Daytime Emmys Postpones June Awards Show Until After Writers Strike Ends

Getty Images The Daytime Emmys are once again planning to pivot, as next month’s awards show to won’t go forward as previously planned. With the ongoing writers strike , the National Academy of TV Arts & Sciences confirmed on Tuesday that this year’s 50th Daytime Emmys would move from its planned June 16 ceremony to an undetermined later date. “The 50th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards planned for Friday, June 16 on CBS is postponed due to the WGA strike,” NATAS president/CEO Adam Sharp said in a statement obtained by Variety. “In addition, the Creative Arts & Lifestyle ceremony, planned for Saturday, June 17, has been postponed pending a strike resolution. We look forward to our community gathering together as one to celebrate our Golden Anniversary and all of the talented nominees and honorees at a later date.” The change comes as the Tony Awards aims to adjust its June 11 show (the Writers Guild of America denied a request for a strike waiver from the show’s producers, but said it wouldn’t picket the show after discussing changes to the telecast). Earlier this month, the MTV Movie & TV Awards switched to a pre-taped clip special after the WGA announced it would picket a live broadcast from Santa Monica’s Barker Hangar (and host Drew Barrymore dropped out ). And also on Monday, the Peabody Awards scrapped plans to hold an in-person ceremony on June 11. Key categories on the Daytime Emmys focus on soap operas, which fall under WGA guidelines, and talk shows — most of which also employ WGA members. With the strike ongoing, it’s unlikely nominees would cross picket lines to attend the show. Pivots are nothing new to the Daytime Emmys. In 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic and stay-at-home orders, the telecast was delayed two weeks, and then reinvented as a mostly pre-taped, two-hour special produced remotely. That year, presenters filmed five different envelope openings — and every nominee in the major categories presented were asked to tape an acceptance speech and send it to the show. In 2021, the Daytime Emmys was still produced as […]

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