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MONDAY PM: Hollywood Scuttles Golden Globe Parties; WGA May Still Set Up Picket Line Sunday
MONDAY AFTERNOON: Official 65th Golden Globes: Big Show Cancelled & Replaced By NBC Newscast of Foreign Press Announcing Winners
MONDAY NOON: I’ve just obtained the unofficial NBC schedule for the Golden Globes on January 13th now that the big full frills show has been cancelled because of the Writers Guild picket lines. Instead, NBC and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and Dick Clark Productions are attempting to circumvent the strike by stringing together a series of “awards news” telecasts that allows them to fill up the block of airtime already allotted for the show and sold to advertisers:
“There will be a press conference this afternoon announcing that the Globes Awards ceremony will not go on. Here is the plan:
– At 9 PM there will be a press conference covered by NBC News announcing the Golden Globe winners. (9pm-10pm)
– At 8 PM, we are negotiating with Dick Clark Enterprises for a one-hour retrospective/clip show.
– At 7 PM, we will air a Dateline with clips and interviews with nominees. (Currently scheduled to air for two hours on Saturday night.)
– At 10 PM, we will broadcast an “Access Hollywood” style, Golden Globes party show…visiting the various parties in Hollywood
MONDAY AM: So the Hollywood writers strike can now claim its first awards show casualty. I’m hearing from my sources that NBC will not be broadcasting the big Golden Globes show as planned for January 13th. Nor will even a full frills unbroadcasted dinner party be held, either. Instead, a stripped down news telecast will be aired exclusively by NBC News from the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, site of what was supposed to be the big show, where the Hollywood Foreign Press Association will announce the Golden Globe winners who won’t be present in the room.
Here’s what will happen next: The nominees — actors, directors, writers, producers, etc — will have a Red Carpet event outside the Beverly Hilton. Then they’ll go inside and attend all the various Golden Globes side parties already planned for each film and TV show. The winners will have the choice of swinging by an HFPA table to pick up their awards and then strolling into a press room for photos and interviews. ”It’ll now be a news event where the actors can still get all glammed up,” a source told me.
I’ve not yet received any official confirmation of any of this. But insiders tell me that NBC Universal topper Jeff Zucker and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association which bestows the Golden Globes made the decision together to scale everything back into a news event.
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Those darned writers wanting to get paid for what they do. How dare they?! I mean, really.
I was supporting the WGA strikers, but now this strike is hurting me. I work at a hotel in Beverly Hills, and the Golden Globes brings in ALOT of business to our hotel. My rent payment is going to be very hard to make next month.
Collateral damage. Terribly sad. Utterly necessary.
The Oscars die next.
They brought this on themselves. They have nobody else to blame (not that that will stop them.)
We are waging an epic battle for the heart and soul of the entertainment industry. We better get used to this type of sad news.
Thank God. One less event where a bunch of narcisists pat each other on the back is a good thing.
Well boo-freakin’ hoo. Now, when nobody misses this self-aggrandizing opportunity, maybe the Hollywood folks will realize that nobody ever really cared, anyway.
Naaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh….
THANK YOU WRITERS GUILD
NOW WE DON’T HAVE TO SIT THRU HOURS OF “CELEBRITIES” who think people give a rat’s patootie about their political views and rants. Instead of subjecting the public to hours of vitriol and such, those who care can spend a few minutes perusing the list of winners when it’s released and say, wow, and go on with their day.
How unfortunate. Now the writers’ strike has taken a drastic toll. The American public will be deprived of seeing their favorite narcissistic stars gather to play dress-up and congratulate themselves and tell each other how wonderful they are. Now the starts will have to walk in and out of The Ivy to get publicity. The studios will also be deprived of the last opportunity to market 2007′s crop of Hollywood crap to wring out a few more dollars before the DVD version.
As I have said before, the biggest surprise to me in the writers’ strike is that there are actually people who write the crap on TV and in the theater. I thought they just made up the names for the credits and the actors winged it. It sure seems like it when you see it.
