The Critics’ Choice Awards has moved this year’s telecast to Sunday, December 11 — more than a month earlier than its regular January airdate, A&E and the critics announced Thursday.
That’s a dramatic date change for an annual telecast that has typically been tied to the mid-January Golden Globes weekend, one conceivably designed to give its voting bodies of broadcast TV and film critics more influence in the annual Academy Awards race.
“Silicon Valley” star T.J. Miller will return to host the affair, which moves up significantly the screening and voting schedule for the awards — perhaps to the detriment of the critics, who may miss several year-end releases that vie for Oscars in their own voting pool and may not be ready to screen for an early December telecast.