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The 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards will air September 20 this year on ABC, the network said Wednesday during its portion of the TCA winter press tour. The live annual TV kudos show, to be held again at the Microsoft Theater at L.A. Live in Los Angeles, doesn’t have producers or a host yet, but 2019’s ceremony on Fox went…

The Television Academy has unveiled a slew of rules changes for the 2020 Emmy Awards including adjustments for 'hanging episodes', alterations to kids voting and extra assessments for self-published series. The Board of Governors has approved more than a dozen changes to the rules. Hanging episodes, those episodes…

Phoebe Waller-Bridge, fresh off her major triumph at the Emmy Awards, heads to Saturday Night Live this week to host the long-running comedy series for the first time. Naturally, her victories for work in Fleabag as Best Comedy, Lead Actress in a Comedy and Comedy Writing were the subject of the promo touting her…

The Television Academy revealed the recipients of the 71st Engineering Emmy Awards on Monday. The accolade honors an individual, company or organization for developments in broadcast technology. This year’s ceremony will take place on October 23 at the JW Marriott Hotel in Los Angeles. Kirsten Vangsness, star of the …

EXCLUSIVE: The Phoebe Waller-Bridge comedy Fleabag enjoyed a massive post-Emmys bump – more than doubling demand in a raft of English-speaking markets including the U.S., UK, New Zealand and Canada. The data, from research firm Parrot Analytics, shows that demand for the British comedy, produced by All3Media-backed…

Phoebe Waller-Bridge has said that Fleabag is done, but Amazon Studios boss Jennifer Salke isn't quite ready to let the Emmy-winning comedy go just yet. "I'll have to really know that and see evidence of that before I really buy in," the exec admitted tonight at a SRO Paley Center shindig in Beverley Hills. Admitting…

Audiences may have not tuned into the actual ceremony for the 71st Primetime Emmy Awards, but they certainly were tuning in for the action happening on this year’s red — er, I mean purple — carpet. E!’s Live From the Red Carpet: The 2019 Emmy Awards served up some top-notch ratings Sunday as it saw a noteworthy uptick…

The Fox broadcast of the Primetime Emmys on Sunday featured the usual In Memoriam segment, this year highlighted by Halsey’s live rendition of Cyndi Lauper’s “Time After Time.” It also showed the wrong picture of composer Andre Previn during the montage of photos accompanying the song. Previn is the four-time…

Thank God for the winners at last night's 71st Primetime Emmys, who could be relied upon to inject all the humor, charm and entertainment value to a Fox telecast that might represent a nadir point for awards shows unwitnessed since Rob Lowe sang a song with Snow White at the Oscars. Wouldn't you have rather watched…

I am happy to say I have been informed I beat all “experts” in the Gold Derby contest to predict winners of this year’s Emmy Awards. So while on a high from that triumph, let me make some Emmy predictions about next year even though we are a full 12 months away from the big night in 2020. Even though Emmys have a…

HBO's Casey Bloys was in "no doubt" that Game of Thrones would pick up the Outstanding Drama Series Emmy win last night, but he did admit that there was some disappointment for Veep and Deadwood. This comes as the WarnerMedia-owned premium network topped the awards last night with nine on the evening, taking it to a…

UPDATED, 11:11 AM: The early metrics were not good for the 71st Primetime Emmy Awards and the final numbers are another bludgeoning for TV’s biggest night and Fox, this year’s broadcaster. Watched by 6.9 million viewers from 8 PM to just after 11 PM ET, the hostless ceremony pulled in the smallest audience for any…