LOS ANGELES — The strike-delayed 75th Emmy Awards have a new date — one that places them squarely within Hollywood's awards season for a change.
Fox announced Thursday that the Emmys will air Jan. 15 from the Peacock Theater at LA Live in downtown Los Angeles. The show will air on the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, roughly four months later than originally planned.
The timing means the Emmys, which honor the best shows on television, will air weeks before the Screen Actors Guild Awards, which honors film and television actors. Other shows like the Golden Globe Awards, which haven't been confirmed for a return to network television, and the Critics Choice Awards, also are held in January.
The move is a bit of a throwback; the first Emmys were held in January 1949. The show traditionally airs in September, a slot that once heralded the upcoming fall television season. That timing dates back to when broadcast television dominated — both in viewership and Emmy contenders — in a way that has been changed by cable television and streaming services.
The stage Sept. 22, 2019, at the 71st Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles.
Chris Pizzello, Invision/AP
A person with knowledge of the plans but not authorized to speak publicly said last month that the show, originally scheduled for Sept. 17, would be moved because of the strikes by film and television actors and screenwriters.
Because of the strikes, actors and writers cannot campaign for their shows or do promotional interviews. The writers strike is now in its 101st day, with no end in sight.
No host has been announced for the ceremony, which will celebrate the Emmys' diamond anniversary.
HBO is the leading nominee heading into the ceremony, with three of its series — "Succession," "The Last of Us" and "The White Lotus" — racking up 74 nominations. In all, HBO received 127 nominations.
Many nominees in craft and guest acting categories will receive their awards during the Creative Arts Emmys, which will be held a week earlier on Jan. 6 and 7. An edited version of that ceremony will air on Fox on Jan. 13.
The Emmys will be executive produced by Jesse Collins, Dionne Harmon and Jeannae Rouzan-Clay of Jesse Collins Entertainment. Collins became a go-to producer of Hollywood awards shows and other spectacles, producing the Grammys, Oscars as well as the acclaimed 2022 Super Bowl halftime show.
Photos: Hollywood goes on strike
Picketers demonstrate on a line outside Disney studios on Friday, July 28, 2023, in Burbank, Calif. The actors strike comes more than two months after screenwriters began striking in their bid to get better pay and working conditions. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
Damian Dovarganes
Actor Yvette Nicole Brown walks on a picket line outside Disney studios on Friday, July 28, 2023, in Burbank, Calif. The actors strike comes more than two months after screenwriters began striking in their bid to get better pay and working conditions. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
Damian Dovarganes
Actors Lisa Vidal, left, and Diana Maria Riva walk on a picket line outside Disney studios on Friday, July 28, 2023, in Burbank, Calif. The actors strike comes more than two months after screenwriters began striking in their bid to get better pay and working conditions. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
Damian Dovarganes
Writer Julie Benson holds a picket sign with an image of the late actor and comic Paul Reubens, dressed as his character Pee-wee Herman, outside Universal Studios on Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023, in Universal City, Calif. The actors strike comes more than two months after screenwriters began striking in their bid to get better pay and working conditions. (AP Photo/Rick Taber)
Rick Taber
Picketers appear outside Netflix studios on Tuesday, August 1, 2023, in Los Angeles. The actors strike comes more than two months after screenwriters began striking in their bid to get better pay and working conditions. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)
Richard Shotwell
Picketers appear outside Netflix studios on Tuesday, August 1, 2023, in Los Angeles. The actors strike comes more than two months after screenwriters began striking in their bid to get better pay and working conditions. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)
Richard Shotwell
Picketers appear outside Netflix studios on Tuesday, August 1, 2023, in Los Angeles. The actors strike comes more than two months after screenwriters began striking in their bid to get better pay and working conditions. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)
Richard Shotwell
Picketers appear outside Netflix studios on Tuesday, August 1, 2023, in Los Angeles. The actors strike comes more than two months after screenwriters began striking in their bid to get better pay and working conditions. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)
Richard Shotwell
Actor Jack Black walks on a picket line outside Netflix studios on Friday, July 28, 2023, in Los Angeles. The actors strike comes more than two months after screenwriters began striking in their bid to get better pay and working conditions. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)
Richard Shotwell
Latina members of SAG-AFTRA walk on a picket line outside Disney studios on Friday, July 28, 2023, in Burbank, Calif. The actors strike comes more than two months after screenwriters began striking in their bid to get better pay and working conditions. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
