Primetime and Daytime Emmys to Realign Awards Based on Genre

Multiple Emmy Award-winning actress and animal rights activist Betty White, who most famously starred in The Mary Tyler Moore Show and The Golden Girls, died Friday at her home, just weeks away from her 100th birthday, her agent Jeff Witjas confirmed to Deadline.

Fox remembered former NFL coach, broadcaster and video game namesake John Madden by airing its documentary All Madden, which originally premiered on Christmas Day.

Heading into Tuesday primetime, Fox’s live coverage of the UCLA-NC State Holiday Bowl was set to be the primetime winner. Instead CBS and its repeat showings of the FBI franchise took that title.

NBC received a delayed Christmas gift the as the coverage of the Dallas Cowboys-Washington Football Team earned the network the top spot in the final Sunday primetime of 2021.

ABC scored the highest primetime demo rating and viewership for the second Monday in a row with coverage of the Minnesota Vikings-Chicago Bears game.

Terry Flores Netflix’s investment in animation has paid off in a big way, as the streamer picked up a whopping 52 nominations at the 49th Annie Awards. Following behind is Disney, which received 29 bids between its film and TV projects.Taking place on Feb.

Disney films are the ones to beat at the 49th annual Annie Awards, whose nominations were announced this morning. Walt Disney Animation Studios’ Raya and the Last Dragon and Encanto scored a leading 10 and nine noms, respectively, followed by Pixar’s Luca with eight.

There are some changes being made to the 2022 Emmy Awards.

A show’s length will no longer be the deciding factor as to whether it competes as a comedy or a drama series at the Emmy awards, the Television Academy said Monday.In the past, half-hour shows were automatically considered comedies and one-hour shows were considered dramas, unless they requested a different classification.Per the Television Academy’s newly revealed rule changes for the 74th Emmy Awards, “Categorization based on program length for a comedy or drama series has been eliminated.

BRIT Awards will have the most women nominees in over a decade.The nominations were announced on December 18 during the one-hour The BRITs Are Coming TV special on ITV. Find the full list of nominees here.In the 13 categories, 18 female artists or all-women groups were nominated, with the likes of Adele, Little Simz and Taylor Swift up for awards.

Adele, Ed Sheeran, Little Simz and Dave are among nominees for the 2022 BRIT Awards.The nominations were announced today (December 18) during the one-hour The BRITs Are Coming TV special on ITV.

The BRIT Awards are well and truly on their way back as Maya Jama and Clara Amfo announced this year's nominees on Saturday night.

Manori Ravindran International EditorThe Brit Awards, one of Britain’s biggest music events, have unveiled their 2022 nominees, with the likes of ABBA, Adele, Ed Sheeran, Måneskin and Olivia Rodrigo up for awards.Adele and Ed Sheeran picked up four nominations apiece with both getting nods for album of the year, artist of the year, best pop/R&B act and song of the year.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeThe Television Academy has officially shared its 2022 Emmy calendar, and not a lot has changed from last year.

Ellise Shafer administratorIf you’ve opened the TikTok app in the past month, chances are you’ve heard the song “I Am Woman.”“I am woman/ I am fearless/ I am sexy, I’m divine/ I’m unbeatable, I’m creative/ Honey, you can get in line,” Emmy Meli croons in a rich, raspy tone over a simple yet catchy drum beat. When the 21-year-old singer-songwriter posted a video of herself singing the hook on Oct.

The new agreement between the TV Academy and The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences that realigns the Primetime and Daytime competitions based on content genre, not airtime, could bring a change to the Outstanding Daytime Drama race.

Following the TV Academy and The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences’ recent joint decision to spin off children’s and family programming into its own standalone ceremony, the two branches have extended their cooperation as they continue to try to update rules originally written decades years ago in order to reflect how people’s viewing habits have evolved.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeThe walls that long separated the L.A.-based Television Academy and its New York counterpart, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, continue to be torn down.

After a pandemic hiatus, the Film Independent Spirt Awards will be back on the beach this year. They may not be the day before the Oscars or an afternoon affair, as has been tradition, but judging on this year’s nominations they will be more irreverant than ever.

NBC ruled Sunday primetime with the latest Sunday Night Football game between the Chicago Bears and Green Bay Packers earning the evening’s top demo rating and highest viewership.