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Research Uncovers Technology That Could Destroy Film and TV Studios

Toby Barlow | Posted 11.16.2007 | Entertainment

Read More: Writers Guild of America Strike, Television, Film, Books, Writer's Strike, Writers Guild of America, Writers' Strike Opinion, Writers' Strike, Hollywood Strike, WGA Strike, Hollywood, Entertainment News

Panic swept through Hollywood today as producers and studio executives, already embattled by the writer's strike. "It's called a 'book' and it's pronounced like 'cook."' said one worried insider. "

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Tips For Surviving the Writers' Strike

Chris Case | Posted 11.15.2007 | Entertainment

Read More: Writers Guild of America, Writers Guild of America Strike, Filmmaking, Writers' Strike Opinion, Television, Hollywood Strike, Writers' Strike, Moviemaking, WGA Strike, Hollywood, Entertainment News

The strike is the perfect excuse to get back in touch with your childish, self-destructive side that drove you to Hollywood in the first place.

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Note To Striking Writers -- At Least The Studios Aren't Spying On Them

Art Brodsky | Posted 11.15.2007 | Media

Read More: Writers' Strike, Copyright, Writers Guild of America, Writers Guild of America Strike, Filmmaking, Writers' Strike Opinion, Television, Hollywood Strike, Moviemaking, WGA Strike, Hollywood, Media News

It's not enough that AT&T is employing its spying expertise on all of your telephone calls. Now it's bringing the spying ethic to its Internet network, monitoring everyone's data.

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Writer's Strike: The Studios Are Record Companies and It's 1998

RJ Eskow | Posted 11.15.2007 | Entertainment

Read More: Internet, New Technology, Entertainment, Futurism, Digital Content, Studios, Writer's Strike, Writers Guild of America, Writers Guild of America Strike, Writers' Strike Opinion, Writers' Strike, Hollywood Strike, WGA Strike, Moviemaking, Hollywood, Filmmaking, Television, Entertainment News

You're trying to withhold a share of money that you haven't even figured out how to collect. Instead, why not collaborate with your creative workforce on ways to profit from new technologies?

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One-Third of One Penny

Trey Ellis | Posted 11.15.2007 | Entertainment

Read More: Writers' Strike, Writers Guild of America Strike, Writers' Strike Opinion, Writers Guild of America, Filmmaking, Television, Hollywood Strike, Moviemaking, WGA Strike, Hollywood, Entertainment News

We're asking for gold-plated Rolex Daytona watches and a fractional share in your corporate jet every time somebody clicks on what we created.

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Writers Guild Strike Primer: Part 5, The Little Guy

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 11.15.2007 | Entertainment

One of the problems when dealing with anyone who is not a writer is that none really understands what a writer actually does. Therefore, supporting writers in a strike becomes all the more difficult.

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Why Don't Journalists Get Residuals?

Albert Kim | Posted 11.14.2007 | Media

Read More: Writers Guild of America, Writers Guild of America Strike, Journalism, Filmmaking, Writers' Strike Opinion, Television, Hollywood Strike, Writers' Strike, Moviemaking, WGA Strike, Hollywood, Paying Journalists, Media News

As a writer who's worked both in Hollywood and journalism, it's clear to me that the arguments used to justify residuals in one field could certainly apply in the other.

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A Plea to My WGA Comrades

Jon Hayman | Posted 11.14.2007 | Entertainment

Have we forgotten that studio wish nothing more than to provide all with much needed respite from the tribulations we all endure here on the planet I like to call earth?

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I'm Not Writing This Blog

Kate Clinton | Posted 11.13.2007 | Entertainment

Read More: Writers Guild of America, Writers Guild of America Strike, Kate Clinton, Filmmaking, Writers' Strike Opinion, Television, Writers' Strike, Hollywood Strike, Moviemaking, WGA Strike, Hollywood, Entertainment News

Please don't tell anyone I'm writing. Let's just say I'm journaling and then file-sharing. Otherwise there will be a huge inflatable rat outside my apartment.

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The Strike-Time Network Jokebook

Ian Gurvitz | Posted 11.12.2007 | Entertainment

A street bum asks a passing businessman for some help. The businessman gives him advice instead of money. The bum makes a derogatory, profanity-laced comment.

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Slipped Disc: Why DVD Residuals Still Matter -- and Always Will

Jonathan Handel | Posted 11.12.2007 | Media

Read More: Writers Guild of America, Writers Guild of America Strike, DVD Residuals, Filmmaking, Writers' Strike Opinion, Television, Hollywood Strike, Writers' Strike, HD Wars, Moviemaking, WGA Strike, Hollywood, Amptp, Hd, Writers Guild Lawyer, Blu-Ray, Media News

The fallacy in the conventional wisdom about the Writers Guild negotiations is assuming that packaged media will develop no further than Blu-ray or HD DVD. That ignores history.

