We will advise regarding our position once we have completed that outreach.
But its understandable given the stakes, says New York labor attorney Lowell Peterson.
The purpose of a strike is to inflict economic pain.
Producers depend on the promotional opportunity of these shows.
It didnt start out bad, executive producer Ken Ehrlich told EW in 2004.
[NBC president Brandon Tartikoff] said we were going to move on with the show.
But then the closer it got, everybody just started getting sick.
Those illnesses werent exactly a surprise.
This is a star-studded audience!
Allen quipped at one point.
Three stars and 14 studs.
It wasnt the fact that Boothe won that was so shocking; it was that he was actuallythere.
Clark had to scramble backstage to find a statuette to give him.
This is either the most courageous moment of my career, or the stupidest, Boothe said on stage.
Viewership big shocker hit an all-time low (17 million).
Afterward, Ehrlich printed up T-shirts that read I Survived the 1980 Emmy Awards.
Ironically, he went on to earn Emmy nods himself for producing the Grammys.
It was some fing show.
