ABC Entertainment President Karey Burke revealed today what many had already expected, there will officially be no host for the 2020 Oscars. Burke confirmed the decision during her annual remarks at the Television Critics Association conference this morning.  This will be the second year in a row the Academy Awards will be without an emcee following Kevin Hart‘s departure late in the game in 2019.

This year’s show appears to be going in the same direction as last year according to Burke.

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In the first major move of recently elected AMPAS president David Rubin, the Academy announced today that there will be two new producers of Hollywood’s biggest night, the Oscars. Lynette Howell Taylor and Stephanie Allain have agreed to produce the telecast, replacing last year’s duo, Donna Gigliotti and Glenn Weiss. One would expect that Weiss, who has directed four Oscars and won a Primetime Emmy for his work helming the 90th Oscars in 2018, might return in that capacity.

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