Television & Reality TV - Television News Thread: Get your Writers' Strike News here

mcdreamylover · 10-08-2007, 06:32 AM

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Welcome to the 1st Television News Thread

This it the place where you can read, post, and discuss the most recent news and information available to TV fans everywhere!

Current Major Story: 2007 Writers Strike

General News Links

The Artful Writer
Deadline Hollywood Daily
E! Online
Entertainment Weekly
Fans4Writers
The Futon Critic
Google News
TV Guide
United Hollywood
Writers Guild East
Writers Guild West
WGA Supporters @ Livejournal
Zap2It

Articles/Guide Links

WGA Strike: What Scripted Programming is Available?- Courtesy of The Futon Critic
The TV Gride- Courtesy of LA Times
Pencils Down: List of Writers Striking- Courtesy of WGA West

WGA West: Press Room (Updated Daily)
Yahoo: Hollywood Union Authorized To Strike (10/20/07)
Time: What a Writers Strike Means For Us (10/20/07)
NY Times: TV Writers Edging Toward A Strike (10/22/07)
Yahoo: Reality on Tap If Writers Strike (10/29/07)
Yahoo: Hollywood Labor Contract Talks Break Off (11/01/07)
The Futon Critic: What's the Deal with the WGA Strike? (11/01/07)
NY Times: Writers Say Strike To Start Monday (11/02/07)
NY Times: With Resolution Unlikely, Writers Set Strike For Monday (11/02/07)
Yahoo: Hollywood Writers Set Strike For Monday (11/02/07)
Reuters: Hollywood Writers Start Strike After Talks Collapse (11/05/07)
AICN: The Office is Closed (11/06/07)
The Press Enterprise: How TV Shows Will Look With The Strike (11/09/07)
ONTD: An Idiot's Guide to the Writers Strike (11/09/07)
WGA West: Latest on Negotiations (11/09/07)
Reuters: Actors May Fight Studios After Strike Layoffs (11/11/07)
NY Times: Screenwriters Seek Bigger Slice of Half-Eaten Pie (11/11/07)
John August: Why Writers Get Residuals (11/11/07)
DHD: Glimmer of Hope That Agents Bringing WGA & AMPTP Back In Touch (11/11/07)
MSNBC: Hiatuses for serialized shows a ‘Lost’ cause (11/11/07)
Salt Lake Tribune: Strike Having An Impact (11/12/07)
EW Cover Story: Striking Home (11/16/07)

Voices From The Frontline

EW: Diary of a TV Writer (11/06/07)
Whedonesque: Joss Whedon On the Strike (11/06/07)
Criminal Minds Fanatic: Edward Allen Bernero on the Strike (11/08/07)
NY Times: Damon Lindelof- Mourning TV (11/11/07)
Yahoo: Bill Lawerence- Scrubs Finale May Never Air (11/11/07)
House's Doris Egan: To Live By the Pen (11/11/07)
NY Times: Bradford Winters- Living Paycheck To Paycheck Was Already a Way of Life (11/12/07)

Multimedia

Tina Fey on the picket line

Picketing in Century City, CA on November 9th

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By Samantha:

-CrazyBeautiful- · 10-08-2007, 02:23 PM

Thank you for the information.

I'm going to make this thread a general Television news thread for all TV news.

Wildfire Girl · 10-08-2007, 03:59 PM

Thanks for getting the thread as a tv news place ....

mcdreamylover · 10-08-2007, 04:10 PM

Thanks! I was thinking of making a TV News thread but wasn't sure if that would be okay or not.

**broken crown** · 10-08-2007, 04:34 PM

Yes! I'm so excited we have a new thread now.

All this talk about the looming strike makes me nervous. I don't know what I'd do without TV or movies!

-CrazyBeautiful- · 10-08-2007, 07:32 PM

I would be lost without tv too!!

shellyw9 · 10-09-2007, 04:14 PM

I am worried about it too.. Hopefully it all works out

**broken crown** · 10-18-2007, 11:23 AM

I read something yesterday that said the strike might be on the way to being averted. I wish I could remember where I saw the article though...hmmm.

mcdreamylover · 10-20-2007, 08:02 AM

From Hollywood union authorized to strike - Yahoo! News :

Quote:

Hollywood union authorized to strike Sat Oct 20, 12:43 AM ET

LOS ANGELES - Members of Hollywood's film and television writers union have overwhelmingly voted to authorize a strike anytime after their contract expires at the end of the month.