Stay on strike. We’ll all be better off.
First move, cancel the Globes…NEXT step cancel the OSCARS!
Then, next step BUST the Union!
THEN, move all writing to offshore–>Canada, Mexico, and India!
THEN the FINAL step-Bust the SAG Union.
The pan is working smoothly so far!
Robert C.
This is ridiculous.
Should they be televised? No.
Should the people who worked so hard to make these films and shows be able to gather for an evening? Of course.
Says more about Network greed, or HFPA’s fumbling, that the show HAS to cancelled if they can’t broadcast it.
What about rewarding the people the show is about, i.e. the talent?
Good. Maybe we’ll get lucky next year and the following year after that, etc., etc. and never see anymore of these pathetic award shows.
Why give out the awards? If they are not important enough to come and get they must not want them very badly.
However, the cancellation of the awards show will do nothing to shorten the length of acceptance speaches by the winners.
And who said that the strike wouldn’t produce anything positive?
If they cancel the Oscars, I may cry.
I’m sure the AMPTP will spin this their own way, but this really seems like its a win for the WGA. This won’t break NBC but it should hurt since they won’t be able air all that money-making advertising. This really can’t be seen as a win for the studios since they are losing a prime venue for marketing their films. Am I seeing this all wrong?
Good! All the awards show should go down until there is a settlement.
Now let’s work on getting the late-night plugs pulled. Better late than never.
Thank goodness one good thing came out of the writers strike. These award shows are so lame.
Sounds like a good plan to me. I’d prefer they just make announcements rather than hold their events in the future, too, whether there’s a strike or not.
Since it’s the Hollywood *Foreign* Press Association, why not stage the event in Mexico City… or Toronto… or Buenos Aires… or HAVANA!!!
Have some courage and take advantage of the situation to also make a political statement at the same time…
This is the way all award shows should be!
By what definition of news is handing out Golden Globes a news event? Allowing Zucker to define the event you describe as news, and therefore expect the WGA not to picket, is beyond ludicrous.
This is NBC once again essentially saying to the acting community:
WE THINK ACTORS ARE STUPID.
So they’re making it a “news event” which means a WGA picket would be illegal. And they are assuming that the actors are so attention hungry that they’ll throw on a ballgown and come accept the award in a newsroom, so that NBC can salvage it’s 20 million dollars worth of advertising revenue and pretend that all is well in Hollywood.
Here’s what I predict. Many, if not most actors will refuse to attend. The ones that will attend, will deliver messages of support for the WGA that the moguls will be loath to hear coming out of movie stars, who are the face of this industry.
The solidarity of SAG and WGA has made this a disaster for the AMPTP, and it continues to be a disaster. Jeff Zucker is now essentially in the awkward position of producing a protest show for WGA and SAG members to get their message directly to the fans, either by an appalling lack of attendance, or long-winded speeches about corporate greed and hypocrisy coming out of the well-respected mouths of beloved icons.
Trust me, when Denzel Washington tells America the corporations are being assholes, America will believe him.
This has been such a resounding victory, I truly believe it’s the beginning of the end for the AMPTP’s campaign to end residuals for all time.
They’ve lost. Now it’s just a matter of them figuring out how much more collateral damage they want to take on (who needs 18 billion in upfront advertising revenue anyway?) before they act like reasonable adults and make a fair deal.
Doesn’t exactly like a “news” event to me. It sounds more like an attempt by the AMPTP/NBC/HFPA to throw off the WGA (and its evil band of marauding strikers carrying signs of the apocalypse) and avoid potential protesters.
Not being a fan of awards shows — this seems like a very nice substitute. Golden Globes are even sooner forgotten than Oscars (which, as of late, is nearly immediate); the players will have their parties anyway, so a news item seems more fitting than another painful version of reality TV.
Pathetic. I live for these awards! Love them and wanted to see my favorites. I hate the writers now. They are arrogant and the actors should have crossed the picket lines.