ABC will certainly outsource internet hosting duties of the Emmys this 12 months, tapping the father-son duo of Eugene and Dan Levy to emcee the Sept. 15 telecast.
The Levys, who loved a very fruitful Emmys in 2020 when Schitt’s Creek gained each main comedy class in an unprecedented sweep, are an unconventional alternative in that neither at present seems on a Disney property. However their opening of the 2020 Display Actors Guild Awards proved they’re properly as much as the duty — and after a protracted negotiation, they’re now set to take the stage on the Peacock Theater at L.A. LIVE.
The query of who will host the Emmys is an more and more muddy query. For many years, the duties usually went to no matter humorous lady or man was effervescent up on no matter community had the broadcasting rights. However because the 4 networks who make up the “wheel” of the rotating telecast have slimmer comedy choices, the internet hosting information has come later and in a while the calendar.
Jimmy Kimmel was the plain preliminary alternative. The ABC star, whose Jimmy Kimmel Dwell! is once more nominated for excellent discuss sequence, hosted the final thrice his community had the present. However he took a move this 12 months, as he did on the 2025 ABC Oscars ceremony. “Jimmy is all the time our first ask,” Dana Walden, co-chair of Disney Leisure, advised The Hollywood Reporter in July. “He’s all the time our first alternative by way of companions. He represents our firm so properly, and he’s accomplished such exceptional work… however internet hosting a each day present is a variety of work.”
Euegene, a nominee himself for Apple TV+ sequence The Reluctant Traveler, and Dan now step right into a telecast that’s only a month away. Jesse Collins, Dionne Harmon and Jeannae Rouzan-Clay of Jesse Collins Leisure will once more government produce the present, one which sees Shogun, The Bear and True Detective: Night time Nation because the leaders within the three predominant fields.
Despite the largely altered taking part in area, viewers could have some déjà vu after they tune into the present. The 2023 Emmys had been held simply 9 months in the past, considerably delayed by each the WGA strike and the SAG-AFTRA strike.
Those that are up for second helpings can tune in Sunday, Sept. 15 at 8 p.m. ET/ 5 p.m. PT on ABC.