Talking of awards and the writers' strike, the Writers' Guild Of America has said they won't picket next month's Grammy Awards, meaning the US record industry's big night out should now go ahead as planned. A previously reported, it was originally assumed the Grammys would escape picketing, but more recently concerns had grown that the writers might protest outside the awards show, which might in turn make more left leaning musicians prone to skip the event. But the WGA announcement means none of that will happen.
However, moves by Grammy producers the US Recording Academy to have a formal agreement with the WGA that would allow the two writers they employ to work on the show are still in the air. Without that agreement Guild members will not be able to work on the awards bash. Perhaps they could just use last year's gags again, I don't think anyone would notice.