(LOS ANGELES) This year’s Emmy Awards will be postponed due to the writers’ and actors’ strike in Hollywood, US media reported Thursday night.
The television equivalent of the Oscars, originally scheduled for September 18, is expected to be pushed back to January, according to the Los Angeles Times.
According to trade publication Variety, “vendors, producers and others involved in the event” have already been notified of the postponement, which has yet to be officially announced.
No new date has been set for the ceremony, however, said a source familiar with the project.
Hollywood actors and screenwriters are currently on strike, the industry’s first walkout in 63 years. But if the movement continues, all Hollywood stars would boycott the 75th ceremony, which would be disastrous for television audiences.
The scriptwriters would also not be allowed to write texts or jokes for the presenters of the ceremony.
Fox, which is broadcasting this year’s Emmys in the United States, has reportedly pushed for the ceremony to be postponed until January, which would allow more time to resolve the social dispute.
But the Television Academy, which votes for and presents the awards, would prefer a shorter postponement, to avoid the Emmys taking place in the height of film awards season in Hollywood.
Neither Fox nor the Television Academy has commented.
The last time the Emmys were postponed was in 2001, following the 9/11 attacks.
The Hollywood strike shut down all US film and television productions, with a few exceptions.
The unions’ demands focus on falling pay in the age of streaming and the threat artificial intelligence poses to their careers and future livelihoods.
Nominations for the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards were announced earlier this month, hours before negotiations between the studios and SAG-AFTRA broke down.
Succession, the dark and gritty HBO series about a powerful family tearing itself apart to take control of a media empire, topped the nominations in 27 categories.
She must face the road movie The Last of Us, with 24 nominations, and the satire The White Lotus, with 23 nominations.
