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Good news all around this week. Finally have official pitch meeting set up at Disney. Time to sell a kids' show!
Second, looks like I'll be back on the Nickelodeon show end of March for a long stint. Lot of episodes ordered for season two. Yay!
It's such a welcome thing after all this forced time off. I missed work.
At the moment I'm enjoying...
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Okay, so the strike is over, but I still don't know when I'm going back to work. I know I have a job, which is nice, but not knowing when I'm going back to work causes me to continue to stress. There's some reality show bullshit shooting in our space so I think until that's over, we're out. Unless the big boys wanna pay for...
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The writer's strike is over! Whooooo-hoooooo!

So there's some action in negotiations. Apparently there's a big meeting this weekend to let us know where things stand. That's a good and possible bad sign. It's good that they've gotten somewhere. It's bad that it could be not worth shit if they come back with a deal as crappy as the DGA's. Why? Because consensus is that the membership (including me) will vote...
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So the Director's Guild of America has reached an agreement with the AMPTP. A strategy move on behalf of the AMPTP since the DGA didn't have to negotiate for another few months and as predicted, they laid down and took it up the ass with what they agreed to. From the key points I've read, they're really getting raped. The only good I see having...
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Word up, homies?
So the strike's still goin' but there's been some progress. After Worldwide Pants and United Artists signed with us a third company jumped on board. The Weinstein Company. This is big. These guys are mega and have produced and distributed some of the best movies over the last ten years. Awesome. Combine that with the Golden Globes being canceled and it's a...
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A Message to the WGA Membership from its Negotiating Committee


As you know, the AMPTP is currently unwilling to bargain with us. The internal dynamics of the AMPTP make it difficult for the conglomerates to reach consensus and negotiate with us on a give and take basis. We believe this multi-employer structure inhibits individual companies from pursuing their self-interest in negotiations. We nonetheless continue to...
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Well, all hope has been lost with the Writer's Strike. As predicted, the AMPTP walked out the other day like a bunch of drama queens. They've decided to write off the rest of this current TV season. So don't plan on seeing anything for a while. This means nothing further is likely to happen until January if we're lucky. By the end of January they...
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Finally over the stomach flu and back to the fight with my brothers and sisters of the WGA. Negotiations keep moving for now, so that's good. Maybe it will be a happy holiday season for us all. Gotta have hope, right?
In the meantime, I'm yanking out my transmission again. Bringing it to a new shop this time instead of the guy who built it....
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Finally, they're going back to the negotiating table! The following is a letter from the WGAW president. Thanks to everyone for your support. Keep your fingers crossed!


To My Fellow Members:

This evening the WGA and the AMPTP announced that we will resume negotiations on Monday, November 26.

This announcement is a direct result of your efforts. It is the direct result of the hours...
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WANNA KNOW WHAT THE WRITERS ARE REALLY ASKING FOR?
READ BELOW.


LETTER FROM PRESIDENT OF WGAW

As expected, the AMPTP today took out another set of full page ads making misleading statements. While we cant meet them ad dollar for ad dollar, I would like to refute their charges here.

* They say that technology and the Internet is rapidly changing how Hollywood works. This...
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Strike seems to be having an effect. Here's the status of production on some big network shows.

Below is a list of when shows are scheduled to go lights out:

30 ROCK
* Shooting #210 through November 9th.
* No additional scripts have been written.

BIG BANG THEORY
* Production shut down.

CAPTAIN, THE
* Shooting #102 November 8th - 14th.
* Have scripts for...
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