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Pro tip for Screen Actors Guild Awards viewers: watch it live. That’s because even those Netflix subscribers on the cheapest ad tier will still get a commercial-free experience when the stream goes live on Saturday at 5pm PT/8pm ET. However, after that initial live broadcast, commercial breaks will be inserted into the replays for users on the ad tier who want to change time and watch the SAG Awards later.
It’s a historic year for the SAG Awards for several reasons. First, it’s the 30th anniversary of the event, returning to the Shrine Auditorium & Expo Hall, where the kudocast has spent most of its three decades of existence, after a two-year absence. (Last year it was at the Fairmont Century Plaza hotel and in 2022 it took place at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica.)
Plus, it’s the first SAG Awards after last year’s SAG-AFTRA strike and an eventual new deal with AMPTP. And there’s a new production team behind this year’s SAG Awards: Baz Halpin, Mark Bracco and Linda Gierahn of Silent House Prods. They join SAG-AFTRA’s Jon Brockett as executive producers.
But perhaps most surprising is that this marks the first official year that the SAG Awards are streaming on Netflix. (Last year, due to the last-minute licensing deal between SAG-AFTRA and Netflix, it was only posted to Netflix’s YouTube page.) Under the multi-year pact with Netflix, which the LA Times reported was worth just $7 million, the SAG Awards become the latest major event to move from linear to streaming.
Warner Bros. Discovery’s TNets, the arm formerly known as Turner, has parted ways with the SAG Awards in 2022, after 25 years. TNT had hosted the SAG Awards since 1998, and then TBS simulcast them in 2007 (NBC broadcast the first three years of the SAG Awards, which launched in 1995).
The SAG Awards finale on TNets averaged 1.8 million total viewers in 2022. It’s hard to say how many people watched the show last year: although the reported figure was 1.5 million views, it’s not a Apples to apples comparison with the usual Nielsen. average number.
And we may never know how many people are tuning in live to the SAG Awards this Saturday on Netflix; that’s the type of number the transmitter will never share. (The only live streaming event with total Nielsen viewer numbers remains Amazon Prime Video’s Thursday Night Football.) If the stream shows up in the Nielsen or Netflix ratings, we’ll have an idea of how it performed, but that’s still a different kind of number. that how the audience was informed when the SAG Awards aired on TNets.
This year’s SAG Awards will once again be two hours long, and the commercial-free format follows last year’s run on Netflix’s YouTube page, which also had no ads.
“We’ve been generating a lot of really cool ideas for some creative and interstitial elements that take us away from the main stage at different times,” Bracco said recently. Variety. Brockett added that because there is no hard and fast time limit for the streamer, acceptance speeches can last a long time: “We give them a general time (limit) in advance, but if we really feel that a speech is attractive and convincing, then we will let him continue as long as necessary.”
The SAG Awards will remain available on Netflix for replays until 28 days after the event, when it must contractually be removed from the streamer. Meanwhile, after the “Love is Blind” live debacle, Netflix insiders believe they have fixed their live streaming woes. Since then, Netflix has made “Chris Rock: Selective Outrage” (March 4, 2023), “Love Is Blind: Brazil Season 3 The Live Reunion” (July 2, 2023) and “The Netflix Cup” (Nov. 14 2023). ) no problem. Next, the streamer will have “The Netflix Slam” live event on March 3.
Idris Elba will open this year’s kudocast, which will include Jennifer Aniston presenting Barbra Streisand with the 59th SAG Life Achievement Award. Presenters include Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway and Emily Blunt gathered on stage for a “The Devil Wears Prada” reunion.
Other presenters include Erika Alexander (“American Fiction”), Danielle Brooks (“The Color Purple”), Sterling K. Brown (“American Fiction”), Michael Cera (“Barbie”), Jessica Chastain (“Mothers’ Instinct”) ), Colman Domingo (“Rustin,” “The Color Purple”), Robert Downey Jr. (“Oppenheimer”), SAG-AFTRA representative Fran Drescher, Phil Dunster (“Ted Lasso”), Billie Eilish (“Swarm” ), America Ferrera (“Barbie”), Brendan Fraser (“Killers of the Flower Moon”), Taraji P. Henson (“The Color Purple”), Troy Kotsur (“CODA”), Greta Lee (“Past Lives,” “The Morning Show”), Melissa McCarthy (“Unfrosted: The Pop-Tart Story”), Cillian Murphy (“Oppenheimer”), Glen Powell (“Hit Man”), Issa Rae (“American Fiction,” “Barbie”) , Storm Reid (“Euphoria”), Margot Robbie (“Barbie”), Tracee Ellis Ross (“American Fiction”), Alexander Skarsgård (“Succession”), Omar Sy (“Lupin”), Hannah Waddingham (“Ted Lasso” ), Naomi Watts (“Feud: Capote vs. The Swans”) and Jeffrey Wright (“American Fiction”).
Meanwhile, the official pre-show for the 30th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, hosted by Tan France and Elaine Welteroth, will stream on Netflix and Netflix’s TikTok and YouTube channels at 7 p.m. ET / 4 p.m. PT Saturday.