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

By: shontarria

shontarria — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:10:50 +0000

yea i think that it is just a state of mind

By: Interested Viewer

Interested Viewer — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 06:50:37 +0000

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.

By: Reality Show Editor

Reality Show Editor — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 05:08:48 +0000

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?

By: WGAE Member

WGAE Member — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 03:52:58 +0000

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?

By: looped linear

looped linear — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 02:48:14 +0000

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…!

By: DW

DW — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 01:26:33 +0000

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…

By: Whats the deal?

Whats the deal? — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 01:16:51 +0000

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.

By: PostProd.LA

PostProd.LA — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 01:10:35 +0000

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.

By: 40yearoldstitzer

40yearoldstitzer — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 01:07:21 +0000

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

By: MontyCello

MontyCello — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 01:02:09 +0000

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?