After months of FYC screenings, panels, billboards, pop-up events, podcasts and ads, the 78th Emmy nominations are finally here. Previous Emmy winners Liza Colón-Zayas (“The Bear”) and Jeff Hiller (“Somebody Somewhere”) were set to announce this year’s nominees on Wednesday morning, along with TV Academy chair Cris Abrego.
The majority of the nominations were scheduled to be announced starting at 8:20 a.m. ET/5:20 a.m. PT from the Wolf Theatre at the Academy’s Saban Media Center. But two categories — outstanding variety series and outstanding reality competition — were set to be revealed earlier, on NBC’s “Today” show, at 7:45 a.m. ET/4:45 a.m. PT.
NBC and Peacock are broadcasting this year’s Emmys, set to air live from L.A. Live’s Peacock Theatre on Monday, Sept. 14 at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT. (NBC moves the Emmys to Monday when it airs the kudocast, due to Sunday Night Football.) As the network just announced, this year’s Emmys will be hosted by “Law & Order: SVU” executive producer/star Mariska Hargitay — repping the first time a woman has hosted the show in 15 years.
Among this year’s major rule changes, the TV Academy has merged talk and scripted variety back into one “outstanding variety series” field, but with a twist: the number of nominations coming from both fields will be tracked based on the number of submissions for each format.
