Lost - News and Appearances/FAQs #2: We've never been this lost - Page 13

ricc88 · 02-08-2008, 09:04 PM

That's a great article. Really caught me up with everyone's connections to each other. Thanks for posting.

MBfan19 · 02-08-2008, 09:18 PM

Very happy to share it

MattB2K · 02-08-2008, 10:59 PM

quick update and this will go on till Sunday till we know for sure TV shows can start. of d shows .

This is why the WGA Strike captians are telling the members to vote for the deal

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If they vote not to lift the strike, we then stay out 10 more days as we ratify the vote. Keep in mind staying out 10 more days would hurt the rest of TV season, the Oscars, next year's pilot season, and the 2009 feature slate. This not only hurts the companies, it also hurts us, and the whole town.

ryanforever · 02-09-2008, 04:27 AM

matt wil be on Regis and Kelly on february 19!

Tu 2/19: Matthew Fox, Larry the Cable Guy, the winner of the Daytona 500

**Ash_lost** · 02-09-2008, 12:36 PM

Thanks for the info Elodie! I can't wait!

MattB2K · 02-09-2008, 11:12 PM

10 p.m. West Coast meeting WGA meeting and verbal exceptance looks as though everything is going back to re start up Wed After the meeting tomorrow will al the Union heads the final word will be given to end it then the writers go back to work and have 10 days to vote on the deal .

Deadline hollywood daily

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SATURDAY 9:00 PM: I've received word from inside the Shrine Auditorium meeting that the WGA West membership seemed "very positive" about resolving the writers strike as soon as possible and accepting the deal negotiated by the guild leadership with the Hollywood moguls. Also, the WGA leaders wisely decided to ensure that guild members vote within the next 48 hours before the strike can be called off. A writer who just left the confab told me: "There was cheering for everything and standing ovation after standing ovation for all the leadership, especially Patric Verrone and Dave Young. There is no question in my mind that because of the atmosphere in that room this strike will be called off. There is no gearing for a fight. It's over."
WGAW President Patric Verrone announced that there would be a vote of the membership over the next 48 hours on whether or not to lift the strike. Presumably this vote will be done electronically. I'm told that Verrone said specifically that the decision to call off the strike, regardless of the WGA Negotiating Committee's or the WGAW Board's or WGAE Council's recommendation, was to be in the hands of the membership. Pending that outcome, the 10-day balloting ratification process of the tentative deal by members would begin. So Hollywood may likely get back to work by Wednesday.

UPDATED To quote Rambo It's Over Johnny It's Over !!!!!

WGA Leaders Declare "Huge Victory"; Writer-Mogul Deal Informally OKed By WGA East And West; Today Leaders Voted To End Strike; Members Will Decide Tuesday; Hollywood Back To Work Wednesday? (TV Showrunners Will Return Monday)

SUNDAY 12:30 PM: At the WGA's news conference today, union leaders declared the new contract is "a huge victory for us". Trumpeted WGAW President Patric Verrone, "This is the first time we actually got a better deal in a new media than previously." Verrone credited News Corp. No. 2 Peter Chernin and Disney chief Bob Iger, and also CBS boss Les Moonves, with "being instrumental in making this deal happen" after the WGA spent 3 months "getting nowhere" with the AMPTP negotiators and lawyers. WGA negotiating committee chief John Bowman added that, "What happened to the Golden Globes was instrumental in getting the CEOs to this table. It was a huge symbol."

Update 5pm EST it is over all writers go back to work by Wednesday !!!!

**Ash_lost** · 02-10-2008, 05:10 PM

Great news! I'm glad things are going to get back to normal.

**Crystaline** · 02-10-2008, 07:22 PM

Finally!

**no limits** · 02-10-2008, 07:48 PM

Is this official? And do we know what this means for the last 8 episodes of the season? Will we actually see them all this year?

Carlie06 · 02-10-2008, 08:15 PM

OMG, yay!

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Is this official? And do we know what this means for the last 8 episodes of the season? Will we actually see them all this year?

It was reported that we might get an additional 4 to 6 episodes, but we don't know for sure.

Carlie06 · 02-10-2008, 08:15 PM

OMG, yay!

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Is this official? And do we know what this means for the last 8 episodes of the season? Will we actually see them all this year?

It was reported that we might get an additional 4 to 6 episodes, but we don't know for sure.

**no limits** · 02-10-2008, 09:25 PM

So, the season is going to be cut short? But, I thought they had a plan with the whole 16 episodes for 3 seasons? I thought it was all mapped out? Won't that work against what they are trying to do?

**Ash_lost** · 02-10-2008, 10:04 PM

Well, we're hoping that they'll add the episodes they can't fit into this season onto S5. Damon and Carlton signed up for 48, so I would be willing to bet they'll do 48. It's just a matter of how they'll air them now.

This is all just my opinion but I really don't think they'll cut the storyline just because of the strike.

MattB2K · 02-11-2008, 10:25 AM

Last Lost Box set I watched and seeing Damon lidoff at comic con they say it takes two weeks from start of shooting to editing CGI etc to get it to Network for airing.

I posted a link to tV guide saying how many more episodes they where planning on shooting . Being Lost started end of january perhaps running it a extra 3 weeks into June won't hurt or near the end of May why not do several 2 hr episodes. To me i am not aware of actors contracts or other projects they may have going on in the summer, so that is also a factor.

Hell matthew Fox seems to be doing at least one movie a year. Nasian andrews I have seen in several movies over the past two years

UPDATED today with Lost episode totals
Credit Ain't It Cool News
“Lost” showrunner Carlton Cuse says the fourth season of his acclaimed sci-fi drama will be no more than 13 episodes this season, cut down from an order of 16 due to the writers’ strike expected to end today.
Eight episodes were scripted before the strike. Cuse hopes to produce five more to air this spring.

It sounds like Cuse and the rest of the “Lost” writing staff will end the fourth season at the same story point they always intended, cramming eight episodes of plot into the season’s final five installments.

“We will have to condense some stories,” Cuse tells The Hollywood Reporter.

The third episode of the fourth season airs this Thursday. Sources say all 13 fourth-season episodes could conceivably run between now and the end of the season without a break.

ricc88 · 02-12-2008, 03:00 PM

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Strike's Over! Showrunners Back to Work Today, All Writers Return Wednesday
Kat Angus
Published: Monday, February 11, 2008

TV showrunners are back at their desks today, with other writers following suit on Feb. 13 after Patric Verrone, president of the Writers Guild America West, told guild members yesterday that they had reached a three-year tentative deal with the studios, reports Variety.

"It is not all that we hoped for, and it is not all we deserve," Verrone said in his message to WGA members. "But as I've been saying since this strike began, this strike was about the future, and this deal assures for us and for future generations of writers a share in the future."

The WGA deal is said to be slightly better than the deal studios made with the Directors Guild of America a few weeks ago, specifically in gaining a percentage of distributor's gross on the third year of the contract.

The agreement finally brings the 14-week writers strike to an end. Though the terms still have to be voted on by WGA members by Tuesday night, television shows are still going back into production this week. The Oscar telecast, which was in danger of being cancelled, is set to air as planned on Feb. 24.

To find out when your favourite shows will be back, check out Strike Watch.