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Post by MrsCatHead on Oct 12, 2007 7:12:05 GMT -4
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marywebgirl
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Post by marywebgirl on Nov 5, 2007 21:18:25 GMT -4
Movie studio heads: Settle this fucking strike. Supposedly it could be months?!? Fuck that. I can't deal with only three more episodes of The Office this season. And only half a season of Lost? Double fuck that. Give up your third Bentley and give the writers some scraps.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2007 22:01:52 GMT -4
Seriously. Just give them a cut of the DVD sales already so Letterman and Colbert can come back. And it's the last season of Scrubs for God sakes! They promised us they'd be resolving things all season long!
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Post by heyalice on Nov 7, 2007 14:28:01 GMT -4
How does Oprah get away with having non-union writers for her show?
ETA: Thanks for the answer tcukris
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Post by tcukris10 on Nov 7, 2007 16:48:55 GMT -4
How does Oprah get away with having non-union writers for her show? Her show is in Chicago. Illinois may be a right to work state. |
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Post by divasahm on Nov 7, 2007 22:21:16 GMT -4
I think there may be a distinction between entertainment shows and shows like Oprah's that fall more under the journalism category.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2007 23:14:45 GMT -4
News writers are in a different guild so they're not affected, which would be why all the morning shows (i.e. Good Morning America) aren't affected either. So if the writers for Oprah are considered news writers, that's why they're still working.
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Post by Binky on Nov 7, 2007 23:22:13 GMT -4
This is an odd thought, but what happens if the Strike extends into January? The first televised awards shows are then - and I assume those writers are on strike, too? Unless they too are 'news writers'. I'm thinking of the Golden Globes, mostly.
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huntergrayson
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Post by huntergrayson on Nov 8, 2007 4:25:57 GMT -4
Considering that a good portion of the fun of the Globes is celebs getting plastered and going "off-script," an entirely "unscripted" Globes might be the only good thing about this.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2007 15:25:18 GMT -4
Except that since half the presenters can't even read the teleprompters, I fear they can't be trusted to actually say anything coherent.
It would be fun, but I don't think the publicists would let it happen. Everyone has learned from this equation:
Tom Cruise - Pat Kingsley = Disaster.
And if the strike isn't settled soon, the only awards shows we're likely to see are the Golden Globes and People's Choice, since there's so much cross-over among the WGA, DGA and SAG. I could be wrong (I often am), but I can see the politics of this situation being extremely damaging to the nomination, voting and awards process.
For the record, I am behind the WGA; the Writer's Guild of Great Britain gets 5.6% royalties on internet content. The Studios wanted the WGA to settle for .4%, which is what they currently get for video/dvd content. A percentage based on the price of video in 1988, when nobody had any idea of how lucrative the market would be.
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