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Emmy awards to air on a Monday because of NBC
MUMBAI: In a recent update from National Broadcasting Company (NBC), the 66th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards will now air on Monday, August 25, instead of its traditional Sunday slot.
This year, the network and the TV Academy have taken an unexpected decision by scheduling the show on a Monday. Earlier, it was almost 40 years ago on 17 May, 1976 that the Emmy was aired on a Monday. The Oscars used to air on Mondays before moving to Sundays in 1998, and the Golden Globes have aired on Sundays since 1996.
According to NBC, the particular date was chosen because of possible scheduling conflict with pre season National Football League (NFL). While the network has not given any other details, the NFL has not released its schedule for the 2014-15 season. However, usually, the season starts on the first Thursday of September with primetime games starting the following Sunday and Monday. Four years ago, when NBC aired the Emmys in late August, the NFL aired a pre season game that night on Fox.
This year’s telecast of the award show will air live from the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles. The Television Academy and NBC are yet to announce the host and the producers for the show. The Creative Arts Emmy Awards, at which the Emmys for the technical categories will be presented, will take place on Saturday, 16 August.
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Ellison takes his Paramount-Warner Bros case straight to theater owners
The Skydance chief goes to CinemaCon with promises and a skeptical crowd waiting
CALIFORNIA: David Ellison strode into a room packed with thousands of cinema owners and executives at CinemaCon in Las Vegas on Thursday and did something rather bold: he looked them in the eye and asked them to trust him.
The chief executive of Paramount Skydance vowed that his company would release a minimum of 30 films a year if regulators greenlight its proposed $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery, a deal that has made theater owners deeply, and loudly, nervous.
“I wanted to look every single one of you in the eye and give you my word,” Ellison told the crowd. “Once we combine with Warner Bros, we are going to make a minimum of 30 films annually across both studios.”
It was a confident pitch. Whether it landed is another matter. Cinema operators have already called on regulators to block the deal, and scepticism in the room was hardly concealed.
Ellison pushed back by pointing to recent form. Paramount, born from the merger of Paramount Global and Skydance Media last August, plans to release 15 films this year, nearly double the eight it put out in 2025. Progress, he argued, was already underway.
He also threw theater owners a bone they have long been chasing: all films, he pledged, would run exclusively in cinemas for a minimum of 45 days, drawing applause from a crowd that has spent years fighting for exactly that commitment across the industry.
“People can speculate all they want,” Ellison said, “but I am standing here today telling you personally that you can count on our complete commitment. And we’ll show you we mean it.”
Fine words. The regulators, however, will have the last one.
