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Newcomers to the Emmy pantheon include Lizzo, Lee Jung-jae of “Squid Game” and Sheryl Lee Ralph of “Abbott Elementary.”

LOS ANGELES — Kenan Thompson kicked off the 74th Emmy Awards with a musical number that brought together dozens of dancers, metal guitar players and a walk through television’s past.

Emmy Awards host Kenan Thompson and the ceremony's producers are promising a feel-good event — a phrase not applicable to several of the top nominated shows. The best drama contenders include the violently dystopian "Squid Game," bleak workplace satire "Severance" and "Succession," about a powerful and cutthroat family. Even comedy…

Emmy Awards host Kenan Thompson and the ceremony’s producers are promising a feel-good event

It's been a few months since the Oscars and we all know how that went. Thankfully, award season is a year-long event, giving the film and television industry multiple chances to redeem itself — the 74th Emmy Awards is one of them.

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There are certain annual rituals that signify the end of summer and beginning of fall. Football returns, pumpkin spice lattes go back on Starbucks menus and Hollywood celebrates the year in television with a glitzy awards ceremony.

Emmy Awards host Kenan Thompson and the ceremony’s producers are predicting a conflict-free zone, unlike the Oscars show that was marred by an on-stage slap. Thompson said the confrontation last March in which Will Smith attacked presenter Chris Rock over a joke directed at Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, was…

Emmy Awards host Kenan Thompson and the show’s producers are predicting a conflict-free zone