NBC is maintaining that the show will go on January 13, but it looks like the Golden Globes will feature few, if any, of the movie and TV stars that make it worth watching. The major public relations firms that promote Hollywood’s elite are releasing the following statement:
“We represent the vast majority of the 2008 Golden Globe nominees and many of the actors who have been invited to appear as presenters on the Jan. 13 broadcast. After much discussion by our clients, we have concluded unanimously that the actors we represent WILL NOT cross the picket line out of respect for the WGA membership. Our clients are extremely grateful to the Hollywood Foreign Press and would love the opportunity to be recognized for their work but will only do so in the event that NBC and Dick Clark Productions reach an interim agreement with the WGA for the Golden Globes.”
It is signed by companies 42 West, BWR, IDPR, Imagine Management, Patricola Lust, PMK/HBH, Seltzer and Associations, Stan Rosenfeld PR, Wolf Kasteler, BNC, and True Public Relations.
Given this development, it seems doubtful that NBC will broadcast the Globes, but stranger things have happened: During the 1980 actors’ strike, NBC aired the 32nd annual Emmys with just one winner present: Powers Boothe.
NBC insists it still intends to broadcast the Globes, and that means the WGA still intends to picket. “We have no indication that Golden Globes will not be televised,” said WGA spokesperson Jeffery Hermanson. “We are proceeding with our plans to picket, and we expect a large number of writers and many actors to be on the picket lines outside the Beverly Hilton on January 13.”
All of that, of course, presents the HFPA with a very big problem: How do you produce a show celebrating Hollywood if no stars show up? “The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has been placed in an extremely difficult position with the ongoing Writers Guild strike,” said HFPA president Jorge Camara in a statement released late Friday afternoon. “We are making every effort to work out a solution that will permit the Golden Globes to take place with the creative community present to participate. We hope to announce a resolution to this unfortunate predicament on Monday.”
Additional reporting by Lynette Rice
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I want to see Ellen Page win her much-deserved, first Golden Globe for Juno!
I’ve always been on the writer’s side…but to interfer deserving nominees to receive their awards is really, for the lack of a better term, stupid. Although I’m still for the writers, they are really starting to grate me the wrong way…and it’s not just cuz of the Awards hoo-ha either.
i also want to see Atonement win their
awards. Im all for James McAvoy!
im surprised the networks and studios havent got the hint yet. LA has lost over half a billion dollars so far, and instead of airing awesome shows like chuck, csi, pushing daises, the office, reaper or hereos they are bring bac american gladiators. Are u kidding me? Cmon nbc, cbs and others take a hint.
How sad. We writers are “starting to grate” tv viewers and filmgoers the wrong way. Folks, wake up: it isn’t us — we’ve been essentially locked out of our jobs at this point. All this is grating you the wrong way? US TOO. Complain to the fat, rich, uncaring network and film studio bosses to COME BACK to the negotiating table they walked away from last month, and talk to us! We can make a deal and end this thing if they’ll just bargain in good faith already.
I’m with the writers! The studio bosses are simply looking like fat cats at this point. I do have a few questions that I would love answering:
1) I am wondering how other award shows are being televised at this point? For example, the Critics Choice Awards will be televised next week…and the People’s Choice Awards as well…will these be unscripted shows? 2) Who is writing the promos for NBC, ABC, etc? (for example: the American Gladiator promos)
It just seems that there is still a lot of writing on TV these days, even with reality TV…who is doing this writing?
Any answers would be great!
Guess what writers? The studios will let you stay on strike ’til summer hiatus because this is a lost year. Your leadership grossly miscalculated your leverage and you will all pay the price for your decision to walk out. By the way, I personally want to thank the WGA for mindrot reality horse manure that is ready to hit the air. What am I supposed to do for entertainment now? Read a book, I guess….
Make it so if they don’t show…..they don’t get nominated or win the award.
I am soooooooooooooooooooo tired of this strike. Does anybody really sympathize with the writers anymore? Where do the writers get off on not allowing deserving actors and actresses (like Ellen Paige and James McAvoy) from recieving their much deserved praise? Seriously. The films and television shows that would be recieving Golden Globes (if it weren’t for the damn writers and producers) HAVE ALREADY BEEN WRITTEN. Just because the writers have their heads up their asses doesn’t mean that they should be allowed to prevent others in the creative industry from being honored. Both the writers and the producers are greedy, Hollywood a-holes as far as I’m concerned. How come they haven’t reschedule negotiation talks? Do they get some sort pleasure out of putting so many people out of work? I just don’t understand any of this and I’d love to see how many people (the public, not the snobby Hollywood elite) still actually support the writers, because I know I don’t.
Well, there’s no point in broadcasting the show if no or very few celebs show up. Either they all show up, or they should just announce the winners by press release. And what this mean for the Oscars? What a mess!!
There’s no point in watching if the actors aren’t going to be there.
I bet they would cross the picket line and show up if the golden globe included a check with the statue. I guess they just figure they’ll get the award whether they show up or not. This whole thing has just become beyond stupid. WAKE UP WRITERS… you’re losing support from the people who ultimately pay your salaries in the first place!
All I can think is that they’ll show 30 second clips of every nomination (which I actually wouldn’t mind). But with no one to receive… eh. Although, I’ll be honest, unless it’s the one I wanted to win, acceptance speeches are usually snack or toilet trips to me. (Hey, I don’t like my boy Steve Carrell being snubbed!)
who cares? A b.s. award from the “Hollywood Foreign Press”? I won’t be able to sleep for the next three weeks because of this.
Garbage award celebrating garbage. A fool proof way to end the strike: Stop watching TV and don’t go to the movies. That is it. The strike ends if no one watches the crap they have on.
Pia Zadora won a Golden Globe. Why would anyone want to watch a show that once upon a time gave Pia Zadora an award.