With few stars willing to cross the picket lines, NBC and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association have pulled the plug on any full-scale broadcast of the Golden Globe Awards. The network will instead
air a night of related programming, including clip packages, a press conference and the after-parties.
The ax fell after Globes producer Dick Clark Productions could not reach an
interim agreement with the striking Writers Guild of America. Then the Screen Actors Guild announced that its members would not cross picket lines, meaning no top celebs would show.
NBC is also likely to air a news division-produced "Dateline" profiling the nominees. With the cancellation -- the first major casualty of the 10-week WGA strike -- the HFPA and NBC stand to lose
millions. Since WGA members walked, production has been halted on most prime-time scripted series and late-night comedy shows were stopped for about two months.
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