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Is this … the good place? Variety reports today that the SAG Awards will air an hour-long pre-recorded program this year, unlike the strange remote program that other award programs have been doing during the pandemic. Perhaps in response to this weekend’s Golden Globe, which was fraught with setbacks, technical challenges and general strangeness, the SAG Awards will instead keep celebrations to a minimum to maximize the safety of the COVID-19. The special, which will air on April 4 on TNT and TBS, will feature speeches and comic elements exclusive to the SAG “I Am an Actor” among 13 award announcements and the “In Memoriam” section, all pre-recorded. “We’re trying to have a unique award ceremony in an hour and get people talking, which rarely happens [with an awards show], ‘Dude, I wish we had more’, ”said executive producer Todd Milliner Variety. The nominees will still be placed in strange breakout rooms to announce the winners, but as everything is pre-recorded, they will know the results days before the rest of the world (but maybe we still have those strange Zoom interactions before the show cuts to commercials) . General: positive net?