Set your alarms, because this one's an early-morning affair. The 78th Primetime Emmy Awards go down on Monday, September 14, at the Peacock Theatre in Los Angeles, and if you're watching from India, that means either an all-nighter or a 4 am wake-up call.

JioHotstar starts streaming at 4:30 am IST on September 15, with the actual show kicking off an hour later at 5:30 am IST. Not exactly prime time for us. The good news is the full ceremony lands on demand right after, so anyone who'd rather sleep through it can catch up over breakfast.

Mariska Hargitay is hosting the Emmys for the first time this year, and she's not underselling the moment. "Bringing important stories into the light has been the heartbeat of my career," she said in a statement, calling it an honour to host in what's NBC's 100th birthday year. The Law & Order: SVU star takes over hosting duties in a year that's already stacked with milestones.

One of the bigger emotional beats of the night arrives with Michael J. Fox, who'll receive the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award during the primetime telecast. It's not handed out often. Since it was instituted in 2002, only six people have won it, a list that includes Oprah Winfrey, George Clooney and Sean Penn, with Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen picking it up last year. Fox's award recognises decades of Parkinson's disease research and advocacy work. He's also up for a competitive Emmy this year, his 19th nomination for a guest appearance on Apple TV's Shrinking.

On the nominations side, HBO's medical drama The Pitt is running away with the count, sitting on 25 nods and touching nearly every major category. Hacks isn't far behind at 24, and that number puts it in the record books as the most-nominated comedy series in Emmy history. The rest of the field is crowded too. DTF St. Louis, The Bear, All Her Fault, The Gilded Age, Abbott Elementary, Only Murders in the Building and Euphoria are all still in the mix, which means the acting and writing categories especially could go several ways.

For Indian viewers, the calculation is simple. Either you're up at dawn watching it live on JioHotstar, or you're catching the highlights once the sun's properly out. Either way, September 15 is circled. The bigger question, as always with the Emmys, is whether the nominations leaderboard actually translates into trophies, or whether Monday night in LA throws up the kind of upset that makes the early wake-up call worth it.