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Voting for the 2023 Primetime Emmy Awards closes this coming Monday, June 26. Nominations for the 2023 Primetime Emmy Awards will likely be introduced July 14. Beyond that, issues are very a lot in flux.
The Television Academy and Fox, which is carrying this yr’s ceremony, have been discussing contingencies amid a writers strike which is in its 51st day. Writers play a key a part of the Emmy ceremony, and the present additionally requires a manufacturing lead time, so the consensus is that, if there isn’t any decision to the work stoppage in sight by finish of July or early August, the Emmys, presently scheduled for Sept. 18, should be postponed.
That is actual chance as AMPTP remains to be negotiating with SAG-AFTRA, with talks trying to go right down to the wire on the Jun 30 deadline and possibly past if negotiations are prolonged as rumored. That would ship writers and studios again to the negotiating desk in mid-July on the earliest, so a deal by starting of August will not be very reasonable.
This is a giant yr for the Primetime Emmys which mark their seventy fifth anniversary so not going by means of with a ceremony celebrating the awards’ milestone doesn’t appear possible, at the least for now. The Daytime Emmys, that are hitting a fiftieth milestone this yr, have been alleged to air on CBS final week however have been postponed as a result of strike. No new date has been set.
As for when the Primetime Emmys present would air if postponed, November is taken into account possible. January is also being thought-about, I hear. (that chance was reported by NYT in the present day) However, a 2024 date is much less possible as that might make for a 6+ month hole between nominations and awards ceremony and a yr and a half from the time among the nominated seasons of TV exhibits had aired.
The Primetime Emmys have been beforehand delayed after 9/11 when the ceremony finally occurred in November.
It is unclear whether or not a possible SAG-AFTRA strike would impression the precise ceremony as awards exhibits, together with the Oscars, are lined by SAG-AFTRA Network Television Code, which is negotiated individually between the gild and the Big 4 broadcast networks and doesn’t expire till July 2024.
Still, many SAG-AFTRA members wouldn’t cross a picket line regardless.
Unlike the Tonys on CBS, which have been in a position to proceed with out writers and picketing, the Emmys can’t be put collectively with out writers, and the present possible can be closely picketed because it includes the TV trade the place the WGA needs to impression the largest adjustments with the brand new contract. MTV Movie & TV Awards final month scrapped its in-person ceremony when WGA picketing was set and expertise pulled out. It aired a pre-taped hostless present as a substitute.
George Cheeks, President and chief govt officer of CBS who’s a member of Television Academy’s Executive Committee, was requested throughout a keynote at BANFF final week by Deadline’s Peter White a couple of potential impression from the writers strike on the 2023 Emmys.
“I’m not trying to punt, but honestly, I think it’s soon to tell,” he mentioned. “We went through quite a lot of work to get the Tonys on, and I really appreciated the WGA working with us to help us figure out a way to do it.”
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