The Emmys won’t have a host this year, but it will have several semi-hosts anchoring various portions of the telecast, Fox alternative entertainment president Rob Wade told Variety. The netwo…
are split by all four major broadcast networks on a rotating annual wheel, they don’t see it as “Fox’s Emmys.”
The decision also came “without an obvious candidate putting their hand up and stepping up,” he said. “People are aware that the Emmys are on, and I don’t think an obvious candidate came to us that we felt was going to be really convincing. We started very early on to realize that there was a narrative with these shows. And we were kind of like, ‘this feels like the right way to go.'”
“I think you want to be careful,” he said. “We obviously will be utilizing Ken Jeong in there somewhere as a presenter and some of the other talent on the show. I don’t know if you want to go straight there. But if the idea is right, and it’s fun, anything goes. You don’t have to be too precious with it, either.”
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