Scott D. Pierce: Disaster is almost certain to strike the Emmys on Sunday

The producers in charge of the Emmy Awards telecast on Sunday are warning that things will go wrong.They’ll be at the Staples Center with host Jimmy Kimmel, but — because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic — pretty much everybody else you’ll see on air (6 p.m., ABC/Ch. 4) will be at one of more than 130 locations across the United States and in 10 countries around the world. And that, executive producers Reginald Hudlin and Ian Stewart acknowledged, is a recipe for disaster