Though NBC and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association attempted to hammer out a deal that would have reimagined the Golden Globes telecast as a series of NBC News specials, the lavish gala on Monday evening was officially whittled down to a one-hour press conference announcing the winners and to be covered live, Sunday at 9 pm/ET, by NBC News.

According to the "unofficial schedule" that was bandied about on Monday and cited by Nikki Finke's DeadlineHollywoodDaily.com, the Peacock proposed kicking off the evening with a 7 pm edition of Dateline featuring interviews with this year's nominees. At 8, the idea was to present a clip show of the Globes' greatest moments. From 9 to 10, NBC News would present the "press conference," followed at 10 by an Access Hollywood-style roundup of the night's parties.

Instead, NBC's annual telecast and a champagne dinner to be held at the Beverly Hilton's International Ballroom are officially canceled. "We are all very disappointed that our traditional awards ceremony will not take place this year and that millions of viewers worldwide will be deprived of seeing many of their favorite stars celebrating 2007's outstanding achievements in motion pictures and television," says Jorge Camara, president of The Hollywood Foreign Press Association. "We take some comfort, however, in knowing that this year's Golden Globe Award recipients will be announced on the date originally scheduled."


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I think the strike has gotten out of hand. I understand that writers deserve better compensation, but what they've done to the awards show is unfair to those actors (as well as WRITERS) who gave their best work in 2007 and were to be awarded. I think the writers are just lazy and aren't striking for a cause, they're striking because they don't want to work considering they're already talking about picketing the Oscars. The Oscars isn't until late Feb, so it makes you wonder if they just don't want to work since they're already so positive that there's not going to be a resolution by that point in time?

Screw this writers strike, I've given up on all current shows I watch (South Park is the exception, Matt and Trey are not Writers Guild members and have already confirmed season 12 will premiere in early March as scheduled) and will just wait for the DVD's in the fall to catch up on Ugly Betty, Supernatural, Grey's Anatomy, Pushing Daisies, Brothers And Sisters and Reaper.

It is sad that they're planning to strike something that's more than a month away.

Both parties had better get back to the bargaining table.

There's no way the Academy Awards are going to be cancelled.

It is sad that they're planning to strike something that's more than a month away.

What do you mean? Golden Globes were going to be this Sunday (Jan. 13).

I know this might not be a popular opinion, but i don't get the need that people in hollywood have to pat themselves on the back by having all these award shows. I mean, isn't their salary reward enough? Or is it just that thier ego is so huge that in addition to getting paid, they feel that the must be honored with a statue? Personally, if they canceled all the award shows, I wouldn't miss them. But as i said, I am sure this is not a popular view. But it's my view nonetheless.

I know this might not be a popular opinion, but i don't get the need that people in hollywood have to pat themselves on the back by having all these award shows. I mean, isn't their salary reward enough? Or is it just that thier ego is so huge that in addition to getting paid, they feel that the must be honored with a statue? Personally, if they canceled all the award shows, I wouldn't miss them. But as i said, I am sure this is not a popular view. But it's my view nonetheless.
:yeahthat
Same way I feel. It's not like there's not a hundred other award shows every year for them to let everyone know they are "important".
Who really cares if one is cancelled?!

Were any of us really surprised to hear this? I'm interested to see how this will affect the Oscars.

What do you mean? Golden Globes were going to be this Sunday (Jan. 13).
we're talking the Oscars tho, the strikers are already planning a boycott of that show. How do they know that in late Feb the strike's still gonna be on? I think it's proof that they just don't want to go back to work period since they're already positive there's not going to be any resolution in seven or eight weeks.

Were any of us really surprised to hear this? I'm interested to see how this will affect the Oscars.
I watched a little bit of the Golden Globes expectin it to look like the Oscars and stuff, it looked more like they just put a stage and screen in a fancy restraunt, so not that much

It doesn't bother me at all to not have them air, HOWEVER, I feel for those who have been nominated for the first time and won't have the glory of having it televised.

There are many awards shows that are not aired and we don't seem to care or notice. I remember the Cable Ace Awards were televised. I haven't seen them on tv anymore, or is that just me?

It doesn't bother me at all to not have them air, HOWEVER, I feel for those who have been nominated for the first time and won't have the glory of having it televised.

There are many awards shows that are not aired and we don't seem to care or notice. I remember the Cable Ace Awards were televised. I haven't seen them on tv anymore, or is that just me?
They stopped giving out CableACE Awards in 1997 because they figured that the Emmys were recognizing cable programming enough by then. Hell, looking at the usual nominees nowadays, I think they made the right choice.

