Shogun, Baby Reindeer and The Bear vying for top awards at the Emmys – live updates

The versatile actor won an Emmy for his performance as Richie, the chief disruptor in hit chef drama ‘The Bear’, and his show is up for more at the 2024 ceremony. In this interview from June, he talks to Ellie Harrison about the show’s success, breaking through on ‘Girls’, how he stays young and learning to touch his toes

Do not scratch your eyes or start tearing up your calendar: it really is time for the Emmys again already.

The illustrious awards show, sometimes billed as television’s equivalent of the Academy Awards, is back for the second time within the space of nine months, after the writers’ and actors’ strikes delayed last year’s ceremony until January 2024.

This year’s crop of frontrunners includes Chicago-set restaurant dramedy The Bear, which took home major prizes back in January, historical Japan-set drama Shōgun, and Baby Reindeer, the controversial Netflix miniseries created by comedian Richard Gadd.

In order to qualify for the awards, shows must have aired in the US between 1 June 2023 and 31 May 2024. In the case of The Bear, this means that it is being judged on its second season, not its most recent third, which debuted back in June.

In the comedy categories, The Bear is up against school faculty sitcom Abbott Elementary, generation-gap comedy Hacks and Hulu’s starry mystery comedy Only Murders in the Building, among others.

See what our in-house experts reckon for tonight’s winners:

Richard Gadd’s controversial Netflix hit ‘Baby Reindeer’ is up against dark comedy ‘The Bear’ and historical drama ‘Shogun’.

The 2024 Emmy Awards are being held tonight (15 September) at Los Angeles’s Peacock Theater. Live coverage will air coast-to-coast on ABC beginning at 8pm ET / 5pm PT.

The ceremony will be available to stream on Hulu the next day before leaving the platform on the 22nd.

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Good Morning America’s Robin Roberts and ABC correspondent Will Reeve, the son of late Superman actor Christopher Reeve, will kick off ABC’s Emmy coverage on the red carpet beginning at 7pm ET / 4pm PT.

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