Wait, Why Are the Emmys on a Monday This Year?

[mvcg66b3r]

The Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Latte isn’t the only thing arriving early this year: The Emmy Awards ceremony is taking place in the heat of the summer — and on a Monday to boot. If you’re thinking to yourself, That’s odd!, well, your puzzlement is not misplaced. August Emmys are exceedingly rare in the show’s history, and a non-Sunday telecast is even more uncommon. In fact, since the TV Academy made the show an autumn event back in 1977 — statuettes had previously been given out in the spring — the ceremony has always fallen on a Sunday. So what’s behind Emmys' kinda-sorta demotion this year to a seemingly random Monday in August? To paraphrase Emmy-winning TV legend Don Adams's alter ego, “Would you believe … football?”

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[onairb]

There was one time post-1977 that the Emmys weren't held in September-two postponements in 2001, due to 9/11, and then the beginning of air strikes in Afghanistan. The Emmys ended up going head to head with the World Series-in November.

 

[nomadcowatbk]

even preseason NFL gets higher ratings than the Stanley Cub

 

[vchimpanzee]

I forgot Seth Meyers was hosting. I'm looking forward to that.

And the Robin Williams tribute.

I did everything I usually do on Monday last night so I hope everything works out. I have a very busy schedule.

 

[firepoint525]

And here I was, thinking that it had been bumped to Monday because of the MTV VMAs on Sunday night!

 

[bpatrick]

The Emmys usually air in mid-September, the night before the new season starts. Since NBC had the Emmys this year, and will be into Sunday-night football by mid-September, there wasn't much choice but to move the awards to a different night.

 

[Mario500]

even preseason NFL gets higher ratings than the Stanley Cub

Did you mean the Stanley Cup (or Cups, since there was more than one)?

 

[Unregistered]

Did you mean the Stanley Cup (or Cups, since there was more than one)?

I thought it referred to a cute baby grizzly named Stanley.

 

[vchimpanzee]

And here I was, thinking that it had been bumped to Monday because of the MTV VMAs on Sunday night!

It was.

 

[vchimpanzee]

I enjoyed the show a lot. Seth's monologue and later jokes, Seth and his "brother" Andy Samberg (they look and sound so much alike), the giving out of dollars on the street based on people's answer to a question, many of the presenters, and the tribute to Robin Williams.

I'm just sorry we saw very little of what was actually being honored. Clips without sound just don't show acting skills or quality.

If you had the opportunity to freeze those scripts shown for writing nominations, those didn't make a lot of sense to me but they did have the F-word.