January
7
Globes Wind Up with Live NBC Press Conference, No Banquet, No Parties
The Golden Globes will wind up as a one-hour live press conference on NBC with some kind of pre-show and lots of party coverage, reports Variety. This way NBC News will cover the press conference announcing the winners, to be aired January 13 at 6 PM Pacific. A proposed Dateline special, Dick Clark Productions clip show and Access Hollywood after-party coverage may be part of the package are no longer part of the package. There will be no lavish Globe Awards dinner, but plenty of Beverly Hilton red-carpet and party activity for the news media and Beverly Hilton parties are being cancelled.
The mechanics of the one-hour announcement itself are still in the air. The original idea was that at some point during party festivities the HFPA would stop the proceedings and make the declaration of the winners. Cameras would be poised on the nominees at the different parties, so that there would be reaction from Atonement's Keira Knightley, for example, at the Universal/Focus party. This concept was scratched by the WGA.
NBC was trying to sidestep the WGA by putting together a series of Golden Globes shows that were not WGA shows. The WGA did not go along with this idea.
Why did the Hollywood foreign press not stick to its original plan of putting on the awards dinner Guild-style without an NBC telecast? Word is, they simply waited too long to apply for a waiver and negotiate a reasonable solution. They couldn't keep their heads on straight when they found themselves up against the wall. The Beverly Hilton, caterers, designers, florists, all were calling every hour to find out what was going on. Everyone winds up with significant losses.
When the HFPA met Friday, they insisted on not taping or delaying the telecast. And announcing the winners as planned, no matter what. The once-planned banquet without a telecast was no longer possible at that point. For its part, NBC was holding firm against the WGA and didn't want to cave.
Monday the HFPA went down the road with NBC of trying to have four hours of programming that night, which would have been more lucrative than cancelling the telecast. But NBC, Dick Clark and the Globes wound up with just a one-hour televised press conference. And there are plenty of people unhappy about that. What everyone is left with is what one observer calls "a strange thing at the Hilton Hotel in January."
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