Study: Strike Didn't Stop TV Usage
During the WGA strike, TV fans barely left the couch. According to a new study, strike-era viewers managed to increase the amount of time spent watch...
During the WGA strike, TV fans barely left the couch. According to a new study, strike-era viewers managed to increase the amount of time spent watch...
Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
I recently sat down with Steven Paul Mark, formerly of Comedy Central, and chatted about the writers' strike, Colbert For President, and the Daily Show blackout's impact on campaign overage.
AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
NEW YORK — Fans of the Fox drama "24" will have to wait until next January to see Jack Bauer again, this television season's most prominent casu...
Entertainment Weekly | Dan Snierson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Now that the writers' strike is over, see at a glance when your favorite TV shows will be back with new episodes, and how many will be produced BACK ...
Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
With the vote to end the strike made official on Tuesday, writers returned to work yesterday — and while scripted TV shows will come back at var...
Los Angeles Times | Meg James | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
The strike by the Writers Guild of America ended not a moment too soon for Jay Leno. After 100 days, the guests were wearing thin. Larry the Cable Gu...
New York Press | David Blum | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Last Thursday night, as Michael Cieply put the finishing touches on his gripping 1,260-word narrative for the next day's New York Times, he felt a mix...
ABC News | BRIAN ROONEY | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Striking writers on both the East and West coasts appear to be giving two thumbs up to a deal that would end the three-month long strike by the Writer...
Deadline Hollywood Daily | Nikki Finke | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
I'm told by sources that the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and NBC are on the verge of taking legal action against the WGA for actions leading t...
Silicon Alley Insider | Michael Learmonth | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Former Disney chairman Michael Eisner said on CNBC this evening that both sides have shaken hands on a deal, and all that's left is for the Writers Gu...
AP | FRAZIER MOORE | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
NEW YORK — No more writers on picket lines. No more network TV bosses scrambling for replacement shows. But enough about them. What about us? Tw...
AP | LYNN ELBER | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
LOS ANGELES — A devastating, three-month walkout that brought the entertainment industry to a standstill ended Tuesday when Hollywood writers vo...
AP | LYNN ELBER | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
LOS ANGELES — Hollywood writers got their first look Saturday at details of a tentative agreement with studios that could put the strike-cripple...
236.com | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Pending a vote by the WGA, it looks like the writers' strike is finally over. Who won? Hard to say, other than Nikki Finke, of deadlinehollywooddaily....
LA Weekly | Nikki Finke | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
SUNDAY 12:30 PM: At the WGA's news conference today, union leaders declared the new contract is "a huge victory for us". Trumpeted WGAW President Patr...
Variety | JOSEF ADALIAN, MICHAEL SCHNEIDER | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
As showrunners flip on the lights and scribes once again occupy long-abandoned writers' rooms, network and studio execs are still figuring out what li...
New York Times | David Carr | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
When the Writers Guild of America held its annual awards ceremony Saturday night in Manhattan, it felt more like a victory celebration. So after a lon...
Hollywood Reporter | Nellie Andrews | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
There will be less "Dirt" and "Riches" on FX's schedule this year. In a sign of what's in store for the series -- whose production was impacted by th...
New York Times | MIchael Cieply | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Informal talks between representatives of Hollywood's writers and production companies eliminated the major roadblocks to a new contract, opening the ...
NY Mag | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
The writers' strike may end soon, and the SNL gang may have their day jobs back, but in the meantime, Amy Poehler's getting her groove back. "I went t...
AP | Lynn Elber | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
An agreement to end the three-month-old Hollywood writers strike could be ready in time to avoid disrupting the Oscars but studios and the union are s...
Variety | Dave McNary | Posted 05.25.2011 | 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...
AP | SANDY COHEN | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
LOS ANGELES — A contingency plan that would include history, film clips and out-of-the-ordinary concepts for the 80th annual Academy Awards show...
AP | LYNN ELBER | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
LOS ANGELES — Life just got a lot easier for the head of the Recording Academy. Last month, Neil Portnow vowed to stage a full-scale Grammy Awa...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
WASHINGTON — The Hollywood writers strike shuttered production on ABC's "Desperate Housewives," but Marcia Cross hasn't been spending her downti...
Hollywood Reporter | James Hibberd | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media