Writers’ strike may scupper Golden Globes
The WGA’s refusal may have put the kibosh on the event, which is televised each year to a global audience of many millions, because its members traditionally supply the lines that celebrity presenters appear to deliver off the cuff during the broadcast.Now HFPA members are scrambling to find out if actors will even attend the event or boycott it out of sympathy for their writer compadres. It is possible a stripped down version of the Globes will go ahead without being televised.Party planners and studio chiefs across Hollywood were due to meet today to discuss whether or not to call off their traditional - and costly - after-ceremony festivities.However the celebrity nominees will turn up to the 80th Annual Academy Awards at the end of February, which have been granted a waiver by the WGA, which will script the event under a temporary resumption of work. The guild has also granted a temporary reprieve to the Spirit Awards the day before the Oscars.The strike has taken most of the US daily talk shows off the air, although most are due to resume live broadcasts in early January after the networks claimed that industrial action was affecting the livelihoods of the crews involved in broadcasts.
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