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NBC To Delay GOLDEN GLOBES??
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NBC officers are insisting that the Golden Globe ceremonies be televised -- even if the ceremonies have to be postponed, according to veteran journalist Nikki Finke’s sources.
Screen Actors Guild president Alan Rosenberg said Friday that his union was “unanimous” in its agreement not to cross the Jan. 13 Globes picket line. This would likely precipitate a star-free ceremony and rob the telecast of what many would argue is its sole reason for existing.
(If Hanks, Nicholson, Cruise, Jolie and their ilk all steer clear of the Globes as expected, one suspects NBC could convince SAG members Bob Saget and Howie Mandel to present at the Globes; both funnymen crossed WGA picket lines this week to promote their game shows on “The Tonight Show” and “Late Night.”)
The WGA said it will not picket the Globes if the ceremony is not televised, but NBC apparently does not see that as an option.
"We are earnestly trying to find a way to telecast the show even if it means pushing the airdate,” an NBC “insider” told Finke. “We haven’t looked beyond that as we are focused on that resolution. We have received support behind the scenes from many in the Hollywood Community to try and work this out."
A postponement could be great news for Fox’s “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles” and CBS’ “Comanche Moon,” both of which premiere Jan. 13.
The Oscars, due to be telecast Feb. 24 on ABC, is expected to face a similar dilemma if the strike continues into next month.
Read all of Finke’s story on the matter here.
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Jan 06, 2008 1:24:19 AM CST
Just do the show without the inane presentation speeches.
by flim springfield
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Uh oh, no "Post Christmas Bonus" for studios? This would be the first real hit the studios take to their wallets, and hitting wallets is the only way to break them. I hope this wakes them up and gets them to pay the writers the fair wages they're asking for.
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with a simple press release and cancel the bloody show. Of course NBC won't let that happen.
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The globes are the foreign press anyway. Unless they're SAG members too which I don't think they are.
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I love watching them screw themselves. Jesus, the writers just want to live. This kind of shit makes me hate humanity. We're a bunch of fucking morons. No hope. Oh look -- over there -- an open window to jump out of. Producers, right this way, yes, right this way. Over the window, like lemmings. Yes, please. Simply die. There you go.
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NBC is trying to triangulate, to get the WGA to give Dick Clark Productions a waiver for one year so NBC can air the GG with all the A-list talent. The WGA said no, and the question to be asked of NBC is, if it's such a good deal for Dick Clark Productions, why doesn't NBC just take it???
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BABIES MAKIN BABIES!
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nobodycaresnobodycarenodycaaaaaareees!
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...reality show douches, talk show and game host hosts, people 'famous for being famous', models, commedians and stand ups, teeny bopper pop stars, retired actors who don't give a shit, and so on. You just watch...
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Oh, is this the same Nikki Finke who said that the strike was all but over back in November? Why is anyone even listening to her anymore?
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they could just use lookalikes. It might make the speeches more interesting:
"I'd like to thank my surgeon for making me look like Brad Pitt" -
So true, no one gives a fuck about shitty jokes and celeb appearances by the kids in High School Musical 2. Give us the winners and let us be on with our day.
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wins in every category not on merit but because it is trendy.
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You know, I know everyone's for the writers, but for the life of me I can't figure out why. Their demands are they want a cut of 'new media'. Fine. Except for the fact that they contribute nothing to the overall production of the new media. What makes them so special over all the other workers that don't get a cut? Workers that they've put out of work.
The average wage of a writer in hollywood is 73,000. It's not fantastic money but then again for what they do I think it's fine. They already get royalties from dvd and movie tickets.
A script is just the starting point of a movie/tv show. It's the directors/actors that work their ass off to make it. The writers need to get back to work. Thousands of people are out of a job thanks to them. Millions deprived of entertainment, and it's going to deal a blow to a market that's already hurting.
Get back to work, writers. -
Hands off the Oscars, WGA. Let this one go; it's a PR battle you'll lose.
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Well, let's be fair and say that the WGA isn't depriving us of entertainment... only scripted, filmed entertainment. You can still play board games, video games, read a book; hell, go play hide and seek... People act like it's the end of all civilization.
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Yeah you're right! In fact, why do authors get paid royalties for novels being sold, when the lumberjacks that cut down trees for paper don't see a penny!
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Jan 06, 2008 1:53:31 PM CST
This is the same person who was certain the strike would end in
by kid idioteque
Why should I continue to pay attention to her "scoops?"
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The show will go on, without cameras, apparently: http://tinyurl.com/3cx686
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These writers are nothing but greedy assholes because the writers of these shows that do the majority of the writing anyway are usually also exevutive producers of the show and they are getting their money. So fuck off greedy writers who don't do much writing to begin with!
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I mean at this stage of existence, do we really need award shows? Do we need awards? Sure, the Oscars were a good idea before the Internet, but what's the point now? I'm going to see what other people said before I see a movie, not the opinion of some archaic organization. If a movie is good, it doesn't need an award to prove it's good. Period.