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Ellen and Izzy: A Tale from the WGA Strike

Sherman Yellen | Posted 11.11.2007 | Entertainment

Read More: Writers Guild of America, Writers Guild of America Strike, Writers' Strike Opinion, Television, Ellen Degeneres, Hollywood Strike, Writers' Strike, Moviemaking, WGA Strike, Hollywood, Entertainment News

Just when you thought nothing worse could happen to Ellen DeG after her unfortunate canine adoption caper, comes the writer's strike bringing fresh grief to America's TV Sweetheart.

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Things That Struck Me

Ian Gurvitz | Posted 11.11.2007 | Entertainment

Time will tell whether this will be a noble effort or a fool's errand but if you're going to ask people to stop working and stop pursuing work at least have the decency to trust them.

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Greetings from the Lower Echelon!

Eric Williams | Posted 11.11.2007 | Entertainment

Read More: Writers Guild of America, Writers Guild of America Strike, Filmmaking, Writers' Strike Opinion, Television, Writers' Strike, Hollywood Strike, Moviemaking, WGA Strike, Hollywood, Alec Baldwin, Entertainment News

The AP's Sandy Cohen offers a much-needed corrective about the economic status of Writers Guild members: Hollywood writers lead far-from-glamorous lives.

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What the Strike is Costing Us

Alec Baldwin | Posted 11.11.2007 | Entertainment

Strikes, and the lack of forward-thinking negotiating that results in them, costs more than money. Sometimes, they cost you friends and family, as well.

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It's the Studio's Fault

Alec Baldwin | Posted 11.07.2007 | Entertainment

Read More: Writers Guild of America, Writers Guild of America Strike, Filmmaking, Television, Writers' Strike Opinion, Hollywood Strike, Writers' Strike, WGA Strike, Hollywood, Alec Baldwin, Moviemaking, Entertainment News

The writers' strike is upon us because the writers want more of the back end and the studios claim they don't have it. If the studios don't have it, it's more their own fault than anyone else's.

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WebTV Watercooler

Ryan J. Davis | Posted 10.23.2007 | Entertainment

Read More: Television, Youtube, Comedy, Sitcom, Online Tv Shows, Tv Reviews, Great New Tv Shows, New Tv Shows, Entertainment News

I watch lots of shows on my computer and there are some exciting things happening online. We're seeing the growth of a truly independent television movement.

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The End of Analog Television

Shelly Palmer | Posted 10.19.2007 | Media

Read More: Analog Television, Telecommunications, Television, Telecoms, Hdtv, Media News

Washington recently woke up and realized that Feb. 17, 2009 was less then two years away. This wouldn't matter except that it's the day the government has chosen to be the end of analog television.

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Network TV Pushes Language Limits To Keep Up With Cable

Los Angeles Times | Martin Miller | Posted 10.13.2007 | Media

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After huge fines and public outrage, the now infamous Janet Jackson "wardrobe malfunction" at the 2004 Super Bowl was supposed to have had a chilling ...

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Top 5 Chuck Bass Moments From This Week's Gossip Girl

Danny Shea | Posted 10.11.2007 | Entertainment

Read More: Television, Chuck Bass, Gossip Girl, The CW, Ed Westell, Tv, Entertainment News

I've distilled 44 minutes of primetime TV into 90 seconds of splendor to give you Chuck Bass' top five moments, from the insane outfits to the ridiculous luxury brand-dropping to the straight-up asshole comments he's becoming known for.

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Most Offensive Cable TV PR Moment of the Day: "Screw the Constitution"

Jennifer L. Pozner | Posted 10.10.2007 | Media

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There are so many promos I could choose from.

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Review Roundup: "Aliens in America" Gets Good Grades

Danny Shea | Posted 10.01.2007 | Entertainment

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The reviews are in for The CW's newest high school sitcom Aliens in America, which premiered Monday Night. Though somewhat mixed, they suggest an extremely promising coming-of-age series that succeeds in blending comedy and social commentary.

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BET Comes Of Age With Sixteen New Series

Washington Post | Paul Farhi | Posted 09.24.2007 | Home

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Black Entertainment Television is 27 years old -- old enough, its top executives say, to start acting all grown up. The Washington-based cable networ...

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HillaryTV

The Hill | Bob Cusack | Posted 09.22.2007 | Home

Read More: Abc, Meet the Press, Cnn, Presidential Race 2008, Television, This Week, Face the Nation, Nbc, Late Edition, Fox, Hillary Clinton, Cbs, Fox News Sunday, Sunday Morning Talk Shows, Home News

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) will appear on all five Sunday talk shows tomorrow in what could be a defining day in her run for the White House...

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"60 Minutes" Turns 40

USA Today | Peter Johnson | Posted 09.22.2007 | Media

Read More: Morley Safer, Cbs, Television, Newsmagazines, 60 Minutes, Andy Rooney, Katie Couric, Media News

60 Minutes correspondent Morley Safer recalls complaining to former CBS News chief Bill Leonard about the then-fledgling newsmagazine. Leonard cut hi...

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