Emmy nominations recognise Variety’s Actors on Actors for fourth year running
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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”.
- “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
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Variety’s “Actors on Actors” is a video interview series that pairs well-known actors together to talk about their work and the film and television industry, in a filmed conversation format. It has been running since 2014 and has become one of Variety’s best-known franchises, produced in seasonal editions timed around awards season.
The Daytime Emmys are an annual American television awards programme that includes categories for arts and popular culture programming, judged by industry peers. Variety is a long-running entertainment trade publication that covers film, television and the wider media business, and has more recently begun collaborating with CNN to produce and distribute some editions of the series.
The Emmys matter within the entertainment industry as a marker of peer recognition and prestige, and repeated nominations for a franchise are generally seen as a sign of its sustained standing and appeal compared with similar interview or discussion programmes made by rival outlets.
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Originally published by Variety as “Variety’s Actors on Actors Lands Two Daytime Emmy Nominations”.