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Golden Globes telecast canceled
There goes one giant awards show, thanks to Hollywood’s long-running writers strike. The Golden Globes telecast — set to air Sunday on NBC and considered “Hollywood’s biggest party of the year” — has been canceled, according to several news sites.
The show was deep-sixed after weeks of sour rancor between striking writers, Globes organizers the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and broadcast partner NBC.
“Instead of a televised awards show, the HFPA will instead make an announcement of the winners, which will be broadcast on NBC News as part of a ‘stripped-down’ ceremony,” reports MTV.com, which continues:
“As a news event, this will presumably allow for winners to accept their awards and then head over to a press room for interviews and photos. … The announcement comes after weeks of failed negotiations between the WGA and Dick Clark Productions, which produces the Globes for NBC. Dick Clark Productions had been trying to reach an independent agreement with the Guild, similar to the one brokered several weeks ago between the WGA and Worldwide Pants Inc., which allowed late-night talk-show hosts David Letterman and Craig Ferguson to come back to TV with writers.”
The decision is deemed a “big win for the writers,” although “the deal may ultimately give the writers less leverage, writes The New York Times, which reported that the ‘guild risks violating federal labor law if it refuses to deal with companies on an equal basis.’ “
None of this kind of love this year.
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