A view of the MTV Awards sign on stage during the 2017 MTV Movie And TV Awards at The Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. Unlike previous years, this year’s awards ceremony will not be televised.
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A view of the MTV Awards sign on stage during the 2017 MTV Movie And TV Awards at The Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. Unlike previous years, this year’s awards ceremony will not be televised.
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this year MTV Movie & Television Awards will not be broadcast live on Sunday.
MTV’s parent company, Paramount Global, announced on Friday that it plans to downsize the annual event to a pre-recorded special.
“As we carefully navigate the best way to deliver our first awards show to our fans, we envision that our team has worked so hard to create, we are moving away from a Live events still allow us to create a night to remember with exclusive sneak peeks, irreverent items our audience has come to expect, and countless moments that will both amaze and delight. as we honor the best movies and TV shows of the past year,” Bruce Gillmer, executive producer of the MTV Movie & TV Awards, said in a statement. declare.
This announcement comes after Drew Barrymore’s decision to withdraw from hosting the award in solidarity with the writers involved in the ongoing award. Strikers of the Writers Guild of America (WGA). Other celebrity nominees and hosts, such as Jamie Lee Curtis, joined the actress in withdrawing from the event.
Additionally, the WGA has announced plans to select the Barker hangar in Santa Monica, where the live event is scheduled to take place. A WGA representative confirmed that select plans had been canceled in an email, but declined NPR’s request for further comment.
“Everything we celebrate and celebrate about film and television is born out of [the WGA writers’] creative,” Barrymore said in a statement shared by a rep for the actress on Thursday, “And until a resolution is reached, I choose to wait. But I’ll be watching at home on Sunday night and I hope others will too.”
Barrymore said she plans to take up host duties again next year.
The 2023 MTV Movie & TV Awards will air Sunday, May 7 at 8 p.m. ET on MTV, with simulated broadcasts on BET, BET Her, Comedy Central, CMT, Logo, MTV2 , Nickelodeon, Paramount Network, Pop, TV Land, VH1, and MTV internationally in over 150 countries.
