No more discs – the Television Academy has announced that it will eliminate DVD screeners from its award nominating and voting process for the 2020 Emmy eligibility period. The Academy becomes the first major Hollywood organization to announce the move. "This is a wonderful opportunity for the Academy to take an…

EXCLUSIVE: A couple of weeks before TV Academy’s Board of Governors is slated to elect a new Chairman, Vice Chair Frank Scherma has emerged as the sole contender to succeed Hayma Washington. We hear Scherma was the only candidate to declare he was running for the post by the deadline this week. The election is slated…

TV Academy chairman and CEO Hayma Washington will not run for a second two-year term when the group holds its annual elections next month, Deadline has confirmed. Washington was a co-governor of the Producers Branch of the TV Academy, when he elected to the top spot by the board of governors in 2016, becoming the…

“Hello The Emmys, I know you must be sick of all those FYC ads everyone is running, and I don’t blame you!” Bee begins, ingratiatingly, in her new FYC video. “This is not one of those!” she insists, adding, “All I want this year is to present.” “Not asking to host – that would be crazy!” TBS’ Full Frontal host…

CBS’ The Big Bang Theory actually received three Emmy Awards nominations today after the TV Academy said it inadvertently omitted a nom for the multi-camera sitcom in the Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series category. The directing addition of Mark Cendrowski for helming this season’s finale joins the veteran hit…

UPDATED with complete list of nominees: The 70th annual Emmy Awards nominations were announced this morning at the TV Academy’s home base in North Hollywood, with HBO’s epic Game of Thrones leading the way with the most noms with 22 including in the marquee Best Drama race, followed by NBC’s Saturday Night Live and…

Nominations are being announced this morning for the 70th annual Emmy Awards, which encompass the year’s best of TV in both primetime and creative arts categories. The Handmaid’s Tale‘s Samira Wiley and New Amsterdam’s Ryan Eggold will join Television Academy chairman and CEO Hayma Washington and president and COO…

It’s been a couple of months since the TV Academy and ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC reached a preliminary agreement in principle on a new eight-year "wheel" deal that would keep the Primetime Emmy Awards on the Big 4 broadcast networks through 2026. But ahead of next week’s announcement of the nominees for the 70th Primetime…

Roseanne may have been canceled by ABC just over a week ago after its star let loose online with racist tweets, but this week TV Academy members are receiving magazines in the mail that are playing catch-up with the still-smoldering fiasco. “Shortly before this issue was to be mailed, ABC canceled Roseanne," says a…

Samantha Bee ended a challenging Thursday by picking up an award at the 11th annual Television Academy Honors for her TBS series Full Frontal, on which last night she called Ivanka Trump “a feckless c**t". The ceremony, held at NeueHouse Hollywood on Sunset Blvd, lauded programs advancing social change, and in Full Fro…

I have learned that the TV Academy and ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC are getting close on a new eight-year “wheel” deal that will keep the Primetime Emmy Awards on the Big 4 broadcast networks through 2026. It would come eight months after the sides started discussions last July and more than three months before the current…

Tapping into every Democrat's dream, Michelle King, creator of The Good Fight, said her show is currently working on an episode about the impeachment of the president. Sadly for Dems, the president in the show is fictional. "We're doing an impeachment episode right now," she said during the “Penning Pennsylvania…