Overview
- The Television Academy streamed the 78th Primetime Emmy nominations live from the Wolf Theatre on Wednesday morning with presenters Liza Colón-Zayas and Jeff Hiller and made the roll-out available on its website, YouTube and social channels.
- IndieWire reported that two categories — Outstanding Variety Series and Outstanding Reality Competition Program — were slated to be revealed earlier on NBC’s Today between 7:45 a.m. ET and 8:20 a.m. ET, a detail that outlets have flagged as a separate morning window.
- Mariska Hargitay has been announced as the host for the main ceremony, which will be held Sept. 14 at the Peacock Theater in downtown Los Angeles and will air live on NBC and stream on Peacock; the Creative Arts Emmys are set for Sept. 5–6.
- The Academy confirmed the 2026 eligibility window runs June 2025 through May 2026 and finalized Board-driven changes that merged scripted variety and talk into a single outstanding variety category, renamed television movie to outstanding movie, and reshaped several technical and short-form categories.
- Critics and industry trackers are predicting frontrunners such as “Pluribus,” “The Pitt,” “Hacks,” and “Widow’s Bay,” and those forecasts will frame early coverage and the headlines that follow the live nominations release.