NewsCorp president and COO Peter Chernin doesn't need writers: "A strike is probably a positive for the company."
Reuters | Steve Gorman and Dana Ford | Posted 11.09.2007 | Entertainment
Thousands of Hollywood screenwriters on strike against film and TV studios rallied outside 20th Century Fox on Friday in their biggest collective show...
Hollywood Reporter | Posted 11.09.2007 | Media
Writers Guild of America East to Ellen DeGeneres: Don't bother to call on us when you're in the Big Apple. East Coast writers came out swinging Frida...
Broadcasting & Cable | Ben Grossman | Posted 11.09.2007 | Media
NBC informed the nonwriting staff of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno that it will be laid off at the end of next week in the wake of the show shutting ...
New York Magazine | Amy Odell | Posted 11.09.2007 | Media
Conan O'Brien seemed a little bit worried before last night's "Stand Up for Heroes" comedy show to benefit the Bob Woodruff Family Fund, which he was ...
New York Times | Edward Wyatt | Posted 11.09.2007 | Media
At least two major television studios, 20th Century Fox and CBS Paramount, have sent breach-of-contract letters to the show runners on their current s...
AP | Karen Matthews | Posted 11.08.2007 | Entertainment
Julianne Moore schmoozed with Nora Ephron. Robin Williams chatted up David Duchovny. Richard Belzer walked one dog and toted another in a zippered bag...
Huffington Post | Katherine Thomson | Posted 11.08.2007 | Media
Ellen Degeneres crossed picket lines to continue taping her daytime talk show. But, she took the side of the strikers in today's non-monologue. Instea...
Hollywood Reporter | Nellie Andreeva | Posted 11.08.2007 | Business
Three days in, the writers strike is hitting television hard as schedules are being juggled, overall deals suspended, production on series shut down a...
AP | Frazier Moore | Posted 11.08.2007 | Entertainment
The writers strike has struck down the Fox thriller "24." "24" is absent from the network's revised, strike-affected schedule for midseason. In its a...
International Herald Tribune | Posted 11.08.2007 | Entertainment
The cast of the top-rated medical drama "Grey's Anatomy" joined striking Hollywood writers on a picket line. Stars Patrick Dempsey, Ellen Pompeo, Kat...
AP | Posted 11.08.2007 | Entertainment
While writers picket in Hollywood and New York, the impact of a strike entering its fourth day was being felt beyond the east and west coasts. In Lou...
New York Times | Brian Stelter | Posted 11.07.2007 | Media
As the writers' strike enters day three, some writers and producers are taking to the video sharing site YouTube to express their frustrations. A You...
CNet News | Caroline McCarthy | Posted 11.07.2007 | Business
In his keynote speech on Wednesday morning at the Media and Money conference hosted by Dow Jones and Nielsen, former Disney CEO Michael Eisner talked ...
AP | Gary Gentile | Posted 11.07.2007 | Entertainment
The impact of a strike by television and film writers was becoming more evident as the walkout entered its third day. Production on at least six sitco...
Bloomberg | Michael White | Posted 11.06.2007 | Business
The Hollywood writers strike may prompt television advertisers to cancel purchases or demand additional spots to compensate for declining ratings, Sta...
AP | Gary Gentile | Posted 11.06.2007 | Entertainment
Production of three sitcoms filmed before live audiences has been halted because of the Hollywood writers strike, networks said Tuesday. "Back to You...
Reuters | Posted 11.06.2007 | Entertainment
It was a slow day at "The Office" on Monday, Day 1 of the Writers Guild of America's first strike in almost 20 years. Several cast members of the hit...
AP | RAQUEL MARIA DILLON | Posted 11.06.2007 | Entertainment
Jay Leno rolled up to a picket line on his motorcycle with doughnuts for striking writers at NBC. Julia Louis-Dreyfus marched with pickets at Warner ...
David Feige | Posted 11.06.2007 | Entertainment
What's with our signage? A number of pedestrians I spoke to made the not unreasonable point that for a bunch of writers, our signs were awfully boring. And they were.
Trey Ellis | Posted 11.05.2007 | Entertainment
The writers who don't think the fight over new media compensation is worth striking over cannot be planning on writing anything for compensation in the very near future.
Jon Robin Baitz | Posted 11.05.2007 | Entertainment
Through their lives, the motto of my fellow picketers -- this March of the Schleppers -- has been rather like that of doctors: "First do no harm". "Then make them laugh." "Then make them think." "Then have a sandwich".
AP | RAQUEL MARIA DILLON | Posted 11.05.2007 | Entertainment
Noise and other disruptions caused by a Hollywood writers' picket line caused filming to stop Monday at a location for CBS' "Cane." The shutdown came...
Hot Blog | Michael Poland | Posted 11.05.2007 | Entertainment
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AP | Posted 11.05.2007 | Entertainment
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Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 11.10.2007 | Media