Dick Clark Prods., the independent production company
that produces the Golden Globes, said late Friday that it has tried for
weeks to make an interim deal with the WGA that’s similar in scope to
what Worldwide Pants hammered out for The Late Show With David
Letterman and The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson — but the WGA
denied its request.
“We are disappointed that the WGA has refused to
bargain with us in good faith,” said Dick Clark spokesman Terry Fahn. “It is apparent that we are being treated differently from similarly
situated production companies. Dick Clark Prods. is an independent
production company that is not a member of the Alliance of Motion
Picture and Television Producers and which has not authorized the AMPTP
to represent it in the the 2007 WGA negotiations. We support the WGA in
their efforts on behalf of writers and hope that they will reconsider
their position with regard to negotiating an interim agreement with us.”
An interim deal would have allowed Dick Clark to
produce the awards show without the threat of picketing by the WGA,
which, in turn, would have made actors feel comfortable attending the
kudofest. Instead, the WGA continues to maintain that it will protest
the Jan. 13 show, and the Screen Actors Guild announced Friday that none of the nominees will attend the show. Surprisingly, NBC maintains
the telecast will go on, though the network is offering no details on how the ceremony will look. Will agents accept awards? Will Rumer Willis — a.k.a. Miss Golden Globe — serve as emcee?
The president of the Hollywood Foreign Press
Association on Friday said he’ll make an announcement Monday about the
status of the ceremony. There has been rampant speculation that the
organization may want to hold a private, non-televised affair, but it
has a contractual obligation with Dick Clark Prods. to deliver a show
to NBC. The Globes and NBC could take CBS’s lead with the People’s
Choice Awards (set to air Jan. 
and produce a taped, news
magazine-type show announcing the winners. Because it was not a live
ceremony, CBS was able to wrangle some — but not all — of the winners for
the special telecast, according to one network insider.
It seems unlikely, however, that NBC would want to go
that route because a taped show would be a huge departure from what the
Globes has become for NBC — a lively, unpredictable, and Champagne-soaked affair that performs well in the ratings.
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A strike is not a strike if the strikers (wow say that ten times fast) make special allowances with the enemy. If producers want to have their cake and eat it too, they are going to have to invite the WGA to the table fairly or get over themselves.
Hooray! Lets hope the WGA never negotiates and the networks wise up and get rid of their lousy shows that they needed to cull years ago!
Replace the Golden Globes with a special episode of American Gladiator or Deal or No Deal!!
Well done, AMPTP! Another one bites the dust. As I have written prior, “Spred the wealth” and get everyone back to work. I am saddened with the loss of the Globes event, but it’s time to settle this. WGA members create what AMPTP sells and re-sells. Money passing hands each time, “Spred the wealth” AMPTP. Pay for each sale and shut up. SPRED THE WEALTH. Oh yeah…Jay, Jimmie and Conan…shut down and tell your bosses to Agree and settle.
To clarify for everyone out there. The WGA is not striking at Producers. But distributors of content:ie: NBC/Universal/GE. The producers of content are also not receiving residual pay for internet streaming if the shows streamed are owned by networks or studios. The AMPTP argues there is no formula for the payment schedule. I say the internet, cellphone streaming, and any other format yet to be invented should apply the television residual payment formulas, since the content is being broadcast. That’s my 2 cents.
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