Tonight, in “Completely anticipated outcomes that the folks in cost have been, however, pretending may not occur” information: The 2023 Emmys are virtually actually going to be delayed.
This is per a brand new report from Variety, which states that distributors for the Emmys have been informed by the TV Academy that the present’s broadcast will not be taking place on the scheduled date of September 18 of this 12 months. (Ditto the Creative Arts Emmys, which have been scheduled for every week earlier.) The Academy, which has been holding on to that date as a result of hey, what else are they going to do, presumably didn’t additionally inform the distributors “Because nobody will present up, and that might be embarrassing,” though we are able to more-or-less infer.
The writing has been on the wall for the Emmys because the second SAG-AFTRA went on strike earlier this month. The present may, probably, have been in a position to go ahead—beneath heavy protest and doable picketing—amidst the Writers Guilds strike. But there’s merely no approach it may possibly occur with all of tv’s fanciest actors now additionally on strike, leaving nationwide audiences to have a look at nothing however assembled administrators and producers. And whereas it’s all the time doable the labor actions can be resolved earlier than September, huge awards exhibits take loads of pre-planning that can’t occur beneath this stage of uncertainty.
As Variety notes, that is the primary time the Emmys have been knocked out of their common September resting level since, effectively, 9/11; that broadcast ended up airing in November, after being delayed a second time by the start of U.S. armed involvement in Afghanistan. Nothing so drastic right here, though the delay could also be longer: A earlier Variety report urged the earliest date for a re-do is likely to be November, whereas Fox was reportedly pushing to bump the present to January of 2024, which might crowd into area sometimes taken up by movie awards season. But, hey: Maybe it’ll give the Emmy voters extra time to really watch some TV.
