Emmys will be streamlined

By Susan King

March 8, 2005 12 AM PT

The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences is hoping to improve the low ratings for its annual nighttime Emmy Awards telecast by transferring several categories to the Creative Arts ceremony that takes place a week earlier.

An academy committee voted 9-2 last week to recommend streamlining the TV show by reducing the number of awards handed out on air. It suggested moving the awards for supporting actor and actress in a TV movie or miniseries, and for writing and directing TV movies and variety programs.

For many years now the Emmys for best guest star in a comedy and drama series have been handed out at the Creative Arts presentation.

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Susan King

Susan King is a former entertainment writer at the Los Angeles Times who specialized in Classic Hollywood stories. She also wrote about independent, foreign and studio movies and occasionally TV and theater stories. Born in East Orange, N.J., she received her master’s degree in film history and criticism at USC. She worked for 10 years at the L.A. Herald Examiner and came to work at The Times in January 1990. She left in 2016.

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