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    The writers strike-era MTV Movie & TV Awards felt a lot like a pandemic ceremony

    Absent a host and amid industrywide labor unrest, MTV forged ahead Sunday with its Movie & TV Awards honoring the year’s most popular titles and stars of the big and small screens. It was the first big awards show to take place — sort of — during the ongoing Hollywood writers’ strike, which took a dramatic toll on the zeitgeist-mirroring ceremony. MTV opted last-minute to pretape what was ...
    by Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times May 08, 2023 5 minutes
    Drew Barrymore attends the 2022 Paramount Upfront at 666 Madison Avenue on May 18, 2022, in New York City.

    Absent a host and amid industrywide labor unrest, MTV forged ahead Sunday with its Movie & TV Awards honoring the year’s most popular titles and stars of the big and small screens.

    It was the first big awards show to take place — sort of — during the ongoing Hollywood writers’ strike, which took a dramatic toll on the zeitgeist-mirroring ceremony.

    MTV opted last-minute to pretape what was supposed to be a live show after Drew Barrymore resigned as host and the Writers Guild of America announced plans to picket outside the ceremony’s venue, the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica. The red carpet was also scrapped after stars reportedly dropped out of the event.

    Show producers said they were “pivoting away from a live event” format and leaned heavily into a

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