# Emmy nominations recognise Variety’s Actors on Actors for fourth year running

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/varietys-actors-on-actors-lands-two-daytime-emmy-nominations/
- Published: 2026-07-14T16:15:51+00:00
- Updated: 2026-07-14T22:32:40+00:00
- Original publisher: Variety
- Original article: https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/variety-actors-on-actors-daytime-emmy-nominations-2026-1236810196/
- Topics: Art, Celebrity, Culture, Entertainment, TV

## Key points

- “Actors on Actors” earned two 2026 Daytime Emmy nominations
- One nod was for PBS SoCal, one for CNN
- The franchise has now been nominated four years running

## Summary

Variety’s “Actors on Actors” has received two 2026 Daytime Emmy nominations in the outstanding arts and popular culture programme category, extending the franchise’s recognition for a fourth consecutive year. One nomination is for its spring 2025 television awards season run on PBS SoCal, while the other is for the autumn 2025 film edition produced with CNN. The nominations matter because they underline the continued industry standing of one of Variety’s signature interview formats and reflect the success of its recent expansion across different platforms.

The spring edition aired as “Variety Studio: Actors on Actors”, and the autumn edition, “Variety & CNN Actors on Actors”, marked the first season under the CNN-Variety collaboration, debuting first on CNN’s streaming service before wider release on Variety’s digital channels. The series, which began in 2014 and pairs actors in filmed conversations about their work and the industry, has now earned its fifth and sixth Daytime Emmy nominations overall after previous nods in 2023, 2024 and 2025, and a win in 2019. This year its competitors in the category include programmes from “Beyond the Gates”, “Entertainment Tonight”, “Off Script With the Hollywood Reporter” and “Working in the Theatre”.

## Coverage

- [Variety: Emmy nominations recognise Variety’s Actors on Actors for fourth year running](https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/variety-actors-on-actors-daytime-emmy-nominations-2026-1236810196/)
- [The Hollywood Reporter: The Hollywood Reporter Lands 2026 Daytime Emmy Nomination](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/hollywood-reporter-2026-daytime-emmy-nomination-roundtables-1236647597/)

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