Emmy Awards Postponed Until January As Writers, Actors Continue Strikes

This is the first time the Primetime Emmys broadcast has been postponed in over two decades.
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The 75th Primetime Emmy Awards telecast has officially been postponed until Jan. 15 as Hollywood actors and writers continue their strikes.

The awards show, which had been set to air on Sept. 18, will now take place on Martin Luther King Jr. Day live on Fox starting at 8 p.m. EST, the network and the ceremony’s presenter, the Television Academy, announced on Thursday.

The Creative Arts Emmy Awards, which had been set to take place on Sept. 9 and Sept. 10, will be postponed until the weekend prior to the Primetime Emmys and are now scheduled for Jan. 13 on FXX.

Emmys organizers said earlier they hoped a postponement would allow Hollywood studios time to settle the strikes.

Over 160,000 actors represented by SAG-AFTRA, as well 11,500 film and TV writers with the Writers Guild of America, continue striking over issues that include pay, working conditions and the use of artificial intelligence. (HuffPost’s unionized staff members, represented by the Writers Guild of America East, are not involved in the dispute.)

Picketers demonstrate on a line outside Netflix studios in Los Angeles on Wednesday. The Hollywood writers strike reached the 100-day mark as the U.S. film and television industries remain paralyzed by actors and screenwriters strikes.
Picketers demonstrate on a line outside Netflix studios in Los Angeles on Wednesday. The Hollywood writers strike reached the 100-day mark as the U.S. film and television industries remain paralyzed by actors and screenwriters strikes.
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The Primetime Emmys postponement is the first for the ceremony since the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001.

The Golden Globes are scheduled to air on Jan. 7, although no broadcaster has been announced.

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