Uh, What Constitutes An Awards Show?

COMMENTS (10)

• Wow, even the Writers Guild Awards can’t get a waiver. What hard asses.

  Comment by tv editor — Thursday January 10, 2008 @ 3:43pm PST  Reply to this post

• Really? The WGA awards looked like a really fancy shindig in the pilot episode of Studio 60. So there’s another myth ruined for me. Curse you, real world!

  Comment by Scotty — Thursday January 10, 2008 @ 3:48pm PST  Reply to this post

• Is there no show because of all the rumors flying around that IATSE and the other BTL workers that are being screwed by the WGA were planning on picketing this event?

  Comment by Frank G. — Thursday January 10, 2008 @ 4:05pm PST  Reply to this post

• I think you are being a bit mean. I’ve been to WGA Awards shows and PGA shows and Emmys and to me they are all the same… boring, but fun to dress up. In fact, the worst are the PGA ones because the producers can’t manage to ever start the event on time, and they order the strangest items from the menu for the dinner.

  Comment by writerperson — Thursday January 10, 2008 @ 4:25pm PST  Reply to this post

• The Producers Guild gives out awards and for some reason we call it an awards show – it is a major misnomer.

  It’s a dinner that allows members to pat each other on the back. Similar to the WGA/DGA and yes, the SAG awards. (apologizes to any guild/union/splinter group that has an award that I omitted – it was not intentional)

  Comment by Awards non groupie — Thursday January 10, 2008 @ 5:00pm PST  Reply to this post

• I think the WGAW did take the rumors of a massive picket on their awards night. There’s been a big buzz of it in the L.A. Times

  Comment by sam — Thursday January 10, 2008 @ 6:36pm PST  Reply to this post

• Is there no show because of all the rumors flying around that IATSE and the other BTL workers that are being screwed by the WGA were planning on picketing this event?Or – maybe the WGA are not a passel of insensitive brutes and were able to figure out all by themselves that a WGA awards show would be inappropriate.

  My uninformed speculation’s just as good as yours, so it’s a tie.

  Unemployed BTL Worker With No WGA Problem
  But Sure Getting Screwed by the AMPTP

  Comment by Non-disgruntled BTL — Thursday January 10, 2008 @ 7:09pm PST  Reply to this post

• If the producer’s picket will the agencies bring them coffee and doughnuts?

  Comment by i'd like krispy kreme please — Thursday January 10, 2008 @ 8:48pm PST  Reply to this post

• The Guild did the right thing here. To proceed with our own awards presentation while others are cancelled in the wake of our strike would be unseemly at best.

  Comment by Striking Writer — Thursday January 10, 2008 @ 9:39pm PST  Reply to this post

• WGA awards ‘show’? hardly – and you can bet picketeers would be exiting from a lineup of limos.

  Comment by devin — Friday January 11, 2008 @ 9:06am PST  Reply to this post