Emmy Awards postponed due to Hollywood strikes
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The 75th Emmy Awards will be postponed because of the strikes, according to a person briefed on the plans.
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Los Angeles – The fallout from the Hollywood actors’ and writers’ strikes continues.
The 75th Emmy Awards will be postponed because of the strikes, according to a person briefed on the plans. The ceremony, originally planned for Sept 18, does not yet have a new date, but will most likely be moved to January, the person said.
Emmy organisers are hopeful that would give the Hollywood studios enough time to settle the labour disputes. A new date will be finalised in the next few weeks.
Fox, which is broadcasting this year’s event, and the Television Academy, which administers the Emmys, had concluded in June that it would have to postpone the event if the writers’ strike continued to linger until the end of July, The New York Times reported in June.
The writers have now been on strike for 88 days and have not returned to the bargaining table with the major Hollywood studios since negotiations broke down in early May.
By the time tens of thousands of actors joined the writers on picket lines and went on strike on July 14, it all but put a nail in the coffin for an Emmys ceremony in September.
The postponement marks one of the biggest events that will get rescheduled because of the labour conflicts.
The Emmy Awards ceremony, which traditionally takes place in August or September, was last postponed after the terrorist attacks on Sept 11, 2001. That year, the event took place in November.
Organising the Emmys is a significant undertaking – one of the reasons that the Television Academy and Fox set a late July deadline to make a decision on a postponement. Variety magazine reported earlier that the Emmys would be rescheduled.
Nominations for the Emmy Awards were announced in July.
HBO, which led all networks in total nominations, became the first network in 31 years to earn four nominations in the best drama category – Succession, The White Lotus, The Last Of Us and House Of The Dragon.
In the comedy categories, two-time winner Ted Lasso will compete against shows including Abbott Elementary and The Bear. NYTIMES
