Writers and Awards
20 Dec2007
There’s, like, this strike going on? Of writers for entertainment programming? And somehow that has cancelled Award shows?
Huh?
Not that I have ever paid a lot of attention to the now 187 award shows conducted each year (when is the all award show channel coming?), but – outside of the Oscar’s opening monologue and the twit-inspired patter for each presenter – what writing is there? Is the patter THAT important? Can’t these geeks speak to each other without a script?! Maybe the writers are needed just to produce the nominee list. Or maybe it takes a union guy to type the winner’s name onto the “envelope”. Hell, they never used to televise the Golden Globes prior to 2000. Can’t they just have a dinner and give out the awards like they used to?
Not that I care really – but maybe it would be a good thing to skip the scripted and go with honesty and spontaneity. Just a thought…
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2 Responses to Writers and Awards
Tommy
December 20th, 2007 at 10:51 am
They need writers to come up with ways for something that would normally take half an hour to instead take four. Why dont all the nominees just get together at Brad Pitt’s house with a box of Oscars, have a barbacue and read the winners between people taking turns on a karaoke machine? I think I would watch that.
mburma
December 20th, 2007 at 11:27 am
The whole POINT of watching those shows back in the day was to watch what happens when a whole bunch of drunk “stars” fill a room. Shorter and much more fun.