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More than 5,000 members of the Writers Guild of America cast ballots, with 90 percent voting in favor of authorizing the strike, the union said Friday evening. Members voted Thursday.

"Writers do not want to strike, but they are resolute and prepared to take strong, united action to defend our interests," guild President Patric Verrone said in a news release. "What we must have is a contract that gives us the ability to keep up with the financial success of this ever-expanding global industry."

Since July, the guild has been in talks with film studios and production companies represented by the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. Both sides acknowledge they have not made progress.

Nick Counter, the alliance's president, said he was not surprised by the vote.

"Our focus is on negotiating a reasonable agreement with the WGA," he said in a news release.

A key issue dividing producers and writers, as well as actors, whose contract expires next June, is compensation for DVD sales and productions that get distributed on the Internet or in other new media formats.

The writers' current three-year contract expires Oct. 31, and their vote gives the union's leaders authorization to call a strike anytime after that day.

Studios and TV networks have accelerated filming of shows and movies and begun stockpiling scripts in case of a strike.

The last strike in 1988 lasted 22 weeks. Losses to the industry were put at $500 million.

Uh-oh!

**broken crown** · 10-20-2007, 12:41 PM

Hopefully, they won't strike...otherwise it's just going to be really ugly.

Thanks for bringing over the article.

**broken crown** · 10-22-2007, 07:34 AM

Great article from the Wall Street Journal on the whole strike situation:

Quote:

An emphatic strike-authorization vote from movie and TV writers sets the stage for a 10-day negotiating window that will test Hollywood's appetite for a showdown over how writers are to be compensated in the digital age.

Members of the Writers Guild of America overwhelmingly voted on Friday in favor of authorizing a strike if they fail to sign a new labor contract with the studios by the time their current agreement expires on Oct. 31. Nearly half of the WGA's 12,000 voting members cast votes, with 90.3% of those who voted in favor of authorizing a walkout if negotiations for a new contract fail.

While Hollywood's writers could strike as early as Nov. 1, much depends on what happens between the guild and the studios when negotiations resume today. Since the two sides began formally meeting in mid-July, no progress was made until early last week, when the studios took one of their most contentious proposals off the table.

Officials from both sides say a disruptive strike isn't a foregone conclusion when the contract expires on Oct. 31. It is possible that the writers would stay on the job if progress is being made towards a new contract, these people say.

But numerous issues are keeping the two sides far apart. At the top of the list is the question of how to pay writers for use of their work when it is distributed on the Internet and via other digital media. The guild is also seeking to renegotiate DVD residual payments its members receive. There has been little movement on any of these issues on either side.

If the writers do strike, Hollywood's already frantic movie-and-television machine could be disrupted much earlier than the studios feared. Studios in recent months have ramped up their production schedules ahead of the potential work stoppage. A strike would have little impact on what the public sees in movie theaters for months to come because of the long lead time involved in filmmaking; the impact on television, which works on a shorter turnaround, would be seen much more quickly.

The writers' contract talks come ahead of negotiations with both the Directors Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild, whose contracts expire on June 30. Many industry officials earlier predicted that if the writers couldn't forge a new deal by the end of October, they would negotiate a temporary extension, or work without a contract and link up with the other two guilds next spring to leverage their position.

Now, however, people in the industry say, if the writers strike, the door could be left open for the directors to negotiate an early deal with the studios much like they did three years ago. If the directors sign a new contract, it could set the precedent for the other two guilds and force the writers into a less desirable deal.

A spokeswoman for the DGA declined to comment on whether the guild was planning to negotiate early. But people familiar with the situation say the DGA could begin negotiations as early as next month.

ETA:

Two more related articles

The New York Times: TV Writers Edging Toward a Strike
Time: What's a Writers' Strike Mean For Us?

***Enigma*** · 10-22-2007, 12:54 PM

Thanks for all the articles. I'm hoping it doesn't come down to a strike.

Joshua Jackson on Grey's Anatomy. I'm so excited!!

mcdreamylover · 10-22-2007, 08:28 PM

Can this thread please be added to the board guide? I didn't see it there so I thought I'd ask.

**broken crown** · 10-22-2007, 09:36 PM

^^ It's on there under General TV News.

Merlin_Bodhi · 10-23-2007, 02:01 AM

Can someone peg this thread?

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