SATURDAY UPDATE: I've just been told that the Hollywood/Big Media CEOs who belong to the AMPTP are furious at MGM chairman Harry Sloan for "allowing" ...
Deadline Hollywood Daily | Nikki Finke | Posted 01.05.2008 | Media
My sources say the striking Writers Guild Of America has told the Hollywood Foreign Press Association that the union won't picket the Golden Globes aw...
New York Times | Bill Carter | Posted 01.05.2008 | Media
The restrictions that the striking Writers Guild of America has placed on late-night television hosts to keep them from writing material for their sho...
AP | Lynn Elber | Posted 01.04.2008 | Entertainment
The Screen Actors Guild said Friday there appears to be unanimous agreement that nominated actors will not cross striking writers' picket lines to at...
New York Post | Zachery Kouwe | Posted 01.04.2008 | 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...
Steve Young | Posted 01.04.2008 | Entertainment
If content originates with a host, a video editor, a cameraman or the wife of a cameraman, handwritten or hand-signaled for use on the show, it's literary material and should be covered under WGA guidelines.
Laurie Nadel | Posted 01.03.2008 | Entertainment
I dreaded the WGA strike for several reasons: The strike would make it clear that our newsfeeds could go out without writers. It was just a question of time before our jobs were phased out.
FishBowl | Posted 01.03.2008 | Media
Graydon Carter will hold his legendary Vanity Fair Oscar party whether or not the Writers Guild of America strike is resolved by the time of the cerem...
AP | SANDY COHEN | Posted 01.02.2008 | Media
The Golden Globe Awards were thrust into deeper jeopardy Wednesday when the striking writers guild refused to negotiate with Globe organizers about st...
AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 01.02.2008 | Media
A fully bearded David Letterman opened his first show in two months by walking out amid dancing girls holding picket signs for striking TV writers. "I...
The Hollywood Reporter | Kimberly Nordyke and Paul J. Gough | Posted 01.02.2008 | 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 12.31.2007 | Media
Robin Williams will be David Letterman's first guest upon the return of his "Late Show" on CBS Wednesday. The appearance of a Hollywood A-lister who ...
People | Stephen M. Silverman | Posted 12.31.2007 | Media
The welcome mat is out for George Clooney, Keira Knightley and Julia Roberts - as well as the other Golden Globe nominees. NBC says that the Jan. 13 ...
New York Times | Brooks Barnes | Posted 12.31.2007 | Media
A dozen striking screenwriters gathered in the bar at the Hotel Bel Air not long ago to decompress after another day on the picket line. Less than 10 ...
AP | Lynn Elber | Posted 12.28.2007 | Business
Hollywood studios said Friday that striking writers have now lost more in salary and benefits than they had hoped to gain by walking off the job. In ...
New York Times | MICHAEL CIEPLY | Posted 12.27.2007 | Media
Hollywood's glamour machine has gotten stuck between a promise that the stars will still show up at next month's Golden Globes and a threat that 3,000...
Silicon Alley Insider | Henry Blodget | Posted 12.27.2007 | Media
The Hollywood writers won the first PR round of this self-defeating strike with some amusing YouTube videos. Then the studios responded by hiring prof...
Baltimore Sun | Chris Emery | Posted 12.26.2007 | Media
Makeup artists at HD stations with big budgets use airbrushes to apply specially formulated cosmetics. Their makeup contains no silicon or mica becaus...
AP | Posted 12.25.2007 | Media
For Carson Daly, the phrase "the show must go on" has taken on a whole new significance. "An ultimatum was put in front of me," Daly told the Los Ange...
AP | David Bauder | Posted 12.24.2007 | Media
To prepare for a prolonged writers strike, television networks have stockpiled a gladiator battle, a lie-detector game, a remade "Password," a celebri...
AP | Jocelyn Noveck | Posted 12.24.2007 | Media
Attention, presidential candidates: Not to disrupt your holiday plans, but if you have any cringe-inducing mistakes, insensitive jokes or outright hyp...
Huffington Post | Posted 12.22.2007 | Media
Jessica Bendinger, the writer of hit movies including "Bring it On" and "Stick It," has joined with fellow writers to launch a series of YouTube video...
AP | Posted 12.21.2007 | 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 12.21.2007 | 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...
AP | Posted 12.20.2007 | Media
"The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" and "The Colbert Report" will resume production on Jan. 7 without their striking writers, the Comedy Central network...
Deadline Hollywood Daily | Nikki Finke | Posted 01.05.2008 | Entertainment