Every major Daytime Emmy nominee will pre-tape an acceptance speech for virtual ceremony

Variety

This year's Daytime Emmys, airing Friday on CBS, "will be pre-taped and shot from various stars’ homes with the women of The Talk serving as hosts," according to Variety's Michael Schneider. "To keep the element of surprise, presenters will tape five different envelope openings — and every nominee in the major categories presented will be asked to tape an acceptance speech and send it to the show. Ultimately, it will be up to the show’s accountants to reveal the winners to producers and the editors shaping the show, who will then make sure to only edit in the winners’ names and their thank-you videos." Daytime Emmys executive producer Al Schwartz adds: “It’s probably the first time (in awards show history) that all of the nominees will be giving acceptance speeches. Everybody that’s nominated will, from their homes, into their own cell phones, be able to give all those speeches that they’ve always practiced in the past of hoping to give. But only the winners will be played on the air once the accountants tell us who the winners are. And I think one of the very unique things is nobody can be played off.”