In what may be “happy new year” news for anyone qualifying for the spondulicks, the WGA has announced a fund “to assist members of the industry who are in financial distress as a direct result of the Writers Guild of America strike against the AMPTP.”
If this means you, you might want to check their website, [...]

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On the last weekday/workday afternoon of the year, here’s the WGA’s announcement on their just-concluded agreement with David Letterman’s Worldwide Pants production company. This will send the company’s talk shows back in to full production. A more interesting route of speculation might be to see what sitcoms they could come up with, and deliver to [...]

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“Talks,” such as they are, fail again. Here’s a long excerpt from the Sunday night dispatch from WGAe President Michael Winship, on the current, sorry, state of affairs:

The widespread pain and hardship of this strike would cease instantly if the studio and networks heads simply would realize the need to have their representatives return to [...]

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Written late last week, this is the Union Roundup column from the latest street issue of Below the Line:
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Mark London Williams
So the second round of WGA/AMPTP “talks” have failed, and the great Hollywood Shutdown of ’07 will become the Shutdown of ’08. Both sides are accusing the other of bad faith, at a [...]

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