“Here is what all writers know: the companies have broken this business,” the WGA stated in its message announcing the strike to members. “They have taken so much from the very people, the writers, who have made them wealthy. But what they cannot take from us is each other, our sol...
As TV Academy members toasted the stars of “Ted Lasso” on May 1, things were about to change dramatically in the Emmy campaign space. Apple TV+ was celebrating the opening of a “For Your Consideration” activation at Goya Studios, where it erected a massive tent to showcase its bevy ...
Many writers are using the strike period to work on other creative projects. Jones, for example, has become something of an expert at crocheting to the point where people are offering to pay $120-plus for original works, while Nicole has started writing plays for the first time. "Pens...
The article examines how the Writers Guild of America strike will affect media buyers' upfront packages for 2007-2008 television season. It is reported that media buyers have indicated that they may be a month away fro...
Broadcast networks took wildly different approaches to dealing (or not) with the possibility of a long writers strike disrupting the fall launch.
I argue that television entertainment writers, their cultural status, and rhetorical skills are critical to national discourse and media structures. Focusing on the 2007-8 writers strike, the project analyzes videos that writers made about the conflict, showing how "rhetorical writers" used satire, ...
Thousands of television and film writers who are part of the Writers Guild of America are in the middle of a historic strike. They’re forming picket lines in front of studios, and productions in New York and Los Angeles and shutting down active sets. The last time they went on strike wa...
When she finally destroys it, its last act is to shoot her with multiple additional tracking pellets. She slits her own throat knowing that she can't outrun more of them. How depressing is it? 2. She was just trying to do something nice and the terror as she runs for her life is...
I could tell you many things about radium and radioactivity, and it would take a long time. But as we can not do that, I shall only give you a short account of my early work about radium. Radium is no longer a baby; it is more than twenty years old, but the discovery conditions ...
TheWriters Guild of America (WGA)voted to call anindustry strike on May 1, following six weeks offailed contract negotiationswith theAlliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP). It's anupdated version of the 100-day-long WGA strikethat lasted from November 2007 to February 2008...