'I Love Lucy' to be honored with first-ever TV Academy Legacy Award

"I Love Lucy," the hit 1950s sitcom starring Lucille Ball, will receive the TV Academy's inaugural Legacy Award at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards.

It’s probably only fitting that the Television Academy’s first-ever “Legacy Award” will recognize the series that has probably had the most profound impact of any TV program on the medium: “I Love Lucy.” The series that set the blueprint for sitcoms and created the template for TV syndication will receive the honor on

If you’re going to create a TV honor called the Legacy Award, this is a perfect way to start. The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences said Tuesday that the seminal sitcom I Love Lucy with receive its inaugural honor celebrating a television program that’s made a profound and generational impact on audiences and remai

The landmark sitcom premiered 75 years ago and won four Emmys during its original run.