After a rather tame show last month, the freewheeling Golden Globes kind of back! Only now they go by the name 30th annual SAG Awards with a whole lot of the Globes and the Emmys in their bloodstream.
Finally on Netflix proper after being relegated to the streamer’s YouTube channel last year, the 2024 SAG Awards is yet another shiv in the side of broadcast TV by Team Sarandos as the first awards show to stream live.
A fact that in part is likely why everyone from Guild boss Fran Drescher, de facto host Idris Elba, Beef star and now SAG Awards winner Ali Wong and more thanked the streamer and the co-CEO — cause that’s why they call it show business not show friends.
A major player, if not the major player, in last year’s contract negotiations with the striking SAG-AFTRA, Netflix’s dominance of the industry economically and content-wise was crystal in tonight’s SAG Awards.
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