TV Writers on Strike!!
Hold on to Your Couch Cushions: The Writers' Strike Is Here
The Writers Guild of America announced this evening that the scribes behind our favorite TV shows (and movies) will indeed go on strike, after the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers refused to budge on the crucial issue of broadband and Internet profits.
Funny enough, I heard this news tonight while sitting at a table at a Children's Defense Fund dinner with Lost leader Damon Lindelof and Heroes producer Tim Kring, whose BlackBerrys (along with other writers, producers and directors in the room) simultaneously buzzed at about 7:30 with the news that "It's on."
My heart is heavy - not so much for the lack of television we fans will have to endure (I'll get to that in a moment) but for the ripple effect this strike will have on the Hollywood industry and community, trickling down from front-end staffers like executive producers, writers and actors to behind-the-scenes folks like caterers, dry cleaners and janitors... and on to the spouses and children of all of the above. >>Read the rest of the story
The Writers Guild of America announced this evening that the scribes behind our favorite TV shows (and movies) will indeed go on strike, after the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers refused to budge on the crucial issue of broadband and Internet profits.
Funny enough, I heard this news tonight while sitting at a table at a Children's Defense Fund dinner with Lost leader Damon Lindelof and Heroes producer Tim Kring, whose BlackBerrys (along with other writers, producers and directors in the room) simultaneously buzzed at about 7:30 with the news that "It's on."
My heart is heavy - not so much for the lack of television we fans will have to endure (I'll get to that in a moment) but for the ripple effect this strike will have on the Hollywood industry and community, trickling down from front-end staffers like executive producers, writers and actors to behind-the-scenes folks like caterers, dry cleaners and janitors... and on to the spouses and children of all of the above. >>Read the rest of the story