Voting for the 2023 Primetime Emmy Awards closes this coming Monday, June 26. Nominations for the 2023 Primetime Emmy Awards shall be introduced July 14. Past that, issues are very a lot in flux.
The Tv Academy and Fox, which is carrying this 12 months’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 a decision to the work stoppage in sight by finish of July or early August, the Emmys, at the moment scheduled for Sept. 18, must be postponed.
That’s actual chance as AMPTP continues to be negotiating with SAG-AFTRA, with talks trying to go all the way down to the wire on the Jun 30 deadline and perhaps past if negotiations are prolonged as rumored. That may ship writers and studios again to the negotiating desk in mid-July on the earliest, so a deal by starting of August just isn’t very sensible.
This can be a huge 12 months for the Primetime Emmys which mark their seventy fifth anniversary so not going by way of with a ceremony celebrating the awards’ milestone doesn’t appear doubtless, at the least for now. The Daytime Emmys, that are hitting a fiftieth milestone this 12 months, had been speculated to air on CBS final week however had been postponed because of the strike. No new date has been set.
As for when the Primetime Emmys present would air if postponed, November is taken into account doubtless. January is also being thought of, I hear. (that chance was reported by NYT at the moment) Nonetheless, a 2024 date is much less doubtless as that will make for a 6+ month hole between nominations and awards ceremony and a 12 months and a half from the time a number of the nominated seasons of TV reveals had aired.
The Primetime Emmys had been beforehand delayed after 9/11 when the ceremony ultimately occurred in November.
It’s unclear whether or not a possible SAG-AFTRA strike would affect the precise ceremony as awards reveals, together with the Oscars, are coated by SAG-AFTRA Community Tv Code, which is negotiated individually between the gild and the Large 4 broadcast networks and doesn’t expire till July 2024.
Nonetheless, many SAG-AFTRA members wouldn’t cross a picket line regardless.
Not like the Tonys on CBS, which had been capable of proceed with out writers and picketing, the Emmys can’t be put collectively with out writers, and the present doubtless could be closely picketed because it includes the TV business the place the WGA needs to affect the most important adjustments with the brand new contract. MTV Film & 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 government officer of CBS who’s a member of Tv Academy’s Govt Committee, was requested throughout a keynote at BANFF final week by Deadline’s Peter White a couple of doable affect from the writers strike on the 2023 Emmys.
“I’m not attempting to punt, however truthfully, I feel it’s quickly to inform,” he mentioned. “We went by way of various work to get the Tonys on, and I actually appreciated the WGA working with us to assist us determine a approach to do it.”
