By Andrew Dalton, Entertainment Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) --The 75th Emmy Awards will be studded with cast reunions and recreations of classic moments from a dozen beloved shows throughout television history.
"All in the Family," "Grey's Anatomy," "Game of Thrones," "Martin" and many more series will get the special treatment at Monday night's ceremony at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, with many getting renditions of their sets, including the bar from "Cheers."
"It was really about, how can we celebrate 75 years of television differently?" the show's executive producer Jesse Collins told The Associated Press.
The first such scene will come within the 10 minutes of host Anthony Anderson's Emmys opening, and the moments will be spread throughout the Fox telecast.
"The core of it," said Dionne Harmon, another executive producer, "is really celebrating television and to honor the shows of yesterday while we honor the shows of today."
Collins, Harmon and Jeannae Rouzan-Clay from Jesse Collins Entertainment are producing the Emmys for the first time, after previously putting on the Oscars, American Music Awards and BET Awards.
With the tribute segments they're seeking to show decades of television in its full variety of styles, formats and periods.
From the Emmys' earliest days in the 1950s will come "I Love Lucy;" from the 1960s, "The Carol Burnett Show," whose title star recently won her seventh Emmy at age 90; from the 1970s, "All in the Family," whose legendary creator, TV legend Norman Lear, died last month at 101.
"Cheers" will represent the '80s. "Ally McBeal" and "Martin" will represent different sides of the '90s. The television-game-changing "Sopranos" will show up from the early 2000s.
Shows still on the air — "Grey's Anatomy" and "American Horror Story" — will also be represented.
Bits featuring "Saturday Night Live" and "The Arsenio Hall Show" will show up for variety and talk.
"We just tried to pick ones that we felt like we could successfully pay tribute to," Collins said. "We have a pretty vast array of comedies and procedural dramas and talk shows, just trying to touch all the different areas."
And the shows come from all four networks and HBO, a perennial Emmys juggernaut that this year has all three of the top nominated shows — "Succession," "The Last of Us" and "The White Lotus," — and was home to the winningest drama of all time, which is also among the classic shows getting honored.
"We have a great 'Game of Thrones' moment," Collins said.
Producers didn't give specifics on who will be appearing, and said not to expect everyone from every show.
Reunions aren't possible for all of them, of course. "I Love Lucy," whose key cast members have all been dead for decades, will get a recreation by actors playing Lucy and Ethel.
Other shows have few left to reunite. "All in the Family" only has two surviving major cast members, Rob Reiner and Sally Struthers. The same is true of "The Carol Burnett Show," with only Burnett and Vicki Lawrence still alive.
They also said not to expect a reunion of the cast of "Friends," though the show will include some tribute to Matthew Perry, who died in October.
Emmy producers said they tried to take a different approach to each of the segments to make sure it doesn't start to feel like a repetitive trope.
"We want to make sure people remain entertained and engaged so you never really know what you're going to see, even with the reunions," Rouzan-Clay told the AP.
While wrangling multiple actors from different eras is never easy, and synching schedules was a tangled thicket as everyone became available again with the end of the writers and actors strikes that pushed the show from September to January, Emmy organizers didn't have to twist many arms to get people to take part.
"People are happy to be back and happy to celebrate," Harmon said. "It is a monumental year. Everybody was really excited to come be a part of this."
Harvey Weinstein hit with new sex crime charge in New York
Harvey Weinstein pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a new sex crime charge in New York, as he awaits retrial in his landmark #MeToo case.
Details of the new allegations were not immediately available. He was charged with committing a criminal sex act.
The jailed ex-movie mogul has long maintained that any sexual activity was consensual.
Prosecutors revealed last week that Weinstein had been indicted on additional sex crime charges that weren't part of the case that led to his now-overturned 2020 conviction. But the new indictment was sealed until his arraignment.
Prosecutors have said that the grand jury heard evidence of up to three alleged assaults — two in hotels in the Tribeca neighborhood and one at a lower Manhattan residential building. The purported incidents took place from the mid-2000s to 2016, prosecutors said.
But it's not clear whether any of those allegations underlie the new indictment.
While bracing for the new charges, Weinstein also is awaiting retrial after New York state's highest court this spring overturned his 2020 conviction on rape and sexual assault charges involving two women. The high court, called the Court of Appeals, ordered a new trial, which is tentatively scheduled to begin Nov. 12.
The Court of Appeals ruled that the then-trial judge unfairly allowed testimony against him based on allegations that were not part of the case. That judge's term expired in 2022, and he is no longer on the bench.
Prosecutors have said they'll seek to fold the new charges into the retrial, but Weinstein's lawyers say it should be a separate case.
Weinstein, who also was convicted in 2022 in a Los Angeles rape case, remains behind bars while awaiting his New York retrial.
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