Writers' Strike Talks Set To Resume Today

AP:

Striking TV and movie writers kept up the pressure on studios by picketing and intensifying an Internet campaign that uses the very medium at issue in the contentious negotiations. Both sides were set to resume contract talks Monday. The Writers Guild of America went on strike Nov. 5 over payment for work aired on the Web. Writers want more money when TV shows and films are sold on Internet sites such as Apple Inc.'s iTunes.

Studios, networks and producers, represented by the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, say it is too early to know which business model will succeed on the Web. They want flexibility to experiment without having to be locked into payment formulas.

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Comments

[KindAndThoughtful]

06:03 PM on 11/26/2007

I am hoping that this whole thing is settled soon so that the shows resume and the writers are fairly compensated.

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[cdhoward21]

04:44 PM on 11/26/2007

http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/dare-we-hope-a-deal-has-been-struck/

I just want to see the Daily Show and the Colbert Report again!!!

[djg55555]

03:16 PM on 11/26/2007

I'm sympathetic to the writers, but frankly, I can't get too worked up about it. I am too busy myself trying to make ends meet to spend much time thinking about it. If the writers think they have it so rough, they should try walking a mile in a regular working man's shoes. I'm sorry, but I have unfulfilled dreams, too, and life hasn't always been fair to me either. I'm sure there are many people who are in the same boat as me.

[sammy333]

03:14 PM on 11/26/2007

With all due respect, the writers just serve the monopolized media. Striking to end the monopoly is worthwhile, while begging the master for a little more money has a more questionable public value. I would be much more supportive of the patient strike to stop buying many-fold overpriced health care from the insurance companies, hospitals and lawyers, or the taxpayer strike to stop supporting the war, or the illegal worker strike.

[RustyNeverSleeps]

02:07 PM on 11/26/2007

Opiate fiction should be replaced with not by hyper-reality T.V. but rather realtime surveillance cameras.

It is an intelligentsia's ruse to pretense socialistic colors and symbols when the true People freely blog and post.

[Qbear]

01:55 PM on 11/26/2007

SOLIDARITY

It's not writers who'll feel the public's anger, it's the moguls of too few multi-national corporations running the entire SHOW.

[Janco54]

01:54 PM on 11/26/2007

Get back to the table - get it sorted out - and get back to work!
We need the Daily Show NOW!

[thinkagain2]

01:18 PM on 11/26/2007

unfortunately, a lot of other film/tv industry people are out of work due to the writer's strike...you know that long list of all the people involved in the making of a movie...all out of work. They are on the job long before the writers have finished their work and the actors show up for the last bit of actual filming. Because of the studio's willy nillies over the strike, new projects are being delayed or cancelled. Its a huge industry and every player depends on everyone else to do their (union) jobs. One group strikes and they all sit out.

[Changeling]

10:55 AM on 11/26/2007

You know writers, there's only ONE reason you have public support right now:


There's still new TV on the air. No one's favorite shows have dried up yet.

Once that happens though, boys and girls, the public won't care about payments from a medium that the fatcats are right about when they say they don't quite know how to make money off it yet.

All they will care about is that House and NCIS and whatever else is gone...and you big writers on those shows are making 200K a year...more than they will ever see whining about wanting more.

Settle this before the new TV runs out or you'll find out just how fast public opinion can turn.

[rh654]

10:25 AM on 11/26/2007

Given the lack of responses to this strike on this and other sites - I get the feeling that there aren't a lot of people outside the industry who really care about the strike.

I for one don't care. I watch less television than ever and as for the few shows I do watch regularly - if they went off the air tomorrow I wouldn't lose any sleep.

Hell - its just a cheap form on diversion and there are plenty of other ways to keep busy.

[Earl]

10:09 AM on 11/26/2007

I'm kind of enjoying the silence around our house.

[bluesnot]

09:10 AM on 11/26/2007

NBC's Zucker bought a place for $12 million. And these lousy networks can't even pay the writers a decent wage.