It’s been less than a month since we enjoyed the Primetime Emmy Awards, but another celebration of the best in TV is already looming on the horizon. The Television Academy announced Saturday that its 76th annual ceremony will be held on Sunday, September 15, 2024, with live broadcast on ABC and—sorry, cord cutters—streaming available the day after via Hulu. Nominations for this year’s Emmys will be announced on July 17.
This double-Emmy-ceremony year is the result of 2023’s combined Writer’s and Screen Actors guild strikes. Last year’s event was planned for September 18, 2023, but was postponed as the labor actions continued. That’s why many of the nominees at the January, 2024 ceremony were from shows we only distantly remembered, if at all.
The postponement also made for an even-more-intense-than-usual awards season for TV actors who were also contenders for film awards, or just for those nominated for Golden Globes (which were held the week before). The timing also made for record-low viewership, with awards fatigue and the NFL playoffs at least partially to blame.
There are fewer viewership obstacles in September, and the Academy is trying another strategy, as well: as opposed to Monday, the day January’s and the 2022 ceremony were held, the 2024 Emmys will be held on a Sunday. That, too, might help give its sagging viewership a boost.
A host for the ceremony has yet to be announced; in January, Anthony Anderson took the stage, while Kenan Thompson hosted in 2022 and Cedric the Entertainer moved things along in 2021. As in years past, the show will take place in Los Angeles, at Peacock Theater.
The September ceremony will honor TV that aired between June 1, 2023 and May 31, 2024, with submissions opening on February 29. (Yes, 2024 is a leap year.) Nomination round voting will begin on June 13, final round voting kicks off on August 15, and voting in all categories will end on August 26.