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I hope all the awards shows get cancelled. I hate all those fucking shows anyway. Bunch of self aggrandizing assholes parading around. Who the fuck watches the Golden Globes to begin with?
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Jan 06, 2008 3:37:07 PM CST
I'm perfectly fine with a typed press release the day afterwards
by tallboy66
I like to see who won (if only to validate one's own opinion of the work), but the ceremoies always kind of suck.
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Fill the audience with comedians who don't write for movies or tv. Let them do improv as they announce the winners. I'd watch it. It would be much funnier than the stupid usual one-liners. The only worth-watching moments on these shows are the spontaneous, unscripted comments anyways. Oh, and when Tommy Lee gets knocked out.
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Have all the rich, beautiful people that folks want to see there be there...but in costume. Like have Angelina Jolie dressed in a Grimace costume or Matt Damon going as the Wolfman, with hair everywhere. That way they're there...but not really. Maybe award BEST COSTUME at the end of the night. IT'd be like the Oscars with Let's Make A Deal! mixed in.
And People or E! can ask "Who are you wearing?" and get a response of "Darth Vader" or "V" or "The Philly Phanatic". -
Nikki Finke followed up on that duping and straightened it out. She was majorly PO'd at being used by the AMPTP, and in her coverage since she's taken anything pro-AMPTP or remotely anti-WGA with a HUGE grain of salt.
WGA members don't get a total free pass from her either. She got snarky about a holiday letter from the showrunner of Gray's Anatomy & Private Practice not enclosing a check to all the BTL types, but she took a lot of fire for that on deadlinehollywooddaily's talkback.
Finke was also very careful in her ongoing coverage of the WWP negotiations/deal and the controversy over Leno writing his own monologue (I responded to this at www.thepodosphere.com).
The best sources of info from the WGA side are of course wga.org and a writer-run site called unitedhollywood.com. -
Jan 06, 2008 4:50:27 PM CST
Who cares we have the AICN awards now - They weren't televised e
by red ezra
I say buckwheats
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and therefore hate the writers. :p I'm gonna have to start hating actors soon. And then I'll have to start downloading movies instead of paying for them. I won't want any of these people getting my money since they hate me enough to deprive me of award show season. Awards season is like crack or whatever's worse than crack.
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Jan 06, 2008 11:11:40 PM CST
Oscars are expendable too, never recognize anything worthwhile
by stormwatcher
Only studio backed movies and 'independent' studio backed movies. Boo.
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make it a costume party. pretty brillant. you should get a job writing for hollywood.. um.. later on that is.
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Really? So I'm supposed to sit and watch a bunch of self indulgent, multi-millionaire narcissists kiss each others ass for 4 hours? Especially given that most of what Hollywood has turned this last decade is PURE SHIT!
I think I'll watch the AVNs instead.
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Um, yeah, TONS of people watch the GGs, Emmys, and Oscars. Those show are HUGE cash cows for the networks airing them. And it's not just the shows themselves. It's the pre- and post-coverage on a number of cable networks (E!, TV Guide), the newsmagazine interview shows with the huge and upcoming stars nominated for awards, and all the mileage regional news shows and syndicated entertainment "news" programs like ET, Access Hollywood et al get from them. It's no small deal for the fashion world either. A lot of color gets spilled in magazines over best and worst-dressed, who's wearing which designer, so on.
Clearly, Mr. or Ms. Conspiracy, you do not think like a capitalist. -
I remember Howie being funny back in the day, when I was 12 and he put a glove on his head, and voiced Gizmo. Bob Saget was never funny, even before the "Full House" or "America's Funniest Home Videos" days. Saget likes to pretend that those shows didn't represent him as a comic, but a good comic would have found a way to make the crap tolerable. All Saget can do is work blue.
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Seriously, do most of them actually deserve the pay they are already getting? Have you watched those fucking late night shows? Watching homeless crack addicts fight over bed spaces at the city mission is funnier than the crap these over paid hacks come up with. Theres maybe 3 or 4 genuine writers working in television and motion pictures, at least in the union represented field, and even then...ITS WRITING. They don't actually produce anything. Fingers on a keyboard. Its not like they fucking feed people like the caterers, or film people like the camera men. How often do you see ACTUAL writers, you know, like novelists and such, going on strike? These dudes are just lazy ass vultures. You got a studio with insane amounts of money, and they all want a turn to bleed em dry. Their whiny cry baby antics ruin the lame awards for the other people who worked hard on the flicks. Fuck, the 3 best films of the year were adaptations of actual writers works anyway. These people need to go and get jobs for awhile. Maybe they would stop complaining AND find something to write about thats worth watching. Do you think the writers of Charlie Sheens Two And A Half Men are hard done by? Do they really need to be paid enough to feed their family? Theres a reason society is conspiring to keep them financially unable to sustain offspring.
