Jean Smart urges TV networks not to televise award shows after California fires
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‘Hacks’ actor asked networks to ‘seriously consider’ not broadcasting awards ceremonies as catastrophic wildfires rage through southern California. Jean Smart has urged TV networks to refrain from televising forthcoming award shows and instead donate the revenue they would have made to the firefighters and victims of the catastrophic wildfires that continue to devastate southern California.
![[Jean Smart issues plea to TV networks to ask them to donate to victims of the wildfires]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/01/10/10/Screenshot-2025-01-10-at-09.57.06.jpg)
Smart wrote: “ATTENTION! With ALL due respect, during Hollywood’s season of celebration, I hope any of the networks televising the upcoming awards will seriously consider NOT televising them and donating the revenue they would have garnered to the victims of the fires and the firefighters.”.
![[Jean Smart won a Golden Globe during Sunday’s ceremony but is calling on networks not to televise awards season coverage and donate revenue instead]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/01/10/10/JeanS.jpg)
While Smart did not name specific events, she may have been referring to the forthcoming star-studded events including the Oscars, the Critics Choice Awards and the Screen Actors Guild Awards, which will be broadcast by ABC, E! and Netflix respectively.
![[The homes burnt from the Pacific Palisades fire]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/01/10/02/GettyImages-2192540316.jpg)
Follow live updates on the California fires here. Awards ceremonies due to take place in Los Angeles have been pushed back as a result of the fires. The Critics Choice Awards have been postponed from 12 to 26 January, while the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has extended the deadline for Oscar nomination voting from 12 January to 14 January.
Earlier this week, the Screen Actors Guild Awards cancelled its live nominations announcement and instead revealed nominations via a press release. Film premieres for Amazon MGM Studios’ Unstoppable, which stars Jennifer Lopez; Universal’s film Wolf Man starring Julia Garner; and an awards season event for the Golden Globe-winning film Emilia Pérez were all cancelled.
