The 77th Primetime Emmy Awards are scheduled for September 14, 2025, broadcasting live on CBS, recognizing programs aired between June 1, 2024, and May 31, 2025. Emmy submissions are due May 8, with nomination voting from June 12-23, nominations announced in July, and final voting from August 18-27.

As of May 5, 2025, Emmy categories, particularly Outstanding Talk Series and Outstanding Scripted Variety Series, face uncertainty due to reclassifications and shrinking submissions. The Outstanding Scripted Variety Series category may repeat the mere four submissions seen in 2024, and categories with fewer than seven submissions require a peer-group screening with 90% approval for nomination.

As of May 5, 2025, 'Hot Ones,' hosted by Sean Evans, is competing in the Outstanding Talk Series category after a successful petition, while Netflix’s “Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney” and Dropout's “Very Important People,” are also entering the category. 'Hot Ones' features over 360 episodes with celebrity guests, while 'Very Important People' moved from the short form category due to its extended runtime.

On May 5 and 6, 2025, American Idol narrowed its field to seven finalists, saving Mattie Pruitt and eliminating Josh King, and announced two upcoming Disney-themed performance nights. Lin-Manuel Miranda will mentor the contestants, and the Disney episodes will feature double eliminations leading to the season 22 finale on ABC later in May.

On May 5, 2025, it was announced that Warwick Thornton’s film, "Wolfram: A Sequel to Sweet Country," a colonial thriller set in the 1930s currently filming in Australia, is a sequel to his 2017 movie which won Venice’s special jury prize and Toronto’s Platform prize.