The Emmy Awards will return to Fox _ and to Sunday night _ in 2019.
The 71st Primetime Emmy Awards will air live Sept. 22, 2019, the Television Academy and Fox announced Monday. The ceremony will take place at the Microsoft Theater at L.A. Live in downtown Los Angeles.
Fox, along with fellow broadcasters CBS, ABC and NBC, share broadcasting rights for the ceremony, with each network hosting the awards once every four years.
In 2018, however, NBC opted to move the Emmys to a Monday night, so as not to disrupt its regularly scheduled "Sunday Night Football" programming.
Producers and host(s) for the 2019 ceremony will be announced at a later date.
The question of who will host next year's awards is generating more curiosity than ever with a network that recently rebranded itself New Fox. When the broadcaster last presented the ceremony in 2015, Andy Samberg hosted. He has since taken his talents _ and his canceled TV show, "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" _ to NBC, leaving Fox's comedy roster a little lacking.
Maybe the network can look to its newsier counterpart for talent and turn the show over to Fox News host Tucker Carlson. It would be memorable at least.
