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SAG, AFTRA Bosses Bravely Unite For Common Cause Of Walking to San Pedro [Labor Pains]

Mere days after the meltdown of their negotiating partnership in upcoming labor talks with film and TV producers, SAG president Alan Rosenberg and AFTRA boss Ron Morgan appeared at a press conference...

Breaking Down The SAG/ AFTRA Squabble [Strike Two]

There's nothing inherently sexy about the ongoing labor disputes between producers and writers, producers and directors, producers and actors and whatever other banal kerfuffles you care to conjure....

Trekkies Rip Off Rubber Vulcan Ears In Disgust Following Announcement of Five Month 'Star Trek' Rele

· Paramount breaks the hearts of the millions of Trekkies who thought they'd be spending Christmas at the multiplex with Kirk, Spock and Uhura, delaying their J.J. Abrams directed Star Trek...

The Strike Is Over! Look Busy! [Hollywood Back To Workwatch]

The strike is over! Everyone's back to work! As expected, the WGA voted overwhelmingly to dance off the pickets lines and back to their sitcom writers rooms, deadline-rushed screenplays begging for...

'Lost' Showrunners On Strike So Long Even They Can't Remember What's Going On With Their Series [Wan

Today's LAT picks the strike-weary brains of four TV showrunners who are returning to work after three weeks of agonizing about the fates of their series, storylines they were forced to abandon, and...

Moving decisively into the Post-Strike Era ... [Abc]

Moving decisively into the Post-Strike Era that began with today's Return of The Showrunners Parade on Hollywood Blvd., ABC has already picked up nine--nine!--of its series for next season, giving...

The Strike Is Over! On Wednesday! Let There Be Rejoicing! But Not Too Much! [Hollywood Strikewatch]

With word arriving over the weekend that Saturday night's WGA Scribeapalooza II: Let's Call the Whole Thing Off event at the Shrine Auditorium sent TV showrunners back to work today and will return...

Michael Eisner Unilaterally Declares Writers Strike Over [Hollywood Strikewatch]

Defying both the media blackout and the current spirit of Cautious Optimism keeping the industry from throwing a premature Everybody's Going Back to Work! Parade on Hollywood Boulevard before a new...

Cautious OptimismWatch, Day 2: WGA Trying Not To Get Excited Until A Contract Is In Hand [Peace Talk

On this second day of the New Era of Cautious Optimism ushered in by Friday's "informal" bargaining session between Writers Guild negotiators and studio CEOs--when WGA West president Patric Verrone's...

Lucky WGA Writer Tumbles Down Ukrainian Rabbit Hole, Discovers Scribe-Worshipping Wonderland [Paradi

Recognizing that striking writers could really use a positive story to lift their flagging spirits after enduring so many disheartening months of marching in circles and dodging the occasional...