Warner Bros. Discovery’s TNets — the arm formerly known as Turner — is parting ways with the SAG Awards after 25 years.
TNT has run the SAG Awards since 1998, including this year, when the Screen Actors Guild returned to a live, in-person event and moved to Santa Monica’s Barker Hangar (after being based at Los Angeles’ Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall since 1997). NBC aired the first three years of the SAG Awards, which launched in 1995. TNT took over in 1998, and then TBS made it a simulcast in 2007.
This year’s two-hour telecast, which aired February 27, averaged 1.8 million total viewers on TBS and TNT. That was up from the pre-taped, COVID-impacted one-hour special in 2021, which attracted less than a million viewers on the simulcast.
The Wall Street Journal first broke the news. More to come…