariana Garces, MTV Entertainment Studios; Justin Permenter, MTV Entertainment Studios; Patrick Santiago, MTV Entertainment Studios; Cameron Knoblock, Metro Public Relations; Robin Leventhal, Metro Public Relations; Sammy Jerrard, Metro Public Relations)

New without script: “The Traitors” (Alex Martinetti, Peacock; Stephanie Baum, Peacock; Breanna Klein, Peacock; Cassidy Irish, Peacock; David Lee, Peacock)

Animated series: “Krapopolis” (David Hail, Fox Entertainment)

Children’s series: “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” (Morgan Di Stefano, Disney Branded Television; Cara Freitas, Disney Branded Television; Heather Levine, Disney Branded Television; Katherine Nelson, Disney Branded Television; Adam Stern, Disney Branded Television; Chrissy Woo, Disney Branded Television; Sepehr Amirkhalili, 20th television; Chris Kaspers, 20th television;

TV movie: “Black Girl Missing” (Tracy Speed, lifetime)

Limited or anthology series: “Daisy Jones & The Six” (Melissa Armstrong, Amazon MGM Studios; Kit Chavers, Amazon MGM Studios; Kevin McAlpine, Amazon MGM Studios; Reegan Smyth, Amazon MGM Studios)

Talk show: “The Daily Show” (Ronnie Brumant, Comedy Central; Parker Moreno, Comedy Central; Nicole Platt, Comedy Central; Imani Punch, Comedy Central; Natalie Lee, Minassian Media; Craig Minassian, Minassian Media)

Game show: “007: Road to a Million” (Nikki Calderon, Amazon MGM Studios; Christina Lee, Amazon MGM Studios; Sophie Spirit, Amazon MGM Studios; Tyler Zlotnick, Amazon MGM Studios)

TPEC Award committee members included Ryan Aguirre (Freelance), Gabriella Alaimo (Sony Pictures Television), Brian Eley (Crunchyroll), Kristen J. Hall (CBS Studios), Ryan McCormick (NBCUniversal), Lindsay Miller (Amazon MGM Studios), Amy Prenner (The Prenner Group), Shari Rosenblum (Disney Television Studios), Aashna Moitra Serrao (DreamWorks Animation), Dustin Smith (Smithhouse), Lakeitcha Thomas (Disney Television Studios), Lynn Weiss (Smithhouse) and Zocks.