Everything is ready at the Peacock Theater in Downtown Los Angeles for the 75th edition of the Emmy Awards, the prestigious awards given by the Television Academy to TV programs and series. With 27 nominations, Succession dominates the predictions for the evening of January 15, followed by The Last of us and the second season of The White Lotus, for which Italian actresses Sabrina Impacciatore and Simona Tabasco are also in the running. For the first time this year, the production team is made up entirely of African Americans and the date, postponed by three months due to strikes in Hollywood, coincides with Martin Luther King Day, the most important national holiday on the calendar for the Black community. "It's the first all-Black edition, on stage and behind the scenes.
I'm so proud to send this signal," presenter Anthony Anderson, very popular in the US for his role as a wealthy family man in the sitcom Black-ish, which aired on ABC from 2014 to 2022, told ANSA. "I also bring my mother on stage - continued the comedian - she will be the one to time the winners' speeches and intervene in case they go on for a long time. She's very strict!" "This industry deserves a proper love letter, we really need to celebrate this year," producer Jesse Collins told the press, referring to the writers' and actors' strikes that paralyzed the entertainment industry from May to November 2023. "How could we celebrate 75 years in a special way? We focused on cast reunions and recreations of classic moments from a dozen beloved shows in television history," said Collins, who is hosting the Emmys for the first time with colleagues Harmon and Jeannae Rouzan-Clay. All in the Family - whose legendary creator, Norman Lear, has died at the age of 101 - Ally McBeal, The Sopranos, Grey's Anatomy and Game of Thrones are among the series that will be honored during the show, which in Italy will be broadcast on Sky Atlantic and Now starting at 1.00 am. Organizers have ruled out a reunion of the Friends cast, but have promised a tribute to one of its protagonists, Matthew Perry, who died in October.
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