cookiepuss
01-07-2008, 08:57 PM
you can thank the striking Writers Guild of America for scaring away the golden globes this year. thanks guys!(y):cool:
but they are replacing the awards with some gay newscast where they annouce the winners. ha.
I especially like the quote about how we'll be deprived of seeing our favorite stars. I feel so deprived. I mean now I'll never know what they were gonna wear! my whole year is ruined. ruined. Damn you Writer's Guild of America!!!*shakes fist*
Golden Globes cancels traditional show
By LYNN ELBER, AP Television Writer 21 minutes ago
The Golden Globes and NBC agreed Monday to scrap the show's traditional format, which faced picketing by striking writers, in favor of a news conference that organizers hoped would save the unofficial kickoff to Hollywood's awards season.
Actors had declined to defy strikers to attend Sunday's event. But it was not immediately clear whether the Writers Guild of America would call off its pickets for a revamped show that would be televised without using writers.
"We are all very disappointed that our traditional awards ceremony will not take place this year and that millions of viewers worldwide will be deprived of seeing many of their favorite stars celebrating 2007's outstanding achievements in motion pictures and television," said Jorge Camara, president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which organizes the show.
"We take some comfort, however, in knowing that this year's Golden Globe Award recipients will be announced on the date originally scheduled," he said in a statement.
This year's nominees include such A-listers as Angelina Jolie, Denzel Washington, Tom Hanks, Daniel Day-Lewis, George Clooney, Keira Knightley, Cate Blanchett and Johnny Depp. Among the nominated films are "There Will Be Blood," "American Gangster" and "Sweeney Todd." But faced with a potential celebrity vacuum, the association and NBC Universal Chief Executive Jeff Zucker had to devise another approach.
The association will forgo any network payment — reported to be $5 million — for the broadcast, said a person close to the show who was not authorized to comment and requested anonymity. But NBC will have exclusive electronic rights to the show and will be able to sell advertising for it, the person said.
Although other TV media won't be given access, print outlets will, according to the agreement between NBC and the association, the person said.
The Writers Guild of America did not immediately respond when asked if it would call off its pickets because of the new approach.
The developments stand as an ominous sign for the Academy Awards, which are scheduled to air Feb. 24 on ABC. The writers guild refused to grant waivers for its members to work on the Oscars or the Globes.
Disrupting the awards show season, a huge promotional showcase for the entertainment industry, is one way the guild can flex its power and attempt to bring producers back to the table to resume talks that collapsed Dec. 7.
Oscar broadcast producer Gil Cates has vowed there will be a televised show, one way or another.
The writers strike, which began Nov. 5, has broad implications for the way Hollywood does business. Whatever deal is struck by writers on the key issue of payment for projects offered on the Internet could affect talks with actors and directors, whose contracts expire next June.
Instead of the traditional Globes show featuring a boozy, glitzy dinner party and awards presentation, the winners will be announced in an hour-long news conference at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, the press association said.
A Los Angeles Times report, citing an NBC memo e-mailed to movie studios, said there were plans for other Globe-related shows, including a "Dateline NBC" program with clips and interviews with nominees, and a show covering Globe parties.
NBC was also in talks with dick clark productions, which produces the ceremony, for an hourlong Globes retrospective.
There was no announcement by the association or NBC on regarding further programming.
The Globes have been on a ratings roll. The 2007 ceremony drew 20 million viewers and marked the second straight year the show drew a bigger audience than the year before. The show's biggest audience ever was in 1998, the year of the blockbuster film "Titanic," when 24.5 million people watched.
Compared to the more formal Oscars, the Globes are presented at a relaxed event that brings out the frisky side of stars. In 1998, for example, Jack Nicholson mimicked Jim Carrey's "butt-talking" routine in accepting his acting award for "As Good As It Gets."
When the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists were on strike in 1980, only one winner — Powers Booth — showed up to collect his trophy.
The producer of the Globes, dick clark productions, has lashed out at the guild, citing repeated efforts to reach an interim agreement akin to the union deal with another independent company, Worldwide Pants, which produces David Letterman's show.
The guild was accused by dick clark productions of failing to bargain in good faith.
Writers guild President Patric M. Verrone has lauded the move by actors to boycott the Globes and said the awards show season is being jeopardized by the "intransigence" of media corporations.
