The Television Academy has announced that the nominations for the 76th Emmy® Awards will be presented by Tony Hale and Sheryl Lee Ralph at a ceremony slated for Wednesday, July 17, at 8:30 AM PDT/11:30 AM EDT. The ceremony will stream live from the historic El Capitan Theatre on Emmys.com/nominations.
Television Academy chair Cris Abrego will join Hale and Ralph at the nominations ceremony. “While this year has been marked by significant challenges for our industry and its workforce, there has been an abundance of remarkable programs, extraordinary performances and impactful storytelling,” said Abrego. “Great television relies on the contributions of so many, and we are delighted to have Tony and Sheryl help us acknowledge excellence across our field as we embark on a season of tremendous celebration.”
Three-time Emmy Award-winning actor, producer and author Hale is best known for his role as “Gary Walsh” in HBO’s Emmy Award-winning political satire Veep. Hale won two Emmys for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for Veep in 2013 and 2015 and was nominated in the same category in 2014, 2016, 2017 and 2019. He won his third Emmy in 2023 for Outstanding Lead Performance in a Children’s Program for The Mysterious Benedict Society on Disney+. Currently, Hale can be heard in theaters worldwide as the voice of “Fear” in Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out 2, and on July 25, he will co-star in Netflix’s The Decameron, a dark comedy series set during the bubonic plague in 1348 Italy. Later this year he will also co-star in the Netflix period crime drama, Woman of the Hour, opposite Anna Kendrick.
With an acclaimed career spanning over four decades, award-winning actress Ralph currently stars as “Barbara Howard” on ABC’s hit comedy series Abbott Elementary. In 2022, the role garnered her the Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, and in 2023, the Critics Choice Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series as well as a Golden Globe nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Musical-Comedy or Drama Television Series. Additionally, Ralph has received five NAACP Image Award nominations for her work in over 100 episodes of UPN’s Moesha and had a lead role in Nickelodeon’s hit series Instant Mom. Other television credits include Showtime’s Ray Donovan, CBS’s Emmy-nominated Designing Women and HBO’s A Black Lady Sketch Show. Ralph has starred in numerous films and will next be seen in the Bleecker Street comedy The Fabulous Four alongside Bette Midler, Susan Sarandon, and Megan Mullally in theaters July 26.
The 76th Emmy Awards will be broadcast live Sunday, Sept. 15 (8:00-11:00 PM EDT/5:00-8:00 PM PDT) on ABC.
A new initiative will allow UK deaf audiences to see captioned films before general release
For once, deaf audiences are being prioritized at U.K. cinemas.
Paramount Pictures UK will be showing their movies with captions the day before general release, meaning deaf and hard of hearing cinemagoers across the country will be able to watch them first.
The distributor is starting with the robot animation "Transformers One" on Oct. 10. Subtitled screenings of Paramount's upcoming films, "Gladiator II," "Sonic the Hedgehog 3" and "The Smurfs Movie," will follow over the next few months.
Rebecca Mansell, chief executive of the British Deaf Association, called the initiative ground-breaking. Deaf, deafened and hard of hearing audiences have been struggling to attend the few available subtitled film showings because they are often scheduled at inconvenient times, she said.
"It fits in with the cinema's needs, but not necessarily when the Deaf community want to go," she said. "The deaf community always feel that they are the last ones to know, the last ones to watch something, the last ones for everything. And now we're going to be the first. It's definitely a really exciting moment."
Around 18 million people in the U.K. are registered as deaf, deafened or hard of hearing, according to the association.
Paramount has also been running deaf awareness training with cinema managers and staff in U.K. cities so that they can better communicate with customers.
Yvonne Cobb, a TV presenter and celebrity ambassador for the British Deaf Association, was running the training at a large cinema in central London's Leicester Square Wednesday.
She said the three-hour training session wasn't enough for staff to become fluent in British Sign Language, but workers were able to learn basic signs, how to interact with deaf... Read More