Washington: Executive producers of the upcoming 72nd Emmy Awards have revealed their plans on how to make the prestigious award ceremony as live and as safe as possible amid COVID-19.
Reginald Hudlin and Ian Stewart, during an interaction with a news portal, revealed, for the first time, how this year's glamorous ceremony will look. Jimmy Kimmel, who will be anchoring the virtual show, will host Emmys from a stage in the Staples Center, but there will be no audience and no red carpet.
Unlike previous years, where the event normally takes place across the street at the Microsoft Theatre, 2020 Emmys have been planned to do at Staples, because of the facility's tremendous size.
"One is that it's so large that the crew can work safely under COVID-safe protocols and be at the appropriate distance from each other. Because obviously the most important thing is safety first," the news portal quoted Hudlin as saying.
Hudlin added: "The second part is, this show will need an unbelievable number of wiring connections in and out, because the nominees are not going to be there. So we're going to take cameras to where they are. And the number of feeds required are so massive that we need a facility like the Staples Center, which is used to having that much signal from reporters covering sports to handle the kind of in and outputs that it requires."
The producers are planning to have professional camera operators stationed at the places where the nominees are located. That amounts to as many as 140 live feeds coming into the control room at Staples.