A-listers including Pedro Pascal, Kathy Bates and Cate Blanchett will be facing off Sunday night as the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards take centre stage.
Here’s a cheat sheet to the television industry’s biggest night, including how to tune in from Canada, which Canucks are in the running and what shows are the early favourites.
What time does the show begin?
The ceremony kicks off at 8 p.m. ET on Sunday night at the Peacock Theater in downtown Los Angeles and is expected to last about three hours. (Award shows, however, aren’t exactly known for their punctuality, so take that estimate with a grain of salt.)
How can I watch the ceremony?
Canadians can watch the Emmys live on CTV2, ctv.ca and the CTV app starting at 8 p.m. Beginning at 7 p.m., the network will also air the one-hour, red carpet special “ET: Live on the Emmys Red Carpet,” hosted by Kevin Frazier and Nischelle Turner.
Who will host?
The American standup comedian Nate Bargatze will emcee this year’s ceremony. The first-time award show host, known for his deadpan humour, is one of the top-earning comedians in the world, according to the trade publication Pollstar.
Bargatze has previously hosted “Saturday Night Live” and released three Netflix specials. His latest, “Your Friend, Nate Bargatze,” was nominated for two Emmys this year, for outstanding variety special (pre-recorded) and outstanding writing for a variety special.
“It’s a huge honour to be asked to host such an iconic awards show and I’m beyond excited to work with CBS to create a night that can be enjoyed by families around the world,” said Bargatze, when he was announced in April as the host of the Emmys.
Wait, weren’t the Emmys this past weekend?
You aren’t wrong. The 2025 Emmy Awards are split across two weekends. This past weekend featured the Creative Arts Awards, which recognizes technical achievement, along with variety, documentary, reality TV, and scripted programs. Sunday’s main ceremony is when the major acting prizes and awards for outstanding comedy and drama series will be handed out.
Big names who won at the Creative Arts Awards include former U.S. president Barack Obama for his narration on the documentary “Our Oceans”; Julie Andrews for her voice-over work on “Bridgerton”; and Kendrick Lamar, alongside Tony Russell, for their music direction on the 2025 Super Bowl halftime show.
Are any Canadians nominated?
You bet. The Great White North will be well represented down in Los Angeles on Sunday night, with a bevy of Canucks nominated for Emmys. In the category for outstanding lead actor in a comedy series, Seth Rogen (“The Studio”) is up against his fellow countryman Martin Short (“Only Murders in the Building”). Rogen’s co-star, the Toronto-born Catherine O’Hara, is also vying for her third Primetime Emmy in the category for outstanding actress in a comedy series.
Other Canadians to watch out for include comedian Nathan Fielder, who nabbed writing and directing nominations for his HBO docu-comedy “The Rehearsal”; and Quebec director and cinematographer Jessica Lee Gagné, up for “Severance.”
What shows are eligible?
To be considered for this year’s Emmys, shows must have premiered between June 2024 and May 2025. Some popular titles, like the third seasons of “The Gilded Age” on HBO and Netflix’s “Squid Game,” debuted after that cut-off date, meaning they will have to wait until next year to be considered.
Nominations for the 77th Primetime Emmys were announced on July 15, with final-round voting concluding on Aug. 18.
Who will present the awards?
CBS and the Television Academy announced on Tuesday the slate of A-listers who will present the individual Emmys. They include: Angela Bassett, Stephen Colbert, Alan Cumming, Tina Fey, Jude Law, Sydney Sweeney and Sofia Vergara.
What shows are the favourites?
Apple TV’s psychological thriller “Severance,” about the employees of a biotech company who undergo a procedure to sever their workplace memories from their personal lives, enters Sunday’s ceremony with a leading 27 nominations. Meanwhile, “The Studio,” co-created and starring Rogen as a flailing film exec trying to right a sinking ship while balancing his own personal ambitions, leads all comedies with 23 nods, the most for a comedy series in its debut season.
Both shows performed exceedingly well this past weekend at the Creative Arts Emmys. “Severance” picked up six statuettes, while “The Studio” earned nine, making both the early front-runners heading into Sunday’s main ceremony.
Will files from The Associated Press and The Canadian Press
