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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 2:30 PM: Criticism Of NBC Block Of “Awards News”; Hollywood KO’ing Plan As Undignified; WGA OK’ed Just Announcement Telecast; Globes May Have To Scale Back Even More
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.
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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.




Ugh, who watches these boring celebrity banquets anyway?
Horror of horrors…
WOW!!!
All that advertising money down the drain! Take that NBC. Guess who’s next?
Lame. Aren’t there to be any consequences for these people? They’ll get their money, but the world needs to go on without them. I was going to watch just to see what an empty awards show looked like!
Oh my god, oh my god…tell me this is not true!
Finally Hollywood gets something right! Skip all the hoopla and just give us the winners, afterall, isn’t that what matters?
The WGA fucks another good thing up.
Well, well, well. You’ve done it now WGA…cutting off your nose to spite your face! The longer this goes on, the less the public will care. And the less the public cares, the less chance you will get what you want out of this. I suppose you won’t be happy until there is no work to go back to?
I would like to see the struck companies hire “amateur” scabs and really put these greedy, self-righteous unionizers out of work. If you think you are too good for the wages you are already getting (wages which, by the way, most of us in the real world would KILL to get), then you don’t deserve any of it. Let some hungry up-and-comers have a shot at it! They will have fresh, new ideas and they will appreciate the pay and benefits!!
Who cares? It’s a manufactured show in which Hollywood shamelessly promotes meaningless (and usually poorly done) entertainment. Will anyone actually miss this show? How about a permanent cancellation?
Excellent! Anyway they can cancel the Oscars too? We’d rather watch reruns.
If there’s anything sane Americans hate worse than the self-absorbed, self-important Hollywood elect, it’s their insipid award shows.
no great loss, or even a small one.
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Finally, the Golden Globes will get the amount of publicity they deserve.
For heaven’s sake! What is it that the writers provide except scripted jokes? The agenda is pretty set, the votes and envelopes are ready, the producers and directors work with the camera people. The announcer may read something pretty formulaic. The really unique things about any awards show is WHO gets picked and HOW they thank the many little people who made it all possible.
What do writers really need to do? What message should one take away from this?
How empty does your life have to be to care whether the Golden Globes, or ANY of the seemingly endless `award’ shows is cancelled?
Good Riddence Golden Globes! I won’t miss the neverending drivel of that (or any other) award show, not to mention the pre- and post- show coverage. I wonder how many magazines and television shows will lose money from missed advertising of the “worst dressed” pictures. I wonder how many hollywood trendoids, salon owners, and fashion designers will lose money from the cancelled orders. And I wonder how quickly the lawyers will be out asking “Who Can I Sue For You?”.
now if only they’d never come back
Who cares…
Nothing but a bunch of self congratulatory people.
Good riddance. Here’s to hoping for the Oscar and all the others
I’m elated! I’m sick and tired of Hollywood and the mentality of those people! They give themselves too much credit for things they do, or people they think they influence.
OH NO! A an awards show where celebrities give themselves awards is going to be canceled! This is truly a shame! :)
Good riddance!
When will the WGA and the AMPTP negotiate together in a room and not come out until they have come up with an agreement? This is ridiculous! As a below the liner, I have been out of work since the begining. Pony up the $ and lets get back to work.
Finally, a rewards show I can enjoy.
Hope NBC goes bankrupt
This is the best thing to happen since the strike started! Hopefully all the award shows will be canceled and never return!!
Drrrrammmaaa.