When the Grammy Awards determined final week to alter their present’s date, selecting March 14th, it was solely a matter of time till the opposite shoe dropped. After all, that date was additionally held by the Display Actors Guild Awards, so a corresponding transfer was inevitable. Properly, that occurred at present, because the 27th Annual Display Actors Guild Awards have been rescheduled for April 4th. SAG was by no means going to go up towards the Grammys, and vice versa, so it is smart. Now, this necessary precursor is coming even later within the awards season. Will this give SAG much more of a voice, or will the Guild be chiming in too late? That is still to be seen. Within the meantime, learn on for extra…
Right here is a few of Selection‘s report on the transfer:
The 27th Annual Display Actors Guild Awards has been rescheduled to April 4, per week after the Grammy Awards moved to its earlier date of March 14.
The awards ceremony shall be broadcast on TNT and TBS at 6 p.m. PT/9 p.m. ET and can honor the excellent movie and TV performances of 2020.
As a result of COVID-19 pandemic, a number of dates for this awards season have been shuffled, together with the Oscars and Golden Globes telecasts which have been pushed into the spring. The SAG Awards introduced it could initially transfer the 2021 present to March again in July of 2020.
Resulting from an increase in coronavirus circumstances in Los Angeles County, the Recording Academy and CBS introduced final week that it could transfer the Grammys from Jan. 31 to its new March date, which the SAG Awards had already staked out.
“We’re extraordinarily dissatisfied to listen to of the conflicting date, March 14th, introduced at present for this yr’s Grammy Awards telecast,” SAG-AFTRA stated in a press release concerning the Grammys’ transfer. “We introduced the identical date for the SAG Awards final July with the intent to offer the best attainable scheduling consideration for different awards reveals. We anticipate the identical consideration from sister organizations all through the business.”
With its unique transfer to March 14, the SAG Awards prolonged this yr’s eligibility interval by two months, together with works exhibited or broadcast between Jan. 1, 2020, and Feb. 28, 2021. Nominations for the 27th Annual SAG Awards shall be introduced on Feb. 4.
Keep tuned for extra on SAG…
(Supply: Selection)