After several pandemic-hit awards seasons, Monday’s 74th Primetime Emmy Awards will be big and festive, producers said.
Angels – Emmy Awards Host Kenan Thompson and the event’s producers are promising a good show — a phrase that doesn’t apply to many top-rated shows.
Best drama contenders include the violently dystopian “Squid Game,” the dark workplace satire “Severance” and “Succession,” about a powerful and cutthroat family. Even comedy nominee “Ted Lasso,” the defending champion, took a dark turn in storytelling.
But after several pandemic-related awards seasons, The 74th Primetime Emmy Awards on Monday (airing on NBC at 8 p.m. EDT, streaming on Peacock) will be big and festive, executive producers Reginald Hudlin and Ian Stewart said.
They are taking a page from the original Last year’s smaller event and its club-style table for nominees.
“They had a ball. They had a party. They celebrated themselves,” Stewart said, recalling a comment made by actress Sophia Bush at the end of the evening: “Oh, my God, I really enjoyed the Emmys.”
Tables will be reserved for repeat nominees — and about 3,000 other guests traditionally seated at their “main,” but temporarily remodeled 7,000-seat Microsoft Theater in downtown Los Angeles, Stewart said. .
“When the nominees are having a good time that translates to the screen,” Hudlin said. “Passionate, touching” speeches were made by the winners.
Thompson, a veteran “Saturday Night Live” cast member Taking his first turn as host of the Emmyssaid he wanted to enjoy the event and make sure others did too.
“It’s supposed to be a night to appreciate artistry and creativity and de-stress. I get it — it’s futile to lose, and everyone’s picking outfits and trying to work the red carpet, Thompson said. “But at the same time, it’s an amazing thing to be in the room on Emmys night, and I don’t want her to get lost in the tension.”
He doesn’t expect anything mirrored. The Will Smith-Chris Rock clash said Thompson, who threw shade at the Oscars earlier this year.
While HBO’s “Succession,” which won Best Drama Series in 2020, and Apple TV+’s “Ted Lasso” are considered the frontrunners for top series honors, There are possibilities for surprises. Netflix’s “Squid Game,” a global sensation, will be the first non-English-language drama series to win an Emmy.
to comedy, ABC’s popular newcomer “Abbott Elementary” It could become the first broadcast show to win the best comedy award since the network’s “Modern Family” in 2014. It’s also among the few contenders this year, along with “Squid Game,” to field a substantial number of nominations of color.
I Emmy Creative Arts Awards held earlier this month, the comedy-style show about teachers at an underfunded school in Philadelphia won the trophy for Outstanding Comedy Series Casting. “Succession” won the Drama Series Casting Award.
“The Crown,” last year’s big winner, was not in the running this time around because it ended its Emmys eligibility period. The dramatization of Queen Elizabeth’s reign and family life will return for its fifth season in November, as the UK mourning the loss of its longest-reigning monarch. who died on Thursday at the age of 96.