The WGA strike is entering its seventh dreary week, and as anyone who's been forced to sit through an episode of Make Me a Supermodel would agree, we've all suffered enough. Still, with no end in sight, even upstanding joes like Jon Stewart are scabbing it up, and the, erm, highly prestigious Golden Globe Awards are the first major casualty, with the Oscars possibly next to fall.
But the thing about the Writer's Guild of America is that they're the Writer's Guild...of America. Their beef is is with stateside producers and studios, which means that when the BAFTA Awards are held in London on February 10th, writers, actors, and directors will all be able to hobnob together just as if they aren't going to start screaming at each other once they get back across the pond. While not everyone in the UK is happy about it (the Sky One network had the bad luck to buy the rights to broadcast the Golden Globes starting this year), most industry insiders are predicting a bigger-than-usual Hollywood contingent at the BAFTAs.
On the off chance that the Oscars are cancelled this year, what will the network show in its place, though? The Guardian's Toby Young has some ideas, including the appealing notion of a Death Race 2000 ceremony: "A bald announcement of the winners followed by a 'celebrity manhunt' in
which eight film crews (each headed by a former Oscar winner) are given
four hours to flush as many victors as they can from the homes, parties
and spas of Los Angeles. The hunt is screened live in a split-screen
format, while the winner who is unlucky enough to be found first has
their Oscar ripped from their hands and auctioned off for charity."
