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Actors Attending Critics Choice Awards: No WGA Picket Line For VH1 Event

criticschoice.JPGHollywood publicists are telling me that their clients will attend the 13th annual Critics Choice Awards being broadcast live Monday night on VH1. In fact, publicist Stan Rosenfield confirmed today that Best Actor nominee George Clooney will attend. "It's a non-union gig -- non-WGA, always has been," a SAG leader informed me. Neither VH1 nor the production company behind the awards show are WGA signatories, but VH1 parent companies Paramount and Viacom are, plus members of the struck AMPTP. There won't be a WGA picket line outside the event, however. The Critics' Choice Awards are given out annually by the Broadcast Film Critics Association.

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  1. There’s a Critic’s Choice Awards? Is the fact that this show isn’t that known in any way related to why there won’t be a picket line there?

    Comment by MontyCello — January 6, 2008 @ 4:02 pm

  2. Why all the cherry picking? Let it be all or none.

    Comment by 40yearoldstitzer — January 6, 2008 @ 4:07 pm

  3. Well I wonder how long will it take for the WGA members to call him a …. scab, traitor and a**.
    And demand that SAG join them in their “straggle” against the evil empire.

    Still I’m not seeing any negotiating.

    Comment by PostProd.LA — January 6, 2008 @ 4:10 pm

  4. I am just a fan but this strikes me as insane. So an award show will go on which benefits(commercial ads) a struck company the WGA is going against because VH1 and the production company in hindsight didn’t sign up?

    Someone call up the teamsters and ask them how to strike effectively please. This pick and choose method is stupid.

    Comment by Whats the deal? — January 6, 2008 @ 4:16 pm

  5. Well it’s on a 2nd-tier cable network anyway, it never has been a WGA show, and do the SAG people really want to tick off the critics who can make or break them? I’ll give them a pass on this one…

    Comment by DW — January 6, 2008 @ 4:26 pm

  6. Given the tight concentration/integration of modern media, this scattershot approach may be the only way the WGA can effectively ‘reward’ companies that are considered friendly, or at least neutral, to the cause.

    ..walk towards the liiiight…!

    Comment by looped linear — January 6, 2008 @ 5:48 pm

  7. Totally agree with “Whats the deal?” VH1 may be “non-union” but it’s owned by Viacom, which is a struck company, so why should we help their cable business make money? And since there won’t be a Golden Globes or Oscars, they can simply shift all the hoopla to this awards show, so what point has the WGA made? It’s like saying, we won’t put money in your right hand, but we’ll put it in your left. How is this helping the WGA cause?

    Comment by WGAE Member — January 6, 2008 @ 6:52 pm

  8. Thank goodness, because this would strike really would have been striking a blow at the HEART of this town - one from which it would never, ever recover!!!

    Jeez. Were they REALLY wasting their time even thinking about striking this awards show? Leave them alone - it’s not a guild show or produced by a guild signatory company. So what it airs in VH1 - it doesn’t matter. Does the WGA think they can just rule over every single thing on TV?

    Comment by Reality Show Editor — January 6, 2008 @ 8:08 pm

  9. Ya know, I’ve never seen the Critic’s Choice Awards. If they’ve been on before, either I didn’t know or didn’t care. It’s just another critics list among the couple of dozen lists released this time of year. They cancel each other out for me.

    Yet I just found myself programming the DVR to record the red carpet show on VH1 airing right before the two-hour awards program. (But I didn’t DVR the actual awards - I don’t care much about the movies/actors nominated this particular year, because I haven’t seen most of them yet.)

    So I must be suffering from ‘Golden Globes/Oscars red carpet ritual’ withdrawal more than I ever thought possible. Strange.

    Comment by Interested Viewer — January 6, 2008 @ 9:50 pm

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