Constance Wu, Alec Baldwin, Tina Fey Among 70th Emmy Awards Presenters

The presenters for the 70th Emmy Awards were announced on Thursday, with some new faces set to take the stage to hand out the iconic statuettes on Sept. 17.

Constance Wu, Alec Baldwin, Tina Fey, Rachel Brosnahan, Bob Odenkirk, Taraji P. Henson, Millie Bobby Brown, Sandra Oh, and Kit Harington are among the stars named as presenters for TV’s biggest night.

Many of them are also nominees themselves, including Brosnahan for her breakout role on “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” and Oh for British crime drama “Killing Eve.”

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As for the shows they will be handing over golden ladies too, “Game of Thrones” took the TV Iron Throne with 22 nominations for the 2018 Emmy Awards, the most for any show — edging out NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” and fellow HBO drama “Westworld,” grabbing 21 nominations apiece. Following behind was Hulu’s “Handmaid’s Tale,” which leaped from 13 nods in 2017 to 20 nominations for this year’s show.

For the first time, Netflix has surpassed HBO to earn 112 nominations and break the cabler’s 17-year streak of being the most nominated network.

“Saturday Night Live’s” Colin Jost and Michael Che will serve as co-hosts for the evening, and the show is executive produced by Lorne Michaels.

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See the full list of presenters below (with more names expected to be announced closer to showtime).

The 70th Emmy Awards will air live from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on Monday, Sept. 17 at 8/7c on NBC.

Alec Baldwin (“Saturday Night Live,” “Match Game”) – Outstanding Supporting
Actor in a Comedy Series
Rachel Brosnahan (“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”) – Outstanding Lead Actress
in a Comedy Series
Millie Bobby Brown (“Stranger Things”) – Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
Michael Douglas (“The Kominsky Method”)
Tina Fey (“Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”)
Kit Harington (“Game of Thrones”)
Taraji P. Henson (“Empire”)
Kate McKinnon (“Saturday Night Live”) – Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series
Tracy Morgan (“The Last O.G.”)
Bob Odenkirk (“Better Call Saul”)
Sandra Oh (“Killing Eve”) – Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series
Constance Wu (“Fresh Off the Boat”)

10 Notable Emmy Hosting Teams: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Photos)

Because they co-host the “Weekend Update” segment on “Saturday Night Live,” it makes perfect sense for Colin Jost and Michael Che to host the 70th Primetime Emmy Awards together on Sept. 17. But over the last 20 years, this will be only the third time the Emmys have used more than one host, even though two or more hosts were the norm in the show’s first half-century. Here are 10 other notable hosting teams, some that make perfect sense and some that don’t.
1952: Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz

Lucy and Desi were clearly the first couple of television in its early days, so it was natural that they’d be co-hosts only the fourth time the Emmys were handed out – a show on which their show “I Love Lucy” also won the top comedy award.
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1962: David Brinkley, Johnny Carson and Bob Newhart

Why three hosts? Because the 1962 show took place simultaneously in three locations: Los Angeles (Newhart), New York (Carson) and Washington, D.C. (Brinkley).
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1968: Frank Sinatra and Dick Van Dyke

Sinatra handled the L.A. show, Van Dyke the N.Y. one, and they had one thing in common in 1968: They both barely survived a snafu-ridden Emmys show.
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1976: Mary Tyler Moore and John Denver

Mary Tyler Moore had been a TV icon for more than a decade, and the night she hosted in 1976 her show would win five top awards. So why saddle her with a country-pop singer who was criticized for saying “far out!” too much? Only the TV Academy knows.
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1980: Steve Allen and Dick Clark

Allen famously hated rock ‘n’ roll; Clark popularized it on “American Bandstand.” But they were both TV icons, so that was good enough.
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1983: Eddie Murphy and Joan Rivers

By the standards of the time, “Saturday Night Live” cast member Murphy and “Tonight Show” regular Rivers were pretty rude and transgressive comics – and they didn’t disappoint on Emmy night, delivering the bawdiest (and, some thought, most offensive) Emmys ever.
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1986: Shelley Long and David Letterman

Letterman was only in his third year as a late-night host, while Long was already on her fourth nomination for her role in “Cheers.” But the show was on NBC and they were two of the network’s biggest stars, so they became co-hosts.
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1990: Candice Bergen, Jay Leno and Jane Pauley

Bergen played a Pauley-like newswoman on “Murphy Brown,” and Leno was the change of pace in the middle of a three-hour show in which each of the hosts handled duties for an hour.
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1995: Jason Alexander and Cybill Shepherd

Alexander was in the sixth year of the comedy series “Seinfeld,” Shepherd in the first year of her series “Cybill.” One of those shows would go on to be iconic, and the other wouldn't.
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2008: Tom Bergeron, Heidi Klum, Howie Mandel, Jeff Probst and Ryan Seacrest

“It sounded like a good idea,” Probst told TheWrap of the ill-fated plan to put the five nominees in the reality-host category in charge of the Emmys. “[We] were supposed to be the best hosts, and yet we did the worst hosting in the history of the Emmys.”
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From Lucy and Desi to those reality-show hosts, the Emmys have both soared and stumbled when enlisting more than one host

Because they co-host the “Weekend Update” segment on “Saturday Night Live,” it makes perfect sense for Colin Jost and Michael Che to host the 70th Primetime Emmy Awards together on Sept. 17. But over the last 20 years, this will be only the third time the Emmys have used more than one host, even though two or more hosts were the norm in the show’s first half-century. Here are 10 other notable hosting teams, some that make perfect sense and some that don’t.

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10 Notable Emmy Hosting Teams: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Photos)

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