Emmy Awards set to be postponed amid Hollywood strikes

Fox has determined to postpone the seventy fifth Annual Emmy Awards because of the strikes by the Writers Guild of America and SAG-AFTRA.

Fox, which was scheduled to air the ceremony on Sept. 18, is anticipated to quickly announce the occasion will probably be rescheduled for January, in accordance with an individual aware of the plans who was not licensed to remark.

The brand new date is contingent on the labor points between the guilds and the studios being resolved earlier than then.

Selection reported Thursday that distributors for the Emmy Awards have already been knowledgeable of the delay.

The Writers Guild of America has been on strike since Could 2. Actors represented by SAG-AFTRA walked off the job this month. Each unions are on the lookout for improved residual funds for streaming and protections in opposition to using AI.

Fox executives beforehand stated the community wouldn’t go forward with this system if both of the guilds have been nonetheless on strike on the finish of July. The community had no intention of shifting forward with out expertise to carry out or current the awards.

The final time the Emmy Awards telecast was postponed was in 2001 after the Sept. 11 assaults on New York Metropolis and the Pentagon. This system, after being delayed a second time, was offered in November, seven weeks late.

Fox is delaying this yr’s present as a result of actors and writers would most definitely not attend the occasion, which would go away the community with executives and actuality present stars as presenters.

The Emmy Awards telecast went ahead in 1980 when placing SAG members boycotted the occasion. Just one actor — Powers Boothe — confirmed as much as settle for his award. Boothe was honored for enjoying suicide cult chief Jim Jones within the miniseries, “Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones.”