Damian Dovarganes
Adam Shapiro poses on a picket line outside Netflix studios on Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023, in Los Angeles. The actors strike comes more than two months after screenwriters began striking in their bid to get better pay and working conditions. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)
Richard Shotwell
Luke DePalatis, right, gets a cooling spritz of water from Michael Abel during a rally by striking writers and actors outside Warner Bros. studios Friday, July 14, 2023, in Burbank, Calif. Both are with the WGA. This marks the first day actors formally joined the picket lines, more than two months after screenwriters began striking in their bid to get better pay and working conditions and have clear guidelines around the use of AI in film and television productions. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
Mark J. Terrill
Striking writers and actors take part in a rally outside Netflix studio in Los Angeles on Friday, July 14, 2023. This marks the first day actors formally joined the picket lines, more than two months after screenwriters began striking in their bid to get better pay and working conditions. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Chris Pizzello
Striking writers and actors take part in a "Bastille Day: Let Them Eat Croissants" rally outside Sony Pictures studio in Culver City, Calif. on Friday, July 14, 2023. This marks the first day actors formally joined the picket lines, more than two months after screenwriters began striking in their bid to get better pay and working conditions. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
Mark J. Terrill
Actor Jason Sudeikis, center, walks a picket line with striking writers and actors, Friday, July 14, 2023, at NBC Universal Studios in New York. The picketing comes a day after the main actors’ union voted to join screenwriters in a double-barreled strike for the first time in more than six decades. The dispute immediately shut down production across the entertainment industry after talks for a new contract with studios and streaming services broke down. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
Bebeto Matthews
Actor Sharon Lawrence takes part in a rally by striking writers and actors outside Paramount studios in Los Angeles on Friday, July 14, 2023. This marks the first day actors formally joined the picket lines, more than two months after screenwriters began striking in their bid to get better pay and working conditions. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Chris Pizzello
Striking writers and actors take part in a rally outside Paramount studios in Los Angeles on Friday, July 14, 2023. This marks the first day actors formally joined the picket lines, more than two months after screenwriters began striking in their bid to get better pay and working conditions. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Chris Pizzello
Actor Rosario Dawson attends a rally by striking writers and actors outside Warner Bros. studios in Burbank, Calif. on Friday, July 14, 2023. This marks the first day actors formally joined the picket lines, more than two months after screenwriters began striking in their bid to get better pay and working conditions and have clear guidelines around the use of AI in film and television productions.(AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
Mark J. Terrill
Actor Michelle Hurd carries a sign on a picket line outside NBC in Rockefeller Center on Monday, July 17, 2023, in New York. The actors strike comes more than two months after screenwriters began striking in their bid to get better pay and working conditions and have clear guidelines around the use of AI in film and television productions. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
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Picketers carry signs outside NBC in Rockefeller Center on Monday, July 17, 2023, in New York. The actors strike comes more than two months after screenwriters began striking in their bid to get better pay and working conditions and have clear guidelines around the use of AI in film and television productions. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
Evan Agostini
Actor Kevin Bacon carries a sign on a picket line outside Paramount in Times Square on Monday, July 17, 2023, in New York. The actors strike comes more than two months after screenwriters began striking in their bid to get better pay and working conditions and have clear guidelines around the use of AI in film and television productions. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)
Charles Sykes
Actor Dylan Baker carries a sign on a picket line outside Paramount in Times Square on Monday, July 17, 2023, in New York. The actors strike comes more than two months after screenwriters began striking in their bid to get better pay and working conditions and have clear guidelines around the use of AI in film and television productions. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)
Charles Sykes
Actors Chandler Kinney, from left, Bailee Madison, and Malia Pyles carry signs on a picket line outside NBC in Rockefeller Center on Monday, July 17, 2023, in New York. The actors strike comes more than two months after screenwriters began striking in their bid to get better pay and working conditions and have clear guidelines around the use of AI in film and television productions. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
