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Emmys will be presented online this year and will highlight candidates in their residences.
The 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards will be an all-virtual occurrence thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, a spokesperson confirmed to The Verge, and it sounds like the new model might lead to a peek into the lives of some of your favorite TV stars, according to a letter from executive producers (and host Jimmy Kimmel) released by Variety. USA Today has got a copy of the message.
We 're bringing together a top-notch team of designers, editors and writers to work together with Jimmy Kimmel and with you and your staff to make sure that we can shoot with you at your home or another place of your choosing, reads part of the letter that was allegedly sent to the nominees yesterday.
The producers are also determining which portions of the series should be live or whether to tell the winners before the series airs, Variety says. That could mean that certain aspects of the program would be taped in advance, so the writers could fill time between pre-recorded skit awards or interviews with nominees.
It also poses fascinating questions about how the awards themselves will work: if the production team chooses not to tell the winners until the broadcast, one can envision a situation where each candidate needs to pre-record an acceptance speech, even though only one is aired.
But maybe the producers are going to roll the dice, hope the equipment is robust enough, and do it all live, with the winners' responses, much as the recent Emmys.
No matter how much is alive and how much is pre-recorded, however, it seems inevitable that we're going to get some nice chances to judge celebrity residences. Emmy nominations were revealed yesterday, including Jason Bateman, Steve Carell, Jennifer Aniston, and Zendaya. And video platforms made a huge appearance, with Apple TV Plus, Disney Plus, and even Quibi having their first appointments.
You'll be able to see which winners will carry Emmy home when the series airs in its current interactive format on September 20th.
