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The 2019-2020 Emmy Awards Calendar Reshaped by TV Academy

The show must go on (for now) and here are the important dates of this year's Emmy calendar.

By Libby Hill

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March 27, 2020 5:30 pm

After weeks of speculation, the Television Academy has adjusted the Emmy Awards season schedule, making allowances for the unprecedented challenges that have arisen during the ongoing public health crisis, while also cleaving to the previously established calendar.

Despite postponements and cancellations across the country (and world) due to the threat from coronavirus (COVID-19) have made headlines, the official Emmy schedule for submissions, judging and voting had gone largely unchanged until the Academy’s announcement on March 27. Previously, the organization had modified restrictions involving For Your Consideration panels, mandating that all events be held via livestream or pre-recorded video without an audience, the better to practice social distancing. Now, the awards body has suspended the FYC season as a whole.

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The most significant alteration of the Emmy Awards schedule is an extension of the entry deadline for eligible entries, shifting the date from May 11, as originally scheduled, to June 5. The start of nomination voting originally slated for June 29 will now start on July 2 and feature a shortened election period, closing 11 days later on July 13.

From there, the Academy continued to compress the schedule, cutting the period between the announcement of nominations and the start of final voting from more than a month to just over three weeks, allowing the calendar to completely realign, with the close of final round voting still being held on August 31.

As for now, the TV Academy has stated that both the Creative Arts Emmy Awards on September 12 and 13, as well as the Primetime Emmy Awards on September 20 will proceed as scheduled.

The organization did note, however, that it was continuing to monitor the national and statewide directives and mandates spurred by the pandemic and would abide by recommendations made by the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention and the L.A. County Department of Public Health.