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...Out there. Fucking good ones too. But they aren't unionised. While unions serve to protect from less generous employees or outright thieves, they also serve to protect the culling of the useless and weak. So, its not that their scripts aren't the cornerstone of a building, its just that THESE particular writers mostly contribute shitty cornerstones for shitty buildings. Just because a handful of them deliver the goods, doesn't mean I should give a flying fuck wether the rest of the dead weight gets to eat.
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Seriously, do most of them actually deserve the pay they are already getting? Have you watched those fucking late night shows? Watching homeless crack addicts fight over bed spaces at the city mission is funnier than the crap these over paid hacks come up with. Theres maybe 3 or 4 genuine producers working in television and motion pictures, at least in the union represented field, and even then...ITS PRODUCING. They don't actually produce anything. Fingers on a cellphone. Its not like they fucking feed people like the caterers, or film people like the camera men. How often do you see ACTUAL producers, you know, like broadway and such, going on strike? These dudes are just lazy ass vultures. You got a studio with insane amounts of money, and they all want a turn to bleed everyone else dry. Their whiny cry baby antics ruin the lame awards for the other people who worked hard on the flicks. Fuck, the 3 best films of the year were adaptations of actual published works anyway. These people need to go and get jobs for awhile. Maybe they would stop complaining AND find something to create thats worth watching. Do you think the studio for Charlie Sheens Two And A Half Men are hard done by? Do they really need to be paid enough to feed their family? Theres a reason society is conspiring to keep them financially unable to obtain a soul.
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it delays JLA. hopefully forever(at least Miller's version)
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I just check the winner in the news the next day rather than sit through hours of mindless prattle...
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In 2007, no film rose up to be the best of 2007. This year we are not giving out "Best film of 2007." Like wise the same with "Best Supporting Actor." To give it out this year, is an insult to previous winners.
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The only thing he has going for him is there are those who consider him to be edgy because "the nice man from Full House said a swear word". But then too many people confuse "edgy" with "lame".
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You obviously haven't seen enough movies in 2007 then.
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Golden Globes blow. Just check the interweb the next day. Also the WGA lose respect when the complain about late night talk show host writing their own material.
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the general public begin to take notice of this strike. Both sides better watch out for the wrath of all those ignorant viewers who have yet to realize that last night's episode of Desperate Housewives was the last one. Writers & Studios alike in the next few weeks shall feel the fury of the Nielsen Families, who keep these shows at #1, for denying them new episodes of Grey's Anatomy, CSI, and CSI Miami.Because new episodes are still airing, and because there generally is a bit of a hiatus around Christmas, the strike has yet to affect the average viewer. But that will quickly change with new episodes of Fall Favourites quickly running out, and the possible cancellation of popular televised awards ceremonies.
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GGs cancelled, per www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com
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under the bus? Yeah, I think they are.
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Thanks strikers, instead of accepting your low pay or just realize anyone off the streets can write better than you guys. We the TV viewers suffer now.
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The host should write his own jokes anyway and the presenters should be spontanious, instead of reading corny ass jokes from a telepromoter.
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The Golden Globes telecast, Hollywood's biggest party of the year, has been canceled, DeadlineHollywoodDaily.com reported Monday (January 7), after weeks of bitter acrimony 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, the Web site reports. 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.
While the negotiations with Dick Clark Productions never made it past a stalemate, the WGA did score major points over the weekend by making an independent deal with United Artists, led by megastar Tom Cruise and his longtime producing partner Paula Wagner. The deal, not yet officially signed, is the first side agreement made with any independent studio, and allows UA to be in business with striking writers.
A big win for the writers, the deal may ultimately give the writers less leverage, reports 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."
The Globes, originally set to air Sunday, is the first awards-show casualty of the Writers Guild of America strike. Writers announced their intention to picket the show if it were televised, on the grounds that it serves as promotion for studios and a lucrative advertising venue for NBC, which has exclusive rights to broadcast the event. Last week, the Screen Actors Guild announced they would honor the WGA strike by advising their members not to cross picket lines, meaning no celebrity presenters or guests would be present at the ceremony.
NBC, led by President and CEO Jeff Zucker, could have chosen not to broadcast the ceremony, as WGA leaders announced that they wouldn't picket the show if it were private. According to Finke, NBC wouldn't allow the HFPA to put on an untelevised awards show, however, arguing that the network was contractually obligated to broadcast any ceremony the HFPA put on.
The possibility remains of delaying the show until after the end of the WGA strike, although Hollywood insiders who spoke with MTV News indicate that the strike might continue well into 2009.
Representatives at the Michael Russell Group, which handles PR for the HFPA, declined to comment to MTV News at press time, saying only that an official announcement would come sometime later Monday.
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are Halle Berry's fake funbags
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for hammering out a deal with Late Night shows. If they are willing to do that, why not an innocious awards show? What's the diff?
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Oh well... Watch this instead. It's got some truly gross scenes in it:
http://tinyurl.com/27hy62
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