In 2020, however, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic caused the worst disruption in the annual U.S. network television schedule since the 2007-08 Writers Guild of America strike, severely curtailing several live show productions. The 2020 editions of the Academy Awards and the Super Bowl (by the National Football League) became the last major annual television events to have been broadcast live globally from the U.S. prior to the occurrence of the pandemic. Numerous non-scripted programs with live season finales, such as "Saturday Night Live", "American Idol", "The Voice" and "Survivor", had seen their season-long runs drastically shortened for the year to accommodate for remote productions outside the major network studios, which also featured a temporary return to delayed telecasts outside the U.S. Central and Eastern time zones. NBC was also forced to readjust its broadcast rights to the Olympic Games after the Tokyo Olympics was postponed to 2021 as a result of the disruption in the annual sports calendar due to the pandemic. Later that same year, the MTV Video Music Awards became the first awards show to air live in all U.S. territories since the beginning of the pandemic.