Variety is reporting that Hollywood is having a bad case of the winter blues, now that the strike is over. There are significantly fewer TV pilots and budgets for current series are being cut back. Feature films are being put on hold in fear of a Screen Actor's Guild walkout. And the shifts in Read More
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First, the good news: it looks like the strike may be coming to an end. Now, the bad news: even in the most hopeful scenario, new episodes of popular shows, like Grey’s Anatomy, won’t hit the airwaves until April or March, if at all before the fall. Jeff Zucker may Read More
At The Los Angeles Times, the strike’s decimating effect on awards season, normally a topic of banner coverage, was described by one editor as “apocalyptic.” Though advertising numbers Read More
This time last year, it would have been difficult to fathom that as 2007 came to a rather inexorable end, there would be no new episodes of The Office or, hell, even Desperate Housewives to get us through what promises to be another long, cold, slushy New York winter; that Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert Read More
We just spoke with Shanna Moakler, the 32-year-old actress and former Miss U.S.A. Earlier this week, we were pleasantly flabbergasted by her new fabulously bizarre CW reality show, Crowned: The Mother of All Pageants. Ms. Moakler—whose rocky-road relationship with her husband, the Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker, was the subject of an MTV show Read More
Over in Hollywood, while striking writers and studios remain at loggerheads, the agents, TV agents in particular, have discovered Facebook, the networking Web site, as a new and exciting way to keep the community spirit alive. “Every major studio, basically every major development executive, and I’m talking to the president level, is on Facebook,” said Read More
Variety is reporting that the union is now facing the prospect that the studios will Read More
TV critics!
"The TV Critics Association and the Cable Television Association for Marketing said that if the Writers Guild of America strike is not settled by Dec. 14, the winter press tour will be canceled," TV Week reported today.
"Usually held in January, the winter press Read More
“I was delighted to finally have Jesse Jackson Read More
Today, presidential candidate John Edwards spoke in Washington Square Park at a rally in support of striking television writers. A few weeks earlier, Mr. Edwards had popped in on the strike lines in Los Angeles.
"We're in this together," Mr. Edwards said, according to Variety.
"Stay strong, stay together," Mr. Edwards added according Read More
There's little doubt as to who's the striking Hollywood writers' favorite journalist/blogger. Via Cinematical.com: LA Weekly columnist Nikki Finke, who's been covering every angle of the stoppage, from a generally pro-writers perspective, has been given the exclusive right to publish the Guild's "Speechless" internet videos on her blog, Deadline Hollywood Daily. The buzzy Read More
More than $20 million a day!
That is, according to one totally and completely not impartial observer!
"As thousands of TV and film writers marched along Hollywood Boulevard in the third week of their strike, film officials put a price tag on the potential economic toll of the walkout," reports the Los Angeles Times. "Los Angeles' economy Read More
The Hollywood screenwriters strike is only two weeks old, and already my life has changed. Why, you ask? You see, I write poems. Normally, I am treated with lightly veiled condescension. “I understand you’re a poet,” a new acquaintance will observe, in the same tone that he might say, “I hear you’re a wheelwright” or Read More
Ouch!
TV Decoder reports that the writers' strike has already delivered a nasty lashing to Comedy Central’s smirk-some duo, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert.
Both 'The Daily Show with Jon Stewart' and 'The Colbert Report' with Stephen Colbert were forced into repeats on Nov. 5. Since then, in the demographic of viewers ages 25-to-54, 'The Daily Read More
