The Emmy Awards will not have a host in 2019
Rich Fury/Invision/AP/ShutterstoAwards will not have a host, Fox CEO Charlie Collier announced at a Television Critics Association event Wednesday.
Collier said the network and the production team overseeing the show decided to go host-less while weighing what they thought the big themes of the 71st Emmy Awards would be, according to“It’s our job to assess how to elevate the program,” he said, “and what’s interesting about this year is how many amazing shows we’re saying goodbye to:You have to look at tradeoffs, if you have host and opening number that’s 15 minutes you don’t have to celebrate the shows.
Collier added that Fox was comfortable going ahead without a host after seeing the success of the host-less Oscars earlier this year. Originally, Kevin Hart was slated to host, butafter years-old homophobic tweets of his resurfaced online. Hart subsequently apologized but insisted he had no plans to re-accept the gig, and the Academy never replaced him.
“The Oscars did very well,” Collier said. “That was something we paid attention to. This is a unique year for some of America’s favorite shows and producers came to conclusion that spending more time on those was the right thing to do.”
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