Hollywood's actors and writers are each at present on strike, within the first industry-wide walkout for 63 years.
LOS ANGELES: Television’s equal of the Oscars was scheduled to happen in September, however may very well be pushed way back to January, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Trade publication Variety stated “vendors, producers and others involved with the event” have already been knowledgeable of the delay, which has not but been formally introduced.
A supply conversant in the plans stated {that a} new date for the present has not but been set.
Hollywood’s actors and writers are each at present on strike, within the first industry-wide walkout for 63 years.
Stars wouldn’t be capable 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 scores.
Writers would additionally not be allowed to script a monologue or jokes for the telecast’s host and presenters.
According to stories, 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 popular a shorter postponement, as January lands the Emmys proper in the midst of Hollywood’s packed movie award season.
Neither Fox nor the Television Academy has commented.
The final time the Emmys have 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 similar to actuality and sport exhibits.
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Members of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA) and the Writers Guild of America (WGA) are barred from selling their films and collection.
The unions’ calls for have centered on dwindling pay within the streaming period, and the risk posed to their careers and future livelihoods by synthetic intelligence.
Nominations for the seventy fifth Primetime Emmy Awards have been introduced earlier this month, simply hours earlier than talks between studios and SAG-AFTRA collapsed.
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“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 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.
