That grinding noise you can hear in the background is the suits in charge of American TV scraping the bottom of an already over-mined barrel in a desperate effort to fill the airwaves and make people watch. Their latest blend of peerless stupidity and collective intellectual bankruptcy is to be called “Celebrity Rehab with Dr. [...]
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The Internet is not only one of the core stumbling blocks of this entire dispute, it’s also fast becoming a major aide in enabling the writers to inform their audience of the true nature and root causes of the strike, thus balancing the self-serving, slanted portrayal currently used in all the news shows broadcast by [...] Now it’s getting ugly. When Writers don’t work, the shows don’t happen. And the fall-out is becoming depressing – All the folks who work the cameras, lighting, sound, make up, wardrobe, catering and a dozen other fields are getting caught in the net. And some are getting fired. The scripts might not come…but the mortgage [...] It seems the Writers strike is already bearing some fruit. First, the Producers are getting worried [That's good.] Second, some of the most mediocre examples of the television medium will vanish, or fade to re-runs as their scripts disappear. ‘Desperate Housewives,” “Back to You,” “‘Til Death,” “Two and a Half Men,” “Old Christine,” and others [...] Well, it’s on. As of 12.01am PT today, WGA members downed tools and formed a picket line. This could be long, and will certainly be both costly and acrimonious. But the political camps are already seizing on the strike as a platform for their own campaigns; Sen. Barack Obama, [D-Ill.,] already declared his position [...] It’s not even Thanksgiving, yet Fox has just announced that 90% of their advertising Real Estate for the next Super Bowl is already sold out. The game doesn’t even start for three months but less than ten, 30-second spots are left…Yours for a mere $2.7m a piece. The Super Bowl attracts what is arguably the [...] Look into the skies. Do you see flying saucers? Well, count yourself lucky. Almost seventy-years ago today, thousands of people across the country would probably have sworn they did. It was on this day in 1938 that the genius of Orson Welles and the magic of radio combined to both terrorize and transfix an [...] As you might expect, a significant topic among those so blessed as to be allowed to pursue this reckless profession is the ever-growing prospect of a Writers strike. On Friday the evidence became almost unavoidable that the AMPTP’s collective cerebral prowess had determined the best strategy is to stall until the last possible minute, then [...] The season has barely started, yet the blood-letting is well under way. Yesterday, CBS canceled the Hugh Jackman-helmed quasi-musical, “Viva Laughlin,”. Billed as ‘an offbeat song-and-dance drama’ it achieved such jaw-droppingly bad ratings, CBS pulled the plug after just two airings.This is the second cancellation in what is still a young season. The [...] It seems things are not going too smoothly in Burbank. On the day NBC-U announced plans to sell the legendary studios, Jay Leno’s iconic show included a sight-gag on the deal, with an [uncredited] Actress posing as a Realtor, leading two prospective buyers around the set. Jay objected, saying he was busy and would [...] |
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