With The 68th Annual Primetime Emmys airing on ABC this fall, it makes sense that the network’s late-night host, Jimmy Kimmel, will return to host the program for the second time.

“Jimmy Kimmel is the consummate showman,” said Channing Dungey, president, ABC Entertainment, in a statement. “With Kimmel at the helm, expect to be at the edge of your seat for a bigger, bolder, and better-than-ever Emmy event.”

“I am excited to be hosting the Emmys again. I have a feeling I’m going to be great,” said Kimmel, also in a statement.

The 68th Annual Primetime Emmys will be broadcast live from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on Sunday, Sept. 18 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on ABC. Nominations will be announced on the morning of Thursday, July 14.

Kimmel has hosted ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live in late night since 2002, and he kills every spring on the upfront stage in New York City. He last hosted the Emmys in 2012. His show is not unfamiliar to the TV Academy, having earned five Emmy nominations. It’s been hard to win in the recent past, with Comedy Central’s The Daily Show and The Colbert Report having split between them the win for Outstanding Variety Series since 2003, but with the hosts of both of those shows now on to other things, the category should open up in 2016.

The Emmy Awards rotate between the four major broadcast networks. Last year, Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s Andy Samberg did the hosting honors when the show aired on Fox. Seth Meyers most recently hosted for NBC and Neil Patrick Harris, star of CBS’ How I Met Your Mother, has hosted for CBS twice, in 2009 and 2013.

Separately, the TV Academy confirmed that the Creative Arts Emmy Awards will now take place over two nights, Saturday and Sunday, September 10 and 11, at the Microsoft Theater. Bob Bain is executive producing.

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