Daytime Emmy Awards postponed due to writers strike

LOS ANGELES — The Daytime Emmy Awards have change into the most recent casualty of the Hollywood writers strike.

The present set for June 16 in Los Angeles is being postponed due to the strike by the Writers Guild of America, the Nationwide Academy of Tv Arts & Sciences mentioned in an announcement.

“We look ahead to our group gathering collectively as one to have a good time our Golden Anniversary and the entire gifted nominees and honorees at a later date,” mentioned Adam Sharp, academy president and CEO.

The fiftieth annual Daytime Emmys honoring cleaning soap operas and discuss reveals have been to be televised on CBS.

Final 12 months, the ceremony returned to a reside, in-person occasion for the primary time for the reason that COVID-19 pandemic started. In 2020 and 2021, the Daytime Emmys have been pre-taped occasions.

The postponement comes because the Tony Awards, scheduled for June 11 on CBS, stay in flux after the WGA denied a request for a strike waiver from the present’s producers. The union mentioned it might not picket the present.

The latest MTV Film & TV Awards switched to a pre-taped telecast that includes clip packages after the union vowed to picket the reside broadcast that was scheduled to happen in Santa Monica. Host Drew Barrymore dropped out to honor the hanging writers.

The Peabody Awards scrapped plans to stage an in-person ceremony on June 11. The strike has additionally disrupted the PEN America gala.