SAG members at a rally in Occasions Sq.. (Picture courtesy: AFP)
This 12 months’s Emmy Awards shall be postponed as a result of ongoing Hollywood strikes, US media reported Thursday. Tv’s equal of the Oscars was scheduled to happen in September, however could possibly be pushed way back to January, the Los Angeles Occasions reported.
Commerce publication Selection mentioned “distributors, producers and others concerned with the occasion” have already been knowledgeable of the delay, which has not but been formally introduced.
A supply acquainted with 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 be capable to attend the Emmys if the actors’ strike was nonetheless in impact on the time of the ceremony – 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.
In line with studies, Fox – this 12 months’s Emmy Awards broadcaster in america – has been pushing to delay till January, giving the strikes longer to be resolved.
The Tv Academy, who vote for and host the awards, most well-liked a shorter postponement, as January lands the Emmys proper in the midst of Hollywood’s packed movie award season.
Neither Fox nor the Tv 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 akin to actuality and sport exhibits.
Members of the Display screen Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA) and the Writers Guild of America (WGA) are barred from selling their motion pictures 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.
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.
(Apart from the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV employees and is printed from a syndicated feed.)
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