After I posted this in the GM&TV someone thought I should post it in here, *Shrug* okay. Some more links I found regarding all this. Some are from today and some are from yesterday, etc. Hope it helps. Sorry if any links are broke, as it breaks stories seem to get moved around. Yahoo News: Writers strike nearing postscript? Yahoo News: Screenwriters union leaders said to back contract Hollywood Reporter: Right now it's all on spec La Time: Hollywood focuses on fast end to long strike La Times: Show Tracker TvGuide Online Show Tracker [reposted] ETA (2:39 pm): Yahoo News: Hollywood writers meet on tentative deal LA Times: WGA, studios reach tentative contract Tv Guide: WGA Reaches Tentative Deal with AMPTP Summery Of Tentative Agreement Letter from President With Deal Summery ETA (4:51 pm): Yahoo News: Striking writers reach tentative deal with studios Tv Guide: A Tentative Deal Is Reached; WGA Prez Gives it a Thumbs-up ETA (9:20 pm): Yahoo News: Hollywood writers consider studio offer Yahoo News: Hollywood writers eye end of strike
I found this link regarding the writers strike http://uk.news.yahoo.com/wenn/20080209/ten-hollywood-writers-strike-comes-to-an-c60bd6d_1.html
Thanks for all of these, guys! Looks like it's good news all around. And it looks like the CSI shows will all have 4-7 new eps for us!
YES! It's about time. It just goes to show that those big wig, greedy sods holding out on the writers will cave with enough pressure. I'm really pleased that we're getting more episodes... but I'm even happier for the writers who must be on the bones of their bum by now. Kudos to them for holding out.
Here are some more links for anyone interested, if the Mods here don't want me to post them in both places please pm me to let me know. Yahoo News: Writers signal support for studio offer Yahoo News: Striking writers upbeat about proposed deal LA Times: Optimism abounds, but the strike isn't over yet Tv Guide: Tentative Deal Struck: Writers to Vote, Could Start Work by Wednesday Variety: WGA to hold 48-hour vote Variety: Writers, Producers Reach Tentative Deal Now SAG: Variety: SAG to negotiate with AFTRA <SNIP> "Negotiations on a new deal for actors have not been set yet but AFTRA's leaders have indicated that they expect both unions to be ready to start talks by March 31. The SAG-AFTRA contract, which covers feature and primetime TV work, expires June 30."
Yep and here via Fox News, Writers Guild of America Calls for Membership to Vote on New Deal, End Strike <Snip> "The Writers Guild of America moved swiftly Sunday toward a resolution of its three-month-old strike, with guild leaders deciding to recommend the contract to members and ask them to vote on a quick end to the walkout." United Hollywood: FAQ On How The Voting Works - You can get to this from here or from the fox News article.
Here's another update it's from Time Writers Guild Reaches a Tentative Deal And here's one from The Wall Street Journal Letter to Writers Guild Members. It's kinda long but I'll post the whole thing for those of you interested in reading this because you can't actually read the entire article online unless you have a WSJ Subscription. Text of letter announcing tentative deal to members of the Writers Guild of America, dated Feb. 9. To Our Fellow Members, We have a tentative deal. It is an agreement that protects a future in which the Internet becomes the primary means of both content creation and delivery. It creates formulas for revenue-based residuals in new media, provides access to deals and financial data to help us evaluate and enforce those formulas, and establishes the principle that, "When they get paid, we get paid." Specific terms of the agreement are described in the summary on our website and will be further discussed at our Saturday membership meetings on both coasts. At those meetings we will also discuss how we will proceed regarding ratification of this agreement and lifting the restraining order that ends the strike. Less than six months ago, the AMPTP wanted to enact profit-based residuals, defer all Internet compensation in favor of a study, forever eliminate "distributor's gross" valuations, and enforce 39 pages of rollbacks to compensation, pension and health benefits, reacquisition, and separated rights. Today, thanks to three months of physical resolve, determination, and perseverance, we have a contract that includes WGA jurisdiction and separated rights in new media, residuals for Internet reuse, enforcement and auditing tools, expansion of fair market value and distributor's gross language, improvements to other traditional elements of the MBA, and no rollbacks. Over these three difficult months, we shut down production of nearly all scripted content in TV and film and had a serious impact on the business of our employers in ways they did not expect and were hard pressed to deflect. Nevertheless, an ongoing struggle against seven, multinational media conglomerates, no matter how successful, is exhausting, taking an enormous personal toll on our members and countless others. As such, we believe that continuing to strike now will not bring sufficient gains to outweigh the potential risks and that the time has come to accept this contract and settle the strike. Much has been achieved, and while this agreement is neither perfect nor perhaps all that we deserve for the countless hours of hard work and sacrifice, our strike has been a success. We activated, engaged, and involved the membership of our Guilds with a solidarity that has never before occurred. We developed a captains system and a communications structure that used the Internet to build bonds within our membership and beyond. We earned the backing of other unions and their members worldwide, the respect of elected leaders and politicians throughout the nation, and the overwhelming support of fans and the general public. Our thanks to all of them, and to the staffs at both Guilds who have worked so long and patiently to help us all. There is much yet to be done and we intend to use all the techniques and relationships we've developed in this strike to make it happen. We must support our brothers and sisters in SAG who, as their contract expires in less than five months, will be facing many of the same challenges we have just endured. We must further pursue new relationships we have established in Washington and in state and local governments so that we can maintain leverage against the consolidated multinational conglomerates with whom we bargain. We must be vigilant in monitoring the deals that are made in new media so that in the years ahead we can enforce and expand our contract. We must fight to get decent working conditions and benefits for writers of reality TV, animation, and any other genre in which writers do not have a WGA contract. Most important, however, is to continue to use the new collective power we have generated for our collective benefit. More than ever, now and beyond, we are all in this together. Best, Michael Winship President Writers Guild of America, East Patric M. Verrone President Writers Guild of America, West
Very interesting--looks like they're not totally happy but figure that this is the best they're going to get.
I was checking the TV Guide website and they are now reporting that the 3 CSIs are all expected to shoot 4 to 9 new episodes to air in March/April/May.
Yahoo news: ABC announces pick-up orders for 9 shows Yahoo news: When do we get our post-strike TV shows? NY Times: After the Writers' Strike Yahoo News: Writers strike leaves winners and losers
Sweet--thanks for the info, guys! Looks like we'll definitely be seeing more of the CSI shows this season!
Tv Guide: After the WGA Strike When Your Favorites Will Return! is updated hourly and some shows will be getting more eps to air between April/May. Yahoo News: Hollywood writers to vote on contract USA Today: Television production goes from stalled to high gear Strike enters countdown mode Tv Guide: WGA Votes Tuesday on Lifting Strike Order -- Both the East and West wings of the WGA vote Tuesday on whether to lift the three-month strike. Polls on the East Coast close at 7 pm/ET and at 6 pm/PT on the West Coast. Yahoo News: Writers voting on ending strike -- The results of the vote are expected to be available late Tuesday night.