The 65th Annual Golden Globe's Ceremony is the second award show to be canceled as a result of the WGA writer's strike which began over 2 months ago. Instead of broadcasting the show this Sunday, the winners will be announced on NBC News in what they are calling a "stripped-down" ceremony.

Basically, it will be really really lame and anticlimactic.

Last month's cancellation of the People's Choice Awards (which would have aired tomorrow night) was the first casualty that the writers strike can claim.

The show's cancellation comes after weeks of discord between the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and the WGA, who have made the Golden Globes one of their campaign targets. Despite this, NBC had assured viewers as recently as last week that the show would go on. Apparently things have gone downhill for them since then!

As it were, the Globes would probably have been dampered by rowdy picketers and an embarrassingly small audience.

Angelina Jolie, George Clooney, Keira Knightley, Katherine Hiegl, Kristin Davis, and Patricia Arquette are among celebs who planned to boycott the Golden Globes to avoid crossing the picket line, and according to a statement issued by the Screen Actor's Guild, NONE of the more than 70 nominated SAG actors would attend.

WGA is obviously thrilled with SAG "for their continued solidarity and support," while the production company that was to produce the Golden Globes (Dick Clark Productions) complains that both guilds are being unreasonable.

On a broader scale, talks between writers and producers are at a standstill.

On the production side of things, The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers blame the WGA Strikers. AMPTP's campaign strategy is clear upon a visit to their website, where they tabulate the "180 million dollars that WGA strikers are causing writers to lose" and point out that the average working WGA writer makes more money than "an airline pilot", "family doctor", or "surgeon."

WGA West directly refutes the AMPTP's "misleading statement", pointing the finger back at the producers, who "are responsible for creating the economic havoc" and have "walked away from the table" after offering proposals that "would cause writers even more economic harm in the future than they claim this strike has caused."

Meanwhile, more and more show are hitting hiatus, including 30 Rock, Desperate Housewives, Heroes, House, and The Office.What a mess. I'm not sure what's gonna change, but someone's gotta start compromising!