A column covering conversations and events on the awards circuit. If it seems like we have been in an Emmy cycle with no end, you wouldn’t be far from wrong. But we are just about at the finish line as ballots are now in the hands (or laptops) of some 20,000, give or take, eligible Television Academy voting members and not due back until Monday, August 26 by 10 p.
m PT. With the 76th annual Primetime Emmys — our historic second ceremony in the same calendar year — set for Sunday, September 15 exactly a month from now (with Eugene and Dan Levy as hosts as just officially announced today after Deadline’s scoop last week), it will bring to an end a collision of seasons for the 75th Emmys which, due to the strikes, were delayed four months to January 15 of this year — even though that year’s eligible shows ended on May 31, 2023. In other words folks, we have been talking Emmy fairly consistently for more than a year and a half with no discernible break (the official FYC season for the 76th began in January just as the 75th winners were being announced).
But now it really is crunch time and it is all on the line as voting continues over the course of the next 11 days. HANGIN’ WITH ‘HACKS’ The campaigns are certainly still out in force. On Tuesday, the Hacks team turned up for a conversation onstage at the cushy Soho House screening room in West Hollywood.
Stars Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder as well as the creative trio behind it Paul W. Downs, Lucia Aniello and .