For its own awards on Jan. 27, the actors guild has reached an interim agreement for a writers guild member to script the ceremony.
but they are replacing the awards with some gay newscast where they annouce the winners. ha.
I especially like the quote about how we'll be deprived of seeing our favorite stars. I feel so deprived. I mean now I'll never know what they were gonna wear! my whole year is ruined. ruined. Damn you Writer's Guild of America!!!*shakes fist*
Golden Globes cancels traditional show
By LYNN ELBER, AP Television Writer 21 minutes ago
The Golden Globes and NBC agreed Monday to scrap the show's traditional format, which faced picketing by striking writers, in favor of a news conference that organizers hoped would save the unofficial kickoff to Hollywood's awards season.
Actors had declined to defy strikers to attend Sunday's event. But it was not immediately clear whether the Writers Guild of America would call off its pickets for a revamped show that would be televised without using writers.
"We are all very disappointed that our traditional awards ceremony will not take place this year and that millions of viewers worldwide will be deprived of seeing many of their favorite stars celebrating 2007's outstanding achievements in motion pictures and television," said Jorge Camara, president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which organizes the show.
"We take some comfort, however, in knowing that this year's Golden Globe Award recipients will be announced on the date originally scheduled," he said in a statement.
This year's nominees include such A-listers as Angelina Jolie, Denzel Washington, Tom Hanks, Daniel Day-Lewis, George Clooney, Keira Knightley, Cate Blanchett and Johnny Depp. Among the nominated films are "There Will Be Blood," "American Gangster" and "Sweeney Todd." But faced with a potential celebrity vacuum, the association and NBC Universal Chief Executive Jeff Zucker had to devise another approach.
The association will forgo any network payment — reported to be $5 million — for the broadcast, said a person close to the show who was not authorized to comment and requested anonymity. But NBC will have exclusive electronic rights to the show and will be able to sell advertising for it, the person said.
Although other TV media won't be given access, print outlets will, according to the agreement between NBC and the association, the person said.
The Writers Guild of America did not immediately respond when asked if it would call off its pickets because of the new approach.
The developments stand as an ominous sign for the Academy Awards, which are scheduled to air Feb. 24 on ABC. The writers guild refused to grant waivers for its members to work on the Oscars or the Globes.
Disrupting the awards show season, a huge promotional showcase for the entertainment industry, is one way the guild can flex its power and attempt to bring producers back to the table to resume talks that collapsed Dec. 7.
Oscar broadcast producer Gil Cates has vowed there will be a televised show, one way or another.
The writers strike, which began Nov. 5, has broad implications for the way Hollywood does business. Whatever deal is struck by writers on the key issue of payment for projects offered on the Internet could affect talks with actors and directors, whose contracts expire next June.
Instead of the traditional Globes show featuring a boozy, glitzy dinner party and awards presentation, the winners will be announced in an hour-long news conference at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, the press association said.
A Los Angeles Times report, citing an NBC memo e-mailed to movie studios, said there were plans for other Globe-related shows, including a "Dateline NBC" program with clips and interviews with nominees, and a show covering Globe parties.
NBC was also in talks with dick clark productions, which produces the ceremony, for an hourlong Globes retrospective.
There was no announcement by the association or NBC on regarding further programming.
The Globes have been on a ratings roll. The 2007 ceremony drew 20 million viewers and marked the second straight year the show drew a bigger audience than the year before. The show's biggest audience ever was in 1998, the year of the blockbuster film "Titanic," when 24.5 million people watched.
Compared to the more formal Oscars, the Globes are presented at a relaxed event that brings out the frisky side of stars. In 1998, for example, Jack Nicholson mimicked Jim Carrey's "butt-talking" routine in accepting his acting award for "As Good As It Gets."
When the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists were on strike in 1980, only one winner — Powers Booth — showed up to collect his trophy.
The producer of the Globes, dick clark productions, has lashed out at the guild, citing repeated efforts to reach an interim agreement akin to the union deal with another independent company, Worldwide Pants, which produces David Letterman's show.
The guild was accused by dick clark productions of failing to bargain in good faith.
Writers guild President Patric M. Verrone has lauded the move by actors to boycott the Globes and said the awards show season is being jeopardized by the "intransigence" of media corporations.
For its own awards on Jan. 27, the actors guild has reached an interim agreement for a writers guild member to script the ceremony.