The Television Academy welcomed seven new members into its Hall of Fame Thursday night, honoring a class that has spent decades defining television across comedy, drama, documentary, journalism and entertainment. Actors Ted Danson and Jean Smart, South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos, documentary pioneer Sheila Nevins and the late broadcast journalist Ed Bradley made up the 2026 class, bringing together careers that have transformed television. For Parker and Stone, the honor arrived on a fitting anniversary. South Park premiered exactly 29 years earlier, on Aug. 13, 1997. Since its…
