Mad Men, Extras Top Globes for TV
Strike knocks all the dazzle off this year's beleaguered Golden Globes
Beverly Hills, CA – The ten-week old Writer's Guild of America strike dulled the glow of Sunday night's Golden Globe Awards, with its last-resort, barebones press conference replacing what is traditionally one of Hollywood's most glamour-filled evenings of the year.
Some nominees had trouble just trying to find a television channel airing the event, the Los Angeles Times reports.
Though CNN and E!, among others, opted to air the 40-minute winners announcements live from the uncharacteristically empty Beverly Hilton Hotel, original Golden Globes net NBC instead aired an alternate special featuring Access Hollywood's Nancy O'Dell and Billy Bush.
NBC's eleventh-hour programming switch—prompted by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's decision to open the conference to all media—left some viewers scrambling to find Globes conference coverage.
Ratatouille director and Globe winner Brad Bird told the Times that while he watched the announcements on the TV Guide Network, he received a call from the film's producer who could not find a channel carrying the Globes event. "I go, 'We won' and he never did find the channel," Bird told the Times.
David Duchovny of Showtime's Californication, who won the Globe for best actor in a television comedy or musical series, echoed the sentiments of many when he said: "Everyone's a loser right now."
"The Golden Globes is a fun night," Duchovny explained,"It's more fun than the other awards shows—and it's too bad we didn't get to have fun." Much more than the Globes not being televised, Duchovny believes everyone's focus is on the cumulative toll of the AMPTP-WGA conflict: "I think there are a lot of tears over people losing money and losing jobs."
See all 65th Golden Globes Awards winners in television categories below.
Golden Globes Winners for Television
BEST TELEVISION SERIES
DRAMA
MAD MEN
Lionsgate; AMC
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION SERIES
DRAMA
GLENN CLOSE
Damages
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A TELEVISION SERIES
DRAMA
JON HAMM
Mad Men
BEST TELEVISION SERIES
COMEDY OR MUSICAL
EXTRAS
BBC and HBO Entertainment; HBO
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION SERIES
COMEDY OR MUSICAL
TINA FEY
30 Rock
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A TELEVISION SERIES
COMEDY OR MUSICAL
DAVID DUCHOVNY
Californication
BEST MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
LONGFORD
A Granada Production in association with Channel 4 and HBO Films; HBO
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MINI-SERIES
OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
QUEEN LATIFAH
Life Support
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MINI-SERIES
OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
JIM BROADBENT
Longford
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A SERIES, MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
SAMANTHA MORTON
Longford
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A SERIES, MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
JEREMY PIVEN
Entourage
Click here to see all 65th Golden Globe Award winners.