2022 Primetime Emmys Awards Season Calendar: The Governors Balls are Back After Two Years
variety.comMichael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeUPDATED 4/7/22: Now that the 74th Emmys has been set for September 12, some of the phase 2 key dates have been changed.
Also: The Governors Balls are back!The Television Academy has officially shared its 2022 Emmy calendar, and not a lot has changed from last year.
Emmy nominations will be announced on Tuesday, July 12 — which is the same time they were announced this past year — and the Primetime Emmys event will air exactly two months later on September 12.For the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic, the TV Academy will also bring back Governors Balls to celebrate after the Creative Arts and Primetime Emmys ceremonies. (The Academy scrapped the events in 2020 and 2021 due to the safety concerns.) NBC has the rights to the Emmy telecast this year, as part of the four-network wheel system, which means it was always likely that the ceremony will be held on a Monday.
That’s because NBC airs NFL Sunday Night Football — and the last time the network broadcast the Emmys, in 2018, it was moved to Monday for that exact reason.
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