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Directors Guild Offers Talks, Complicating Writers' Strike

New York Times | MICHAEL CIEPLY | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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Movie and television directors said Thursday that they were prepared to begin bargaining toward a new contract with production companies after the New...

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Writers Guild Files Labor Complaint Against Studios

AP | LYNN ELBER | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment

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Union officials representing striking Hollywood writers said Thursday they have filed an unfair labor practices complaint claiming studios violated fe...

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Writers' Guild Is Losing Ground

BusinessWeek | Ron Grover | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

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Hollywood union strikes have never been a dainty affair. On one side, you usually have powerful people with tons of money and even weightier egos. On ...

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Striking Writers Heckle Carson Daly, Get Tossed Out Of Taping

Defamer | Mark Lisanti | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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Having survived a public buggering following the announcement that he'd be the first late-night talkshow host to cross the WGA picket line and the sub...

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Strike May Permanently Kill Elaborate May Upfronts

New York Times | Bill Carter | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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Unless something happens quickly to restart stalled talks between entertainment producers and the Writers Guild of America, one of the oldest rituals ...

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Writers Buy AMPTP.com For Hilarious Spoof Of Producers' Website

The Hollywood Wiretap | Nancy Vialatte | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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The writers made a different kind of strike against AMPTP yesterday when a chink in the armor left the door wide open to anyone who knows anything abo...

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Strike Allowing Networks To Expand Election Coverage

New York Post | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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It's looking like the writ ers' strike, already in its sixth week, will give the broadcast networks an opportunity to change their plans and showcase ...

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NBC Quietly Refunds Unhappy 4Q Advertisers

Ad Week | John Consoli | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

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NBC has quietly begun reimbursing advertisers for fourth-quarter prime-time ratings shortfalls, averaging about $500,000 per advertiser, according to ...

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Hollywood Workers Urge Talks As Writers, Producers Walk Away From The Table

New York Times | Michael R. Blood | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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The Hollywood strike is rewriting the holidays for idled workers. With her income pinched, script supervisor Petra Jorgensen canceled an annual trip ...

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Reality Shows To Flood Prime-Time TV Come January

New York Times | EDWARD WYATT | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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Each year television viewers emerge in January from the traditional December blizzard of holiday specials and college football bowl games seeking new ...

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Writers' Strike Week 5: At An Impasse

AP | Lynn Elber | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment

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A few days ago, hopes were high that a deal to end a costly five-week strike by thousands of Hollywood writers was imminent. But optimism that writers...

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Negotiations Between Writers And Producers Collapse

AP | Lynn Elber | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment

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Negotiations between striking Hollywood writers and studios collapsed Friday, the culimination of a day in which the sides traded barbs and accusation...

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Tina Fey's Daughter A Little Liar

People | Kathy Ehrich Dowd and Tim Nudd | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment

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As the writers' strike wears on, Tina Fey gets to spend a lot more time with her 2-year-old daughter Alice - and is finding out just how grown-up the ...

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Report: Producers Close To Walking Out Of Strike Talks

Deadline Hollywood Daily | Nikki Finke | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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I wish I had better news about the AMPTP-WGA contract negotiations, but I don't. To sum up, they suck. I took extra time reporting tonight, and some v...

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SNL Turns To "Best Of" Episodes During Strike

New York Post | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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NBC will air "Best Of" episodes of "Saturday Night Live," in prime time, as the writers' strike continues to affect regular programming. The 90-minut...

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Producer: Talks "Going Backwards"

Deadline Hollywood Daily | Nikki Finke | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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The largest part of today's negotiations were taken over by the WGA's small group discussion of jurisdiction for Reality TV and made-for-Web content a...

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Writers Optimistic After "Substantive" Talks

AP | Lynn Elber | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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Both sides in the Hollywood writers strike expressed optimism that progress was being made in contract negotiations aimed at ending a five-week walkou...

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Leno Tells Staff He Will Pay Them Through Christmas

Variety | JOSEF ADALIAN and DAVE MCNARY | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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"Tonight Show" host Jay Leno met with his staff Wednesday and vowed that he'd continue personally to pay their salaries through at least Christmas. L...

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WGA Lead Neogotiator May Be Out Of His League

Wall Street Journal | PETER SANDERS, SAM SCHECHNER and MERISSA MARR | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

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For the past month, striking screenwriters have placed their faith in veteran union organizer David Young, who cut his teeth rallying garment workers,...

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Strike Talks Proving Unproductive

AP | Lynn Elber | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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In statements circulated by producers and striking writers, a relatively scant $20 million appears to separate their contract proposals. But the diff...

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Strike Giving Way To New Crop Of Reality Shows

New York Times | Brian Stelter | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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As original episodes of scripted comedies and dramas dry up because of the Writers Guild of America strike, reality competitions and game shows are li...

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Carson Daly Defies Strike To Get Back On Air: "We Ran Out Of Repeats"

AP | Frazier Moore | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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Carson Daly killed a few moments Monday night sharing snapshots of his "Last Call" staffers during their four-week hiatus. He noted, gratefully, that...

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"Writers On Strike" Named 2007 Media Person Of The Year

I Want Media | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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Hollywood's striking movie and television writers received the most votes by far in an online poll by I Want Media to name the 2007 Media Person of th...

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Jimmy Kimmel, Quiet Hero: Been Paying Staff Since Strike Began

TMZ | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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Jimmy Kimmel loves the little people -- who work on this show, that is. TMZ has learned that Kimmel, host of his own late night show on ABC, has been ...

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Tonight Show Staffers Laid Off, But Leno Will Cover Their Salaries

The Hollywood Reporter | Paul Bond | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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Jay Leno will pay out of his pocket the salaries of some 80 staffers of "The Tonight Show" who were laid off on Friday for at least the next week, a s...

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