NBC Pulls Golden Globes Broadcast

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Hollywood’s awards season locomotive was derailed Monday when NBC pulled the plug on its highly rated Golden Globes, choosing not to broadcast on Sunday what promised to be a virtually celebrity-free ceremony, the Los Angeles Times reports.


The scrapped program would be the first awards show to fall victim to the Writers Guild of America strike, and February’s Academy Awards also could be in jeopardy.

Although NBC cobbled together a series of Golden Globes-related “news” programs to fill the slot — including a scaled-down news conference to announce the winners — the decision sent shock waves through the entertainment business, which had been waiting for weeks to see whether a compromise could be reached among the WGA, the network and Globes producer Dick Clark Productions to allow the show to proceed.


But the WGA, as it has with almost all television shows and feature films, refused to allow its writers to work on the Globes and promised to picket the Beverly Hilton Hotel, where the usually star-stuffed awards dinner is held.


The leadership of the Screen Actors Guild advised its members to honor the WGA pickets, meaning Globe nominees such as George Clooney, Johnny Depp, Julia Roberts and Angelina Jolie would be making other weekend plans.


Hours after the awards banquet was canceled, the organizers of many of the evening’s swankiest Golden Globes parties — some of which cost $150,000 and more to put on — said they were canceling their celebrations too.


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