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Stephen Colbert to host Primetime Emmys on CBS

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Stephen Colbert will host the 69th Primetime Emmy Awards, CBS and the Television Academy today announced today. It will be the Late Show host’s first time hosting this awards ceremony.

That trophy show will be broadcast on Sunday, September 17, and it’s CBS’s turn to host, obviously. Anticipating your next question, it is unusually early to be making this announcement – and comes in marked contrast to the Movie Academy’s unusually late announcement that ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel would be host this year’s Oscars.
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https://deadline.com/2017/01/stephen-colbert-emmys-host-2017-cbs-1201892635/

Now we await the NFL schedule. Will CBS have a doubleheader that week?
 
so the trend of all the major award shows being hosted by the network's talk show host continues.

let's see:
Golden Globes: Jimmy Fallon hosted it, NBC was the network that aired it.
Oscars: ABC picked their only late night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel to host it instead of actors.
Grammys: James Corden will host that as his show is based in LA and the Grammys are always in LA.
Prime Time Emmys: now Stephen Colbert will host it.

i'm sure if this trend continues, Conan O'Biren will end up hosting the SAG awards due to it being simicast on TBS and TNT and he's on TBS.
 
Will_H_69_9 said:
so the trend of all the major award shows being hosted by the network's talk show host continues.

let's see:
Golden Globes: Jimmy Fallon hosted it, NBC was the network that aired it.
Oscars: ABC picked their only late night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel to host it instead of actors.
Grammys: James Corden will host that as his show is based in LA and the Grammys are always in LA.
Prime Time Emmys: now Stephen Colbert will host it.

i'm sure if this trend continues, Conan O'Biren will end up hosting the SAG awards due to it being simicast on TBS and TNT and he's on TBS.
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This trend has been going on for years, which is partly why I don't watch them. I think that the contracted talent for each network has some sort of clause in their contracts saying that they are high on the list of potential hosts and presenters for award shows on their particular network.
 
Fakeem said:
This trend has been going on for years, which is partly why I don't watch them. I think that the contracted talent for each network has some sort of clause in their contracts saying that they are high on the list of potential hosts and presenters for award shows on their particular network.
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By the same token, they're all experts at reading teleprompter, which is what the hosts of these awards shows do. They're comedians and entertainers who know how to perform for live audiences (something movie stars don't usually do). And they are known brands on those networks. Not exactly a new thing. When Bob Hope hosted the Oscars, he was a signed talent at NBC.
 
Johnny Carson hosted the Oscars several times, even though it was on ABC. David Letterman also hosted the Oscars once, although he admits himself it was a disaster.

Did Jay Leno host any major awards shows at any time?
 
Will_H_69_9 said:
so the trend of all the major award shows being hosted by the network's talk show host continues.

let's see:
Golden Globes: Jimmy Fallon hosted it, NBC was the network that aired it.
Oscars: ABC picked their only late night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel to host it instead of actors.
Grammys: James Corden will host that as his show is based in LA and the Grammys are always in LA.
Prime Time Emmys: now Stephen Colbert will host it.

i'm sure if this trend continues, Conan O'Biren will end up hosting the SAG awards due to it being simicast on TBS and TNT and he's on TBS.
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Why are all of the LIBERAL (Hillary Lovers/Trump Haters) late night talk show hosts getting to host these shows, I won't be watching btw.
 
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Yes. I don't think you'd find a single major US city on either the East or West Coast that was won by Trump. Even outside the coasts, cities tend to be more liberal. My daughter goes to college in Nashville. Tennessee is a conservative state, but both Memphis and Nashville vote Democratic. It's an interesting subject, so I just Googled Presidential results in a few cities. Hillary won by a wide margin in Houston, Dallas and Miami/Dade, while both Texas and Florida as a whole were won by Trump. Hillary even won in San Diego, which used to be a Republican town.

Trump won Des Moines, so I guess we'd better move the award shows there...
 
LKellerIII said:
Trump won Des Moines, so I guess we'd better move the award shows there...
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Sure but who would show up? That's the other thing. Most of the winners will give speeches like they did at the Golden Globes. It's not just the host.

Given today's Oscar nominees, I don't expect a lot of support for the new administration. Rather, lots of tributes to the previous one.
 
TheBigA said:
Sure but who would show up? That's the other thing. Most of the winners will give speeches like they did at the Golden Globes. It's not just the host.

Given today's Oscar nominees, I don't expect a lot of support for the new administration. Rather, lots of tributes to the previous one.
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True - Unless they invite Jon Voight, Bruce Willis, Tom Selleck or one of the other half dozen conservatives in Hollywood.
 
Los Angeles -- where all of the major award shows reside -- is very Democratic; hey, so is New York City (home of the Tonys, though they used to host the Grammys a few times).

And Jon Stewart did the Grammys once and Oscars twice while still on The Daily Show (a Comedy Central show). Speaking of Nashville...they hosted their only Grammys in 1973, which didn't sit well for ABC; CBS would snap up the broadcast rights.

(By the way...Hillary Clinton won big in Atlanta as well, even though the rest of Georgia went for Trump)
 
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LKellerIII said:
True - Unless they invite Jon Voight, Bruce Willis, Tom Selleck or one of the other half dozen conservatives in Hollywood.
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I think there's more than a half a dozen, lets include Tim Allen, Kelsey Grammer, and Patricia Heaton.
 
Tim from Springfield said:
Unless CBS gets only the early games that week (NFL Week 2)--similar to how scheduling was handled when CBS still carried US Open Tennis and the men's championship was the afternoon of Week 1 (until 2014 IIRC).

And speaking of the NFL, I wonder what game will be counterprogrammed against the Emmys on "SNF."
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I don't remember if the Emmys are delayed on the west coast or not, but if it is and it's a single game week, they could run a West Coast only game in the afternoon, 49ers vs Rams or Raiders Vs. Chargers and so forth and if all live for everybody they could just run one afternoon game so the time ending would be the same, much like FOX does with the World Series airing after.
 
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