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THE STRIKE IS OVER! TV IS BACK! TV IS BACK!!
HOORAY! According to Disney's Michael Eisner, the writers' strike is over! We don't know why, and we don't know how. But the man assured us that this whole horrible travesty is finally coming to an end with writers returning to work soon.
Wait, we just remembered something...TV kinda sucked. [CNBC]
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Striking Writers Form Online Video Company Visual Artists, I Still Want New "Heroes"
Led by the writer of Air Bud (that bodes well), a large posse of out-of-work WGAers is looking to launch the online video company, Visual Arists, later this year with over $30 million in funding with Silicon Valley types. Supposedly a bunch of A-listers are on board, which gives small hope that they punch out fare along the lines of name-checked Juno and The Office. More »
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The Daily Show and Colbert Report Return Jan. 7, Sans Striking Writers
Like late-night white knights, Jon Stewart and Colbert are returning to save us from rerun/reality TV/web purgatory on Jan. 7—the news has been the exact same for weeks, right? But they won't have an army of writers to make sure every word out of their mouth kills, so we'll see just how much funny naturally spills out of their brains. I have faith, do you? [TechCrunch]
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Producers Say the Strike Has Cost Writers $106 Million...and Counting
The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers has a fun new flash widget on their site with a running tally of how much income the writers have dropped into a black hole since the strike started. Right now, it's at about $106 million. Kind of a dick move if you ask us, since producers trying to screw writers is why they're at impasse. Besides, writers stand to lose a lot more if they let producers slime their way out of fair compensation deals for new media and internet distribution. Hey writers! If you need some cash in the meantime and don't have Aflac, talk to us. [AMPTP]
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With the WGA writers strike in full swing, we're sure that some families are going hungry. And the subsequent complete staff layoffs are a miserable by-product of corporate greed. But the biggest losers? Those withouthealth insurance anything to watch on their 50-inch flatscreen televisions...those who could hear a pin drop over the silence of their surround sound. Here's a rundown of how many of our favorite shows are left (along with several that are dead in the water):
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Your Writers Strike TV Guide
With the WGA writers strike in full swing, we're sure that some families are going hungry. And the subsequent complete staff layoffs are a miserable by-product of corporate greed. But the biggest losers? Those without
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