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| On Monday, November 5th 2007 2:36 pm, Me wrote: | | On Sunday, November 4th 2007 9:11 pm, calicow wrote: | | I believe the writers union are looking to get a share of DVD sales and other digital media sales but the group they attempted to negotiate with (the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers) didn't want to budge. |
A lot has to do with shows being made available online now along with the stuff you listed. I'm glad a watch a lot of sports  |
The issue is the residuals. Writers get next to nothing, so if anything happens to them, they have nothing to fall back on. (Say for instance they have a baby or get sick.) |
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| Message Posted On Monday, November 5th 2007 At 6:07 pm |
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-Battlestar Galactica's staff have joined the strike
-The entire writing team and the cast of The Office have joined the strike |
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| Message Posted On Monday, November 5th 2007 At 9:57 pm |
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| Message Posted On Tuesday, November 6th 2007 At 11:11 am |
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"Back to You," "The New Adventures of Old Christine," "Til Death," "Rules of Engagement," "Two and a Half Men" and "The Big Bang Theory," have all stopped production of new episodes. |
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| Message Posted On Tuesday, November 6th 2007 At 2:20 pm |
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Wow. I just heard about this the other night. I didn't know so many shows stopped production already. |
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| Message Posted On Tuesday, November 6th 2007 At 4:01 pm |
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Writers and cast of The Office? This strike better be over soon.  |
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| Message Posted On Tuesday, November 6th 2007 At 7:58 pm |
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I heard that the production of Desperate Housewives was ending today as a result of the strike.  |
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| Message Posted On Wednesday, November 7th 2007 At 11:52 am |
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| On Wednesday, November 7th 2007 11:52 am, calicow wrote: | | I heard that the production of Desperate Housewives was ending today as a result of the strike. |
I just heard that too. |
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| Message Posted On Wednesday, November 7th 2007 At 2:46 pm |
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This E!Online article about actors calling in sick is pretty interesting.
The gist: Sally Field walked out of Brothers & Sisters, Shonda Rimes refuses to edit already filmed episode of Grey's Anatomy, and The Office production has pretty much grinded to a halt. |
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| Message Posted On Wednesday, November 7th 2007 At 4:15 pm |
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i hope this strike don't last for years, otherwise its the end of the world as we know it |
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| Message Posted On Wednesday, November 7th 2007 At 7:13 pm |
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Well, the networks could always order in from Canada. (the WGC has the full support of the WGA though). |
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| Message Posted On Wednesday, November 7th 2007 At 7:31 pm |
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What they should do if the strike doesn't end soon (but I hope it does...life would end without Heroes and Boston Legal)...instead of all these crappy reality shows, air episodes of shows they never aired like "Knights of Prosperity", "Help Me Help You", "Clubhouse", etc. |
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| Message Posted On Wednesday, November 7th 2007 At 7:48 pm |
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So far this has yet to affect any of the shows I watch. Crossing my fingers that doesn't happen.  |
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| Message Posted On Wednesday, November 7th 2007 At 8:52 pm |
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| On Monday, November 5th 2007 11:49 am, Shade wrote: | | It's a good thing I don't watch those shows listed. The writers of shows have a lot of power, imagine if all writers on all shows decided to strike. What would happen to our entertaintment. We'd be stuck with re-runs. |
That's exactly what's happening. All writers in the writer's union (which includes at least writers for all scripted shows) have stopped writing anything. The reason only some series are being listed as affected is because others have scripts written in advance and non-writer cast and crew are still showing up to take those episodes to the final version.
Here's a grid showing how many scripts have been written for many shows.
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| Message Posted On Wednesday, November 7th 2007 At 10:42 pm |
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Even if he goes crazy, I will still call Chris "Superman" |
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