Comments for Writers Strike Update and Your Soap Operas at http://www.soapdom.com , comment 1 to 6 out of 6 comments http://www.soapdom.com Mon, 20 May 2013 00:53:39 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.soapdom.com/Top-of-the-Week/writers-strike-update-and-your-soap-operas.html#comment-307 I just read the studio's have cancelled some of the writers contracts. I guess this surprised the writers they didnt see this coming. Everyone loses. Even when this is over there will be no winners. http://tv.yahoo.com/news/article/urn:newsml:tv.ap.org:20080115:hollywood_lab Report: Studios cancel writers contracts > > > Tue Jan 15, 4:45 AM PST > > Four major studios have canceled dozens of writers' contracts in a > possible concession that the current television season cannot be > saved, the Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday. > > The move means the 2-month old writers strike may also endanger next > season's new shows, the Times said. > > January is usually the beginning of pilot season, when networks order > new scripted shows. But the strike leaves networks without a pool of > comedy and drama scripts from which to choose. > > 20th Century Fox Television, CBS Paramount Network Television, NBC > Universal and Warner Bros. Television told the Times they have > terminated development and production agreements. > > Studios typically pay $500,000 to $2 million a year per writer for > them and their staffs to develop new show concepts. > > "I didn't see it coming," Barbara Hall, a writer and producer whose > credits include former CBS series "Joan of Arcadia" and "Judging Amy," > told the Times, which said ABC executives gave her the news Friday. "I > am not entirely sure what their strategy is, all I know was that I was > a casualty of it." > > The newspaper said more than 65 deals with writers have been > eliminated since Friday. > > Copyright C 2008 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. The > information contained in the AP News report may not be published, > broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without the prior written > authority of The Associated Press. - Marla J Wed, 16 Jan 2008 08:04:40 +0100 http://www.soapdom.com/Top-of-the-Week/writers-strike-update-and-your-soap-operas.html#comment-298 I agree with the writers, but this strike is a boomerang, not just people in the entertainment business, but just about everyone, right down to the restaurants, waiters, who would have made megabucks with all the parties from the "Golden Globe Awards", or possibly the Oscars. It has hit everyone. As far as the statement, if we see one of actors say or do something that is off character, the scab writers will do their best, well, there has been no scab writers for several years, and every character on GL says and does things that are not in character. So what's new there:) - toots1941 Sun, 13 Jan 2008 03:58:31 +0100 http://www.soapdom.com/Top-of-the-Week/writers-strike-update-and-your-soap-operas.html#comment-291 I just read that George Clooney is putting together a strike busting team. Something to get every back to the table and negotiating. I hope he can do it. It seems we are into a stalemate. No one is budging. While I agree in principal with the writers, I also dont think the execs are the bad guys either. To produce a show it takes a team - writers, directors, producers, etc.... we need them all to make a show and I dont think one is any more important than the other. But the losers are more than just the writers - its the viewers and all the businesses that support this industy. - Marla J Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:56:05 +0100 http://www.soapdom.com/Top-of-the-Week/writers-strike-update-and-your-soap-operas.html#comment-270 Hi gidget6 and sjm55, Your comments are right on the money. What gets me is the arrogance of the producers who have walked away from the bargaining table. From what I hear from sources near the top, the writers are ready and willing to get back to talking but the producers are not so interested. Meantime, all of our programming is suffering, not to mention the crews, production staff, actors, and of course, the writers, who are all out of work. What's interesting to me is that no one is stepping in to mediate and get the parties back to the bargaining table. Linda Your QueenRuler - QueenRuler Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:49:37 +0100 http://www.soapdom.com/Top-of-the-Week/writers-strike-update-and-your-soap-operas.html#comment-268 I totally agree with you, gidget6! I think the "big guys" at the top are being totally narrow-minded and selfish. There would be NO shows to produce if they didn't have the writers. I think they're all run by 20 year olds (a slight exaggeration, I realize! LOL!) who think reality shows are the only thing people want to watch and that these same people would never again miss a good drama or half hour comedy. It just makes me see "red." The writers aren't really asking for too much. Most actors are on their side, also. - sjm55 Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:04:21 +0100 http://www.soapdom.com/Top-of-the-Week/writers-strike-update-and-your-soap-operas.html#comment-261 I do not think the writers are wrong in their stand. Any of their work shown anywhere is still their work and they should own it. If any one profits from the writers material then the writers deserve to recive fair compensation for it. Hang in there writers we are behind you. - gidget6 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 23:57:40 +0100