Evan Agostini
Actor David Boreanaz, center, carries a sign on a picket line outside NBC in Rockefeller Center on Monday, July 17, 2023, in New York. The actors strike comes more than two months after screenwriters began striking in their bid to get better pay and working conditions and have clear guidelines around the use of AI in film and television productions. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
Evan Agostini
Picketers carry signs outside NBC in Rockefeller Center on Monday, July 17, 2023, in New York. The actors strike comes more than two months after screenwriters began striking in their bid to get better pay and working conditions and have clear guidelines around the use of AI in film and television productions. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
Evan Agostini
Picketers carry signs outside NBC in Rockefeller Center on Monday, July 17, 2023, in New York. The actors strike comes more than two months after screenwriters began striking in their bid to get better pay and working conditions and have clear guidelines around the use of AI in film and television productions. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
Evan Agostini
Picketers carry signs outside NBC in Rockefeller Center on Monday, July 17, 2023, in New York. The actors strike comes more than two months after screenwriters began striking in their bid to get better pay and working conditions and have clear guidelines around the use of AI in film and television productions. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
Evan Agostini
Striking writers and actors take part in a rally outside Paramount studios in Los Angeles on Friday, July 14, 2023. This marks the first day actors formally joined the picket lines, more than two months after screenwriters began striking in their bid to get better pay and working conditions. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Chris Pizzello
Striking writers and actors take part in a rally outside Paramount studios in Los Angeles on Friday, July 14, 2023. This marks the first day actors formally joined the picket lines, more than two months after screenwriters began striking in their bid to get better pay and working conditions. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Chris Pizzello
Striking writers and actors take part in a rally outside Warner Bros. studios in Burbank, Calif. on Friday, July 14, 2023. This marks the first day actors formally joined the picket lines, more than two months after screenwriters began striking in their bid to get better pay and working conditions and have clear guidelines around the use of AI in film and television productions.(AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
Mark J. Terrill
Actors Paul Scheer, left, Zoe Lister-Jones, center, and Andrea Savage pose at a fundraiser Saturday, July 15, 2023, in Los Angeles after a group of writer-directors teamed up with the Motion Picture Television Fund to raise money for International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) members, Teamsters and other entertainment industry workers who are taking a financial hit by the strikes. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
Mark J. Terrill
Actor Adam Shapiro poses as he sells his pretzels at a fundraiser Saturday, July 15, 2023, in Los Angeles, after a group of writer-directors teamed up with the Motion Picture Television Fund to raise money for International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) members, Teamsters and other entertainment industry workers who are taking a financial hit by the strikes. Shapiro has a side business called Shappy Pretzel Co. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
Mark J. Terrill
Patton Oswalt, left, talks to the crowd while Andrea Savage listens at a fundraiser Saturday, July 15, 2023, in Los Angeles after a group of writer-directors teamed up with the Motion Picture Television Fund to raise money for International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) members, Teamsters and other entertainment industry workers who are taking a financial hit by the strikes. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
Mark J. Terrill
Actor Paul Scheer speaks to the crowd at a fundraiser Saturday, July 15, 2023, in Los Angeles after a group of writer-directors teamed up with the Motion Picture Television Fund to raise money for International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) members, Teamsters and other entertainment industry workers who are taking a financial hit by the strikes. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
Mark J. Terrill
Picketers carry signs outside Paramount in Times Square on Monday, July 17, 2023, in New York. The actors strike comes more than two months after screenwriters began striking in their bid to get better pay and working conditions and have clear guidelines around the use of AI in film and television productions. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)
Charles Sykes
Actor David Boreanaz carries a sign on a picket line outside NBC in Rockefeller Center on Monday, July 17, 2023, in New York. The actors strike comes more than two months after screenwriters began striking in their bid to get better pay and working conditions and have clear guidelines around the use of AI in film and television productions. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
Evan Agostini
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