Emmys 2023 To Be Postponed Amid Hollywood Strikes: US Media
SAG members at a rally in Times Square. (Courtesy of AFP) This year’s Emmy Awards will be postponed due to ongoing strikes in Hollywood, US media reported on Thursday. The Los Angeles Times reported that the television equivalent of the Oscars was supposed to take place in September, but could be pushed back to January. Trade publication Variety says “suppliers, producers and others involved with the event” have been notified of the delay, which has yet to be officially announced. A source familiar with the plans told AFP a new performance date has yet to be set. Hollywood actors and writers are currently on strike, in the first industry-wide strike in 63 years. The stars could not attend the Emmys if the actors’ strike was still in effect at the time of the ceremony – a development that would have been disastrous for television audiences. Writers will also not be allowed to write monologues or jokes for the hosts and presenters. According to reports, Fox – the broadcaster of this year’s Emmy Awards in the US – tried to delay it until January, giving the strikes more time to settle. The Television Academy, which selects and organizes the awards, wanted a shorter delay because January was the Emmy Awards in the middle of Hollywood movie awards season. Neither Fox nor the Television Academy would comment. The last time the Emmy Awards were postponed was in 2001, when the ceremony was postponed following the September 11 terrorist attacks.
Members of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA) and the Writers Guild of America (WGA) are not allowed to promote their films and series. The union’s demands focus on pay cuts in the streaming age and the threat artificial intelligence poses to their future careers and livelihoods. The nominations for the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards were announced earlier this month, just hours before negotiations between the studios and SAG-AFTRA collapsed. Successor, HBO’s drama about an extremely wealthy family vying for control of a sinister media empire, led the nominations with 27 nominations, including Best Drama. The Last of Us became the first live-action video game adaptation to win multiple major nominations, with 24 nominations, while the satirical The White Lotus received 23. (Except for the title, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from an aggregated feed.)