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Guest post by Piper McCauley As if buying clothing for one kid growing like a weed isn’t bad enough, it’s so much harder to find clothing for two twin boys that refuse to wear the same kinds of clothes. I thought that at least I would be able to get away for a [...] Times are hard. With foreclosures at an all time high and gas scouting the suburbs of $5 a pint, people are not spending so much on entertainment. They want to keep the roof in place and the lights on – which is perfectly understandable. And the effect on the entertainment industry has been tangible, and [...] In news that hits rather too close to home for my taste, and which may also be a harbinger of oncoming doom for the US market, the news is coming in that the British commercial broadcast network, ITV, might be acquired by one of the largest names in ‘Reality’ programming – Endemol. Shares in the [...] Blogging – for those of you who may not have tried it yet – is hard work. You’re basically a tech-enhanced Author and face the same challenges every brave soul who has ever taken up the gauntlet has encountered. Every day, that stark white ‘page’ stares at you, daring you to sully it with what [...] When you leap out of bed at the crack of noon on a Monday morning and spend a peaceful few hours composing your blog, beneath a sky so resplendently blue you could almost believe the entire astral canopy is an inverted Wedgwood bowl, life can seem pretty good. …Then you read TV Guide. Once a [...] After the AMPTP’s petulant withdrawl from last week’s talks there comes the disconcerting news that NBC’s ratings are being so affected by the [even poorer than normal] programming they are using to fill the gaps, they’ve been driven to refunding the Advertisers for low-rated commercials. They’re paying an average of $500,000 each for missing the [...] The cracks are starting to show in the WGA’s dispute – NBC has just confirmed that “Last Call with Carson Daly” will break the Writers lines and go back into production as early as this week. Carson – who is not a member of the WGA – will start taping shows on Wednesday, to be [...] 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 [...] |
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