TV’s largest night time is sort of right here!
The 2024 Emmy Awards are on Sept. 15, and this 12 months’s ceremony guarantees to be one other star-studded night time with a number of wholesome competitors. The nominations alone had been record-breaking. The Bear‘s 23 nods surpassed the file for many nominations within the comedy class, beforehand held by 30 Rock, which earned 22 in 2009.
Dan Levy, who can be hosting the show alongside his father Eugene Levy, tells PEOPLE that they are “coming at” the internet hosting gig “from a really completely different place.”
“My dad and I are usually not stand-up comics,” the actor, 41, says. “However we’re each actually arduous employees. We wish to create an environment that feels actually welcome and celebratory.”
Eugene, 77, provides, “As first timers, our hope is that the present this 12 months can have sufficient laughs, sufficient appeal, sufficient goodwill and sufficient love for the medium that gave each my son and myself a begin on this enterprise.”
Who will win huge? Listed below are PEOPLE Picks editor Tom Gliatto’s predictions for the celebs and sequence that can stroll away with a trophy on Sunday, Sept. 15 when the Emmys airs dwell at 8 p.m. ET on ABC.
Excellent Comedy Collection: ‘The Bear’
This present concerning the trials and triumphs of chef Carmy Berzatto (Jeremy Allen White) is not actually a lot of a comedy — but it surely’s not as for those who can ship it again to the kitchen, are you able to? Season 2 whipped up a storm of tears and stress, particularly with a superb episode that includes fellow nominee Jamie Lee Curtis as Carmy’s overwrought mama. Season 1 took house 10 trophies — season 2’s doggie bag can be heavy too.
Excellent Restricted or Anthology Collection: ‘Child Reindeer’
Star Richard Gadd‘s harrowing account of his nightmarish tango with a stalker (Jessica Gunning) was the 12 months’s most-talked about present — a robust, at occasions punishing, examine in sexual anguish.
Excellent Drama Collection: ‘Shogun’
Honored with 25 nominations, the present a couple of stealthy however brutal dynastic wrestle in Seventeenth-century Japan is likely one of the most interesting TV productions in years. Boldly epic in scale but exquisitely detailed, it typically appears to be rising from the precise mists of the previous.
Shogun also needs to declare the highest performing prizes. Hiroyuki Sanada is magnificently magisterial as Lord Yoshii Tornaga, who combines lofty integrity with merciless crafty. Anna Sawai, because the translator for an English navigator (Cosmo Jarvis) is each a romantic heroine and the thrilling embodiment of a feudal code of honor.
Excellent Actress in a Comedy Collection: Jean Sensible, ‘Hacks’
Jean Smart has already won twice for her very good efficiency — witty, powerful, weak — as a comic reaching for (and at last greedy) the late-night brass ring. This’ll make three.
Excellent Actuality Competitors: ‘The Traitors’
Hosted by nominee Alan Cumming with an air of plummy relish, this foolish, suspenseful recreation of skulduggery in a Scottish citadel is likely one of the few actuality exhibits to generate that buzzy phrase “pleasure.”
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The 2024 Emmy Awards air on Sunday, Sept. 15 at 8 p.m. ET on ABC.