LOS ANGELES — Jay Leno has dodged disciplinary action after being accused of breaking union rules last year. On Tuesday, the Writers Guild of A...
Jonathan Handel | Posted 08.24.2009 | Entertainment
The residuals system is broken. It's expensive to administer and is an invitation to conflict as platforms such as new media evolve. Yet we need resid...
Allison Abner | Posted 06.08.2009 | Media
In the Recession of 2009, America needs writers more than ever. Writers in the entertainment industry create the stories most seen around the world. ...
Posted 06.08.2009 | Comedy
The WGAE is hosting "Writers Speak! A Potentially Regrettable Evening With Comedy Writers" tonight at Washington D.C.'s Newseum, but you can watch it ...
Lowell Peterson | Posted 06.04.2009 | Comedy
We thought folks inside the Beltway might benefit from a little writerly enlightenment, so we have organized an event at Newseum including a panel discussion of politics, comedy and the news (and various combinations thereof).
Jonathan Handel | Posted 03.29.2009 | Entertainment
Leno's case is a political hot potato, because it pits the power of a Hollywood guild against the even greater power of one of its prominent members.
Los Angeles Times | Matea Gold and Richard Verrier | Posted 03.29.2009 | Media
Reporting from Los Angeles and New York -- Comedian Jay Leno was hauled in front of his own union's trial committee Wednesday to address charges that ...
Variety | Cynthia Littleton | Posted 03.14.2009 | Media
A year has passed, but the WGA West is still reviewing the possibility of disciplinary action against Jay Leno for "Tonight Show" monologues he delive...
AP | Posted 03.11.2009 | Entertainment
LOS ANGELES — The Oscar contenders "Milk" and "Slumdog Millionaire" won top honors Saturday at the Writers Guild of America Awards. Dustin Lanc...
Jonathan Handel | Posted 01.10.2009 | Entertainment
Broadcast audiences are aging and advertisers are falling away due to the recession and, to some extent, the Internet. Leno's stripping, but the networks themselves may be losing their shirts.
Michael Russnow | Posted 01.03.2009 | Entertainment
Revolutionary Road plods ever forward to the final fade out, but it still encompasses some wonderful moments and makes us look forward to the next pairing of Leo and Kate.
Michael Russnow | Posted 07.21.2008 | Entertainment
Thanks to the WGA strike, management now takes the artistic community seriously, but it couldn't have been accomplished without the support provided by the Screen Actors Guild.
Jonathan Handel | Posted 07.13.2008 | Entertainment
Ironically, while spurning qualified voting for their own union, SAG's leadership urges it on AFTRA.
Jonathan Handel | Posted 07.08.2008 | Entertainment
I'm advised by a AMPTP spokesman that this offer tracks the AFTRA and DGA/WGA deals in terms of minimums, new media, and other provisions.
Jonathan Handel | Posted 06.01.2008 | Entertainment
Union disputes are underway because actors want to control their own images and avoid being overexposed. That also sounds sensible - until you consider the tens of thousands of clips already available online illegally.
Reny Monk | Posted 04.26.2008 | Entertainment
The WGA has sent out a castigating letter to its members that lists names of writers who crossed the picket lines during the tense hundred-day strike that ended in February.
Variety | CYNTHIA LITTLETON, DAVE MCNARY | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
After 14 weeks of warfare, labor peace has come to Hollywood. TV showrunners head back to the office today, and the scribe tribe officially resumes w...
Variety | Dave McNary | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Before the WGA went on strike, its leaders repeatedly assured members they would retain eligibility within the guild-industry health plan for the dura...
New York Post | Zachery Kouwe | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
Sure to delight movie studio chiefs and producers everywhere, the striking Writers Guild of America is about to be struck by its own downtrodden emplo...
The Hollywood Reporter | Kimberly Nordyke and Paul J. Gough | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
As Jay Leno, Conan O'Brien and Jimmy Kimmel plan their return to late-night, their respective networks mostly were keeping mum on plans for the hosts'...
AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
David Letterman doesn't even need writers to have fun with this one. The late-night comic's representatives met with striking writers on Friday in an...
AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
Leaders of striking television writers plan to meet Friday with David Letterman's production company in an attempt to reach a separate deal that could...
Deadline Hollywood Daily | Nikki FInke | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
UPDATED THROUGHOUT: Sources tell me the Writers Guild Of America is intending to grant David Letterman's independent production company Worldwide Pant...
AP | Gary Gentile | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
Film and TV writers who've been on strike for nearly a month are mulling a new contract offer from Hollywood studios. Producers said the offer they pr...
Deadline Hollywood Daily | Nikki Finke | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
This is the eighth of the Writers Guild Of America member-conceived Internet videos for Project "Speechless" featuring A-list Screen Actors Guild tale...
AP | Posted 09.12.2009 | Media