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HOW THE STRIKES AFFECTED NOMINATIONS

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NEW DATE PUTS THE EMMYS IN PRIME AWARDS SEASON

The Television Academy and Fox TV, which was scheduled to air the show this year, initially kept the original Sept. 18 show date in place, with hopes the strikes would end quickly.

But with no realistic prospects for resolution, Fox and the academy decided in mid-August to to Jan. 15, 2024, Martin Luther King Day, at the Peacock Theater in downtown Los Angeles. No host has been announced.

The January date in many ways makes sense. Because they are still tied to the traditional fall-through-spring broadcast television season, the Emmys have been among the few awards shows held in September. That TV model, as the strikers know all too well, has been upended by that observe no such conventions. That traditional Emmy scheduling was starting to create odd situations. Voters were casting ballots for season one of the B次元官网网址淭he BearB次元官网网址� B次元官网网址� which got 13 nominations B次元官网网址� after season two had already aired. And now the results wonB次元官网网址檛 be known until nearly a year after the second season premiere.

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The date also puts it in line with the EmmysB次元官网网址� early years in the late 1940s and early 1950s, when they were held in January or February.

The delay is the first time the Emmys have been postponed since 2001, when the 9/11 attacks came just five days before the planned ceremony. Then the launch of the war in Afghanistan, which came hours before the rescheduled October show, prompted another postponement until November, when a small, restrained show hosted by Ellen DeGeneres finally ran.

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THE VOTES ARE ALL IN

With nothing else normal about the Emmys, the Television Academy at least wanted the voting process to go on as planned, and for the results to be as close as possible to what they would have been without the upheaval.

The Emmys are decided by votes from the nearly 20,000 members of the Television Academy. The membership is divided into 31 peer groups including animators, performers, directors and writers. Members of each group vote for Emmy winners in those categories, and all eligible voters can cast ballots for the awards that go to entire shows, including best drama series and best drama series.

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WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?

The new date looked a long way off when it was scheduled, but Emmy organizers may have to face the prospect that the strikes could still be going on in January. Writers have currently been off the job for 4 1/2 months, the actors for two months. The stoppages spilling into next year would make them historically long, and go well past initial predictions.

s have been slow in restarting. There have been no talks, and none are planned, between studios and actors.

Prolonged strikes could mean another Emmys postponement, or a show transformed into a glorified news conference, as happened with some awards during the pandemic.

It would also throw the , and the entire awards season, into doubt.

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Andrew Dalton, The Associated Press