|
||||
 |
After a lot of debate and months of concerned speculation among its still numerous fans, CBS has just announced that ‘Guiding Light‘ will be put out for good on September 17. According to The Guinness Book of World Records, ‘Light’ debuted on NBC Radio on January 25th, 1937, then moved to [...] The New York Times is reporting that the Fox [melo]drama series, “24” is to become the first ‘carbon neutral’ television series. To offset the environmental impact of all those gratuitous car crashes and gun fights they intend to pay strange little men in India to run wind-farms that will balance the karma, and [...] After yesterday’s malevolent demands by the AMPTP that every word a Writer may have 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 [...] 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 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 [...] 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 [...] |
|
||
|
Copyright © 2012 The Loquacious Limey - All Rights Reserved Powered by WordPress & Atahualpa |
||||
