Why ‘Obi-Wan: Kenobi’ Won’t Be in the Emmy Race for 2022 (EXCLUSIVE)

variety.com:

Clayton Davis “Obi-Wan Kenobi” will have to wait on using the force for the Emmys until 2023. Variety has learned the upcoming limited series will not be submitted nor eligible for this year’s Primetime Emmy Awards consideration.The excitement for the “Star Wars” Disney+ limited series that stars Emmy winner Ewan McGregor (last year’s winner for lead actor in a limited series for “Halston”) and Hayden Christensen is palpable after dropping a new trailer last week that finally revealed a glimpse at the villainous Darth Vader.With Sith villains, lightsabers and the sands of Tatooine, the six-part series is set to have its first two episodes premiere on May 27.

Still, it won’t have its episodes available for the Television Academy in time for voting consideration. Per the Academy’s rules for “criteria for eligibility,” all series must fall within the eligibility calendar from June 1, 2021, to May 31, 2022.

However, the rules regarding “hanging episodes for series eligibility” read: If an ongoing series has enough episodes that have been nationally broadcast in the current eligibility year to qualify as a series and has hanging episodes or episodes deemed ineligible because their airdate falls after the end of the eligibility year (May 31, 2022), those episodes must be posted on an accessible platform by May 31 in order to gain eligibility for the current eligibility year and must meet all of the following criteria:The “Obi-Wan” finale is scheduled to drop on June 22, after the start of nomination voting.

So unless Disney decides to release the final two episodes on June 15 and (and far less likely) make the episodes available to the over 20,000 TV Academy members only ahead of its Disney+ debut, the show will have to sit.