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Leno Strips Down

Jonathan Handel | Posted 12.11.2008 | Entertainment

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Broadcast audiences are aging and advertisers are falling away due to the recession and, to some extent, the Internet. Leno's stripping, but the networks themselves may be losing their shirts.

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Tyler Perry's Alleged Role As Union Buster Becoming Big Obama Embarrassment?

Deadline Hollywood Daily | Posted 10.03.2008 | Entertainment

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One of Barack Obama's staunchest supporters and prized campaigners and film biographers from the motion picture and television business has just been ...

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TV Shows and Films May or May Not Be in Jeopardy: Nonetheless, Studios Won't Have it So Easy Screwing the Talent

Michael Russnow | Posted 07.14.2008 | Entertainment

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Thanks to the WGA strike, management now takes the artistic community seriously, but it couldn't have been accomplished without the support provided by the Screen Actors Guild.

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HuffPoster John Ridley Among Those Called Out By Writer's Guild

Reny Monk | Posted 04.18.2008 | Entertainment

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The WGA has sent out a castigating letter to its members that lists names of writers who crossed the picket lines during the tense hundred-day strike that ended in February.

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WGA Strike Primer: The Wrap-up

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 02.26.2008 | Entertainment

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Throughout the strike, there regularly were news stories about dissension in the Writers Guild. Writers dissent for breakfast. Finding dissent in the WGA is like finding sand at the beach.

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Writers Guild Deal: Details

Jonathan Handel | Posted 02.21.2008 | Entertainment

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Want to know the gory details of the tentative writers deal now being voted on by the Writers Guild members?

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WGA Strike Primer: Settling a Final Debt

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 02.19.2008 | Entertainment

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Admiration and thanks are plentiful. But I still reserve my awe for the strike captains.

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Breaking News: Hollywood Execs Ahead of Curve

Nicholas Weinstock | Posted 02.15.2008 | Entertainment

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It's not surprising -- as has become clear in the oceanic email volume of these post-strike days -- that many writers turn out to have written scripts on spec over the past few months.

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The Writers Strike Is Over! Hooray?

Lloyd Garver | Posted 02.14.2008 | Entertainment

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After working steadily as a TV writer for many years, I made a big mistake: I allowed some of my hair to turn gray. In the eyes of those at the studios, I was suddenly too old to be funny.

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Striking Out: Writing Without the WGA in LA

Adam Baer | Posted 02.13.2008 | Entertainment

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Most Los Angeles writers who haven't yet joined the WGA and continue to peck away at careers in writing for publication had their moment in the sun during the Writer's strike.

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Rumor: NBC May Sue Writers Guild Over Canceled Golden Globes

Deadline Hollywood Daily | Nikki Finke | Posted 02.13.2008 | Media

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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...

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How the WGA Won: A Behind the Scenes Look at the WGA Strike

Roger Wolfson | Posted 02.12.2008 | Entertainment

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The groundwork for the writers' strike started with something the town rarely notices: a routine, biannual WGA election.

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What I'll Miss When the Strike Is Over

Ken Levine | Posted 02.11.2008 | Entertainment

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The incessant honking. It was like driving in Mexico City... Hanging out on the picket line with my good buddy Elvis Costello. It was one of the greatest minutes of my life.

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WGA Strike Primer: The Deal Offer

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 02.11.2008 | Entertainment

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No, this contract isn't great. But it has much good, some wonderful, and establishes critical precedents in New Media. And considering the alternative, it saves the Writers Guild.

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Where's the AMPTP? And Do We Care?

Jonathan Handel | Posted 02.11.2008 | Entertainment

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In a wonderful article, Variety summarizes the last few month of negotiation, and notes that "movement in the WGA talks began when Disney CEO Robert I...

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Notes from the Shrine: The Big WGA Meeting

Ken Levine | Posted 02.10.2008 | Entertainment

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About an hour in, Patric Verrone was handed a note and announced that someone was live blogging and would they please stop it. I was worried that everyone would look to me, and I would have to say, "Hey, guys. I don't even know how to text message."

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Writers Deal: Analysis

Jonathan Handel | Posted 02.10.2008 | Entertainment

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The writers faced down eight large media companies and conglomerates, and won what appears to be a decent beachhead on the Internet.

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Writers Deal: Details Emerge

Jonathan Handel | Posted 02.09.2008 | Entertainment

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The Writers Guild held a closed-door meeting Friday with strike captains to brief them on the tentative deal. Here's what a source inside the room told me.

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WGA Strike Primer: The Secret Letter

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 02.08.2008 | Entertainment

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You've probably heard that the strike is over. It isn't. No, really, it isn't. The truth is, no one speaking publicly knows what the deal actually is.

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WGA Strike Primer: Crossing Paths with Carson Daly

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 02.05.2008 | Entertainment

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Carson Daly's name still can bring a twitch to many a Writers Guild member. But he had the bad fortune to be first.

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Favored Nations?

Jonathan Handel | Posted 02.04.2008 | Entertainment

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With a writers deal apparently in the offing, now's a time to pause and ask about favored nations.

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The WGA Strike For Dummies: It Ain't Over 'til It's Over

Michael Russnow | Posted 02.03.2008 | Entertainment

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It's intriguing how the writers' strike rumor mill builds everybody up and then shoots him or her down.

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Deal To End Hollywood Strike May Come Next Week

New York Times | MIchael Cieply | Posted 02.02.2008 | Media

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Informal talks between representatives of Hollywood's writers and production companies eliminated the major roadblocks to a new contract, opening the ...

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My Morning with Reverend Al

Lynn Grossman | Posted 01.29.2008 | Entertainment

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Al Sharpton was in a rage. He began to scream at us on the picket line, and I mean really scream, apparently furious that we had put a moral decision between him and Barbara Walters.

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WGA Strike Primer: The Big Secret

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 01.29.2008 | Entertainment

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The AMPTP corporations have only themselves to blame. They opened the hidden door, turned on the overhead light, and let writers inside to read the magic book.

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