The Producers Guild of America announced the postponement of the 33rd Annual Producers Guild Awards due to the circumstances surrounding the COVID-19 Omicron variant. Previously scheduled on February 26, 2022, the awards ceremony is now slated to take place on March 19, 2022 at the Fairmont Century Plaza.
The Producers Guild is working closely with government officials and health experts to implement strict COVID-19 safety protocols to help protect the health and safety of all staff and attendees. At this time, the following will be required for attendance: proof of the COVID-19 vaccination and booster, if eligible, as well as a recent negative COVID-19 test.
Due to the postponement, nominations for the Children’s, Sports and Short-Form categories will now be announced on Tuesday, January 18, 2022. The winners in the Children’s and Sports and Short-Form categories will be announced at the PGA Awards’ Nominee celebrations in Los Angeles and New York the week of March 15. Previously announced dates, including eligibility, voting windows and future nominations announcements will remain the same.
More information about the 33rd Annual Producers Guild Awards and nominee events will be announced in the coming weeks.
The 2022 Producers Guild Awards Event chairs are Chris Thomes, VP, creative services for Disney Television Studios, and Melvin Mar, executive producer, The Detective Agency. The 2022 Producers Guild of America Awards are produced by Anchor Street Collective for the Producers Guild of America. Branden Chapman is executive producer, Carleen Cappelletti is co-executive producer, Matt Ullian and Jane Sarkin of Boldface Partners are talent executives, and Jim Piccirillo is director.
ABC will air 6 additional “Monday Night Football” games starting this week with Bills-Jets
ABC will simulcast six more ESPN "Monday Night Football" games, including Monday's AFC East matchup between the Buffalo Bills and the New York Jets.
The addition of the six games means ABC will air 17 this season — 14 simulcasts with ESPN (including two playoff games) and three games exclusively on ABC.
The decision to simulcast more games was a joint decision between the NFL and Walt Disney Company, which owns ABC and ESPN.
The other added games are Baltimore at Tampa Bay (Oct. 21), Tampa Bay at Kansas City (Nov. 4), Houston at Dallas (Nov. 18), Baltimore at Los Angeles Chargers (Nov. 25) and New Orleans at Green Bay (Dec. 23).
The only two Mondays the rest of the regular season where ABC will not have a game are Nov. 11 and Dec. 2.
ABC had games all 18 weeks last season due to an agreement with the NFL since there was no new original fall programming due to the Hollywood writers and actors strikes. With more games on network television, "Monday Night Football" averaged 17.36 million viewers across ESPN, ESPN2 and ABC, a 29% increase over 2022.
It was the best audience numbers for the league's seminal prime-time package since 2000. The Super Bowl 57 rematch between Philadelphia and Kansas City averaged 29.03 million.
Coming into the season, ABC had eight scheduled simulcasts, including two Saturday Week 18 games and two playoff games, and three exclusive MNF games when there were doubleheaders.
It also continues Disney's move toward putting more sports programming back on ABC. Super Bowl 61 from Los Angeles in 2027 will be on the network and the College Football Playoff championship game will also move to ABC the same year.
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