After this 12 months’s Oscars ceremony, it ought to come as no shock that the Emmys are having some hassle reserving a number. Deadline reports that the Primetime Emmy Awards have reached out to Chris Rock and Dwayne Johnson to host the occasion on NBC this September to no avail.
Rock—who was infamously slapped by Will Smith whereas presenting on the Oscars in February—has reportedly turned down the provide. Per Deadline, it appears unlikely that Johnson will settle for the high-profile gig both. Each Rock and Johnson made sense as potential Emmys hosts for NBC, given their ties to the community: Rock’s tv profession started on Saturday Evening Stay, and he has returned to host the sketch present on a number of events. Johnson is the manager producer of a comedy collection impressed by his life, Younger Rock, which was simply renewed for a 3rd season by the community.
Final 12 months’s Emmys ceremony aired on CBS and was hosted by Cedric the Entertainer, who stars within the sitcom The Neighborhood on that community. Emmys producers Carried out+Dusted in affiliation with Reginald Hudlin’s Hudlin Leisure are reportedly in search of out top-tier expertise, and are prepared to look past the NBC bubble to search out mentioned expertise, based on Deadline. However that search has been simpler mentioned than performed, because it’s been reported that NBC late-night hosts like Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers—each of whom have hosted the ceremony prior to now—aren’t within the gig.
The 74th Primetime Emmy Awards will happen on September 12. In the event that they’re on the lookout for an NBC-affiliated host, they need to contemplate giving Grand Crew’s Nicole Byer or Girls5Eva’s Renée Elise Goldsberry a name.
