Emmy Awards host Kenan Thompson and the ceremony’s producers are promising a feel-good event — a phrase not applicable to numerous of the leading nominated demonstrates.
The ideal drama contenders incorporate the violently dystopian “Squid Video game,” bleak workplace satire “Severance” and “Succession,” about a highly effective and cutthroat relatives. Even comedy nominee “Ted Lasso,” the defending champ, took a storytelling dim turn.
But soon after many pandemic-constrained awards seasons, Monday’s 74th Primetime Emmy Awards — airing 8 p.m. EDT on NBC and streaming on Peacock — will be huge and festive, executive producers Reginald Hudlin and Ian Stewart claimed.
They are basically taking a site from final year’s scaled-down ceremony and its club-model desk seating for nominees.
“They had a ball. They experienced a celebration. They celebrated by themselves,” Stewart mentioned, recalling a remark manufactured by actor Sophia Bush at the evening’s stop: “Oh, my God, I actually experienced enjoyment at the Emmys.”
The tables will be back and yet again reserved for nominees — and their “significants,” Stewart explained — but there will be some 3,000 other guests seated traditionally in the temporarily reconfigured 7,000-seat Microsoft Theater in downtown Los Angeles.
“When the nominees are owning a great time that interprets on screen,” Hudlin claimed, citing the “passionate, touching” speeches sent by winners.
Thompson, the veteran “Saturday Night Live” cast member getting his very first switch as Emmys host, stated he needs to take pleasure in the ceremony and make guaranteed many others do.
“This ought to be a night time of appreciating artistry and creative imagination and getting rid of the stress of it all out. I get it — it sucks to lose, and everybody’s picking outfits and making an attempt to do the pink carpet matter,” Thompson explained. “But at the exact time, it’s an wonderful point to be in the home on Emmys night time, and I really do not want that to get missing in the worry.”
He doesn’t hope everything mirroring the Will Smith-Chris Rock confrontation that forged a shadow more than the Oscars earlier this 12 months, Thompson said.
While HBO’s “Succession,” which received the most effective drama collection award in 2020, and “Ted Lasso” from Apple Tv+ are thought of the frontrunners for top collection honors, there’s likely for surprises. Netflix’s “Squid Video game,” a world sensation, would be the first non-English language drama sequence to get an Emmy.
On the comedy side, ABC’s acclaimed newcomer “Abbott Elementary” could grow to be the first broadcast exhibit to get the finest comedy award because the network’s “Modern Family” in 2014. It is also among the handful of contenders this yr, along with “Squid Game,” to discipline a substantial variety of nominees of color.
At the Emmy inventive arts ceremonies held earlier this thirty day period, the mockumentary-design and style clearly show about educators in an underfunded Philadelphia university, won the trophy for fantastic comedy series casting. “Succession” gained the drama sequence casting award.
“The Crown,” past year’s big winner, was not in the managing this time due to the fact it sat out the Emmys eligibility interval. The dramatized account of Queen Elizabeth’s reign and relatives life will return for its fifth year in November, as Britain mourns the reduction of its longest-serving monarch who died Thursday at age 96.
