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January 13, 2008
Golden Globe Winners Announced Via Press Conference
The Golden Globe Awards are underway, but in a stunningly different context: Winners are being announced via press conference.
There is no red carpet, no photographers, no limos and glamorous gowns. The entire ceremony is being announced in one hour.
The Globes are the second casualty of the 10-week-old writers strike. The People's Choice Awards aired Jan. 8 in a similar news magazine format, with host Queen Latifah announcing the winners. The ceremony drew only 6 million viewers, whereas last year, it pulled in 11.3 million.
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I really liked the format. If you want to add the stars and all the expensive fanfare and excessiveness -fine. But this program worked. They should all be this way. The Peoples Choice would have been much better if it wasn’t drug out so long.