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Idol Producers Stand Idle on Emmys
So much for finding out who wins Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama...after the break.
Despite their previous commitment to making this year's ceremony "a little more dangerous than in the past," American Idol executive producers Nigel Lythgoe and Ken Warwick have bowed out of hosting the 59th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, blaming a too crowded calendar.
"After we wrapped the enormous effort of Idol Gives Back, we looked at our upcoming slate of projects, including the American Idol finale and the additional shows we will be involved in this summer, and realized that we could not devote the creative energy and time necessary to make the Emmys outstanding for the Academy and Fox," the duo said in a statement.
One night after Idol's May 23 finale, the third season of Lythgoe and Simon Fuller's So You Think You Can Dance kicks off on Fox, while Warwick and Simon Cowell's America's Got Talent is back on NBC starting May 29.
The announcement that Warwick and Lythgoe were going to take the Emmy reins made waves in February, with Lythgoe predicting that they would "shock people" with their fresh take on the show.
"Star power, production values, drama, suspense, tears and euphoria, just like an American Idol finale," he said at the time.
"How could you present the cast of Heroes?" Lythgoe posited to the Los Angeles Times. "Could they come flying in on wires? Could you stop time? Those are the things I want to look at."
So instead of Hiro stopping time at the Emmys, we're due for a fairly standard-issue show. The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences will once again turn to veteran award show producer Ken Erlich to helm this year's ceremony, which airs Sept. 16 on Fox from Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium. It will mark Erlich's fourth time overall and second year in a row behind the scenes of television's biggest kudofest.
"We respect Nigel and Ken's decision and are fortunate that Ken Ehrlich has agreed to return to executive-produce his fourth Primetime Emmy telecast. He did a terrific job with the Emmys last year and we are glad to have him back," Television Academy chairman and CEO Dick Askin said.
The Emmys last August saw a 13 percent dip in the ratings from the previous year, however, with only 16.2 million tuning into the Conan O'Brien-hosted ceremony on NBC.
Part of that downturn was blamed on the fact that the ceremony was held nearly a month earlier than usual to clear the way for NBC's Sunday Night Football, with O'Brien saying beforehand that he expected most people to be "out on a raft somewhere," rather than sitting in front of their TV sets.
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