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Writers, Producers Reach Tentative Deal

Variety   |   DAVE MCNARY   |   February 9, 2008 11:33 AM


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The WGA has finalized its tentative agreement with the majors and will present details of the pact to members today in meetings in Los Angeles and New York.

Those meetings -- set for the Crowne Plaza in Gotham and the Shrine in Los Angeles -- are expected to serve as a barometer for WGA leaders to determine whether the deal's acceptable to the 10,500 striking writers.


 
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I hope the writer's strike extends for another decade. Their past products have amounted to a rolling advertising bed, maybe if Television, Radio, Movies, and other media products had a little 'time-out', there'd be less sleazy, greasy institutions such as healthscare, protection, gummit, booze industry, real estate,
and so forth trying to propagate their crap.
Commercial airtime ain't cheap, and nobody's going to listen just for the commercials, so, yeah, take a break, guys...let the fire at the propaganda factory keep burning for a while, there...in favor of honest broadcast content, instead of 'programming'....what's in a name.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:51 PM on 02/10/2008
- nivek I'm a Fan of nivek 9 fans permalink
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Creativity defines a society in it's essence.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:48 AM on 02/10/2008
- zaneblue I'm a Fan of zaneblue 3 fans permalink

There is a silent majority out here and we have been in solidarity with the writers.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:19 PM on 02/09/2008

i hear there are a lot of un-employed writers out there...HAHAHA

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:23 PM on 02/09/2008
- eliandbo I'm a Fan of eliandbo 2 fans permalink

Just to change the subject a little.
Save your stimules refund, next year you will have to report it as income on your taxes.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:33 PM on 02/09/2008
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Did they finally decide that enough people had suffered?These asshats have ruined thousands of people's lives,and I seriously doubt that they're gonna share any of their largess to help these people out of the whole they dug for them by their greed.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:02 PM on 02/09/2008
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I have been desperate for something more absurd than reality.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:25 PM on 02/09/2008

I really think this issue of the writers striking was ill conceived. Many non-Hollywood types (99%) don't care, will never care, or could care less about the writer's strike.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:01 PM on 02/09/2008
- stupidme I'm a Fan of stupidme 2 fans permalink

If the the strike is over, Bill Maher's audience is the real winner. Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of his show and agree with him on a majority of issues, but after last night's show ... whew! WIth Bill's going on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on about America's reliance on pharmaceuticals, etc., I found myself going through the medicine cabinet myself to find something to calm me down. Given the panel's glazed look on their faces and the comment by PJ O'Rourke .... New Rule - Bill Maher shouldn't do Real Time again until his writers return.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:14 PM on 02/09/2008
- kellygrrrl I'm a Fan of kellygrrrl 642 fans permalink
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agree!

but to be fair, he's the first to admit it

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:41 PM on 02/09/2008
- Hirnlego I'm a Fan of Hirnlego 115 fans permalink
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Haven't seen the show this week but last week was absolutely not bad.
The real difference seems to me only lie on the monologue and the lack of new rules. Everything else is minor IMO.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:30 AM on 02/10/2008

Give Bill credit. At least he openly pines away for his wirters. he knows the score.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:21 AM on 02/10/2008

Will they keep putting political stuff in their productions? Probably...

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:57 PM on 02/09/2008
- Ginzaman I'm a Fan of Ginzaman 12 fans permalink

while it's great to end the strike, it looks like the gap between the haves and the have nots continues.

A flat fee for the first two years of streaming? What about a fee per download? And, what about top SAG members and their back end deals? Once again, it's SAG and the DGA first, WGA last.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:30 PM on 02/09/2008

wow ,this site is BIASED !

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:25 PM on 02/09/2008
- ohiomark I'm a Fan of ohiomark 123 fans permalink

Ya think?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:51 PM on 02/09/2008

awsome dude !
now we can go back to ignoring war !!!!!!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:14 PM on 02/09/2008
- yukoner1 I'm a Fan of yukoner1 4 fans permalink

What happened? Somebody went on strike? Hopefully they learned to be better writers in the meantime.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:49 PM on 02/09/2008
- Chandidevi I'm a Fan of Chandidevi 25 fans permalink

Listen Asshole (yukoner1), without those writers there would be no shows...as we have just seen. The Hollywood producers exploit writers...the producers make all the big bucks.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:35 PM on 02/09/2008

Who the fuck cared anyway?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:46 PM on 02/09/2008

And they all exploit us by force feeding us absolute drivel. I'm only stoked about Lost and even that's a little iffy on the crap-o-meter.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:29 PM on 02/09/2008

Chandi,

WHO CARES ABOUT TV!!!! It sucks... it rots your brain, and is probably responsible for the ignorant sheep that america has become

KILL YOUR TV!!!!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:40 PM on 02/09/2008
- Chandidevi I'm a Fan of Chandidevi 25 fans permalink

Where do you live? Podunck?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:50 PM on 02/09/2008
- ohiomark I'm a Fan of ohiomark 123 fans permalink

They were on strike for 3 months. It sure is amazing how the rest of the world just went on without them.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:05 PM on 02/09/2008
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Thanks for yet another one of your brilliant observation Markie.

LMAO

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:36 PM on 02/09/2008
- Seafarer61 I'm a Fan of Seafarer61 9 fans permalink

About time....I miss "Denny Crane" and "Alan Shore"

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:05 PM on 02/09/2008

Umm, don't know if you've been watching TV the last few weeks, but there has been a new Boston Legal on every Tuesday since the middle of January. And with the writers strike over, and since the show doesn't require much time to crank out a finished episode (compared to an fx heavy show shot on location such as "Lost" or "24"), we could even get a full season of Boston Legal, which would be sublime.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:23 PM on 02/09/2008
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