Emmy awards ‘to be postponed until next year’ over author’s strike
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he Emmys are set to be postponed to January due to the writers and actors’ strike, US media have reported.
Fox is anticipated to announce quickly that the star-studded awards shall be rescheduled from September, the Los Angeles Times reported, over the strikes.
The ceremony was initially as a result of be broadcast on September 18.
The paper reported that the January date is contingent on a decision between the studios and guilds earlier than then.
Hollywood actors went on strike earlier this month after talks with studios broke down, becoming a member of movie and tv writers who’ve been on picket traces since May.
It has disrupted scores of exhibits and flicks together with The Last of Us and Saturday Night Live.
Nominations for the best honours in tv had been introduced about two weeks in the past simply earlier than a piece stoppage was declared.
If the Emmys are postponed, it is going to be the primary time since 2001, within the wake of the 9/11 assaults. An Emmy telecast was held later that 12 months in November.
Entertainment publication Variety additionally earlier reported that distributors for the Emmys Awards had been knowledgeable of the upcoming date change.
Fox declined to remark, whereas the Television Academy didn’t instantly reply to the Reuters news company.
Popular exhibits nominated for an award embrace Succession, The White Lotus and Ted Lasso.
Unionised American actors started “indefinite” strike action earlier this month, joining film and television writers on the picket lines.
About 160,000 members of the Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) have walked out, whereas 15,000 screenwriters who’re members of the Writers Guild of America (WGA) have been on strike since May 2.
It is the primary time the 2 unions have striked collectively in 63 years.