Jul
30,
2023
You’ll have to wait a little longer to find out if your favorite shows and stars are taking home an Emmy Award. This year’s Emmys are officially postponed, a new date has not been announed.
The Television Academy and Fox are pushing back the date of the ceremony as the two guilds continue standoffs with the AMPTP. Inside sources close to the show confirm that the original date (September) and month are no longer in consideration. Ideally, the show won’t take place until SAG-AFTRA and the Writers Guild of America reach agreements with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers — but both the TV Academy and 2023 broadcaster Fox are still in talks on when the rescheduled event will take place. No new date has been reached and may not be reached as the strike continues into late summer and fall. It’s possible we won’t know of a new date for the Emmy Awards until after the dust of the strike settles in a post agreement world.
If the Television Academy and Fox had stuck with the Sept. 18 date, they ran the risk of playing to a mostly empty room: Sixteen of the 25 awards given during the 2022 Emmy telecast go to actors or writers. Gee, seems like they might be important and deserve better paychecks doesn’t it?
The postponement is the first for the Emmys in more than two decades. The last time the Television Academy and CBS pushed back the 2001 ceremony was in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The Emmy’s went on to air in early November of that year. Phase two voting for the Emmy Awards is still moving forward as originally planned. TV Academy members will vote on the nominees starting Aug. 17. Whether the 2023 Emmys are actually handed out in 2023 is still up in the air for the moment. Might we see a 2024 show for 2023 due to the strikes? Anything is possible.
