TV Saved: Writers Reach Tentative Deal
This post was published 1 year 9 months 12 days ago and its content may not be valid anymore.Ok, I’m on Heroes withdrawal, I need my 24, Lost is running out of episodes – this is a relief to a loyal series follower.
An end to Hollywood’s long and bitter writers’ strike appeared close on Saturday, as union leaders representing 12,000 movie and television writers said they had reached a tentative deal with production companies.
The strike, which began Nov. 5, remains in effect until the governing boards of the two writers’ guilds gauge the sense of their membership this weekend and decide whether to end the walkout. The boards are expected to meet as early as Sunday, and the strike could be over by Monday morning.
A memorandum sent to some writers guild members summarized a four-hour meeting on Friday in which union leaders briefed a group of 300 strike captains. According to the memorandum, the guild boards and negotiating committee are expected to recommend the tentative deal unanimously, but they are withholding action to end the walkout until after Saturday’s scheduled meetings.
What do you think? What shows have you missed?
this whole thing has kinda pissed me off….
First of all, they are writers…. not coal miners, or steel workers… they aren’t providing a necessary means of economy or goods, they simply provide entertainment… usually pretty poor and predictable entertainment at that, so why has this gotten so much news?… There is a war going on, a group of war mongers in the white house, and a lack of concern for Habeus Corpus or Civil Rights…. and when I turn on the TV I hear about a bunch of writers that want more pennies on DVD rental royalties… fuck em!
Sorry… I’ve been holding that in for a while now… I feel better.
I missed House in Australia. But I think that had almost nothing to do with the writer’s strike. Mostly due to the channel airing it didn’t want to run out of episodes over the 6 week Christmas break.
I’ve been too busy to notice for the most part, and House has been new for the past several weeks, which has kept me content. Plus, I have hours of unwatched goodness stored on my DVR, so it’s given me a chance to catch up.
I just hope this won’t severely impact Scrubs’ final season (i.e. they pull a BS move and cut the total number of episodes, instead of just delaying the series finale).
my miss list:
entourage
battlestar galactica
30 rock
ER
scrubs
skins
eureka
weeds
heroes
private practice
gossip girl
reaper
samantha who
big bang theory
DEXTER
WEEDS
CALIFORNICATION
BROTHERHOOD
I watch House, that’s it. I watched Eureka until it went up against House, of course.
Stay on strike. I still have National Geographic & Discovery channels.