Golden Globe Awards Show telecast is a no go
Posted on January 7th, 2008 by Hot Momma
The telecast of the Golden Globes Awards is now officially canceled. The Globes, originally set to air Sunday, is the first awards-show casualty of the Writers Guild of America strike. The celebrity fashion show will have to wait another year. No stars + No red carpet = No viewers. Basically killing all tension and drama but speeding the awards telecast by light years, Golden Globe winners will be instead announced on the NBC news.
NBC, led by President and CEO Jeff Zucker, did have the option to go on with the show as long as the ceremony wasn’t broadcast, 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 indicate that the strike might continue well into 2009.
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