“We are pleased to announce that the 75th Emmy Awards will now air on Monday, January 15, 2024,” a Fox spokeswoman said.
The debilitating strikes by Hollywood’s actors and writers have been postponed by almost four months, according to the event’s organisers, who announced this on Thursday.
According to a joint announcement from broadcaster Fox and the Television Academy, the Oscars of television will now take place in mid-January of the following year instead of this September as originally planned.
“We are pleased to announce that the 75th Emmy Awards will now air on Monday, January 15, 2024,” a Fox spokeswoman said.
The Emmys are the biggest entertainment event to be postponed thus far as a result of Hollywood’s first industry-wide strike by writers and actors in more than 60 years.
The last time the Emmys were postponed was in 2001, after the 9/11 attacks, when the ceremony was rescheduled.
A-list celebs and nominees would currently not be permitted to attend the Emmys due to the ongoing actors’ strike, which would be devastating for television viewership.
Additionally, writers would not be permitted to prepare a monologue or jokes for the host and presenters of the programme.
The lengthy pause is meant to give both parties time to work out their disagreements, even though there hasn’t been much formal communication since the authors’ strike started 100 days ago.
On the picket lines last month, members of the much bigger Screen Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA) joined the Writers Guild of America (WGA).
In addition to increased salary, both demand guarantees that artificial intelligence won’t take their jobs or money.
There have been rumours of an Emmys postponement in recent weeks, but neither the postponement nor a new date have been officially announced.
The Emmys air in the thick of Hollywood’s busy film awards season, in mid-January.
The Emmys will now occur just one day after the Critics’ Choice Awards and one week after the Golden Globes.
On March 10, the Oscars are scheduled to take place.
All US film and television productions have virtually been put on hold due to the Hollywood strikes, with a few exceptions including reality and game programmes.
The promotion of the works of SAG-AFTRA and WGA members is prohibited.
The unions’ demands have centred on declining income in the era of streaming and the threat that AI poses to their careers and future well-being.
Writers and actresses claim that for years, studios have been slowly eroding their pay, making it hard for everyone save the very highest echelons to make a livelihood.
They claim that the emergence of streaming platforms, which often do not disclose viewing statistics, has denied them of substantial payouts when they produce international hits.
For the first time since May, writers and studios tentatively met last Friday to consider formally resuming talks, although even that meeting has so far not produced any noticeable outcomes.
The 75th Primetime Emmy Awards nominees, meanwhile, were made public just hours before discussions between studios and SAG-AFTRA broke down last month.
With a record 27 nominations, including best drama, “Succession,” an HBO thriller about a super-rich family battling for control of a malevolent media empire, took the top spot.
With 24 nominations, “The Last of Us” became the first live-action video game adaptation to get significant recognition, while the comedy “The White Lotus” received 23.
