LOS ANGELES – The Emmy Awards have been postponed by virtually 4 months, organizers stated Thursday, as crippling strikes by Hollywood’s actors and writers drag on with no decision in sight.
Tv’s equal of the Oscars had been on account of happen this September, however will now be held in mid-January subsequent 12 months, broadcaster Fox and the Tv Academy wrote in an announcement.
“We’re happy to announce that the seventy fifth Emmy Awards will now air on Monday, January 15, 2024,” stated a Fox spokesman.
The Emmys are probably the most vital leisure occasion up to now to be delayed by Hollywood’s first industry-wide walkout by each actors and writers in additional than 60 years.
The final time the Emmys have been delayed was in 2001, when the ceremony was postponed within the wake of the 9/11 assaults.
Because of the ongoing actors’ strike, A-list stars and nominees wouldn’t at present be allowed to attend the Emmys — a improvement that may be disastrous for tv scores.
Writers would additionally not be allowed to script a monologue or jokes for the telecast’s host and presenters.
The prolonged delay is meant to permit either side time to resolve their variations, though the varied events have barely spoken via any formal channels for the reason that writers’ strike started 100 days in the past.
Writers Guild of America (WGA) members have been joined on the picket strains final month by the far bigger Display Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA.)
Each are asking for higher pay, and ensures that synthetic intelligence is not going to steal their jobs and revenue, amongst different calls for.
Reviews of an Emmys delay had been circulating in current weeks, however till now the postponement had not been confirmed, nor any new date introduced.
Mid-January lands the Emmys proper in the course of Hollywood’s packed movie awards season.
The Emmys will now happen one week after the Golden Globes, and simply 24 hours after the Critics Alternative Awards.
The Oscars are set to be held on March 10.
Impasse
The Hollywood strikes have primarily shut down all US film and tv productions, with restricted exceptions resembling actuality and recreation reveals.
Members of SAG-AFTRA and the WGA are barred from selling their films and sequence.
The unions’ calls for have centered on dwindling pay within the streaming period, and the menace posed to their careers and future livelihoods by synthetic intelligence.
Writers and actors say studios have been methodically eroding their salaries for years, making it inconceivable for all however the very prime ranks to earn a dwelling.
They contend that the rise of streaming platforms — who don’t usually reveal viewing figures — has disadvantaged them of large paydays once they create international hits.
Writers and studios tentatively gathered final Friday to debate formally reopening talks for the primary time since Might, however even that sitdown up to now has not yielded any tangible outcomes.
In the meantime, nominations for the seventy fifth Primetime Emmy Awards have been introduced final month, simply hours earlier than talks between studios and SAG-AFTRA collapsed.
“Succession,” the HBO drama about an ultra-wealthy household combating for management of a sinister media empire, led the nominations with a whopping 27 nods, together with greatest drama.
“The Final 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. –AFP
