Emmys Rescheduled — Again

October 17 -- The Emmy Awards show, which has been delayed twice by last month's terrorist attacks, has been rescheduled again for Nov. 4 at the Shubert Theatre in Los Angeles, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and CBS said today.However, the move could put the telecast in competition with the final game of the World Series on Fox. The Series goes to a seventh game about 20 percent of the time, CBS President Les Moonves noted.

Ellen DeGeneres, who was said to be crushed about the earlier cancelations, will stay on as host, but producer Don Mischer won't plan a third show; he's already committed to producing the Olympics.New York-based nominees will have to make the trek to Los Angeles; the satellite link from the Big Apple that was set up for the rescheduled Oct. 7 ceremony will not happen now. The original venue was to have been the Shrine Auditorium, which seats more than 6,000. The Shubert, meanwhile, holds only 1,800 people.

The Emmy ceremony was originally planned for Sept. 16, but the show was postponed after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11. The rescheduled show, on Oct. 7, was also called off, when the United States and Britain launched a retaliatory strike against Afghanistan that day.Franz: 'Nobody's Heart Is Really in It'Some in the industry have suggested that the awards ceremony not be held at all at this point. NYPD Blue star Dennis Franz, a four-time Emmy winner who was scheduled to introduce a pre-recorded tribute to New York City police officers at the Oct. 7 ceremony, told Zap2it.com this week, "I really wish they would rethink it. It's lost its appeal, and nobody's heart is really in it. They're fooling themselves if they think the majority of the participants want it to go on. I would just as soon we don't have it. Let's just move on."

Moonves admitted that part of the reason for going ahead with the ceremony is financial. "There's a lot of money at stake," he said recently. CBS would lose millions in advertising dollars, while the academy depends on the $3 million-plus network license fee and ticket sales for a large part of its annual budget, according to The Associated Press.