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Product placement and over-staffing are hurdles for TV Producers and creators as they work on creating extensions of the original shows. So says Tim Kring, the EP and boss of NBC’s “Heroes” who was chatting on Wednesday at the NATPE jaw-fest in Hollywood. “At NBC you have this giant corporate, vertically integrated company….The [...] From the files of The Department of Things That Make You Go, “Duh!”…comes the startling news that viewers are giving Network Television the finger. In droves! Ratings for all the major networks are in free-fall as viewers tune to other stations to avoid the incessant and patronizing commercials. And what does a major player like, [...] Yesterday, thousands of Writers marched down Hollywood Boulevard to protest what their bosses would call ‘slave wages’ if the same numbers were found in their salaries. Now a group called “Film LA,’ whose job it appears to be to know these things has determined that the Strike could cost the city more than $20m a [...] In case anyone’s lost the plot, the core of this strike is a requirement by the WGA to finally get some long-overdue reward from the $-billions being made by the six corporations that control the majority of American media. The Nets claim there’s no money in Internet and cellphone streams, and they’ll share whatever they [...] On November 13th, this blog and others will be on strike for the day in solidarity with the Writers Guild of America. Fellow writers and TV fans are coming together to express our strong support for the writers and their goals. We believe that when a Writer’s work makes money for a company, that Writer [...] After yesterday’s malevolent demands by the AMPTP that every word a Writer has even contemplated committing to paper belonged to them and must be surrendered immediately or incur a Fatwah, we reach another low-point in the course of any strike; The Opportunists. The picket lines on the East Coast are rapidly becoming clogged and [...] This should be titled, “Mediation Won’t Work…So Let’s Try Fear”… Members of the Western arm of the WGA whose unproduced scripts were shopped or bought by a Studio now have until tomorrow [Friday] to give those scripts to the Union for their ‘Script Validation’ program. This is an attempt to keep track of possible rogue [...] 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 fade to re-runs as their scripts disappear. ‘Desperate Housewives,” “Back to You,” “‘Til Death,” “Two and a Half Men,” “Old Christine,” and others will all [...] 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 [...] Well, it’s official; The Writers will go on strike from early Monday after their negotiators recommended a walkout over royalties. A move that could shutter late-night TV shows immediately. The WGA vote was unanimous and the strike starts from 12:01 a.m. PT on Monday. The walkout will be the first in 20 years. The [...] |
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