UPDATE (July 8): The Primetime Emmy nominees in two closely-watched categories – outstanding variety series and outstanding reality competition program – were announced on NBC’s TODAY show on Wednesday (July 8).
The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, last year’s winner for outstanding variety series, was nominated again this year for its final season, along with Last Week Tonight With John Oliver and Saturday Night Live (which have each won eight top program Emmys), The Daily Show (which won in 2024) and Jimmy Kimmel Live! (which has yet to win in the category, despite 12 nominations).
The Traitors, which has won outstanding reality competition program the last two years, was nominated again this year, along with RuPaul’s Drag Race (which has won five times in the category), Top Chef (which has won once) and Dancing With the Stars and Survivor, which have yet to win in the category despite multiple nominations.
PREVIOUSLY (July 7): The 2026 Primetime Emmy nominations will be announced on Wednesday (July 8), which means we’ll soon know how many nominations The Apple Music Super Bowl LX Halftime Show Starring Bad Bunny will receive; whether Zendaya and Selena Gomez will be nominated in acting categories for Euphoria and Only Murders in the Building, respectively, and whether such music stars as Lady Gaga, Finneas, Bryce Dessner, Andrew Watt and Michael Stipe will be nominated in music categories.
Nominations in key categories will be announced on a livestream at 11:30 a.m. ET. You can watch the livestream on the Television Academy website; on YouTube; or on social media: Facebook, TikTok or Instagram.
The livestream will be hosted by Emmy winners Liza Colón-Zayas (The Bear) Jeff Hiller (Somebody Somewhere), along with Television Academy chair Cris Abrego. It will be streamed live from the Wolf Theatre in the Academy’s Saban Media Center in North Hollywood, Calif.
The 78th Emmy Awards will broadcast live coast-to-coast on Monday, Sept. 14 (8:00-11:00 p.m. ET/5:00-8:00 p.m. PT) on NBC and will stream live on Peacock. The Creative Arts Emmy Awards will take place on Saturday, Sept. 5, and Sunday, Sept. 6.
