The 27th Annual Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards was rescheduled for the 4 of April, a week after the organizers of the Grammy Awards moved the ceremony to the same date they had planned, the 14 of March.

The awards ceremony will air on TNT and TBS and will honor outstanding film and television performances from 2020.

Due to the pandemic, several dates were considered for this awards season, including Oscars and Golden Globes broadcasts that went ahead of spring, reported the specialized portal Variety.

Due to an increase in coronavirus cases in Los Angeles, The Recording Academy, in charge of organizing the Grammys, and CBS announced last week that the Music Industry Awards from 31 January they moved to their new March date, the same one that the SAG Awards had already chosen.

“Estamos extremadamente decepcionados de escuchar la fecha del 14 de marzo anunciada para la transmisión de los premios Grammy de este año”, They said from SAG in a statement about the decision of the musical awards.

And they added: “Habíamos anunciado la misma fecha para los premios SAG en julio pasado con la intención de dar espacio a la programación de otras entregas de premios. Esperábamos la misma consideración de las organizaciones hermanas en toda la industria”.

This is not the first time the Grammy and SAG awards have ended on the same date.. In award season of 2020, the 26th Annual SAG Awards, originally scheduled for the 26 from January, it was brought forward a week to 19 from January, when the Grammy Awards were announced for the same date. (TELAM)