It's Official

As I wrote yesterday, the The Writers Guild of America (WGA) was not going to give any waivers to the upcoming awards shows to let the writers actually write for them.

From USA Today, it's official. The WGA will not allow their writers to work on the upcoming Academy Awards or Golden Globes.

The Golden Globes was supposed to air on January 13th. I would imagine that broadcast is in doubt without writers and probably without actors who are also honoring the strike.

In terms of the Oscars', their request to use movie clips and scenes from past Oscar broadcasts was also turned down. They can't even use written material from the past!

The next award "victim:" the Academy Awards. Indications are that the WGA would deny writing services for this show too.

For many people, outside of Hollywood, this may be a big, "who cares?" That may be true. As a person that used to direct awards shows in the state of Florida, I think about all the out of work production people, carpenters, and stagehands. That's money out of their pocket. Sure, the networks will lose out on the money by not broadcasting these shows. They'll survive, they'll hurt, but survive. It's the people that I've mentioned that we all should be thinking about!