While it’s uncertain if there will be an Academy Awards ceremony due to the writers’ strike, the 2008 Oscar nominations were announced this morning.

Oscar nominees are after the jump. We’ll keep you posted about the Academy Awards ceremony, which is scheduled to air on ABC February 24; Jon Stewart will host from the Kodak Theatre. Read the rest of this entry »

OK, I think my heart just stopped for a moment. Deep breath… alright then, Zach Braff addressed the future of “Scrubs” with the ongoing writers’ strike. Let’s just say it’s not happy news.

Zach Braff writes in a MySpace bulletin:

“Many of you have asked about the fate of the final episodes of Scrubs. If the strike goes on too much longer there is a good chance they will never be written or shot and the series finale will remain in the mind of our show’s creator, Bill Lawrence …”

Stephen Colbert is back in his first The Colbert Report show since the writers’ strike began. Wow, you can’t even believe how crazy the crowd goes in this January 7 video clip. Stephen Colbert is loved.

Stephen Colbert’s understanding of how the teleprompter delivers the words is too funny. As expected, Stephen Colbert delivers the goods, even without writers.

Jon Stewart grew some facial hair too during the writers’ strike. This Daily Show video clip shows Jon Stewart with his writers’ strike solidarity unibrow.

Jon Stewart also discusses the writers’ strike in this January 7 video clip of The Daily Show. Nice mention of NAMBLA, which was a long-running Daily Show joke (Jon Stewart explained the joke “was grandfathered in.”)

It was nice to have Jon Stewart back on my TV.

Great to see Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert’s nightly check in again on The Daily Show (January 7). In this video clip, Stephen Colbert is wearing a strike beard, which gets shaved just moments after we see it. Good stuff.

Oh yes, and the January 7 Moment of Zen too.

The Golden Globe awards telecast, turns out, will not go on go on – looks like the threat that the stars may not attend in support of the writers’ strike was enough to pull the plug.

Initially, the Golden Globes would go on — then the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) and NBC considered postponing the awards.

In the end, however, the Globes organizers (HFPA and NBC) have canceled the televised Golden Globes show and now will announce the winners on the news.

The Golden Globes award ceremony would have aired this Sunday night.

Looks like some late night talk show hosts are finding creative ways to fill the holes left on their guest lists due to the writers’ strike.

Jay Leno and Jimmy Kimmel will appear on each other’s shows as guests. Looks for the swap to go down January 10. Read the rest of this entry »

Due to the writers’ strike, an almost unanimous decision was made by nominated actors and presenters - they’re not going to the Golden Globes this year. They’re refusing to cross the picket lines to attend the show. NBC plans to air it anyway on January 13th, but I hardly see the point. If there’s no one to present and no one to accept, what exactly are we going to be watching? The GG president doing a three hour monologue? No thanks.

I am ecstatic. Good for the actors! Hopefully this will shake the networks up a little, FINALLY.