The Emmys are officially getting punted to January 2024
Fox and the Television Academy have announced that the 75th Emmy Awards will now air on January 15, 2024
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Well, it’s official: The 2023 Emmy Awards will now be the Very Early 2024 Emmy Awards, instead, as Fox announced this morning that the annual broadcast has been punted to January 15, 2024. Amazingly, the press release announcing the move somehow avoided even a single mention of the SAG-AFTRA or WGA strikes, a.k.a., the very obvious reasons the Emmys won’t be landing in their regular September resting spot this year, and will instead be taking up space on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, smack in the dead of winter.
Fox, which is set to broadcast the next iteration of the awards show, announced the news this morning in a joint statement with the Television Academy. The announcement comes two weeks after news broke that the Academy had quietly told vendors not to expect to be working on the show this fall; at the time, Fox was reportedly pushing for a January 2024 delay date, and apparently got its way. The brief press release issued this morning does state that the show will be “broadcast live on FOX coast-to-coast,” and, like… we’ll see, huh? The WGA strike has, after all, just entered its 100th day with no sign of budging, and it remains a very open question of how the Emmys could possibly proceed while a large proportion of its honorees are on strike.
Clock’s ticking, though: Awards season is already ridiculously crowded, schedule-wise—to the point that this move already puts the Emmys after the Golden Globes, which are currently set to run on January 7. (That’ll put them in direct competition with the Creative Arts Emmys, which will run the weekend before the Primetime Emmys, and, see? It’s already getting messy and complicated.) As yet, no host or presenter has been announced for the Emmys, for what are likely to be pretty obvious reasons.
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Okay, now let’s get rid of Wednesday and add Rez Dogs to the comedy category. THERE’S TIME! SKODEN!
is it weird to schedule this kind of thing on MLK Day? Are awards shows often scheduled on Labor Day or Veteran’s Day? I honestly am not sure but it sounds like it could have been on a Sunday night instead (on Jan 15 football would likely be a problem)
It’s kind of weird that MLK day is scheduled in the winter, when there are already too many winter holidays and it’s a worse season to have time off. If it was instead set for the anniversary of his “I Have a Dream” speech, it would be in August.
I would support that. August could use another day off and mid january is right when people actually start doing actual work again. People think of August as a month people take off…but a lot of people don’t actually get to do that. Unfortunately apparently the speech was August 28 which is too close to labor day.
Drat, I just don’t remember the date of Labor Day off the top of my head. May Day is so easy to remember!
And don’t forget “General Ignacio Zaragoza’s Surprising Victory Day” which comes just four after May Day.
Some of these shows will have been off the air for almost a year and a half between when the show ended and when the ceremony is. The first season of The Bear was nominated for these awards and that came out in June 2022 so it would have been 19 months between when it aired and the awards ceremony.
And outrage over a writer for The Bear being barely able to afford a tux to go to these things is why we’re here in the first place! It all comes full circle 😉
Go ahead, have the awards show without any actors or writers, you cowards!They think the ratings were bad before…
“Great, now I won’t have to get screwed until 2024!” — Rhea Seehorn(*and Bob Odenkirk)