As Hollywood Remains Frozen Amidst Strike, Emmy Award Show Forced To Delay

Much to the dismay of the passionate viewers of the declining Emmy Awards show, its 75th outing is being put on an indefinite pause amid the ongoing Hollywood strikes and will not be airing during its planned September release. 

According to Variety, the event is to be delayed, but the voting for the awards is still set to proceed in August. Supposedly, Fox is aiming to air the award show in January 2024 but it was noted that it would be putting itself right in the middle of film awards season. 

“Like the rest of the industry, we hope there will be an equitable and timely resolution for all parties in the current guild negotiations. We continue to monitor the situation closely with our partners at Fox and will advise if and when there is an update available,” the TV Academy said in a statement. 

The delay probably isn’t going to actually cause any problems for viewers as the award show has been steadily dropping in viewers over the past few years. The ceremony managed to hit a record-low view number in 2022, managing to only pull in 5.92 million viewers, per Statista. In contrast, just five years earlier the award show managed to get 11.38 million viewers in 2017, nearly doubling that of 2022. 

Things look even worse when you compare it to its peak, where in 2000 the show managed to pull in 21.8 million viewers, nearly four times its current viewer base. 

With the continually dropping performance of the award show, one can only imagine how poor 2023’s show will perform following the ending of the writers’ strike. While many good shows like ‘The Last of Us’ and ‘Ted Lasso’ are up to win awards, Hollywood is seemingly suffering from one of the worst reputations it has ever garnered bar its early days. 

A poll from 2021 by Rasmussen Reports shows that most Americans do not feel as though the California film industry has a positive impact on American society, with only one in four of those surveyed responding as such. The majority of people also see the truth that Hollywood is a liberal city whether they want to admit it or not.

The delay of the Emmys is not surprising with the strike by the Writer Guild still in full swing but ultimately, who really cares? It seems most people are gradually moving away from caring what the Hollywood liberal elites have to say about films and shows and who they give awards to. Maybe it’s time to abandon this self-glorification award show altogether.