Mariska Hargitay to host 78th Emmys on NBC and Peacock Sept. 14
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The 78th Primetime Emmy Awards air live Monday, Sept. 14 at 8 p.m. ET from Los Angeles’ Peacock Theater, with Law & Order: SVU star Mariska Hargitay hosting, NBC and the Television Academy said. The Pitt leads nominations with 25; Hacks follows with 24. Hargitay already won two Creative Arts Emmys this month for her documentary My Mom Jayne. NBC marks its 100th anniversary with a peacock-blue carpet; Peacock streams live.
Stage lights over an audience. File photograph used for layout; not from the Emmy stage.
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ABC News and entertainment desks frame Monday’s show as a tight race — The Pitt’s 25 nods versus Pluribus in drama, Hacks versus Widow’s Bay in comedy — with Hargitay’s hosting debut coming days after her own documentary wins.
Sources: ABC News · NBC · NBC Los Angeles
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Network and Academy coverage stress the live coast-to-coast NBC/Peacock simulcast, NBC’s 100th-anniversary branding, and Hargitay as a franchise star hosting after Creative Arts wins — a ratings and brand play as much as an awards night.
Sources: Television Academy · Peacock · NBC