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Emmys: New Categories, Rules for 2017 Emmy Awards

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The Television Academy announced today the creation of two new Emmy categories, Outstanding Music Supervision and Outstanding Casting in a Reality Series, as well as some rule changes for existing categories for the 2017 Emmy Awards.

Music Supervision goes to the music supervisor and covers any music added to a show. Casting goes to the casting directors responsible for the primary casting of a structured, unstructured or reality competition series.

The Academy has split the Outstanding Cinematography for a Single-Camera Series category into two: Cinematography for One-Hour Series and Cinematography for Half-Hour Series. Also, the Academy has altered and/or added awards into five new interactive media categories. They include:

Outstanding Interactive Program (existing category)
Outstanding Original Interactive Program (new category)
Outstanding Creative Achievement in Interactive Media Within A Scripted Program (new category)
Outstanding Creative Achievement in Interactive Media Within An Unscripted Program (new category)
Outstanding Innovation in Interactive Programming (new juried award)

The 69th annual Primetime Emmy Awards will air on September 17th, 2017 on ABC live at 8pm EST/5pm PST from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles with Stephen Colbert as host.

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Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013.

He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Critics Choice Association (CCA), San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.