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NBC gives WGA a new offer – The finger!

NBC Direct, the “free” service from NBC that lets you download full episodes of shows like The Office, 30 Rock, Las Vegas, Biggest Loser and more, has opened on NBC’s main site.

Currently in that annoying cop-out known as “Beta,” and originally scheduled to open last month, the new video service lets you download [...]

WGA – Day 5. TGIF !!

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 [...]

Day 4 – The Knives Come Out…

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 [...]

WGA – Day One…

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 and [...]