late night talk-show solidarity just got a little less solid, as late late night host and former “VJ” Carson Daly’s show will become the first to “cross the line” and resume production of new shows. From the AP story:
Carson Daly About to Defy Writers Strike
By FRAZIER MOORE
NEW YORK (AP) — NBC’s “Last Call with [...]

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With most of the publicly debated facts in the WGA-AMPTP dispute coming from one side or the other, its interesting to see what even a half-hearted attempt at honest polling reveals about the strike.
Such is the case with Daily Variety’s reader poll, released Sunday night online and published in Monday’s editions. The original Hollywood trade [...]

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An excerpt from this week’s print edition of “Union Roundup:”
By
Mark London Williams
This is being written after the Thanksgiving break, as people file back in to town, shake off the last of the tryptophan hangovers, and prepare to get back to, well… I was going to say “work,” but suddenly there’s a lot less of that [...]

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This was a reply to an earlier thread that excerpted an interview with “Battlestar Galactica” producer Ron Moore, wherein he talked about him and his crew being asked to do free “webisodes.”
His wife, Terry Dresbach Moore — herself an IA member — joined that conversation, and we thought her reply was worthy of its own [...]

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