Does anyone remember the Blockbuster Awards? Jay Leno used to call them "the Paperweights". :lol:

I remember when every other week, there was an award show :lol:

I remember when every other week, there was an award show :lol:
That's the problem, not all of them mean anything other than sponsors getting airtime, advertising, etc. For example, the People's Choice Awards are owned and sponsored by Proctor & Gamble. The same company that sells toothpaste and toilet paper.
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They stopped giving out CableACE Awards in 1997 because they figured that the Emmys were recognizing cable programming enough by then. Hell, looking at the usual nominees nowadays, I think they made the right choice.

Thank you for that. I always wondered what happened to those awards. I figured they just didn't bother to air the awards show.



Does anyone remember the Blockbuster Awards? Jay Leno used to call them "the Paperweights". :lol:
:rofl: That is what they are when you think abt it. Or how abt "dust collectors"?

Ever since I seen this documentary, I have been left with a bad attitude abt the Golden Globes. This CNN article first appeared in 1993 when TRIO Channel aired the documentary:


LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- A new documentary questions how much gold there really is in the Golden Globes, the first big party in Hollywood's awards season.

Show-business insiders already know the story laid out in "The Golden Globes: Hollywood's Dirty Little Secret," which debuts on the Trio cable channel Sunday night, four days before the Golden Globe nominations are announced.

But casual viewers of the annual awards show might be surprised to learn that a relatively small group of foreign journalists hand out the Golden Globes and that many are only part-time entertainment reporters for obscure print or online outlets.

"It's an emperor-has-no clothes story," said Vikram Jayanti, the documentary's director-narrator. "We all think it's like an august organization with hundreds of really reputable film journalists and critics."

In reality, the group behind the Golden Globes, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, has about 90 members, and many have reputations more as star-struck fans and moochers than serious reporters, the documentary says.

Interviewed for the documentary, L.A. Weekly film critic John Powers said the group's members are "essentially just bottom-feeders around the industry, who've somehow been inflated to this point where their judgment is supposed to be very, very important."

Jayanti also interviewed producers and other journalists who questioned the validity of the Golden Globes, saying the HFPA voters are more interested in getting royal treatment from stars and studios than in honoring film achievements.

Each year, studios arrange elaborate meals where HFPA members can hobnob with directors and actors on films angling for Academy Awards and other movie honors. If stars and filmmakers fail to turn up for a schmooze session with the HFPA, it generally kills a movie's chances for Golden Globe nominations, which draw attention that can boost a film's Oscar prospects.

NBC will air the 61st annual Golden Globes live January 25, about a month before the Oscars. The nominations are scheduled to be announced December 18.


Hilary Swank accepts a Golden Globe for "Boys Don't Cry."
HFPA members declined Jayanti's request for interviews in the documentary. Lorenzo Soria, HFPA's president, said he has seen Jayanti's documentary and that the group was right not to cooperate.

"We have had many experiences in the past of people approaching us intending to do a fair presentation of who we are and what we do, and somehow, it seems to be a sport to do a hatchet job on the organization," Soria told The Associated Press. "I think that our suspicion in this particular case was correct."

Lauren Zalaznick, Trio president, said the documentary was not meant as an indictment of the Golden Globes but a peek into the media's broader role in Hollywood's marketing machine.

"It's a lot more of a statement about the industry of awards and what drives them," Zalaznick said.

While the Golden Globes fell into disrepute in the early 1980s for naming Pia Zadora newcomer of the year for her movie bomb "Butterfly," the awards have gained some respect in recent years for honoring daring performances.

Hilary Swank's gender-bending role in "Boys Don't Cry" earned her an Academy Award, a prize she might not have received without an earlier Golden Globe win that caught the attention of generally more conservative Oscar voters.

"Even though the Golden Globe people are by and large idiots," critic Powers says in the documentary, "they often make better choices than the Oscars."

I cant belive that they would cancel The Golgen Globes because of The Strike

I think they should just postpone the awards season until the end of the strike. I mean, if it meant Golden Globes in April, so be it. I mean, the Oscars used to be the end of March, now it's the end of Feb

Well, the day came and went and it doesn't seem to have affected anyone, the winners still got their globes and the public doesn't seem to have cared the show wasn't aired.

I hope the writers' get what they ask for and deserve and how ever long it takes, so be it. Maybe this is the solution to getting the attention to the subject matter at hand. This and the fact that reality tv is on top.

the same goes for me as well