Due to ongoing strikes in Hollywood, the Emmy television prize will not be awarded until the new year. The postponement is seen as a sign of difficult negotiations. The award was actually supposed to take place in September.
Actors’ and screenwriters’ strikes are disrupting US film awards season. The world’s most important television award, the Emmy – originally scheduled for September – will now be awarded in the most important categories on January 15, 2024. This was announced jointly by the Fox television station and the Television Academy.
The main ceremony for the 75th edition of the Emmy was actually planned for September 18th, and the creative prizes for behind-the-scenes work were to be presented the previous weekend. These will now be awarded on January 6th and 7th, 2024. According to a report by “The Hollywood Reporter”, the members of the academy will continue to vote on the award winners between August 17 and 28; formats broadcast can be selected until the end of May 2023.
Family drama “Succession” leads the field with 27 nominations, followed by video game adaptation “The Last of Us” with 24 and luxury vacation satire “The White Lotus” with 23 nominations. It is not yet known who will be hosting the events at the newly named Peacock Theater in downtown Los Angeles.
Demand for higher salaries
The nominations for the award for Best Series, TV Show and TV Movie were announced on July 12, just two days before the start of the SAG-AFTRA strike by some 160,000 unionized actors. The more than 11,000 screenwriters in the USA have been on strike since the beginning of May.
During the strikes, the actors and authors are demanding, among other things, higher salaries and royalties as well as binding rules for the use of artificial intelligence. According to the US industry media, the postponement by several months is a sign that no agreements are yet in sight on the strikes.
Traditionally, the TV industry uses the late summer awards to promote the new television season and new seasons beginning in August and September. As early as 2001, it was postponed to November because of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.