Emmy Awards Canceled

In reports from Variety.com, E! Online, and others, the Academy ofTelevision Arts and Sciences and CBS announced Sunday afternoon thatthe Emmy Awards were officially canceled in the wake of U.S. militaryattacks on Afghanistan.

The decision was made by academy officials and broadcast partner CBSat around 12:30 p.m. Pacific time. That was just hours before theceremonies were set to begin at 5 p.m. Pacific time at the ShrineAuditorium in Los Angeles and at NBC Studios in New York.

According to Variety.com, shortly after word of the U.S. militaryaction filtered out, ATAS and CBS officials indicated that the showwould go on. But insiders at several studios and networks soon beganhearing from various celebrities and executives that they no longerplanned to attend the show.

For the second time in a month, the Emmy Awards had been called off.The Emmys were initially supposed to be handed out September 16, butorganizers postponed the ceremony in the wake of the terror attacks onNew York and Washington, D.C., five days earlier.