The 2009 Philo T. Farnsworth Primetime Emmy Award Statue given to NASA Television. Photo by Bill Ingalls/NASA via Wikimedia Commons.
With Hollywood’s leading writers’, actors’, and TV/film professionals’ unions on strike together for the first time in more than half a century, the 75th annual Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony has been postponed, Variety reported exclusively last night (July 27) and multiple outlets have since confirmed. The event was originally scheduled to take place September 18, and no makeup date is currently on the books, though Variety reported earlier this month that Fox (the Emmys’ airer) was preparing to reschedule the awards to January 2024 in anticipation of the setback.
The Writers Guild of America (WGA) went on strike in early May to protest declining residuals, marking the first time the union has walked out since 2007. Earlier this month, The Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) joined the movement on July 14, launching a strike of their own. WGA and SAG-AFTRA have not been on strike together since 1960, when they effectively shut down Hollywood for six weeks. This summer’s action threatens to do the same.
Read Jordan Darville’s conversation with labor reporter Hamilton Nolan on what the rest of us can learn from the historic strikes here.