Emmys to Be Postponed Due to Hollywood Strikes

This yr’s Emmy Awards will probably be postponed due to the continued Hollywood strikes.

Television’s equal of the Oscars was scheduled to happen in September, however could possibly be pushed way back to January, the Los Angeles Times reported.

Trade publication Variety mentioned Thursday that “vendors, producers and others involved with the event” have already been knowledgeable of the delay, which has not but been formally introduced.

A supply accustomed to the plans informed AFP {that a} new date for the present has not but been set.

Hollywood’s actors and writers are each presently on strike, within the first industry-wide walkout for 63 years.

Stars wouldn’t have the option to attend the Emmys if the actors’ strike was nonetheless in impact on the time of the ceremony — a improvement that might be disastrous for tv rankings.

Writers would additionally not be allowed to script a monologue or jokes for the telecast’s host and presenters.

According to experiences, Fox — this yr’s Emmy Awards broadcaster within the United States — has been pushing to delay till January, giving the strikes longer to be resolved.

The Television Academy, who vote for and host the awards, most well-liked a shorter postponement, as January lands the Emmys proper in the course of Hollywood’s packed movie award season.

Neither Fox nor the Television Academy has commented.

The final time the Emmys had been delayed was in 2001, when the ceremony was postponed within the wake of the 9/11 terrorist assaults.

The Hollywood strikes have basically shut down all US film and tv productions, with restricted exceptions reminiscent of actuality and sport reveals.

Members of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA) and the Writers Guild of America (WGA) are barred from selling their motion pictures and sequence.

The unions’ calls for have targeted on dwindling pay within the streaming period, and the menace posed to their careers and future livelihoods by synthetic intelligence.

Nominations for the seventy fifth Primetime Emmy Awards had been introduced earlier this month, simply hours earlier than talks between studios and SAG-AFTRA collapsed.

“Succession,” the HBO drama about an ultra-wealthy household preventing for management of a sinister media empire, led the nominations with a whopping 27 nods, together with finest drama.

“The Last of Us” grew to become the primary live-action online game adaptation to earn main nominations, with 24, whereas satire “The White Lotus” earned 23 nods.