Emmys Shake-Up: TV Series Will Now Compete Based on Genre, Not Time Slot

But there are “currently no discussions” for NATAS and Television Academy to re-merge

Outside the Emmys (Getty Images)
Outside the Emmys (Getty Images)

In a major shakeup to the Emmys race, the Television Academy and the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences revealed they plan to realign its TV awards categories and have series compete based solely on their genre, not their time slot.

The shift to realign the categories is in response to the changing ways in which people consume television and also follows NATAS’ plan to give the children’s and family shows their own awards ceremony apart from the Daytime ceremony.

However, the two organizations said there are currently no discussions for the Academies to re-merge as one single Academy.

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